Document Delivery : About MEDD

For those of you who use the Minitex ELM resources with your students and have become frustrated by the number of times when only abstracts of potentially useful articles are available, help is at hand!  Minitex, at the U of M, offers a free document delivery service and will email you or your student a full text version of any article cited in the ELM electronic resources. Hard copies are also available and generally delivered within 48 hours.

In order to participate, you will need to call or email Agnes Lee at Minitex to set up an account and get a school code. You'll need your number to fill out the on-line order form for any requests. See link here. After setting up your account, Agnes will call you and instruct you on how to use the service. You can reach her at: 612 624-4574 or leexx050@umn.edu

From the MINITEX website:

MEDD (MINITEX Electronic Document Delivery) is a custom-built, web-based document delivery system. It scans material and posts it on a password-controlled web page for the patron to retrieve. It then sends an email message to the patron to let them know their material is ready for download. MEDD also has built-in image processing capabilities to allow MINITEX staff to clean up the scanned image, resulting in smaller download file sizes. Security and copyright controls have been built into the software.

Articles can be retrieved from any web browser that has Adobe Acrobat (4.0 version or newer) installed. Articles can be viewed up to five times or for 7 days after email notification (whichever comes first), and the patron can decide to read, print, and/or download the article.

You may wish to visit the MEDD FAQ and the MEDD Troubleshooting Guide for additional information.

MEDD FAQs