Back to top of page. Medical Information at Your Fingertips Faster delivery of journal articles in the fields of medicine and health related topics is now available through the Loansome Doc service. Loansome Doc allows state employees to search the National Library of Medicine's PubMed database and order needed articles online. The articles are sent directly to the requester from the lending libraries. The State Library absorbs all related costs for photocopying and mailing the articles.
Current users are especially happy with the rapid turnaround time from ordering to receipt.
Most articles are received in less than one week. PubMed is the National Library of Medicine's online search service that accesses the 9 million citations in Medline and PreMedline. The database includes information in the areas of medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, and pre-clinical sciences. Updated weekly, PubMed includes information from 1966 to the present and also contains links to available online journals. If an error message is received when the user id is entered, it means that combination is taken, and another one must be entered.