Technical Notes
NLM® Discontinues DOCLINE® 'ISO' Support
February 26, 2007 [posted]
On January 25, 2007, the National Library of Medicine® (NLM) announced its decision to discontinue support for the DOCLINE ISO (International Organization for Standardization) ILL (Interlibrary Loan) Protocol. DOCLINE no longer offers connectivity using the ISO ILL Protocol (ISO 10160 and ISO 10161).
After fifteen months in production, support for the ISO ILL Protocol via DOCLINE was discontinued due to the considerable staff and IT resources required combined with a low demand from DOCLINE libraries for the ISO ILL connectivity. The current DOCLINE ISO libraries will be converted back to regular DOCLINE before April 30, 2007.
NLM continues to investigate alternate methods for DOCLINE participants with local ILL systems to exchange requests.
