Strategies to promote increased coverage of biomedical journals from developing countries in Index Medicus

Jain, N. C. and Satyanarayana, K. Strategies to promote increased coverage of biomedical journals from developing countries in Index Medicus., 2006 . In International Workshop on Webometrics, Informetrics and Scientometrics & Seventh COLLNET Meeting, Nancy (France), May 10 - 12, 2006. (Unpublished) [Conference paper]

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This paper analyzes the coverage of Member States of WHO in the Index Medicus (IM) 2004 .Of the 192 Member States of WHO, just 68 (35.42%) countries account for 4068 (99.27%)of the 4098 journals covered in the IM 2004. A total of 124(64.58%) Member States of WHO do not figure in the IM2004 because of the stringent inclusion criteria in the IM. Therefore, an electronic bibliographic database, "WHOmed" of peer-reviewed biomedical journals published in these 124 Member States, like IndMED in India, could be initiated to address the poor coverage of developing countries’ literature in the global pool of scientific knowledge.

Item type:	Conference paper
Keywords:	Index Medicus, biomedical journals, developing countries
Subjects:	B. Information use and sociology of information > BG. Information dissemination and diffusion.
Depositing user:	Heather G Morrison
Date deposited:	19 Apr 2006
Last modified:	02 Oct 2014 12:03
URI:	http://hdl.handle.net/10760/7454

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http://www.who.int/en/ as accessed on March 10, 2006.

Geographic listing. In : List of journals indexed in Index Medicus 2004, Bethesda, MD : National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health ; 2004 p. 269-310.

http://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/factsheets/jsel.html as accessed on March 10, 2006.

http://indmed.nic.in/ as accessed on March 10, 2006.

http://www.doaj.org/ as accessed on March 10, 2006.

http://www.freemedicaljournals.com/ as accessed on March 10, 2006.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi as accessed on March 10, 2006.

http://www.biomedcentral.com/ as accessed on March 10, 2006.

http://www.healthinternetwork.org/http://www.healthinternetwork.org/ as accessed on March 10, 2006.

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