Inclusion in PubMed
Santosh Patnaik
Saturday, 08 March 2008 07:09 UTC
Is there any chance of PubMed covering Nature Precedings? Is there any ongoing or planned effort by NPG towards this?
PubMed does accept non-peer-reviewed publications.
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Hi Santosh—Unfortunately it’s unclear when (or if) PubMed might index preprints. There is a long-standing debate regarding gray literature and PubMed (and PubMed Central), which, as you might have guessed, is highly political. Rob Kling provides a nice history of this debate in his article, The Remarkable Transformation of E-Biomed into PubMed Central
I suspect that the non-peer-reviewed articles included in PubMed still receive editorial review. For example, New York Times articles are included in PubMed (try searching: “The New York times”[Jour] or “Washington Post”[Jour]).
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