Can users or institutions outside of DMU borrow articles through interlibrary loan?
Would you be able to locate and loan articles for users or institutions outside of Des Moines University?
Answer
DMU is not able to loan out any kind of materials to external individuals or institutions outside of the interlibrary loan programs through Docline or OCLC.
We do have public access computers on campus, so if you are able to come to campus you could use any of these computers to lookup your article and then save it to a flash drive or email it to yourself. Librarians are available between the hours of 8am-4pm, so if you wish to come in person simply check in at the front desk on the 1st floor of the Edge of Advancement and a member of library staff will escort you to the library public computers.
If you are not local, another potential option might be to obtain a library card from a public library and ask them to send an OCLC interlibrary loan request to us on your behalf. We loan for free to Iowa Public Libraries, so there should be no charge involved.