Date: 11/29/2010
TUMSPR News: One of the oldest Iranian journals in medicine, Acta Medica Iranica, has been indexed in MEDLINE.
Acta Medica Iranica, one of the oldest Iranian journals in medicine which is published by the School of Medicine, Tehran University of Medical Sciences (TUMS), since 1956 has been indexed in MEDLINE.
This bimonthly journal publishes original articles, review articles and case reports and it benefits from a large reservoir of renowned professors in its editorial board from inside and outside the country, as Dr. Dehpour, the editor-in-chief of the journal puts it.
Before 1979, the year of revolution in Iran, the journal had been indexed in Index Medicus but constant qualitative improvements in its content since the year 2000, the journal succeeded to be indexed in Medline which is one of the most important databases in medical literature.
MEDLINE which is an online Medical Literature Analysis and Retrieval System or a bibliographic database of life sciences and biomedicine, provides information on articles in fields of medicine, nursing, pharmacy, dentistry, veterinary medicine, health care, biology and biochemistry and molecular evolution.
The database is compiled by theUnited States National Library of Medicine (NLM) and it is freely available on the Internet. The database is searchable via PubMed and NLM's National Center for Biotechnology Information's Entrez system.
http://publicrelations.tums.ac.ir/english/news/detail.asp?newsID=20684
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