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For this tutorial, you will check in the January 2002 issue of Scientific American. First you will enter the name Scientific American into the field Serial at the top of the window. Normally, if Scientific American was already in the catalog, and you enter Scientific American into this field and press ENTER or TAB, then the software would find the title. "Sci Amer", or any other truncation, would also work.
If you already have this bib in your catalog and have not started checking in issues yet, you can skip over to slide Creating the First Copy: Initial View . The bib might be in your catalog already if you loaded an NLM SERHOLD Holdings Report or an OCLC MARC Serials Holdings file.
But if you do not have Scientific American yet, as confirmed by the title lookup failure,
then enter its ISSN value to insure that there are no mistakes.
After entering the ISSN value, select the function [ISSN]: