In addition to accessing PubMed for citations to journal articles, the following consumer health information resources are also very helpful:

Publishers who supply their data to PubMed electronically may include an icon link to a site providing the full-text.  The provider's icon is displayed on the Abstract and Citation formats.  For example, enter a search for the Journal of Biological Chemistry (J Biol Chem) and display the results in the Abstract format. Next, click the "JBC Online" icon to go to the publisher's web site.  These web sites may require a subscription or fee in order to view the full-text of an article. The list of journals with links to full-text is available from PubMed's Journal Browser.

All other links to providers are displayed on the LinkOut display for a citation.  A "LinkOut" link is available on the Abstract and Citation formats, and there is also a LinkOut display format.

Document Ordering via Loansome Doc:

The Order button allows you to order documents from a library in your area using the Loansome Doc feature of PubMed.  You can order any PubMed citations.

Prior to using this program you must establish an agreement with a Loansome Doc participating library, and register online. Please note, there may be applicable fees. For information on the medical libraries in your area (or country) that can provide the Loansome Doc service and to register, click on the Gobutton from the Loansome Doc Registration screen.

Once you have registered with Loansome Doc, you can order citations, by clicking on the check box to the left of each citation. When you have finished marking your selections (you may move to other pages within your results), click Order.  You may also use the Clipboard to collect items from multiple searches before ordering.

If you find an error in a MEDLINE citation please report this to the NLM Help Desk and include the information below (or as much as possible).

Citations that carry the tag, [PubMed - in process] or [PubMed - as supplied by publisher] have not yet gone through NLM's quality control procedures and indexing process. It is during this process that errors are identified and corrected. On the average, it takes approximately 4-6 weeks for a citation to go through the indexing process and become a full MEDLINE record. It is not necessary to notify NLM of an error at this stage. However, if the error is still present when the above tags are no longer on the citation, please report it to the NLM Help Desk.

NLM leases its data to vendors around the world. Other products and services containing MEDLINE data will not necessarily reflect corrections made to records at NLM right away. If you search MEDLINE through a vendor's system, please contact the vendors about their maintenance schedules.

If the author's name is cited correctly in the journal and the error is NLM's typographical mistake, please report the finding to the NLM Help Desk with the following information (or as much as possible):

Citations that carry the tag,[PubMed - in process] or [PubMed - as supplied by publisher] have not yet gone through NLM's quality control procedures and indexing process. It is during this process that errors are identified and corrected. On the average, it takes approximately 4-6 weeks for a citation to go through the indexing process and become a full MEDLINE record. It is not necessary to notify NLM of an error at this stage. However, if the error is still present when the above tags are no longer on the citation, please report it to the NLM Help Desk.

NLM leases its data to vendors around the world. Other products and services containing MEDLINE data will not necessarily reflect corrections made to records at NLM right away. If you search MEDLINE through a vendor's system, please contact the vendors about their maintenance schedules.

Author's Name Printed Incorrectly in the Publication:

If the author's name was printed incorrectly at the time of publication, then the journal in which the article appeared must publish an erratum before NLM will make the correction in MEDLINE. If this is the case, please contact the journal's publisher.

It is NLM's policy that errata will be acknowledged only if they are printed in a citable form; that is, an erratum notice must appear on a numbered page in the journal that originally published the article. Error notices that are inserted unbound into a journal issue or "tipped in" will not be considered part of the permanent bibliographic record. NLM does not make changes in the database in response to letters from authors or editors, unless such letters indicate that a substantive published erratum is forthcoming.

For additional information on how NLM handles errors in MEDLINE, please review the NLM Errata, Retraction, Duplicate Publication, and Comment Policy fact sheet.