FAQ: Finding a List of Current MEDLINE® Journals by Subject

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For a list of broad subject terms applied to MEDLINE journals, see http://www.nlm.nih.gov/bsd/journals/subjects.html. These categories are not as specific or comprehensive as the subject terms applied to records in the NLM Catalog.

You can also use LocatorPlus®, our Web-searchable library catalog, to search for a list of current MEDLINE journals on a topic:

LocatorPlus mainly uses Medical Subject Headings (MeSH®). If you do not know the appropriate MeSH term for your subject, you can use the MeSH Browser to identify it at http://www.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/MBrowser.html

1. Go to LocatorPlus at http://locatorplus.gov/
   
2. Click on the "Search LocatorPlus" button
   
3. Click on the "Advanced Menu Search" tab
   
4. In the "Search For:" box, type in the MeSH term
   
5. In the drop-down box to the right, select "any of these" for one-word terms, or "as a phrase" for terms with multiple words
   
6. In the "Search In:" drop-down box, select "Subject"
   
7. Make sure that the AND radio button is selected
   
8. In the "Search For:" box, type medline
   
9. In the drop-down box to the right, select "any of these"
   
10. In the "Search In:" drop-down box, select "Abstract/Index Tags"
    
11. Make sure that the AND radio button is selected
    
12. In the next "Search For" box, type 1 5 (that's 1 space 5),
    
13. In the drop-down box to the right, select "any of these"
    
14. In the "Search In:" drop-down box, select "Indexing Status"
    
15. Click on the gray "Search" button (towards the bottom of the page)
    

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Last reviewed: 30 September 2009
Last updated: 30 September 2009
First published: 31 October 2000
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