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Dragonfly, Summer 2001 What To Do? When You Can't Find a Journal in SERHOLD or LOCATORplus

Susan Barnes
Resource Sharing Coordinator

If a journal is not in SERHOLD or LOCATORplus, how can a DOCLINE library add its holdings? And if a journal changes its title - what then?

If you encounter a new health-related journal title, (or a title change, or some other bibliographic change) that you cannot find in SERHOLD or LOCATORplus: NLM wants to hear from you! NLM appreciates learning of new, in-scope titles and of any journalistic behaviors that should be reflected in a title's LOCATORplus record. There is an Official Form for providing this input at http://www.nlm.nih.gov/tsd/serials/nlm_bib_add_mod_form.html. At this URL you'll find the "NLM LOCATORplus Bibliographic Data Addition/Modification Form."

These questions come up fairly often because it is not uncommon for one of us to become aware of a journal - or of a title change -- before NLM does. We benefit in the northwest in having some DOCLINE libraries that have collections that are strong in nontraditional areas. Examples include Bastyr University, the National College of Naturopathic Medicine, and the Oregon College of Oriental Medicine. We are also fortunate to have library collections in our region that are deep in specialized areas, such as the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center's Arnold Library, the St. Luke's/Mountain States Tumor Institute Library, the Oregon Health Sciences University's dentistry library and the library of the Intercollegiate College of Nursing. At the same time, just about any library staff member who does serials work has been faced with title changes or serial peculiarities.

So remember the "NLM LOCATORplus Bibliographic Data Addition/Modification Form" at http://www.nlm.nih.gov/tsd/serials/nlm_add_mod_form.html! Hint: links from NLM's SERHOLD Fact Sheet will guide you there.

Dragonfly, Summer, 2001 -- Vol.32, Number 3
(posted on PNRNews July 24, 2001)

URL: http://nnlm.gov/pnr/news/200107/locator.html