Strategies to promote increased coverage of biomedical journals from developing countries in Index Medicus
| Main Authors: | Jain, N. C., Satyanarayana, K. |
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| Format: | Proceeding NonPeerReviewed application/pdf |
| Bahasa: | eng |
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, 2006
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| Online Access: |
http://eprints.rclis.org/7454/1/Full_Paper-1.pdf http://eprints.rclis.org/7454/ |
Daftar Isi:
- 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.