Open access publisher BioMed Central, UK, has announced that 8 of its journals have recently been accepted for indexing by Cinahl. Cinahl indexes titles relevant to nursing and allied healthcare.
The journals are: BMC Complementary & Alternative Medicine; BMC Health Services Research; Chiropractic & Osteopathy; Health Research Policy & Systems; International Journal of Behavioural Nutrition & Physical Activity; Nutrition & Metabolism Nutrition Journal; and Population Health Metrics. All of these titles are also included in PubMed, PubMed Central, Index Copernicus and Scopus.
BioMed Central is an STM (Science, Technology and Medicine) publisher which has pioneered the open access publishing model. All original research articles published by BioMed Central are made freely and permanently accessible online immediately upon publication. BioMed Central views open access to research as essential in order to ensure the rapid and efficient communication of research findings.