FAQs

All WCM and NYPH employees are automatically registered for borrowing privileges at the Samuel J. Wood Library. To borrow material, please present your WCM/NYPH ID card to the staff at the Library's SMARTDesk.
WCM/NYPH volunteers are not automatically eligible for borrowing privileges; however, their department administrator may sponsor them for borrowing privileges. Please inquire at the Library's SMARTDesk.

MSK, HSS, and Rockefeller employees have borrowing privileges at the Weill Cornell Library. MSK and Rockefeller patrons must register at their home library before presenting their ID cards to borrow material at the Library's SMARTDesk. The staff will manually enter their records into the Samuel J. Wood Library's database to enable borrowing privileges.

HSS staff should present their ID cards at the Library's SMARTDesk for manual registration.

Please inquire at the LIbrary's SMARTDesk if you have additional questions.

To find the location of a book or journal at the library, search OneSearch, the joint online catalog of Weill Cornell Medical Library. The e-Resources page contains links to some electronic resources not listed in OneSearch.

All WCM/NYPH ID holders are automatically entered into the Library’s patron database. Just bring your ID card to the SMARTDesk. MSK, HSS and Rockefeller patrons must be manually registered to borrow materials. Please come to the Library SMARTDesk with your ID card.

For additional information, please see our circulation and renewal policies.

You can renew current items yourself by going to library's home page then the OneSearch tab and click on "My Libary Account" or go to the WCM Catalog to sign in then click the "My Dashboard" dropdown and select "Requests & Loans".

You can also renew library materials, either current or up to seven days overdue, by contacting the Library SMARTDesk.

Staff, students or faculty with a current ID from NYP-WCMC, or anyone sponsored with full borrowing privileges, may request an interlibrary loan for journal articles, books or other materials not in our collection. You may submit requests online.

OneSearch is your one-stop shop for accessing a wide range of content belonging to Weill Cornell and Cornell University.

With OneSearch, you can:

• Access full text articles, chapters, e-books, and our physical collection 
• Check availability of content, not currently in OneSearch, at the Cornell Ithaca library
• Manage your library account, renewals, and requests in one, easy to navigate location

Note: As of June 25, 2026, WCM migrated from Primo OneSearch to EBSCO Discovery (EDS) Onesearch and will no longer provide availability information about MSK and Rockefeller Library resources.

If you are having problems with your account. Please contact our support team using any of the methods here: https://library.weill.cornell.edu/ask-us

If you have a favorite author or subject for which you often search when using OneSearch, you can save the search with the click of a button. This will prevent you from having to key in the search each time and let you place reserves on new materials quicker.

Please note: You must be signed into your personal MyEBSCO account to save searches to the dashboard permanently. If you are not signed in, saved searches are deleted from the dashboard after your session ends or expires.  When on OneSeach click the MyEBSCO to sign in or create an account.

Follow the instructions here

You can save/bookmak individual records/articles to your Dashboard in OneSearch with the touch of a button.

Please note: You must be signed into your personal MyEBSCO account to save items and searches to your Dashboard permanently. If you are not signed in, saved searches are deleted from the dashboard after your session ends or expires.  When on OneSeach click the MyEBSCO to sign in or create an account.

Anywhere you see a Bookmark icon  (result list, article detail view, online/PDF full text), you can click it to save an article to your Dashboard.

Follow the instructions here. 

You can easily export, print, or email records from OneSearch:

Using the Cite and Export Tool in OneSearch (EBSCO Discovery - EDS)

While you might be used to logging in to one catalog website shared between Weill Cornell, MSK, and Rockefeller, we now maintain three separate instances of the catalog. You can log into your local institutions catalog by going to your library's home pages:

• MSK: https://library.mskcc.org/
• Rockefeller: http://markuslibrary.rockefeller.edu/

If you borrowed a print book from the Weill Cornell Medical Library and would like to renew it or you would like to place a hold on a print item, you will not be able to log into OneSearch. You must call the library's SMARTDesk.

Thank you for thinking of the Wood Library. Currently, we don't accept print book donations, as we are transitioning most of our print collection to e-books. We are only acquiring print if that is the only available format and the book is needed for research or teaching purposes. If the book is rare, unique, and historically significant, consider contacting the New York Public Library. Click here for information about NYPL’s donation policy.