The AAO Library is staffed six hours a week.
At the February 2025 BOT meeting the Board approved that the AAO library becomes a journal only request library when the librarian retires. The librarian retired on June 30, 2026.
Jump to: Journal Article Requests, Search PubMed, Resource Centers
Use this section to check whether the AAO Library has access to the journal article you need, then submit a request.
Before submitting a request, review the AAO Journal Holdings List to confirm whether the journal is available through the AAO Library.
The AAO Library can only email articles that are available in the library collection.
If the article you need is not available through the AAO Library, try one of the options below:
Use PubMed to search for article citations by topic, author, journal, or citation details.
Please note: PubMed is not a full-text database. Full-text journal articles are usually not available directly through PubMed.
Search for article citations in PubMed.
Review PubMed help topics and search guidance.
Watch short PubMed training videos, including the topics below.
| Title | Date | Runtime |
| PubMed: Find articles by author | June 5, 2025 | 2 min(s) |
| PubMed: Find articles by journal | Nov. 18, 2024 | 2 min(s) |
| PubMed: Find articles from a citation | July 8, 2024 | 2 min(s) |
| PubMed: Find articles on a topic | July 9, 2024 | 1 min(s) |
| PubMed Subject Search: How It Works | June 26, 2025 | 4 min(s) |
Additional PubMed training videos are available from the National Library of Medicine.
Review curated resources on important orthodontic topics.
