Re: BMC titles indexing in NLM PubMed

[Alexei Koudinov <koudinov@inbox.ru>]

Dear Mark Funk,

Thank you for your note. I submitted to liblicense a follow up message (as
a response on David Gillikin post) that was not posted yet.

You can see it (as well as a number of other related posting by others),
however, at SOAF, <https://arl.org:443/Lists/SPARC-OAForum/List.html> .

My follow up message specific URL is:
<https://arl.org/Lists/SPARC-OAForum/Message/1650.html>

I hope this additional info is helpful.

Sincerely,

Alexei Koudinov

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At 05:10 12/02/05, you wrote:

>Dr. Koudinov, like many of our library users and even many librarians, is
>confused over the difference between MEDLINE and PubMed. Despite a
>blurring in the public's mind, there is a difference.
>
>MEDLINE is the online version of Index Medicus. The journal selection
>process referred to by Dr. Koudinov is for inclusion in Index
>Medicus/MEDLINE. It is not easy to be selected for inclusion in this
>database. I was a member of the NIH chartered committee that reviews
>journal for inclusion, the Literature Selection Technical Review
>Committee, for four years.
>
>PubMed is a larger database, in which MEDLINE is a subset. In the journal
>selection FAQ that Dr. Koudinov references
>http://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/factsheets/j_sel_faq.html is this important
>paragraph. Note the last asterisked sentence in particular:
>
>========
>
>16) What is the Difference Between MEDLINE and PubMed? MEDLINE is NLM's
>database of indexed journal citations and abstracts now covering 4,700
>journals published in the United State and more than 70 other countries.
>Available for online searching since 1971, MEDLINE includes references to
>articles indexed from 1966 to the present. All citations in MEDLINE are
>assigned MeSH Terms and Publication Types from NLM's controlled
>vocabulary. MEDLINE citations and abstracts are available as the primary
>component of NLM's PubMed database, which is searchable via the Internet.
>
>In addition to MEDLINE, PubMed provides access to:
>* The out-of-scope citations (e.g., articles on plate tectonics or  astrophysics) from certain MEDLINE journals, primarily general  science and chemistry journals, for which the life sciences articles  are indexed for MEDLINE.
>* Citations that precede the date that a journal was selected for  MEDLINE indexing.
>* Some additional life science journals that submit full text to  PubMedCentral and receive a qualitative review by NLM.
>========
>
>It is this last sentence that explains the inclusion of some BMC journals
>(and others) that do not yet qualify for Index Medicus/MEDLINE indexing.
>Note the difference between a PubMed article citation (BMC's Cell and
>Chromosome) and a MEDLINE article citation (Lancet):
>
>Chromosome loops arising from intrachromosomal tethering of telomeres
>occur at high frequency in G1 (non-cycling) mitotic cells:  Implications
>for telomere capture. Cell Chromosome. 2004 Sep 29;3(1):3. PMID: 15453908
>[PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
>
>Comparison of five antimicrobial regimens for treatment of mild to
>moderate inflammatory facial acne vulgaris in the community:  randomised
>controlled trial. Lancet. 2004 Dec 18;364(9452):2188-95. PMID: 15610805
>[PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]
>
>Journals in MEDLINE receive the in-depth indexing process of assigning
>Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). Journals in PubMedCentral only are not
>indexed, which means searchers must rely on key words to retrieve
>articles.
>
>PubMedCentral explains how a publisher may add a journal to the database
>at http://www.pubmedcentral.com/about/pubinfo.html There is an evaluative
>process, and some technical qualifications for electronic submission of
>articles must be satisfied, but the journals do not go through the same
>selection process as for Index Medicus/MEDLINE.
>
>There are no special arrangements or quality compromises. There is just
>confusion in many people about the difference between PubMed and Index
>Medicus/MEDLINE.
>
>-- 
>Mark Funk
>Head, Collection Development
>Weill Cornell Medical Library
>1300 York Avenue
>New York, NY 10021
>212-746-6073
>mefunk@mail.med.cornell.edu