Searching by Accession Number
Searching by accession number is a quick way to find a document if you have the
accession number, and it exists in the LSN
database. Accession numbers are obtained from reference lists and are found in other
documents. There are two accession numbers:
- The LSN accession number
is assigned by the LSN system and
is unique across all the document collections; and
- The Participant Accession number can be, but is not necessarily, a unique number.
Two or more sites may use the same participant accession numbering scheme, and your search results may
return two documents that have the same Participant Accession number. To do the search,
enter the number in one of the two accession number fields: LSN
or Participant. The number must be entered exactly as it is presented in the source.
Every character must match the original number for the search to be successful.
After entering the accession number, click the Search button; and the single
matching document is returned.
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