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The Journals Database: NEW and IMPROVED!!

At the end of September, the Journal Browser in PubMed disappeared and was replaced with the Journals Database. Like the old Journal Browser, the Journals Database is available via a link from the blue frame on the left hand side of the PubMed home page. Here's what the Journals Database page looks like:

The Journals Database will do everything the Journal Browser used to do - and more. It allows users to do an automatic search for all the citations in PubMed from a certain journal. It will link to publishers' websites. It will do more, too. It links out to LocatorPlus so that the full catalog record for a serial may be easily viewed.

The Journals Database is searchable by:

Searches, either alphabetic or numeric, may be entered into the search box. Click "Go" or press Enter on the keyboard and the search will be executed. Search terms will be searched in all available fields.

The results page looks a little different, too. Here are the results for a search for "brain" in the Journals Database:

Clicking on the NLM ID hyperlink will display the journal's record from LocatorPlus, the catalog of the National Library of Medicine. This may be helpful for tracking title changes or for finding out when indexing for Medline began and/or ended, among other things.

Clicking on the title hyperlink will display a more detailed record for that journal:

OK - so how can we do a search for all the citations in PubMed from this particular journal? Click on Links and a little menu will pop up. Highlight PubMed and the search will be run automatically.

There is also a Limits function in the Journals Database:

It allows you to limit your search only PubMed journals by clicking on that box. Why would this be useful? The Journals Database is one of the Entrez databases - just like PubMed is a database and Nucleotide is a database and Protein is a database, etc. Within the Entrez suite, it is possible to link back and forth between these databases. This will become more and more important as we come to rely on the "other" NCBI databases as heavily as we do PubMed.

Highlighting a field from the "All Fields" drop down menu will limit the search to a specific field. However, that sort of limiting can also be done using search tags. The following search tags are available:

Try the new Journals Database. It's different, that's true. But it's new and it is definitely improved!

For complete information about the new Journals Database, please see the NLM Technical Bulletin article located online at http://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/so02/so02_journals_database.html

Donna Berryman, Outreach Coordinator