FAQ: NLM® LocatorPlus® -- What is LocatorPlus?

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LocatorPlus is one of the NLM free online catalogs.

Use LocatorPlus:

• To find records for journals, books, reports and audiovisuals in the NLM® collection
  
  
• To find records for serials and books not in the NLM collection, but owned by regional libraries
  
  
• To see records for journals, books, reports and audiovisuals on order, on loan or in process at the NLM
  
  
  

Updates to LocatorPlus are continuous. New or updated records are immediately available to users.

To search the NLM collection via LocatorPlus, start at
http://locatorplus.gov/

A LocatorPlus online tutorial is available at
http://locatorplus.gov/tutorials.html

The NLM Catalog is an alternative search interface to the NLM collections and links to LocatorPlus for access to NLM holdings information.
http://nlmcatalog.nlm.nih.gov

For more information see:

• NLM Fact Sheet LocatorPlus
  http://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/factsheets/locatorplus.html
  
  
• NLM FAQ Finding Items Marked "Not Held at NLM”
  http://www.nlm.nih.gov/services/lpnotatnlm.html
  
  

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http://www.nlm.nih.gov/services/lpwhat.html

Last reviewed: 05 October 2009
Last updated: 05 October 2009
First published: 06 August 2001
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