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| Requesting Materials Requests for document delivery services may be made in person or online via the request form or direct email. Emails MUST include your name, department or program, current address and method of delivery. VCL staff recommend using the request form for ordering. Remember to allow popups from this site to access the form. E-Mail Requests: virginia@gwu.edu Citations should be as complete as possible. For a book request please include title, author, volume or edition, and publication date. When requesting journal articles please include article title, author, journal title, volume, publication date, page numbers and any other necessary information. Dissertations should include the author's full name, the full title, year and the institution if known. Please see the dissertation policy below. When requesting materials please remember to identify yourself. Include a phone number or e-mail address and specify how you would like to receive your materials. Books can be: (1) picked up at the Virginia Campus Library or (2) mailed to your home or office (please include mailing address, takes at least 2 working days). This service is only available to students enrolled at George Washington University's Virginia Campus and Virginia Campus Staff. Articles can be: (1) picked up at the Virginia Campus Library, (2) mailed to your home or office (please include mailing address, takes at least 2 working days) or (3) scanned and sent as an attachment to an e-mail message** (please include your e-mail address). As with books, this service is only available to students enrolled at George Washington University's Virginia Campus and Virginia Campus Staff. Dissertations: (1) Most dissertations written since 1997 are available at no cost online via Dissertation Abstracts International. We typically do not order items that are available in full-text, however we can provide a print version for $15. (2) If the dissertation is unavailable online we will attempt to borrow it from a lending library. Request it as you would order any other book. This method is free for you. (3) If the dissertation still cannot be obtained then after confirmation from the patron we will attempt to purchase the item from a commercial service. The cost for this is $15 for students. Faculty who wish to keep dissertations for personal or departmental use are charged $28. We accept cash or personal check only and cannot bill departmental accounts. Payment in advance is encouraged. Please understand that it is very difficult to obtain dissertations from certain US/Canadian schools, and nearly impossible from Europe/Asia. **Note: You must have Adobe® Acrobat® Reader running on your computer to receive scanned articles. Adobe® Acrobat® Reader is free, and freely distributable, software that lets you view and print Portable Document Format (PDF) files. If you do not have Adobe® Acrobat® Reader software installed on your computer, click here to go to the Adobe Web site and download the latest version. Questions? Please contact the Circulation/Document Delivery Staff: (703) 726-8230 virginia@gwu.edu |
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