Format Change for NLM Bibliographic Record Distribution

Beginning October 1, 2018, the National Library of Medicine (NLM) will begin distributing its MARC bibliographic files (Catfile, Serfile, CatfilePlus, SerfilePlus) in UTF-8 rather than MARC-8 format.

UTF-8 is a more modern encoding format that allows for full representation of character sets outside the Roman alphabet.