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Requesting Library Items: Interlibrary Loan: The article I want appears in Concordia’s EBSCO database, but I cannot get access to it. Why not?

The article I want appears in Concordia’s EBSCO database, but I cannot get access to it. Why not?

EBSCO functions as both a database of articles and an indexing service (“discovery service”) for journal articles and other materials.  Through EBSCO, you can discover what articles have been published on a topic you are researching.  You can also gain access to many of those articles through EBSCO.  For you to have full-text access to articles, Concordia must have a subscription to the journal in question. (If you only want to see articles that have full-text access, click the box in the list on the left side of the search page to limit your results to full-text articles.)

We have complete subscriptions to a number of scholarly journals, and partial subscriptions to many more, but no library can subscribe to every journal published.  If we do not have a subscription to a journal that you need, we can obtain articles from another library that subscribes to it, through Interlibrary Loan.