Article delivery and interlibrary loans
OBS! From December 20 to January 7, all orders that require manual processing will have a longer delivery time. This applies in particular to all interlibrary loan book orders and article orders that require extra staff supervision.
If the library does not have the book or article you need, we can try to find your requested material in other libraries and interlibrary loan it. To order material, you must be either a KI student or KI employee and have a library account. This applies regardless of whether you want to order articles or request interlibrary loans of books. If you do not have a library account, you can fill in our application form. If you have a library account, you can use our order form. You can also make a purchase suggestion if you think it's a book the library should own.
OBS! Students in the Stockholm area cannot order interlibrary loans of books held by libraries in Stockholm. Such orders will be refused and referred to the libraries in Stockholm that have the book.
Previously, staff were able to order items without a library account but this will not be possible anymore after 20th May when we changed our article delivery system. This change will mean that more articles can be sent directly by email or downloaded from My Loans on your library account.
Applying for a library account
To order articles or books as interlibrary loans, you must have a library account and be either a KI student or a KI employee. Students automatically get a library account when they activate their student account and do not need to apply for an account. Employees need to apply for a library account and do so easily via this form. Then just contact the library to activate the account. Read more about library accounts here.
Order articles and interlibrary loans
Order form
Step 1: Use the order form that you find on our web
Step 2: Log in (please observe that only KI employees and students can order)
Step 3: Fill out as many fields as you can and make sure that you use the correct the form depending if your requested material is either a book or an article , that will make it easier to find the article or book.
Tip! If you want to order an article, with the article's PMID or DOI you can get help with auto-filling the form.
How to get a pre-filled form
When you're searching for resources in reSEARCH you can click on "Also include not offered by the KI Library" and get hits on resources that library don't have a subscription on or have in our catalogue. If you're already logged in on your account there's an option to get to the order form and have all information filled out in advance.
Step 1: When you're logged in and found an article that isn't included in the library's catalogue, click on the button that says "Order form".
Step 2: You will now see an order form where all the necessary information has been filled out in advance. Check to see that your contact information is correct and then send the order.
If you order books as interlibrary loan, make sure that you have the correct address on your library account!
Delivery
Articles
The article you ordered will be delivered to your KI email or the email that wrote when you ordered. In the mail it'll be a link that you click on to download the article. You can also download the article from My Loans. Please observe that the link can only be opened twice, make sure to download the article as soon as you open the link.
Articles that can't be sent digitally will be sent with physical mail instead to the address on your library account. Make sure that you have the correct address on your account.
Books
If you're an employee at KI, a doctoral student or a distance student (only if you live beyond the Stockholm area) interlibrary loans will be sent to the address on your library account. Make sure that you have the correct address on your account.
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