Finding and getting access to an article in the
 International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavior Sciences

What we are going to describe for you is a way of using two versions of the IESBS, the International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences, to find an article in the IESBS, and then to ask OU Libraries to scan and make the article available to you to read.

This process has two major steps:

1.  Go to the free, limited-content online version of the IESBS to search for the article title you wish to see:

http://www.iesbs.com/

2.  Once there, click on the Free Browsing button:

3.  On the resultant page, select the letter of the alphabet that matches your key word.  We might, for example, be interested in an article about Mnemonics, so we would click on the "M" to browse through a list of articles beginning with "M"

Having found an entry for

Mnemonics, Psychology of  K.  L. Higbee

We would click on the label Abstract to read this entry:

If the full article would be of interest to you, you can proceed to step 2, requesting that OU Document Delivery scan the full article for you and make it available to you (as a PDF file) to have.

Here are the steps an Advanced Programs student goes through to leave a request for OU Document Delivery to copy, and make available as a PDF file, an article from the latest (2001) edition of the IESBS, the International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences.

From the OU Libraries top page (seen below), look for the site's Where Can I Find . . .  list of links (on the right side of the page) and choose the Interlibrary loan link from it:

That will take you to the Access Services page, of which the Interlibrary Loan operation is a part.  Under the category Interlibrary Loan on that page is the item you are looking for, Request a journal article: 

Of course, the journal article request form you are going to use doesn't say it is also for what you want (several pages out of an encyclopedia), but you are going to make a special, approved, alternate use of a form that is actually intended to accommodate requests for a journal article.  However, OU Libraries does not have a special form for this particular circumstance, so they are asking that you use a form they already have available, knowing that it is a non-standard, special way to make this request. 

To repeat, what you are going to use to get an article scanned from the 2001 edition of the International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences (IESBS) is the form that OU Libraries regularly uses for patrons who are requesting that journal articles be scanned and made available to them.  So, we are showing you a special, non-standard use of this particular form that will be of assistance to Advanced Programs students who are located around the world.  No one else knows about this new service yet: you, as students in LIS 5703, are the first to get to use it. 

In any event, what Document Delivery would like for you to do is use the Request a journal article link to retrieve the form they would like you to use in requesting that an article from IESBS be scanned and made available to you.

Once you have clicked on Request a journal article, you are given a lengthy form (see below) that may be filled in with information associated with the login (4+4 and password) you used.  Please check to make sure that the email address that appears is the one your actually wish to have the document delivery system use: OU's student records database generally supplies what it thinks your OU email address is, instead of the one you may actually be using.  You can easily replace whatever it has for you with the one you wish with the document delivery request, though.

In the first part of the form (probably already filled in) is this information . . .

  • OU NetID (your 4+4)
  • First Name
  • Last Name
  • E-Mail address (if the system supplies your "dotted.name" OU email address, and you don't use that address, simply replace it with the email address you want to use)

You do not need to fill in a phone number (we doubt seriously that OU Libraries is going to wish to call you overseas, or even in another state, to talk to you about your request: they will simply use email to get in touch with you!).

The next section asks you to identify your address: all you need to fill in here is your APO address and your University status (Advanced Programs).  Don't offer to pay for this service, because it is available to you at no charge: "0" is the maximum cost you need to be willing to pay!

Although the form asks you if you have checked OU's catalog, all Document Delivery would like for you to do is indicate that the source (the IESBS, 2001 edition) is housed in the library's Reference Collection.  (It is a 26 volume set that remains on the first floor of the main library--Bizzell Library--for ease of access by on-campus, in-library users.

Even though it isn't a Journal Title, Document Delivery asks that you give the title of the encyclopedia here. (We are recommending that you indicate enough of its title that the Document Delivery searchers have no difficulty figuring it out: so something like "Int'l Ency of the Soc & Behav Sciences, 2001 edition" will probably do nicely)

The next box is the most crucial: you need to give the title of the article in the IESBS that you wish to have access to.  From your searching in the "free" abstracts-only, try-it-out version of IESBS, you will have identified the title of an article you wish to have access to.  Fill the Article Title box in with that information.

Don't fill out the citation information at the bottom of the form--it isn't really applicable here.  That section is focused specifically on bibliographic elements of a journal article citation.

When finished, click the Send Message button to submit the request to OU Document Delivery.