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FAQ: How to Tell if a Journal is Owned by NLM®

Question: When I am using PubMed®, how can I tell if NLM owns the journal?
Answer:

You can link from the PubMed Journals Database (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?db=journals)
to LocatorPlus® (http://www.locatorplus.gov) to see journals that the NLM owns.

  1. In PubMed, you must be in the Abstract, AbstractPlus or Citation display of a citation.
    Click on the journal title abbreviation. A small "Links" window will appear.

  2. Select "Journals." This will take you to the record for the journal in the PubMed Journals Database.

  3. Click on the linked "NLM ID" at the bottom of the record, or click on the "Links" menu to the right
    of the record and select NLM Catalog. This will take you to the record for the journal in the NLM Catalog.

  4. Click on the box "NLM Holdings in LocatorPlus" at the top of the record.

  5. In the LocatorPlus record, look for Location:
    • NLM owns the title if the Location is "General Collection," "Reference Collection," "Internet" or
      "Microform Collection."
    • "Availability" shows you which issues the NLM owns.
      If the date range includes a dash (such as 2001-), the NLM continues to receive the journal.
    • "Status" lists issues that are not available at the NLM at this time.

The FAQ: NLM LocatorPlus -- Item Availabilty explains more about the status information in LocatorPlus.
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/services/lpstatus.html

Information to get items shown as "not at NLM" is at http://www.nlm.nih.gov/services/lpnotatnlm.html

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Last reviewed: 05 October 2009
Last updated: 05 October 2009
First published: 25 November 2002
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