Document delivery
Ordering journal articles from the RCS Library
Members have access to a wide range of electronic journals via the Surgical Library. If we don't have what you are looking for, you can order articles using our document delivery service.
Members and Affiliates
Members and Affiliates of the Royal College of Surgeons of England and the Faculty of Dental Surgery are able to use the document delivery service.
There may be a charge of £15 per article, depending on the cost of retrieval. We will advise you of any charge before you commit to ordering it. The procedure for ordering articles is outlined below; if you have any questions, please email ill@rcseng.ac.uk:
- Please check the Surgical Library to ascertain that we hold the journal.
- Complete the copyright declaration form, providing full contact details, including a telephone number and/or email address, and your College membership details. Please note that this form is an editable pdf and must be saved onto your own (local) device before you edit.
All document delivery is subject to copyright restrictions:
- Under current copyright law, it is not permitted to copy more than one article from the same issue of a journal for the same person.
- All copying is for non-commercial research or private study only.
- Return your completed form by email to ill@rcseng.ac.uk.
If we order the article from another library, please allow 5 working days for it to be delivered to us, then we will email it to you.
Libraries
Health, charity and academic libraries in the UK can request articles required for a non-commercial purpose from our journal collection, as long as they participate in the British Library's document delivery scheme. We use the British Library scheme to reclaim the charges for our service. Charges are £7 to supply a copy of an article held onsite at the College.
At present, we are only able to supply articles from titles we hold electronically.
- Please check the Surgical Library to ascertain that we hold the journal. Please remember that we cannot supply more than one article from any one issue of a journal at any one time, as this contravenes copyright law.
- Download our order form and complete the details.
We need your British Library account number (e.g. 87-1234) and a request number for each request in order to process your order. - Email the completed form to ill@rcseng.ac.uk. We will then supply the material or contact you if there are any problems.