Molecular Biology Research Guide

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Currently there are two ways to search PUL collections - through the Main Catalog (familiar to PUL veteran users) and through the new Books+ system, as seen above in the top right box. Both systems search the exact same content but each has its own unique functionality.

Can't find a book you need? Need a book that's checked out? Need an article that's not @ Princeton?

Borrow Direct: A quick turnaround service shared between Brown, Dartmouth, Princeton, Yale, Harvard, MIT, Penn, Cornell, and Columbia.  This service is for books only.  For articles, essays, or books not found in the Borrow Direct network, use ILL. 

Interlibrary Loan (ILL): Another borrowing service that tracks down a wide variety of material- books, articles, dissertations, etc.- from hundreds of library networks across the world.