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Yale University Library Electronic Document Delivery

You can now receive your Interlibrary Loan requests on the Web.

Follow these steps:

  1. Submit the request as usual.
  2. Choose Electronic Document Delivery as your preferred method of delivery.
  3. Wait for an email message informing you that the article is ready.
  4. In the email message you will be given a "PIN", which you will use to access a prescribed Web site to obtain your document.
    • Use all capital letters when entering your PIN.
    • Don't confuse the number "1" with the letter "I".
    • Don't confuse the number "0" with the letter "O".
  5. Read or print the document.

Notes:
(1) You must have Adobe Acrobat Reader software version 4.0 or higher.
(2) To comply with copyright, the document will be deleted from the Web server after it has been viewed 5 times or after a 3-week period, whichever comes first.
(3) You will always use your given "PIN", an alphanumeric ID, to retrieve any future documents obtained through Document Delivery.
(4) For technical assistance, please consult your department's ITS representative or go to their office in the Medical School basement, IE 90 SHM.