Open access publisher BioMed Central, US, has announced that three of its journals have recently been accepted for inclusion in MEDLINE. The journals - Biology Direct, Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery and Neural Development - were accepted following review by the Literature Selection Technical Review Committee, an NIH-chartered advisory committee of external experts.
MEDLINE is a bibliographic database containing over 15 million journal article citations, with a concentration on biomedicine. It contains bibliographic citations and author abstracts from more than 5,000 biomedical journals published in the US and 80 other countries, and is searchable for free using PubMed at http://pubmed.gov.
In addition, five BioMed Central titles have been added to CABI for inclusion in their Global Health and CAB Abstracts databases. The journals are: AIDS Research and Therapy; BMC Immunology; BMC Systems Biology; Cough; and Infectious Agents & Cancer.
