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The REPIDISCA coupons are utilized for the exchange of photocopies
or scanned pages, vídeos and diskettes. Are accepted within the new
work scheme of the Virtual Health Library and Environment - BVSA,
being modernized toward an electronic management, but will follow
as reference of payment the unit "copy".
The coupons in printed form, can continue to circulate,
but is recommended sending them to CEPIS for its conversion to the
electronic system.
They are granted as symbolic
reward to the work that does each Center, in accordance with the
following table:
| By: |
Equivalence:
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- 1 bibliographic
record with summary
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10
copies |
1 bibliographic record
without summary
|
5 copies |
- 1 file of full text
without restrictions of copyright. Send the file
to CEPIS.
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20
copies |
- 1 institution
or specialist
|
5
copies |
|
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5
copies |
- 1 announcement of meeting, course, etc.
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5
copies |
- 1 announcement of
meeting, course with detailed information
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10
copies |
- 1 legislation in full
text under BVSLeg
|
20
copies |
- 1 record for Localizer
of information (others WWW and educational material).
Without summary
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5
copies |
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10 copies |
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5 copies |
The coupons
are reusable, with circulation similar to money. The coupons will never be
exchanged for money. There are coupons equivalent to 5, 10, 25, and
50 photocopies.
For the new
electronic system, there are also applied these characteristic,
including can have a negative account "overdraft" that will be analyzed
in every case.
In the traditional system
the coupons are attached to the requests of document reproduction;
there does not exist any special form.
PFor the electronic system, the
National Coordinating Centers and the
Cooperating Center that receive the
service and accept it, should send
CEPIS copy
of its acknowledgment of receipt, with the number of "copies" and Center
to which it is necessary to pay them.
The lower denomination
coupon is of five copies, so the number of coupons should be
rounded as follows:
- Number under 3 round to 0.
- Equal or greater to 3 to round to 5.
Example:
If he requests:
- Document of 17 pages, send coupons by 15 copies.
- Document of 18 pages; send coupons by 20 copies.
The coupons include the
shipment by air mail. The amount for fax or courier should be paid according
to the rate of the country. |