Can you make do with an HTML or transcribed text of the article? Or do you need the article appearing as if printed (separated and numbered pages) but in a PDF format? First check in your journal's manual or with your editor to find what format is acceptable.
The following databases and publishers provide print equivalent of many or all articles in PDF: •HeinOnline •Academic Search Premier •JSTOR •Proquest •EBSCOhost •Web of Science •Project Muse •Oxford •Cambridge •Springer.
Some databases, like Westlaw and Lexis, may provide the transcribed text of the print version of the article, but with ‘star’ pagination. Though the article's content may not be visually divided into pages, with the star pagination information you can use these transcribed versions in the same manner as a copy of a formally "printed" article. An ILL request for the printed article version is unnecessary.
Some publishers now publish content only through their website without print equivalents (hard copy version or PDFs of print). For these instances, you will have to cite the HTML version. There will be no ILL option to obtain a printed version that does not exist.
Check Non-Georgetown Licensed Online Subscriptions & ILL in the Interlibrary Loan Instructions for Journal Staff guide.
Is the citation’s URL no longer live or does not display expected content?
Try the URL in Internet Archives’ Wayback Machine.
Want to save a cited web site/url?
Ask for assistance from Reference Services or your Journal Liaison to help you interpret a difficult citation, identify missing citation information, find the source for a given quotation, etc.
Ask for assistance from Reference Services or your Journal Liaison.