The copyright law of the United States (Title 17, U.S. Code) governs the making of photocopies and other reproductions of copyrighted materials; patrons using the photocopy machine are liable for any infringement of this law.
We have two self-service photocopy machine available in the Library, one in the reading room for the public and the other in our current literature reading room for staff. A self-service scanning machine (KIC) is also available. Users can create full color scans up to 17x24" in size and save the files to a USB drive or send them via email.
Archives, manuscripts, rare, fragile, and oversize materials may not be photocopied using the self-service photocopy machine. Library staff will photocopy or scan these materials for you (providing the items are stable enough to be handled). To obtain a copy of an image from our Photograph Collection, please refer to our Obtaining Photographic Images page.
| Item | Price (US$) |
| self-service black & white photocopy (staff) | free |
| self-service black & white photocopy (public) | 0.20 per page |
| self-service digital scan (staff) | free |
| self-service digital scan (public) | free |
| black & white photocopy (copies made by Library staff) | 0.50 per page |
| digital scan (scans made by Library staff) | 0.50 per page |
| color photocopy (copies made by Library staff) | 5.00 per page |
| Item | Price (US$) |
| digital scan (scans made by Library staff) | 0.50 per page |
| black & white photocopy (copies made by Library staff) | 0.50 per page |
| color photocopy (copies made by Library staff) | 5.00 per page |
| photocopy/scan of items from the photograph collection | Please refer to our Obtaining Photographic Images page |
Users who need photocopies/scans of materials from the Library -- but cannot come to the Library in person -- should contact the inter-library loan department of their local public, college, or university library for assistance. Users who do not have access to any local interlibrary loan services may request items directly from the AMNH Reference Department by following the procedure below:
1. Check our catalog to verify that we own the article: http://libcat.amnh.org.
2. Email Library Reference the citation for the item, including its call number (from our catalog) so that we can locate it in our collection.
3. We will fulfill your request unless the item is too fragile to be photocopied/scanned. Be aware that if the order is for a large number of pages from a single volume, we may decline to make the photocopy/scan.
4. We will send you an invoice for the cost of making those copies. The charge is $0.50 per page. For overseas orders there will be an additional shipping charge for photocopied items.
5. Once we receive your check or money order payment (in U.S. Dollars) we will send the photocopies or scans.