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 Get in touch with the Health Library easily using our online forms, available to you any day, any time. Make a request when it's convenient for you. Just complete the relevant form , submit and we'll get back to you. You can: Request books and articles not in our collections Request a literature search Suggest new stock for our collections Provide feedback on our services Download a membership form Book training Sign up for KnowledgeShare screen-shot of the find a form page showing the forms available All the online forms are easily accessible from the Find a Form page on our website.

 You can now add the DOI for an article to the article request (inter-library loan) form . This helps us to locate the article you need more quickly. Screen-shot of the new DOI field on the article request form The DOI of an article is unique identifier. You will usually see it near the reference details of an article. Here is an example of a DOI for an article: Screen-shot of an example article - the DOI is highlighted by the orange box. For more help accessing articles please contact the Health Library .

We're more than just books - we provide you with a range of specialist services to support your work, research and studies. Here's some stats for you: Last quarter, July to September 2019, we: completed 32 literature searches supported 169 new Athens accounts supplied 50 inter-library loan requests delivered 124 training sessions Poster showing the stats for last quarter Make sure you're making the most of your membership of the library and ask about how we can support you.

We have updated our online form that allows you to request a journal article inter-library loan . We will be moving all our forms to a new platform. Hopefully this will make the forms clearer and easier to use. If you would like to make any comment about the new forms you can do so via our Contact Us form.

If you work for one of our NHS partners and can't get into the library for one of our printed journals, we can get a photocopy of a particular article sent out to you. To find out more about this service and how to apply check our Copies from Stock page .

Do we not have the full-text article that you need? You can make an article request online . We'll try to get it from another library and contact you when it is ready for collection. If your department has an account with us we might be able to email or post it out to you.

The Health Library is offering a new service to our busy NHS members – you can now request copies of journal articles available in our print journal collection. We will photocopy the articles and send them out to you. You can check our print journal collection via the NHS My Journals A-Z list . For more information please view our web page here .

Due to the number of uncollected article requests, the library will now require full payment for interlibrary loans at the time of ordering. The interlibrary loans system is a subsidised service. It has always been the written policy of the library to charge upfront for requests, but abuse of the system now means that the policy will now need to be enforced. Urgent requests will still be accepted by fax, phone or online submission, with payment on collection. Refunds will be provided for items that prove to be unobtainable. All uncollected or unpaid requests will be charged against the appropriate library record and may lead to a withdrawal of the service in the future.

Please help us maintain our high standard of service by considering what it is you are requesting. Here are a few helpful tips to save your own money and staff time: If the article is only 1 page, then generally it will be a letter, comment or poster abstract from a conference. The full research might not necessarily have been published. When performing a literature search, if a title is in brackets, then the full text is in a foreign language. All abstracts are published in English, but this doesn't mean the rest of the document is. Please check that the article is not published ahead of print. This is a premium rate service offered by publishers, but libraries generally don't have access until it has gone to print. If renewing a book loan from the British Library, please can you let the library know if it is required for a couple of days or a full renewal.