The Document Delivery Department provides a variety of users with access to articles/chapters from the Library's journal and book collection.
Your document needs can be quickly filled using the Library's outstanding biomedical and public health resources of over 550,000 volumes and many serial titles. Whether you need a medical research journal article, medical illustration, conference proceeding, excerpt from a book, or any other type of document, we can get it to you. The New York Academy of Medicine is copyright compliant, through the Transactional Reporting Service of the Copyright Clearance Center.
General Public
Members of the general public may request copies of collection materials through our reproduction and imaging services. The Library's Document Delivery Department supplies copies of journal articles or book chapters when larger numbers of articles are requested or when materials are only found in other libraries.
Please note: Books are not available for loan to the general public.
Requests must be emailed, faxed, or mailed. Please use our Document Request Form (PDF) and return by email to docdelnyam@nyam.org, fax to (212) 722-7650, or mail to the address on the form. We will provide an estimate of availability and cost and, after your approval, will fill your request using the Library's collections or through Interlibrary Loan. The cost for obtaining materials is our fee plus any copyright charge as assigned by the Copyright Clearance Center.
For materials in our collection, fees and turnaround times are:
| Delivery | Turnaround | Fee |
|---|
| Email/Fax | Same day* | $60/article |
| Email/Fax | Next day or following day | $50/article |
| U.S. Mail | 3-5 business days | $40/article |
*same day not guaranteed
The copyright charge is charged in addition to our fees.
The Library can also provide copies of articles not held in our collection via Interlibrary Loan.
Interlibrary loans and turnaround times are:
| Delivery | Turnaround | Fee |
|---|
| Email/Fax/Pickup/Mail | 5-7 business days | $60/article |
| Email/Fax/Pickup/Mail | 14-21 business days | $50/article |
The copyright charge is charged in addition to our fees.
For further information, please email docdelnyam@nyam.org or call (212) 822-7362.
Other Libraries
The Library is a participating member of the Docline and OCLC systems, for borrowing and loans. Requests should be sent and received via the specific system(s). For libraries that are not a participating member of either of those systems, kindly contact the Document Delivery Department directly, for services, procedures, and pricing.
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