Not for-profit publisher SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics, has announced that two more journals published by SPIE are now included in PubMed Central, a free full-text archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature run by the U.S. National Institutes of Health's (NIH) National Library of Medicine.
The Journal of Medical Imaging (JMI) under Editor-in-Chief Maryellen Giger of the University of Chicago, and Neurophotonics, under Editor-in-Chief David Boas of Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, are being included in the PubMed Central archive and indexed in the PubMed database as of mid-July 2015. Coverage will extend back to Volume 1, Issue 1 of each journal.
The Journal of Biomedical Optics, published by SPIE under Editor-in-Chief Lihong Wang of Washington University in St. Louis, is already included in these resources, as well as in the Medline index.
Both the Journal of Medical Imaging and Neurophotonics, launched in 2014, are published in print and digitally in the SPIE Digital Library. All articles in the two journals are freely available through 2015.
PubMed Central is an important element of SPIE's open access programs for its journals as SPIE already deposits NIH-funded articles on the authors' behalf. In addition, under its Gold Open Access program, all new articles published in SPIE journals for which authors pay voluntary page charges are open access in the SPIE Digital Library.
The SPIE Digital Library contains more than 425,000 articles from SPIE journals, proceedings, and books, with approximately 18,000 new research papers added each year. Abstracts are freely searchable, and an increasing number of full journal articles are published with open access.
