STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, has announced that the Asian Journal of Psychiatry, the official scientific journal of the Asian Federation of Psychiatric Associations, has been accepted for indexing in Medline and will soon be accessible via PubMed. Indexing through the US National Library of Medicine's (NLM) will be retroactive, beginning with the September 2008 issue (launch issue of the journal).
A quarterly peer-reviewed publication, the Asian Journal of Psychiatry focuses on general and comprehensive psychiatry for psychiatrists, neurologists and other physicians, psychologists and other clinicians, students of mental health, researchers, administrators and mental health policy developers. Spearheading the editorial development of this journal are: Editor-in-Chief Prof. Matcheri Keshavan (Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School, Boston Massachusetts, USA); Managing Editor Prof. Russell D’Souza (Northern Psychiatry Research Centre, Melbourne USA); and an internationally renowned Editorial Board.
The journal’s unique Asian Pearls section highlights selected seminal papers from Asia, not previously available in the public domain, with the aim to raise awareness of Asian non-English literature to the international readership. The Medical Education section seeks to teach clinical and research skills (e.g. how to write a paper, how to evaluate evidence) thereby building capacity for innovation in low and middle income countries.
The Early Career Psychiatrists Corner offers opportunities for publication of scholarly works and experiential articles from psychiatrists in training or early in their professional development. Finally, the Regional Updates and Practice Guidelines series are designed to disseminate status updates of psychiatric practice across nations, and disseminate best practices from evidence-based literature to improve global mental healthcare.
