David More wrote: > Hi Tim and all, > > As I understand it a journal needs to have at least 2 published issues before > getting > indexed in Medline etc.
Well, indexed by PubMed. MEDLINE has more rigorous requirements. But PubMed is really what counts these days - hardly anyone uses the repackaged MEDLINE search services provided by OVID and other commercial information providers, do they? > The electronic Journal of Health Informatics will cross that threshold pretty > soon I > understand and will be indexed then I have been told. If some more ACHI fellows submitted papers to it, it might cross that threshold a bit sooner... > I must say it is good to see the increasing number of journals in the area. > > Agree the MJA will get excellent OZ coverage. Yeah, and letters to the MJA are indexed in PubMed and MEDLINE, and yes, the HCN stuff is fairly Oz-specific. Now, who has access to the "MD Reference Tool" in question? > Cheers and a Great 2007! Hope you have boot freshly polished, David, ready for action. Tim C > On Mon, 01 Jan 2007 12:28:07 +1100, Tim Churches wrote: >> Oliver Frank wrote: >>> Tim Churches wrote: >>> >>>> Well, if one is flogging evidence-based medicine products, I think that >>>> one's > advertising and promotional material needs to be evidence-based... In this >>>> case, since the details of the cases and the exact search terms used by >>>> the > investigators are all provided (see >>>> http://www.bmj.com/cgi/data/bmj.39003.640567.AE/DC1/1) it is but an hour >>>> or two's work > to plug those search terms into HCN's MD Reference Tool product >>>> and see what the results are, using methods as described in the BMJ paper. >>>> Perhaps > someone with access to the HCN MD Reference Tool product might like to >>>> do this little study for them, and to publish the results here, and/or >>>> submit the > results as a letter to the Editor of the MJA (I'm happy to help, but >>>> don't have access to the HCN products in question)? >>>> >>> And can also consider publishing it in the: >>> >>> electronic Journal of Health Informatics (sic - no upper case in electronic) >>> >>> http://ejhi.net/ojs/index.php/ejhi >>> >>> which describes itself: >>> >>> "The electronic Journal of Health Informatics is an international journal >>> committed to > scholarly excellence and dedicated to the advancement of Health >>> Informatics and information technology in healthcare. It is a journal for >>> all health > professions and informaticians of all levels. >> Hmm, maybe, but it is not indexed by Pubmed or MEDLINE (try searching for it >> at >> http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?CMD=search&DB=journals ) >> although Google > Scholar does know about it. >> I think that a letter to the MJA editor would a) be published and b) get >> wider > readership (since the MJA is also open access). Nevertheless, things like eJHI >> should be supported, if they are, in fact, resourced adequately and are >> hence likely to > grow and persist beyond the initial enthusiasm stage. That is not >> entirely clear, I must say, as most of the people behind eJHI seem to be >> health > informatics academics who aren't exactly rushing to publish their own papers >> in it (probably because publication in it doesn't get them many DEST >> (Australian Govt > Dept of Education, Science and Technology) brownie points for their >> faculty reviews). There are several other good open access journals for >> health > informatics and related topics, but all levy fairly substantial author charges >> to cover their costs, presumably in a sustainable manner: >> >> http://www.biomedcentral.com/bmcmedinformdecismak/ >> >> http://www.plosone.org (rather new, but looks promising if they can make >> their web site > perform better) >> http://www.jmir.org/ (oldest of such journals by far) >> >> But a letter to the MJA costs nothing (well, AMA members foot the bill) and >> if published > can be read by all god's children for free. >> Tim C >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Gpcg_talk mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://ozdocit.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gpcg_talk >> >> __________ NOD32 1950 (20061231) Information __________ >> >> This message was checked by NOD32 antivirus system. >> http://www.eset.com > _______________________________________________ Gpcg_talk mailing list [email protected] http://ozdocit.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gpcg_talk
