New to the Collections

New to the Collections is a feature that generates a list of materials recently added to the NLM Library Collections.

Items that are New to the Collections:

• may not yet be available for public use
• may not be recently published since NLM purchases historical materials
• may be items that the Library already owns that were acquired for a different collection, i.e., an item already in the General Collection recently acquired for the History of Medicine (HMD) Collection
• may include serials that were selected and assigned a call number but the Library has not yet received issues

If you click Search without choosing any options or typing a keyword, you will receive a list of all records added to LocatorPlus during the past two weeks.

Make your search more specific by selecting one or more of the options below. The defaults, should you not select an option, are indicated.

Select Location:

• All Locations [default]
• General Collection
• HMD Collection (History of Medicine)
• Internet (electronic link in record)
• Reference Collection
• Staff Library (for use by NLM Staff only)

• last 2 weeks [default]
• last 4 weeks
• last 3 months
• last 6 months

To indicate whether your list is sorted use one of the options below.

• Title [default]
• Author

Search for keyword or phrase in title, author or call number: (optional): Refine your results list by entering a title word, an author name, or a call number. Searching tips:

• Title: Enter one or more words that must appear in the title. Searches will retrieve strings within words as well as words within phrases (e.g. 'herb' will also retrieve 'herbs' and 'herbal'). You can enter a phrase but Boolean searching, using "AND", "OR", "NOT" to combine terms, is not available. Do not use truncation symbols in a New to the Collections search.
• Author: Enter last name only, "Last name, First initial" or "Last Name, First Name"
• Call number: Enter as much of the Call Number as you know. You can enter a single letter, for example 'W', but your searches will be more accurate if you enter a longer call number with the correct spacing.

Select the number of records displayed per page from the drop down box at the bottom of the screen. Options are:

• 10 records displayed per page
• 25 records displayed per page
• 50 records displayed per page [default]
• 100 records displayed per page

Records in the results list display in a Brief Record format unique to New to the Collections. The Brief Record includes basic bibliographic information.

Click on the underlined title of the Brief Record to display the record in the Holdings View. Use the Back button on your browser to return to the Brief Record list.

You can Print, Save or E-mail the Brief Record.

1. To select all of the records on the page, click the "All on this page" button in the Options for Print, Save or E-mail of Brief Record(s) box at the bottom of the screen.
   
   
2. To pick specific records from one page, mark the records that you are interested in by clicking in the white boxes at the left side of the screen, next to the numbers. Then click on the "Selected on this page" button in the Options for Print, Save or E-mail of Brief Record(s) box at the bottom of the screen.
   
   
3. To save specific records from more than one page of your results, mark the records that you want from the current page by clicking in the white boxes at the left side of the screen, next to the numbers. Then click on the "Keep Marked Records" button. Go to the next page(s), and repeat the process until you have selected all of the records that you want. Finally, click on the "Selected on all pages" button in the Options for Print, Save or E-mail of Brief Record(s) box at the bottom of the screen.
   
   
4. Click on the Print/Save button to save or print the records. This will list all of the records on one page, and then you can use your browser commands (File - Save or File - Print) to save or print.
   
   
5. To e-mail the records, type your e-mail address in the box and click on the E-mail button.
   
   
6. Click on the Clear Marked Records button to clear the marked boxes.
   
   

You can also save any page to a file by selecting Save from the File menu of your web browser. If it is available, you can also go to the File menu to Send (e-mail) a page to yourself. Investigate your save options to pick the most convenient method for you.

To begin a new search, click the tab.