Interlibrary Loan
- Interlibrary Loan (ILL)ILL is a free lending service available to current Texas State students and employees. ILL borrows items from other libraries that Alkek Library does not own such as journal articles, books, DVDs, CDs—anything you might need for your research.
Use ILLiad, the online Interlibrary Loan request, to order your ILL items. Enter as much information as you know about the item you need, and the ILL staff will try to track it down.
Contact & Pick-up Info: 512.408-3996 or email with additional questions. Items can be picked up at the Ask Alkek Desk on the 2nd floor of the Library.
Search Tips
Search by keywords/phrases and use Boolean searching.
AND: "special education" AND disproportion* ► search results will include both keywords/phrases
OR: "social media" OR twitter OR tiktok ► search results can include any one of these three keywords/phrases
NOT: "social media" NOT facebook ► search results must include "social media", excludes citations that mention facebook
Using "Quotation Marks" searches words as a phrase, "civil engineering". This search technique works in library databases and Google Scholar
Limit search results by Date and Peer-Reviewed journals.
Truncation: The symbol used is usually *. Useful technique, but only works in library databases.
engineer* will retrieve: engineer, engineering, engineers, etc.
Check Subject terms to see if there are any synonym terms to consider in your search. This only applies to library databases, as Google Scholar is only keyword searching, but keep an eye out for various terms you read in articles.