NExpress at Middlebury

Middlebury College joins the NExpress Consortium.

As of July 23rd, 2007 Middlebury students, faculty, and staff may now submit NExpress loan and article requests to a group of 6 Northeastern Colleges and one University.  Benefits of NExpress over traditional ILL include speed and efficiency as well as increased flexibility. 

With a NExpress request you are able to order currently unavailable items owned by Middlebury.  Ordering an item from NExpress will often be faster than recalling a Middlebury book.  You will also be able to renew your NExpress materials, a service currently unavailable for traditional ILL material.  Failed NExpress loan requests will need to be ordered in ILLiad manually. 

Article requests will be delivered to a central web location and can be accessed via My Midcat .  Failed article requests will be automatically routed to ILLiad for Interlibrary Loan processing.

What is NExpress?

NExpress is a consortium of libraries in New England (Maine, Vermont, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Connecticut). At present it has 7 members, 3 from Maine, 3 from Massachusetts and 1 from Vermont but it plans to expand over time.

Member libraries have created a combined catalog of their collections. Authorized users from each library may borrow other member libraries' materials by requesting them online in the NExpress Catalog and have them delivered to their own library for pickup.

How to use NExpress:

From your Midcat search results, clicking on repeats your Midcat search in the NExpress multi-library catalog.  

When you locate an item you would like to borrow:

• Click on the "Request this item" link. 
• Identify yourself as a Middlebury patron in the dropdown menu.
• Enter your name and ID number.
• Click
• Watch for the notice indicating that your request has been submitted successfully.
• Check the status of your request at anytime using My MidCat .

To Request an Article from NExpress:

 Look for the ILL links in a variety of online databases and indexes.  Here are some common examples: 

• In the FirstSearch Databases:  External Resources:    Midd full-text, print, or ILL
• In Academic OneFile:  Link to Full Text outside this Database . 
• In Historical Abstracts: Resource: Link to Full Text
• In Web of Science:    

Once you have established that an article is not available at Middlebury, follow the NExpress link: 

           InterLibrary Loan

        Request a copy using  NExpress  

And place your ILL NExpress Article request: 

• Enter your name and ID number.
• Identify yourself as a Middlebury patron in the dropdown menu. 
• Enter you name and ID number.
• Click  
• Review the article information pulled in from the database or index.  Make changes and add comments as needed.
• Click
• Watch for the notice indicating that your request has been submitted successfully.
• Check the status of your request at anytime using My MidCat .

You can also complete a blank NExpress Article Request form by searching for the Journal title in NExpress, and then clicking on Request Article .  Follow steps as above, and additionally enter the article information from your citation manually.  If the journal title is not found in the NExpress catalog, you must submit a traditional ILL request via ILLiad instead.


Remember to search all journal requests in  Print & E-Journals A-Z  or in Midcat to check Middlebury availability before placing NExpress or ILL requests.


Search NExpress Catalog

NExpress FAQ

Check the status of current NExpress requests in My MidCat

Check the status of failed NExpress Article requests in ILLiad