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Appendix E
NLM ONLINE PRICING ALGORITHM CHARGES. NLM Tech Bull. 1997 Sep-Oct;(298):ae.
September 1997 [posted]
NLM ONLINE PRICING ALGORITHM CHARGES
Applies to searching via command language or via Grateful Med, the user-friendly personal computer software packages for Windows, DOS, and Macintosh. Searching through Internet Grateful Med and PubMed, NLM's two World Wide Web applications, is FREE.
| Effective January 1, 1998 | Prices apply 24 hours per day. |
| File | Connect Charge (Per Hour) | Search Statement Charge | Online Citation Charge | Interaction Charge (Carriage Returns) | Computer Resources Disk Accesses (Per 100) | Online Character Charge (Per 1,000) | ||||||
| ELHILL COMPUTER | ||||||||||||
| MEDLINE® & Backfiles | $2.40 | $.06 | $.01 | -- | $.04 | $.05 | ||||||
| AIDSLINE® , AIDSTRIALS, AIDSDRUGS & DIRLINE® | FREE | FREE | FREE | -- | FREE | FREE | ||||||
| TOXLINE® & TOXLINE65 | 2.40 | .06 | .01 | -- | .04 | .05 | ||||||
| ALERT | 2.40 | .06 | -- | -- | .04 | -- | ||||||
| All Others | 2.40 | .06 | .01 | -- | .04 | .05 | ||||||
| PDQ® | 18.00 | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | ||||||
| DOCUSER® & LOAN STATUS | FREE | FREE | FREE | -- | FREE | FREE | ||||||
| TOXNET COMPUTER | ||||||||||||
| All Files | 3.80 | .08 | -- | .02 | -- | .08 | ||||||
- Depending largely upon the amount of information viewed/printed/downloaded, a MEDLINE search generally ranges from $1.25 - $5.00.
- The charge to ftp online search results via the Internet follows this algorithm. There are no additional charges.
NLM OFFLINE CHARGES
| Pages | Per Page for PRT OFFLINE, OFFSEARCH, or Automatic SDIs | Per 2,000 Characters Transmitted via ftp*** for Automatic SDIs only | ||
| MEDLINE & Other Databases | $0.30 | $0.10 | ||
| AIDSLINE, AIDSTRIALS, AIDSDRUGS, DIRLINE & DOCUSER | FREE | FREE | ||
| TOXNET Files | $0.30 | Not applicable | ||
| Offsearches | Per File | |||
| MEDLINE & Other Databases | $1.00 (plus page charges) | |||
| AIDSLINE, AIDSTRIALS, AIDSDRUGS, DIRLINE & DOCUSER | FREE | |||
| Automatic SDI Searches | Per Search | |||
| SDILINE® , AVLINE® , BIOETHICSLINE® , CANCERLIT® , CATLINE® , HealthSTAR , POPLINE®, TOXLINE | $1.50 (plus page charges or ftp character charges) | |||
| AIDSLINE | FREE |
***The Internet ftp data charge is applied per unit of 2,000 characters transmitted (a low estimate of how many characters fit on a page of NLM's offline print paper) using the rate of $0.05/1,000 characters from the online pricing algorithm.
NLM 11/97 Rev.