JC Journal Category

nursing in jc

The JC field contains subject headings assigned by NLM cataloguers to group journals on similar topics. Searching in this field retrieves all records containing a particular heading. For example, the search nursing in jc retrieves records of journals indexed with the subject heading "nursing," as well as "societies-nursing," "nursing-care," and "occupational-health-nursing."

You can search journal category headings as hyphenated, "bound" phrases or as individual words; the most efficient search for a multiword heading is with hyphens. Hyphenate one-word headings to limit your search to a single-word heading, such as nursing- in jc.

Browsing Journal Categories

As an alternative to searching with the field label, you can browse categories and search for them directly from the Journal Category Field-Specific Index. This field-specific index contains only journal subject headings available in the database. Results of a search in this index display in the JC field.