Permission Requests
The American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP) has partnered with the Copyright Clearance Center (CCC) to provide a web-based permission service for American Family Physician (AFP), FPM, and FP Essentials.
American Family Physician Journal Articles
Click the button below to request permission for AFP journal articles through the CCC website if you:
- are with an academic institution and would like to use an article in print or electronic course materials;
- would like to deliver or distribute an article via interlibrary loan or commercial document delivery; or
- would like to photocopy or share electronically an article (e.g., send in an email or post on an intranet or internet website) for general business or academic use.
If you would like to reuse or republish a single article or a particular item (e.g., a table, a graph, an algorithm, a picture) from an article in your own work, such as a book, textbook, journal, magazine, newspaper, brochure, pamphlet, presentation, please send an email to copyrights@aafp.org with details as to which content you are interested in using and how this content might be used.
If you would like to reuse or republish multiple articles from the journal in your own work, please email contentlicensing@aafp.org.
FPM Journal Articles
Click the button below to request permission for FPM journal articles through the CCC website if you:
- are with an academic institution and would like to use an article in print or electronic course materials;
- would like to deliver or distribute an article via interlibrary loan or commercial document delivery; or
- would like to photocopy or share electronically an article (e.g., send in an email or post on an intranet or internet website) for general business or academic use.
If you would like to (i) reuse or republish a single article or a particular item (e.g., a table, a graph, an algorithm, a picture) from an article in your own work, such as a book, textbook, journal, magazine, newspaper, brochure, pamphlet, presentation; or (ii) modify or adapt a single article or particular item for reuse or republication in your own work, please send an email to copyrights@aafp.org with details as to which content you are interested in using and how this content might be used.
If you would like to reuse or republish multiple articles from the journal in your own work, please email contentlicensing@aafp.org.
FP Essentials Editions
Click the button below to request permission for FP Essentials editions through the CCC website if you:
- are with an academic institution and would like to use an edition in print or electronic course materials;
- would like to deliver or distribute an edition via interlibrary loan or commercial document delivery; or
- would like to photocopy or share electronically an edition (e.g., send in an email or post on an intranet or internet website) for general business or academic use.
If you would like to (i) reuse or republish a single section or a particular item (e.g., a table, a graph, an algorithm, a picture) from an edition in your own work, such as a book, textbook, journal, magazine, newspaper, brochure, pamphlet, presentation; or (ii) modify or adapt a particular item for reuse or republication in your own work, please send an email to copyrights@aafp.org with details as to which content you are interested in using and how this content might be used.
If you would like to reuse or republish multiple editions in your own work, please email contentlicensing@aafp.org.
(Note: FP Essentials editions are available for purchase for 2 years after the month of publication. However, permissions may be requested for any past edition.)
Non-journal Content
If you would like to use or republish any other AAFP content – materials from the FamilyDoctor.org website, a newsletter, a clinical guideline, a blog – for any purpose, please send an email to copyrights@aafp.org with details as to which content you are interested in using and how this content might be used.
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