list of serials indexed

The National Library of Medicine (NLM) designed
the List of Serials Indexed for Online Users (LSI)
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 2007 edition contains 12,493 serial titles,
including 5,164 titles currently indexed for
MEDLINE as of January 2007, cited alphabetically
by abbreviated title followed by full title.
NEW IN 2007
The ending period and the general material
designation (GMD) no longer display in the full
title.
For example: an entry in the 2006 LSI of
BMC bioinformatics [electronic resource].
currently displays as: BMC bioinformatics
As of 2007, MEDLINE extends back beyond 1966
to 1950 because NLM mapped the original
indexing of most OLDMEDLINE citations to
current MeSH. Approximately 1,300 additional
serial titles appear in the 2007 edition of the LSI as
a result of this expansion in MEDLINE.
Approximately 100 titles in the history of medicine
area have been added; most are selectively
indexed.
INTRODUCTION
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.
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