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Requesting Materials

The Document Delivery Department provides a variety of users with document services for the Academy's 1400+ journal titles and book collection. Please follow the links below:


General Public
The Academy Library is open to the public and materials may be viewed in the Library's Reading Room. Please view our stacks retrieval information if you are thinking of visiting us.

If you have no affiliation with the Academy, you can request that journal articles from the Academy's collection be photocopied and sent to you through the Library's Document Delivery Department.

Please note: Book loans are not available for unaffiliated patrons.

Requests must be faxed and should include your Visa, MasterCard or American Express number and expiration date. Please print out a copy of our Document Request Form and fax it to (212) 722-7650. You may also mail it to the address on the form.

The New York Academy of Medicine is copyright compliant and the price for articles is our fee, plus the copyright charge, as assigned by the Copyright Clearance Center. The copyright fee is charged in addition to our rates, which are as follows:

Delivery
U.S. Mail
Fax/Email
Fax/Email
Turn Around
3 - 5 business days
next day or any other day
Same day*
Charge
$30/article
$40/article
$50/article

(*Not Guaranteed)

The Academy Library can also provide photocopies of journal articles not held in our collection. These items will be procured from other institutions via Interlibrary Loan. Requests must be faxed or mailed and should include your Visa, MasterCard or American Express number and expiration date. A request form is available in PDF and WORD formats for your convenience. Please print out a copy of the form and fax it to (212) 722-7650 or mail it ATTN: Document Delivery.

Interlibrary Loans will take 5-7 days (Rush) or 14-21 days (Regular), depending on the level of service you choose. The copyright fee, as assigned by the Copyright Clearance Center, will be charged in addition to NYAM ILL fees:

• E-Mail/Fax/Pickup/Mail: ($50.00 Rush)
• E-Mail/Fax/Pickup/Mail: ($40.00 Regular)


Loansome Doc
Loansome Doc is a document delivery service that enables PubMed and NLM Gateway users to order documents found in MEDLINE. A user can order articles from a list of citations retrieved from PubMed or Internet Grateful Med by sending them to a library to request a full-text document. Patrons can register for Loansome Doc services through the Library's Document Delivery Department.

Please consult the Loansome Doc Fact Sheet for additional information.

If you have questions regarding Loansome Doc® service, please contact the Document Delivery Department via email, or at (212) 822-7362.


Other Libraries (ILL)
The Academy Library is a participating member of the Docline and OCLC systems, for borrow and loan. Requests should be sent and received via the specific system(s). For libraries who are not a participating member of either of those systems, kindly contact the Document Delivery office directly, for services, procedures and pricing.