Dear All,
you may already have noticed the article in this week's BMJ
'Navigating across medicine's electronic landscape, stopping at places with
Pub or Central in their names' and e-journals by T Delamoth
http://www.bmj.com/cgi/content/full/323/7321/1120
which attracted already some 'Rapid Responses' and will form part of
BMJ's topical collection 'Other Journalology'. Interesting term, coined by
E Garfield(?).
One e-responder states that 'Medline is not the only source' and continues:
'[...] I do not suggest that other databases are without problems (the
policies of
Science Citation Index are not always as clear as might be thought) but it
would be useful if the BMJ were to review the variety of bibliographic
sources,
including Web of Science (which accesses the whole of science) and Embase
rather
than supporting the view that Medline/Pubmed is the only one [...]'
Very interesting.
Reinhard
Reinhard Wentz, Dipl. Bibl.
ICSTM, C&W Hospital
London
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