What is Interlibrary Loan?
Interlibrary Loan is a free article or book chapter ordering service for MD Anderson staff and students provided by the Research Medical Library.
How long will it take to receive the items I requested through Interlibrary Loan?
Most articles will be delivered within 3 business days.
Can I get my textbooks through Interlibrary Loan?
Due to copyright laws, we can only order one or two chapters from a textbook. Please note that we cannot order entire eBooks.
How Do I Use Interlibrary Loan to Order Articles, Books and Book Chapters?
- Login to Interlibrary Loan with your MD Anderson credentials. If it is your first time, you will be asked to complete a brief registration form.
- From the top, you can choose article or book chapter request
- Fill out the required information
- click submit
If coming from PubMed, our databases or our Search the Library Tool these are the steps:
- Once you have found the citation you want, click on the red and black "MD Anderson Full-text Article" button (pictured below). This button should take you directly to the full-text article or journal website.

- If you click on the red and black "MD Anderson Full-text Article" button and still can't get to the PDF, click on the link that says, "Request Item via Interlibrary Loan" (this link will auto-populate an order form with the article information after login)
- Login to the interlibrary loan system
- review the populated information
- click submit.