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Index Medicus for the Eastern Mediterranean Region > Methodology

The National Library of Medicine Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) is used for indexing of articles for the IMEMR. A minimum of four subject headings in addition to categories are assigned to each article. Trained healthcare professionals, index, review, proofread and quality control the Index. Moreover, publishers of medical journals provide the Regional Office with their publications on a regular basis in exchange for the Eastern Mediterranean Health Journal. 

The Index is published on a bimonthly basis as a Current Contents Bulletin of which 500 copies are produced and distributed to libraries,  WHO collaborating centres, journal publishers, researchers, medical colleges, WHO Representatives’ offices, Ministries of Health and other individuals and institutions in the Region and beyond. The full database is published on CD-ROM on a six-monthly basis and distributed to medical libraries in the Region. The Index is distributed free of charge regardless of the format or the recipient. The Index is published on the Internet within the EMRO website http://www.emro.who.int/HIS/VHSL/Imemr.htm 

The Index includes currently over 88,000 records from 19 countries of the Region covering 391 source journals. African countries (7) contribute 55.5% of the articles in the database while 12 countries in Asia contribute 42.4%; three countries (Afghanistan, Djibouti and Somalia) have no contribution currently.  

The Index is backed up by a document delivery service since all journals contributing to the Index are available in paper copies in the Regional Office.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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