Beginning on Friday, June 27, search by title in Search.Libraries, then sign in to your account and select the OhioLink request option. All students, faculty, staff, and retirees must use ObieID credentials to place requests.
SearchOhio lending resumes in the fall.
If you found the citation in the Search.Libraries InterLibrary Loan scope, log into your Search Libraries account, then look under "Get It: ILL" for a link labeled "Request PDF through InterLibrary Loan." This will prompt you to log into your InterLibrary Loan account, then prepopulate an order form with the needed information.
If you found the citation through another service, you may also place the request manually from your InterLibrary Loan account or export from a database.
Only books not available in OhioLINK may be requested through InterLibrary Loan. A record for a book in Search.Libraries should only display "Request PDF through InterLibrary Loan" if there is not an available OhioLINK option - if this option appears, you may use it to place an ILL request.
If you found the citation through another service, you may also place the request manually from your InterLibrary Loan account or export from a database.
They derive from different indexes and have different coverage. The InterLibrary Loan scope has billions of citations for articles and ebooks included in the Ex Libris Central Discovery Index, as well as physical holdings from some libraries (specifically, libraries who use the Alma Rapido ILL module). Worldcat has detailed physical holdings from thousands of member libraries across the world, and some citations for articles from journals and newspapers.
As a general rule of thumb, the Search Libraries ILL scope is more likely to be useful when seeking journal articles, and Worldcat is more likely to be useful when seeking books and other physical items held by libraries worldwide.
Neither index knows about all items available in the world, if you have a citation for an item that does not appear in either one and you are reasonably certain the citation was not hallucinated by an AI chatbot you are welcome to place a manual InterLibrary Loan request. If you're not sure if a citation is real, ask a librarian for assistance.