Loansome Doc

Article Copies via LoansomeDoc®

Loansome Doc is a feature of Pubmed enabling users to order documents found in MEDLINE®. From PubMed , students, Intercollegiate College of Nursing employees, and other authorized users can order articles from a list of retrieved citations and have them sent to the Anderson Library to supply a full-text document if the library does not own the journal. Students pay a $3 fee for articles we get from outside our consortium school libraries; faculty and others make other arrangements. If the library owns the journal, local students and faculty receive a copy of the request with a note to come in and copy the article.

Register using the Loansome Doc Registration Page

The Loansome Doc Registration page stores the user's complete name, address, telephone number, fax number, preferred method of delivery (choose Pickup from the list, which includes Mail, Fax, or Internet, unless you make special arrangements with us), and a library identifier (LIBID) for the library that will provide documents. The Intercollegiate College of Nursing LIBID is WAUICN.You will receive a UserID, and choose a password. 

This ID is entered into the user's REGISTRATION record. This identifier is transmitted with each batch of orders, and identifies the library to which the orders are sent.

Loansome Doc Process

Outlined below are the steps in a Loansome Doc request starting with a PubMed search and ending with delivery of the copy of a document. 

 1.  Run a literature search using PubMed. 

 2.  Click the box next to articles you want to order. 

 3.  Click the "Order" button. /

 4.  Enter your UserID and password. 

 5.  Check "Order Document" button; click "Go". 

 6.  Review orders and delivery information, making changes suggested below. 

 7.  Be sure Authorize ordering library to obtain articles from other libraries if ordering library is unable to fill the request is checked with Yes.

 8.  Students:  Type a comment telling us if you will pay the fee for items from outside the consortium, or only want them if free.  E.g., Free only or will pay.  Faculty and other users make other arrangements.

 9.  Click "Send Order" button.  

10.  The NLM computer electronically transfers the orders from the Loansome Doc Order File to the Anderson Library using DOCLINE.  

11. Staff at the Anderson Library are notified of your pending Loansome Doc requests when they log on to DOCLINE. The requests are printed and processed. If we own the item, local Spokane users will receive a copy of the citation with a note, so you can come copy the article. We make other arrangements for distant students. If we do not own it, we will process it through interlibrary loan for you, and notify you when it arrives for pickup.