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Year-End Processing (YEP)
YEP of Stored and Saved Searches and Automatic SDI's
CHEMLINE® and TOXLIT® Retire
Rebuilding of CATLINE®/ AVLINE®
MeSH Coming Attractions
MeSH on the Web
Gold Standard Search
Technical Notes
Appendixes:
MEDLINE - 1998 Weekly Update Schedule
AIDSLINE - 1998 Weekly Update Schedule
HealthSTAR - 1998 Weekly Update Schedule
NLM Databases - 1998 Monthly Update Schedule
 1998 NLM Pricing Algorithm Chart
MEDLARS Pricing Schedule
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Appendix E
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.
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