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Document Delivery Services Available in PubMed

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May 06, 2001 [posted]

In PubMed the Order button is used to order the full text of articles through NLM's document delivery service, Loansome Doc. PubMed now makes it possible for other document delivery services to be accessed with the Order button. Currently two other services, Infotrieve and Mediscope, are available. However, we expect more services to be added in the future. As always, fees, registration requirements, and delivery methods for these services will vary.

To change the document delivery service from Loansome Doc to another service, access PubMed's Cubby and use the Document Delivery Services link from the sidebar. This takes you to a page listing the available services. (The name of the service is a link to a site where you can obtain more information about that service.) The service selected will be the document delivery service activated when the Order button is used. This change in the default of the Order button from Loansome Doc to another service is in effect only when the user is logged into the Cubby.

Participating document delivery services may provide access to PubMed from their sites. Users linking from these sites to PubMed will automatically be connected to that service when the Order button is used, i.e., without making a change in the Cubby.

Libraries can participate as document delivery services; however, this would probably only be appropriate for libraries with sophisticated document delivery programs. A library must be able to provide a URL to a CGI (common gateway interface) program on their site.