FAQ
NLM LocatorPlus -- Z39.50 Capabilities
Question: Does NLM have a Z39.50 server for retrieving bibliographic records from LocatorPlus?
Answer:
- - NLM provides Z39.50 access to its online public access catalog (OPAC), LocatorPlus.
- - The Library operates a version 3 compliant Z39.50 server. Some important notes about NLM's Voyager database access via Z39.50:
- - Voyager systems do currently support Boolean AND/OR/NOT searching on search types with a POSITION attribute of 3
- - Initialization, Present and Scan Protocol options are supported within the Z39.50 standard
- - Setting up access assumes a general familiarity with Z39.50
- To connect to LocatorPlus using z39.50 you will have to configure your client with the following parameters:
- - Host name: ilsz3950.nlm.nih.gov
- - Port:
- 7090 (MARC-8 Character Set Encoding)
- 7091 (UTF-8 Character Set Encoding)
- - Database: VOYAGER
- - The following table displays the Bib-1 Attribute Set supported by Voyager:
NLM Z39.50 Attribute Table
Search Field Name | Use Attributes | Position Attributes | Truncation Attributes |
---|---|---|---|
Personal Name | 1 | 1,3 | 1,100 |
Corporate Name | 2 | 1,3 | 1,100 |
Conference Name | 3 | 1,3 | 1,100 |
Title | 4 | 1,3 | 1,100 |
Series Title | 5 | 1,3 | 1,100 |
Uniform Title | 6 | 1,3 | 1,100 |
ISBN | 7 | 3 | 1,100 |
ISSN | 8 | 3 | 1,100 |
Subject | 21 | 1,3 | 1,100 |
Subject: MESH | 25 | 1,3 | |
Subject: LSCH | 27 | 1 | |
Publisher: Date | 31 | 1,3 | 1,100 |
Title, Key | 33 | 3 | 1,100 |
Title, Varying Form | 41 | 1 | 1,100 |
Title, Former | 42 | 1 | 1,100 |
Title, Key Abbreviated | 43 | 1 | 1,100 |
Language Coded | 54 | 1,3 | 1,100 |
Publisher: Place | 59 | 1,3 | 1,100 |
CODEN | 60 | 1 | 1,100 |
Author | 1003 | 1,3 | 1,100 |
Subject Name: Personal | 1009 | 1,3 | 1,100 |
Keyword Anywhere | 1016 | 3 | 1,100 |
Publisher: Name | 1018 | 3 | 1,100 |
NLM Record Number | 1062 | 1,3 | 1,100 |
- - Because of our firewalls, you will get an error message if you try to "ping" the servers
- - More information on Z39.50 resources is available from the Library of Congress at
http://lcweb.loc.gov/z3950/agency/
- Related Questions:
- LocatorPlus Questions
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