NLM's participation in the Electronic Funds Transfer System (EFTS)

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Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2003 09:45:35 -0500
From: Docline Docline <Docline at MAIL.NLM.NIH.GOV>
To: DOCLINE-L at LIST.NIH.GOV
Subject: NLM's participation in the Electronic Funds Transfer System (EFTS)

In May 2002, at the Medical Library Association Conference in Dallas,
Texas, NLM announced that it would participate in the Electronic Funds
Transfer System (EFTS) managed by the University of Connecticut Health
Center (UCHC, Farmington). Information about the Electronic Funds Transfer
System is available at http://efts.uchc.edu.

During the past few months NLM has been working closely with EFTS staff to
ensure that EFTS can process NLM's billing transactions for its document
delivery services.  EFTS has successfully processed files sent by NLM.

NLM will begin sending the quarterly billing transactions for April-June
2003 to EFTS in July 2003.  In order for NLM to send billing transactions
to EFTS, your library's DOCUSER record must indicate that you participate
in EFTS.

NLM will continue to offer billing to its customers through the National
Technical Information Service (NTIS).  Billing transactions will be sent
to either NTIS or EFTS depending on information in each library's DOCUSER
record on the day that NLM creates its billing transactions.  If a
library's DOCUSER record has "Participates in EFTS" marked YES, then the
library's billing transactions will be sent to EFTS.  If a library's
DOCUSER record has "Participates in EFTS" marked NO, then the library's
billing transactions will be sent to NTIS.  Once NLM prepares its billing
files, it cannot be changed.  Therefore, it's important that your
library's DOCUSER record has the correct information regarding
participation in EFTS.  We encourage all DOCLINE participants to review
their DOCUSER record to ensure that NLM will send your billing information
to the correct organization.

The EFTS fields cannot be edited by Network Libraries.  The EFTS fields
can only be updated by your RML or the EFTS office.  To review your
DOCUSER record, select DOCUSER from the DOCLINE main menu, and then select
Update.  Click on the Interlibrary Loan Tab.  Under the "Select ILL
Information Category" drop-down menu, select ILL Services. Use the Contact
RML link on the ILL Services page in DOCUSER to notify your regional
DOCLINE coordinator of any changes that you wish to make or contact the
EFTS office at 1-866-561-5045.


Rosalyn M. Leiderman
Head, Systems Unit
Collection Access Section
National Library of Medicine




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