RE: BMC titles indexing in NLM PubMed

[Alexei Koudinov <koudinov@inbox.ru>]

Dear Mr.Gillikin,

I appreciate your response (below), the response by Matt Cockerill of BMC
(available as SOAF post of today), and a number of responses by board
members at Liblicense and <https://arl.org/Lists/SPARC-OAForum/List.html>
ARL's Open Access Forum (SOAF)

One of the off list comments stated: "You make a very clear and compelling
argument.  I hope that the NLM responds to your post, since it certainly
looks like favoritism. ...I've heard that there is a board of librarians
that decide what gets indexed in PubMed."

My earlier correspondence with NLM (regarding the Neurobiology of Lipids
indexing specifically in PubMed, not Medline) is provided below, so, board
members will have a better chance to conclude on where the truth is.

I take the discrepancy between your response and the response by BMC
Technical Director on one hand, and the requirements set in NLM response
on my earlier inquiry on the other, as a boring fact of certain journals
discrimination by NLM.

On the other hand I welcome Heather G. Morrison call for "NLM to establish
different [AK:favorable and equal?] criteria for open access
publications", provided in an associated SOAF post.

I hope you noticed Peter Banks post at Liblicense on a conflict of
interest matter (that "PMC board has a member who has been a paid
consultant for the organization of a member of the BMC board.")

Sincerely,

Alexei Koudinov, MD, PhD
Neurobiology of Lipids
<http://neurobiologyoflipids.org/myjournalindex.html>

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To: <alexeikoudinov@neurobiologyoflipids.org> 
Subject: FW: Please advise 
Date: Sat, 12 Jun 2004 15:18:13 -0400 

Dr. Koudinov, 

Thank you for your follow-up e-mail.  (Please excuse this delayed reply.)  
Since you already requested a review of "Neurobiology of Lipids" in
January, another request is not necessary.  As I mentioned in my 1/20/04
message, after at least 20 articles have been published and made available
online, NLM will be pleased to schedule your online journal for a
Committee review.  Therefore, please contact me again at that time.  
(***As you may know, the required 20 articles does not include editorials,
commentaries, or news reports.***)  Your statement about having "at least
three board members serving a PI on major national/international grants"
is not required for review and possible indexing of an online journal.

The indexed title you are referring to--as listed on LocatorPlus--is "Acta
Neurobiologiae Experimentalis".

For detailed information concerning NLM's journal review and selection
process, please access the following Web sites to select our two fact
sheets: <file://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/factsheets/jsel.html> "Journal
Selection for Index Medicus/MEDLINE" (guidelines which contain the
critical elements/criteria used in selecting titles to be indexed) and
<file://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/factsheets/j_sel_faq.html> "Response to
Inquiries About Journal Selection for Indexing at NLM" (answers to the
most frequently asked questions about the review process).  ***Please
refer to item #1 and #2 on the "Response..." fact sheet.*** [Both fact
sheets were recently updated.]

Thank you again for your interest in having your online journal indexed by
NLM.

Sincerely, 

[AK: Identity deleted]
LSTRC Coordinator 
Bibliographic Services Division 
National Library of Medicine 
 
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-----Original Message----- 
From: Alexei Koudinov <alexeikoudinov@neurobiologyoflipids.org>
Sent: Monday, May 31, 2004 6:53 PM 
Subject: Please advise 

Neurobiology of Lipids 
Expert peer-review journal published by the editorial group 

1 June 2004 

Dear Mr. [AK: Identity deleted], 

I communicated with you on January 21/22, 2004 regarding a possibility of
indexing Neurobiology of Lipids (ISSN 1683-5506) in NLM resources. I later
discovered at NLM LocatorPlus that Neurobiol Lipids become indexed at
LocatorPlus with a NLM ID# 1246675 . I appreciate this indexing very much.

I would like to ask you whether I should place an additional request for
Neurobiol Lipids to be considered for indexing in PubMed, another
essential indexing opportunity that the journal is missing? Long time ago
I noticed at some resource that electronic serial should publish at least
twenty articles or have at least three board members serving a PI on major
national/international grants. Neurobiolgy of Lipids currently published
15 articles (plus 2 articles in press) and ten (of thirty eight) editorial
board members who serve or served as NIH Grants' PIs.

Would you please kind to clarify, so, in case it is possible, I could meet
the protocol for new journal consideration for PubMed indexing.

Sincerely, 

Alexei Koudinov, MD, PhD 
Editor 
Neurobiology of Lipids 
<http://neurobiologyoflipids.org/myjournalindex.html>