National Library of Medicine (NLM) at the National Institute of Health (NIH) has accepted the Journal of Visualized Experiments (JoVE) for indexing in the official repositories of the scientific literature MEDLINE and PubMed.
Less than 2 years old, JoVE is a scientific journal that publishes online video-demonstrations of biological experiments as performed in laboratories of leading academic institutions including Harvard, MIT, Stanford and Berkeley. It has now become the first video journal to be indexed by NLM. The decision was made by the NLM advisory committee, Literature Selection Technical Review Committee, which is composed of the authorities in the field of biomedicine, such as researchers, physicians, editors, health science librarians and historians. This committee evaluates the scientific quality of publications and typically approves only 25 percent of the applications.
JoVE was founded in October 2006 as the first online video-publication for biological research to increase transparency and efficiency in biological sciences. The editorial board includes 20 scientists from leading academic institutions including Harvard, Princeton and NIH. JoVE has released 17 monthly issues including over 200 video-protocols on experimental approaches in neuroscience, immunology, developmental biology, microbiology and other fields. To facilitate integration of video into scientific publishing, the journal has developed an organisational and technological structure to conduct production of scientific videos in research labs in the US, Europe and Japan.
