Loansome Doc

Document Ordering from PubMed

Loansome Doc is a document ordering feature of PubMed Medline that enables you to order articles directly from a Medline literature search. All JABSOM students and employees, UH Manoa affiliated students and employees, unaffiliated healthcare providers, and members of the public are eligible to participate. UH Manoa affiliates may also request items free of charge from Hamilton Library's Interlibrary Loan service.

Two-Step Registration

Participation in Loansome Doc requires a simple two-step registration process with the JABSOM Health Sciences Library and the National Library of Medicine.

Print out and complete HSLib's Registration Form and submit it to us by mail, fax, or drop it off at the library. We will review your application and e-mail you a confirmation. You should receive your confirmation within 24 hours of your request, Monday through Friday.
After you receive your confirmation from the Health Sciences Library, create your personal account with the National Library of Medicine and create your own login and password for signing in to the Loansome Doc system.

To select HSLib as your supplying library scroll to the bottom of the page of Hawaii libraries and select University of Hawaii John Burns School of Medicine which comes last in the alphabetical list.

On the page explaining the terms, check the box indicating that you have read and understand the policies and prices set out in HSLib's registration form. After completing and verifying the information, you may begin to submit your article requests through PubMed.

Ordering Documents through PubMed's Loansome Doc Service

Perform a Medline subject search by going to www.pubmed.gov. UH Manoa affiliated users should use HSLib's PubMed Medline with fulltext links by going to www.hawaii.edu/hslib/ first and then clicking on PubMed Medline.

If you already have a citation, use Medline's Single Citation Matcher and fill in the parts of the citation you know. Usually 3 parts are enough to identify the citation.

Select the articles you want to order by clicking the boxes next to the citation numbers and use the "Send to" drop down box to select "Order".

Your requests will come directly to us if you have identified HSLib as your supplying library. We will either fill the request from the journals in our collection or refer it to another library and then forward it to you. Turn around time averages one to two business days, depending on the time of day you submit the request. Two to four hour rush service is available for an additional $10 charge, but exact turnaround time will vary depending on the time of day you submit your request and the response time of the lending library, if your request is referred. Please call 692-0810 to inform us of a rush request as well as submitting it through Loansome Doc.

Loansome Doc patrons will be invoiced monthly at the following rates:

	Articles available at HSLib	Articles NOT available at HSLib
JABSOM & other UH Manoa Affiliated Patrons	$5.00	$11.00
Other healthcare providers & community members	$11.00	$22.00

4-HOUR RUSH charge: $10.00 surcharge. Please call to confirm: 808-692-0810

For more information about registering or using the Loansome Doc service, please call 808-692-0810 or e-mail us at: hslill@hawaii.edu.

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