U.S. National Library of Medicine NLM Technical Bulletin Update

NLM Technical Bulletin, Nov-Dec 2017, PubMed Central Canada Permanently Offline on February 23, 2018

12/21/2017 11:33 AM EST

PubMed Central Canada will be permanently offline as of February 23, 2018. This will not affect the status or operations of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Library of Medicine (NLM) PubMed Central (US) or Europe PubMed Central.

NLM Technical Bulletin, Nov-Dec 2017, General Material Designations Removed from NLM Bibliographic Records

12/21/2017 11:33 AM EST

The project to replace the General Material Designation (MARC 21 field 245 $h) on pre-Resource Description and Access records in the catalog and substitute the appropriate MARC 21 33X fields, described in Removing General Material Designations from NLM Cataloging Records, has been completed. There will not be a separate distribution of these files. Subscribers who wish to receive updated records with the new 33X fields should download the complete base files which will be made available on January 2, 2018 in MARC and XML formats.

NLM Technical Bulletin, Nov-Dec 2017, NLM Resource Sharing Availability via OCLC Delayed

12/21/2017 09:21 AM EST

The new National Library of Medicine (NLM) interlibrary loan (ILL) resource sharing program through the Online Computer Library Center (OCLC) has been delayed until after January 1, 2018.

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