LIST OF SERIALS INDEXED - Library

The National Library of Medicine (NLM) designed
the List of Serials Indexed for Online Users to
provide bibliographic information for serials from
which articles are indexed with the MeSH®
vocabulary and cited in MEDLINE®, the
backbone of NLM's PubMed® database. The
symbol “s)” is used before titles that are routinely
monitored, but indexed selectively; only articles
relating to the fields of biomedicine and life
sciences are indexed from these journals. Some
serials cited in MEDLINE are not included in this
publication because they are not monitored on an
on-going basis and have yielded only a few
citations over many years.
The symbol “*” identifies titles indexed in
Abridged Index Medicus, which ceased hardcopy
publication with the December 1997 issue, but is
still available online in NLM’s PubMed® database
as a search subset limit called “Core clinical
journals.”
The 2006 edition contains 10,767 serial titles,
including 4,959 titles currently indexed for
MEDLINE as of January 2006, cited alphabetically
by abbreviated title followed by full title.
FILING ORDER
Entries are sorted letter by letter. Numbers sort
before letters. Special characters are ignored in
sorting, except for the “&”, which sorts before
numbers.
ABBREVIATIONS OF TITLES
The title abbreviations appearing in the List of
Serials Indexed for Online Users are constructed
using the List of Title Word Abbreviations
(LTWA). The LTWA is maintained by the ISSN
(International Standard Serial Number)
International Centre. For more information about
the Centre and its LTWA, please consult the ISSN
Web site at http://www.issn.org.
INTRODUCTION
Information about the rules NLM currently follows
when constructing title abbreviations for items
cited in NLM’s online services can be found at
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/factsheets/constructitle.html.
DATES OF PUBLICATION
The dates of publication appear on the line below
the title. These data contain the date of the first
issue for titles currently published and the first and
last dates for titles that have ceased publication or
have been superseded or continued by another title.
Unknown years are indicated with a “?”. The dates
given are publication dates, and do not necessarily
represent NLM’s holdings or issues indexed.
INTERNATIONAL STANDARD SERIAL
NUMBER
The International Standard Serial Number (ISSN) is a
serial identifier consisting of a unique seven-digit
number and an eighth check digit. The ISSN
uniquely identifies a serial title, regardless of
language, and is therefore useful in international
information exchange and in machine storage of
serials data. The ISSN is assigned to a serial title by
the appropriate national center of the ISSN Network,
which is coordinated by the ISSN International
Centre in Paris. The National Serials Data Program
(NSDP) of the Library of Congress is the United
States Center of the ISSN Network. The ISSN is
irrevocably linked to the key title of the serial. If the
title of a continuing serial changes, a new ISSN must
be assigned to the new title. If a title is published in
both print and electronic format, there should be a
separate ISSN for each format. In the List of Serials
Indexed for Online Users, the ISSN is printed on the
third line of the entry, and the format corresponding
to each ISSN is designated by a parenthetical (P) for
“print” or (E) for “electronic” following the number.
More information about the ISSN is available at
http://www.issn.org.