Document Services offers free interlibrary borrowing services to the MIT community, lends materials to domestic & Canadian institutions, and provides paid document delivery & scanning services to the world.

Order/purchase copies of materials from MIT collections

Please verify that MIT owns the material before placing an order.

• MIT theses: See the dissertations/thesis guide.
• MIT research publications: See the tech reports guide and the working papers guide.

Borrow materials from MIT collections

The MIT Libraries provides borrowing to the MIT community and beyond.

• Non-MIT institutions: Borrow via our Interlibrary Loan (ILL) service. See our ILL guide.
• MIT users: Simply use your MIT ID at any library.

Get materials from non-MIT libraries

MIT users only (includes current MIT faculty, staff, and students). Be sure to Search Our Collections to see if the item is available at MIT.

• • Best option for articles: Interlibrary Borrowing (ILB)/ILLiad – ILB/ILLiad guide | Request via ILLiad
  • Best option for books: Search MIT’s WorldCat to request directly via BorrowDirect. If this option isn’t available, there will be a link in the record to request the item via ILB using MIT’s ILLiad.

Use our Scanning Services to digitize your materials

The Libraries offer a variety of scanning services, including:

• Scan large collections of print materials
• Slides and photographic scanning