Scott-Lichter D. New journal selection by A&Is - still valuable after all these years. Learned Publishing 2012;25:245-246
(doi: 10.1087/20120401)
Well-established and carefully crafted abstracting and indexing (A&I) services are still very important to a new journal's success. Publishers and A&Is have a synergistic relationship: publishers supply their content for indexing, while the A&Is index and distribute it. A critical part of the A&I enterprise is represented by the selection of journals for indexing. As with journals, A&Is have different offerings, strenghts and weaknesses. Starting from the author's experience in getting a recently launched journal into A&I databases, some of them (PubMed/MEDLINE, Scopus, Web of Science) are described in this Editorial.
http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/alpsp/lp/2012/00000025/00000004/art00001;jsessionid=2nv3tups9pag0.alice
(doi: 10.1087/20120401)
Well-established and carefully crafted abstracting and indexing (A&I) services are still very important to a new journal's success. Publishers and A&Is have a synergistic relationship: publishers supply their content for indexing, while the A&Is index and distribute it. A critical part of the A&I enterprise is represented by the selection of journals for indexing. As with journals, A&Is have different offerings, strenghts and weaknesses. Starting from the author's experience in getting a recently launched journal into A&I databases, some of them (PubMed/MEDLINE, Scopus, Web of Science) are described in this Editorial.
http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/alpsp/lp/2012/00000025/00000004/art00001;jsessionid=2nv3tups9pag0.alice
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