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