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PubMed - as supplied by publisher publisher[sb] NOT pubstatusnihms NOT pubstatuspmcsd Citations recently added to PubMed via electronic submission from a publisher, and are soon to proceed to the next stage, PubMed - in process (see below). This tag is also on citations received before late 2003 if they are from journals not indexed for MEDLINE, or from a journal that was accepted for MEDLINE after the citations' publication date. These citations have not been reviewed for accurate bibliographic data.
PubMed - in process in process[sb] Citations will be reviewed for accurate bibliographic data and indexed, i.e., the articles will be reviewed and MeSH vocabulary will be assigned (if the subject of the article is within the scope of MEDLINE).
PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE medline[sb] Citations that have been indexed with MeSH Terms, Publication Types, Substance Names, etc., and have been reviewed for accurate bibliographic data.
PubMed pubstatusnihms AND publisher[sb] Author manuscripts for articles in PubMed Central that would not normally be included in PubMed because they are from journals that are either not currently indexed or are selectively indexed in MEDLINE or do not participate in PMC.
PubMed pubstatuspmcsd AND publisher[sb] Records for selective deposit articles in PMC. These are articles published in non-MEDLINE journals and the publisher has chosen to deposit in PMC only those articles that fall under an open access or a similar program covering selected articles from a range of journals.
PubMed pubmednotmedline[sb] Citations that have been reviewed for accurate bibliographic data but will not receive MEDLINE indexing, because they are for articles in non-MEDLINE journals, or they are for articles in MEDLINE journals but the articles are out of scope or they are from issues published prior to the date the journal was selected for indexing, or citations to articles from journals that deposit their full text articles in PubMed Central but have not yet been recommended for indexing in MEDLINE.
PubMed - OLDMEDLINE oldmedline[sb] This tag identifies citations in the OLDMEDLINE subset.

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