Enhancements to Ovid

Ovid Classes Scheduled

Changes in Fees for Library Services

MEDLINEplus: a Source of Health Information for Patients

Surgeon General's Report on Oral Health

Recent Acquisitions

LSUSD Faculty Publications

Changes in Fees for Library Services 

Interlibrary Loan and Photocopy Fees Increase with the New Fiscal Year

As of July 1^st, 2000, the prices for interlibrary loan services (ILL) of the LSUHSC library system have been slightly increased, due to the general fee increase by the South Central Area Medical Libraries Consortium in which LSUHSC participates.  LSUHSC-affiliated patrons may see an increase of approximately $1.00 per article on the amount they were previously paying for articles that they ordered through ILL.  We will continue to order materials first from lenders with which we have a reciprocal agreement not to charge, but if the materials are not available through those libraries, we will resort to ordering from charging libraries, and patrons will then see the fee increase. 

The fees for patrons who use the Loansome Doc borrowing system (electronic document ordering via PubMed or Internet Grateful Med) will also increase slightly.  Health professionals will now be charged $9.00 per article plus any applicable copyright fees, whereas nonhealth professionals will be charged $15.00 per article plus any applicable copyright fees.  There is also a $5.00-per-article fee to fax Loansome Doc requests. 

The library will charge all health professionals $9.00 per article for photocopy service of items in our collection.  Nonhealth professionals will be charged $25.00 per photocopy.  The $5.00-per-article fax fee applies to all requests.  The table below includes all photocopy and ILL charges.

MEDLINE Searches Now Free to LSUHSC Community

 LSUHSC reference librarians are now able to run searches in MEDLINE and most other databases free for LSUHSC faculty, staff, and students.  For LSUHSC-supported databases, such as Ovid, WebSpirs, Lexis-Nexis Academic Universe, or InfoTrac, the librarians will no longer charge for searches.  Results of any length can be e-mailed or saved to a disk and lists of citations with or without abstracts will be printed free if they are under 50 pages. 

 Searches in outside database services, such as Dialog or Ovid-online, are billed to the library on a per-search basis, and these costs will be passed on to the patron. Unaffiliated health professionals will be charged cost plus 25%, with a $10.00 minimum.  Unaffiliated nonhealth professionals will be charged cost plus 25%, with a $25.00 minimum.  Current members of the LSUSD Alumni Association receive searches at half price, with a $5.00 minimum charge.