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Interlibrary Loan (also abbreviated ILL) is a free service that allows patrons of the UMass Amherst libraries to borrow materials and to receive copies of documents from libraries beyond the Five Colleges. This service is available to current UMass Amherst students and current and retired UMass Amherst faculty and staff. You can borrow physical items or scans of articles and book chapters for items that the Libraries do not already own or license.  

• Ensure that you have activated your ILL account with your NetID and password.
• When searching in Discovery or another library resource, click "Request through Interlibrary Loan" to import the citation information into your request. 
• Or, if you already know what you need, you can enter the citation information into the request form manually.

Peer Review is the standard for scholarly articles. It is part of the publication process where research is vetted by experts in a field prior to publication. It's aim is to ensure the rigor of methods and the veracity of results in studies and research projects. 

The Principles of transparency and best practice in scholarly publishing recommend that a journal's peer reivew process and policy are articulated on its website, including the type of peer review and peer review procedures. 

To find out if a journal is peer-reviewed, first check our Publication Finder to see if it is peer reviewed. This searches journals licensed by the Libraries only. 

Alternately,

• Use content filters on databases such as ACM Digital Library, Academic Search Premier, and Scopus to limit to peer reviewed content.
• Search Ulrich's Periodicals Directory to see if a resource is "refereed". 
• Go directly to the journal itself and see what it says about the peer review it provides.