Sin ttulo de diapositiva

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Comparative study of selection criteria used by
MEDLINE and EMBASE and its application to Spanish
Biomedical Journals
Elena Primo. CINDOC. CSIC eprimo_at_cindoc.csic.es Ma
nuela Vázquez. CINDOC. CSIC mvazquez_at_cindoc.csic.
e José García-Sicilia. CSI jsicilia_at_c17.net
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MEDLINE Selection Criteria
? Scope and Coverage ? Quality of content ?
Quality of editorial work ? Production quality ?
Types of content ? Language requirements (english
abstracts) ? Geographic coverage
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EMBASE Selection Criteria
?Scope and subject coverage ? Scientific quality
and editorial coverage ? Language requirements
(english abstracts) ? Geographic coverage and
source of origin
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Spanish journals in MEDLINE and EMBASE
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Spanish Journals in both MEDLINE and EMBASE
Acta Otorrinolaringológica Española Actas
Urológicas Españolas AIDS Reviews Allergologia et
Immunopathologia Anales de Medicina
Interna Anales de Pediatría Anales del Sistema
Sanitario de Navarra Archivos de
Bronconeumología Archivos Españoles de
Urología Atención Primaria Drug News and
Perspectives Drugs of Today Enfermedades
Infecciosas y Microbiología Clínica Farmacia
Hospitalaria Gastroenterología y Hepatología
Histology and Histopathology International
Journal of Developmental Biology Journal of
Physiology and Biochemistry Medicina
Clínica Medicina Oral Methods and Findings in
Experimental and Clinical Pharmacology Neurocirugí
a Neurología Nutrición Hospitalaria Revista
Clínica Española Revista de Neurología Revista
Española de Cardiología Revista Española de
Enfermedades Digestivas Revista Española de
Quimioterapia Revista Española de Salud
Pública Revista Iberoamericana de Micología

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European Journals coverage by MEDLINE and by
EMBASE(1)
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European Journals coverage by MEDLINE and by
EMBASE(2)
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European and USA Journals in MEDLINE and EMBASE
Medline Embase Europe 1877 2450 USA
1592 1432 Total journals 4780 4523
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Health Spanish Databases
?IME (Índice Medico Español) 1971- CSIC (Spanish
Medical Index) ?IBECS (Índice Bibliográfico
Español de Ciencias de la Salud) 2000 -Instituto
de Salud Carlos III(Spanish Bibliographic Index
of Health Sciences)
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Selection Criteria of Spanish Databases

• ?Formal aspects
• ? Content aspects
• ? Diffusion aspects

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Journals in Spanish Databases
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Spanish Journals in MEDLINE, and EMBASE and in
Spanish Databases
Spanish Journals IME IBECS MEDLINE 45 33 33
EMBASE 111 81 65
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Spanish Journals in MEDLINE not covered by IME
nor by IBECS
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Spanish Journals in MEDLINE but not covered by
IME or by IBECS
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Embase Spanish journals not covered by both IME
and IBECS
IME
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IBECS
7
Embase 52
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Spanish Journals in EMBASE but not in IME and
IBECS

• 7 discontinued journals
• 7 journals without spanish abstract
• 1 which is no longer published in Spain
• 1 corresponds to an electronic site which gathers
  information from different medical webs
• 1 is duplicated under two different names

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Spanish Journals in EMBASE that should be
included in IME and IBECS

• ?Anuario de Psicología
• ?Cuadernos de Artroscopia
• ? Cuadernos de Medicina Reproductiva
• ? Ginecología Clínica y Quirúrgica
• ? Química Clínica
• ? Revista de Psicogeriatría

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Conclusions
?Similar selection criteria in Medline and
Embase ? Geographical bias ? Embases journal
list not actualized ? Similar selection criteria
in IME and IBECS ? Spanish journals included in
Medline or Embase should be included in IME and
IBECS ? The differences between IME and IBECS
seems due to agreement problems with the
publishers, more than to different quality
requirements