Document Delivery

Faculty and graduate students can use document delivery to request articles and book chapters scanned and delivered electronically.

You can request scans of articles and book chapters that we own that are not otherwise available electronically.

Place a document delivery request

  1. Log-in to ILL
    1. If you are a first time user, please register your ILL account. A CougarNet account and UH email address are required
  2. After logging in, select “Document Delivery” on the left-hand menu
  3. Fill out the request form and submit the request

You will receive an email when the request is complete. Select “Web Delivery” on the left-hand menu of ILLiad to view scanned items

We aim to fill requests within 2 business days. Lengthy articles may have longer processing times. Scans are delivered in PDF format.

Items on course reserve cannot be requested.

Contact us

Questions? Need help? Call, fax, or email us:

Interlibrary Loan (ILL) department
713-743-9720 (phone)
713-743-9725 (fax)
ill@uh.edu