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The (Almost) Free ILL System for Medical Information
DOCLINE:
Northwest Interlibrary Loan and Resource Sharing ConferenceSeptember 11, 2003
Do your library users need access to medical information?
For themselves or their families?
For their work or school?
Beyond the scope of your collection?
“Technical” (or not)
Regularly or rarely?
DOCLINE Might Help!
Interlibrary loan system for sharing medical, health, and related information
Like OCLC ILL: Web interface for sending and receiving request
Like OCLC ILL: Information about participating libraries; electronic payment; holdings information
Like OCLC ILL: Patron-generated requests (via Loansome Doc)
Different from OCLC ILL:
Specialized subject focus on medical, health, and related information
No connect or transaction charges
Primarily used to send requests for, and receive copies of journal articles (more than 95% of traffic)
Automatic routing based on lenders’ journal holdings and borrowers’ preferences
DOCLINE Startup
Register with National Library of Medicine’s regional representative (that’s me!)
Receive user ID and password
Enter your library’s profile and serial holdings information
Training via Web tutorial, telephone and email consultation, some classes
DOCLINE Use
Open Web browser (IE 5.x, IE 6.x, Netscape 7 via Windows machine), go to http://docline.gov
Enter user ID and password
Create requests for articles (or books) and system will route them to potential lenders
Receive requests from other libraries routed to you based on your holdings
Requests route on after 1 day if not receipted
DOCLINE Example
PubMed—principal index to biomedical and health journal literature
Available via Web to anyone, for free, at http://pubmed.gov
Scenario: concerned parent reading about injuries to school kids’ backs from heavy backpacks. Finds references from Spine.
Where Will DOCLINE Send It?
Libraries that use DOCLINE:– Hospitals and Academic Medical Centers
– Colleges and Universities with Nursing, Veterinary, and Other Health Programs
– Pharmaceutical and Biotechnology Companies
– Consumer Health Libraries and a few Public Libraries
Requests route automatically (based on holdings and preferences)
Serials Holdings Information
Must input holdings for at least 25 serials, prefer medical and health-related
Serials must be listed in LOCATORplus (NLM’s Online Catalog)
Not necessarily medical– General (e.g. Newsweek, Time, U.S. News & World Report)– Business (e.g. Business Week, Forbes,) – Academic non-medical (e.g. Nature, Science, Scientific American)– Others
What’s Different about DOCLINE?
DOCLINE only ILL system used by many libraries that specialize in health and medical information
Rarely need to look up locations (Automated routing based on serials holdings records)
National Library of Medicine prefers to receive requests via DOCLINE
DOCLINE Is Free! (Almost)
No charges for joining, no connect or subscription charges for use
Connectivity and software: Web access and browser (Your library probably already has)
However, some participation requirements:– Input serials holdings information– Read account daily and respond– Keep directory information up-to-date
DOCLINE or OCLC for ILL?
DOCLINE focus: articles not complete works OCLC focus: complete works
Why Bother?
If frequent needs for medical and health information, DOCLINE best for ILL
All U.S. libraries with good medical/health collections use DOCLINE—and give it high priority
DOCLINE libraries can participate in FreeShare!– National reciprocal agreement within DOCLINE– Libraries borrow and lend to each other for no charge – 932 libraries participate so far
Borrow-Only: Another Option
Use of DOCLINE for borrowing but not lending
No requirement to enter serials holdings
An option when needs for medical/health information are less frequent
FreeShare participation not available—Lenders will charge
Access Without DOCLINE
National Library of Medicine accepts ALA forms —but lower priority
Pacific Northwest libraries’ serials holdings:
http://nnlm.gov/pnr/serhold/ftp.select.html
Free medical/health journals on the Web:http://www.freemedicaljournals.com/
Questions?
Contact your local National Network of Libraries of Medicine’s Regional Medical Library office from within the U.S. at
1-800-338-7657