If the article is not available from the Cheng Library, you may request an InterLibrary Loan and the Cheng Library will request the item for you, from another library!
Books and media may take a week or more to arrive, but articles can often be made available within a matter of days.
Use the Interlibrary Loan & Article Service link on the Library homepage to get started!
By phone
Call 973-720-2116
The Reference Desk is staffed until 10PM Sunday-Friday and until 8:00pm on Saturday.
By e-mail
Send your question to the Reference Desk via email - refdesk@wpunj.edu Allow 24 hours for a response.
Schedule a Research Appointment
Contact the library for an appointment with a Reference Librarian: Schedule Research Help
When reviewing articles and books, you might come across a citation for another article that you'd like to use.
To find out if the Library has the article, use the Journal Search tab on the Library homepage, and search for the journal name (not the name of the article).
This will tell you if we have the full-text of this article in another database OR in paper or microform (WPUNJ Print, WPUNJ Film, WPUNJ Fiche).
Watch our Does the Library Have this Article? tutorial!
When reviewing articles and books, or even searching the Internet, you might come across citations for other articles that you'd like to see. Citation tracking is the act of looking for the original source of that citation and can be a bit challenging with so many databases to choose from at the Library!
This short tutorial will show you how to use the main search box on our website to see if we have access to the article you're after.
If we don't have an article at all, you can request it through Interlibrary Loan (see below).
If, on the other hand, you see that the article is only available in a physical format (Available at Cheng Library Periodicals Collection), complete an Article Request Form to have us digitize it for you!.
*** Before using your credit card to pay for articles online, be sure to contact the Library to see if we can get it for you, for free!