The PubMed users guide to the BMA Library edocs service
3 February 2006
You can now order articles via PubMed from our popular edocs service. Journal articles are scanned in from our print collection and converted into digital format (Adobe PDF), which are then emailed to you. Go here for further details of our edocs service.
Articles will be sent to you by email within 3 working days. The cost is £5.50 per article for non-members. (For your information, membership of the BMA is restricted to doctors registered to practice in the UK, or libraries in our Institutional membership scheme).
If you are a member you will pay a discounted price but you do need to have a BMA website username and password. If you need these, go to the BMA website registration page. If you need a reminder, go to the reminder page. Full details of member prices can be found in our quick guide to costs.
- How to order articles via PubMed
- Document delivery options
- Email confirmation of your requests
- Amending requests once they have been submitted
- Displaying the BMA's journal holdings using PubMed's My NCBI
- Selecting the BMA as your document delivery supplier using My NCBI
- PubMed's Outside Tool
- PubMed's interactive tutorial
- Contact details
Accessing PubMed using the link below allows us to show you whether the articles you want are held at the BMA Library. Please bookmark this link as it unique to the BMA and makes requesting articles from us even easier.
- Go to PubMed by selecting this edocs image
or following the unique BMA link http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?holding=igbbmalib&tool=igbbmalib
- Perform your search
- Select the check box to the left of the citations you wish to request
- To select items from multiple searches, select 'send to' on the features bar, scroll down the menu and select 'clipboard'. Citations added to the clipboard are highlighted in green
- Select the 'send to' on the features bar, scroll down the menu and select 'order'
Document delivery options
- Select whether you are a BMA member or a non-member and 'continue'
- The articles you are requesting will be displayed and can be deselected if necessary
- Read the guidance and complete your details
- Read and select the box to agree to the terms and conditions of the Copyright Act
- Select submit
You will receive an email confirmation once you have submitted your requests
Amending requests once they have been submitted
You cannot change requests yourself once they have been submitted. If a request needs to be amended or cancelled please telephone us as soon as possible (find our number in the Contact Details section).
Please note that we are unable to amend or cancel a request once we have started to process it. The cut-off time is 10 am London time Monday to Friday. Go here to find out the time in London now.
Displaying the BMA's journal holdings using PubMed's My NCBI
You can also request articles using the My NCBI function of PubMed (previously known as 'Cubby').
- Select My NCBI in the top right hand corner
- Sign in or register
- Select My NCBI on the side bar menu
- Select Filters in the My NCBI Resources side bar
- Select the PubMed filter selection option
- Select the Search tab
- Type 'british medical' then select Go
- Select the BMA Library link that appears below as a result of the search
- Select the 'Add a result tab...' check box
- Perform a search in the main PubMed search box near the top of the screen
- A new tab labelled 'igbbmalib' appears. This contains the results limited to BMA Library print holdings
- Select the igbbmalib tab, and in the display drop down menu, select Abstract, or Citation. The edocs icon will then show.
Selecting the BMA as your document delivery supplier using My NCBI
Using this method means that you don't need to bookmark the unique BMA link used above. It is particularly useful when you want to use the other My NCBI services, such as saved searches and alerts.
- Sign in to My NCBI
- Select 'document delivery' on the sidebar menu
- Select 'BMA Library' from the list to specify that this is the destination of your requests when you use the 'send to order' option
- Perform your search and select your document delivery options as above, without needing to access the PubMed site via our unique BMA link.
PubMed's Outside Tool
This feature allows us to display our journal holdings in the results of your search. If we hold a journal in our collection, our BMA Library edocs icon
To sign into Outside Tool
- Sign in to My NCBI and click Outside Tool on the My NCBI sidebar menu.
- Select BMA Library from the list
Please see PubMed's interactive tutorial for demonstrations of features such as Outside Tool, My NCBI/Cubby, send to and the clipboard.
Contact details
In order to provide our edocs service to non-members at a low cost, please understand that we are unable to assist with detailed queries on how to submit requests. However if you have submitted a request in error, please contact library staff as soon as possible by telephoning +44 (0)20 7383 6625 during London weekday working hours. We cannot cancel a request once we have started processing it - the cut-off time is 10 am London time Monday to Friday.
At other times please contact us at email: edoc@bma.org.uk but we are afraid that although we check this mailbox regularly, we cannot guarantee to have read your email before we start to process your request.