From: <[log in to unmask]> Date: Mon, 11 Mar 2013 17:13:19 +0000 Hi Here's a press release, nonetheless a couple of the comments might interest the List's readers. Best wishes Bill Hughes Multi-Science Publishing ******* PRESS RELEASE 11 March 2013-03-11 Journal of Healthcare Engineering accepted into MEDLINE Multi-Science Publishing Co Ltd is pleased to announce that its title, Journal of Healthcare Engineering has been accepted for inclusion into MEDLINE. Commented Director Bill Hughes, “We are pleased that this journal, now just beginning its fourth volume, has been so soon accepted by MEDLINE. This is, I believe, a reflection of the exceptionally high standards the editor, Professor Chyu of Texas Tech University, has been able to maintain. And that he has been able to be so selective about what he chooses to include itself demonstrates the need for this journal to have been called into existence. In scholarly publishing, as in so many other activities, small independent organisations are far better at spotting market gaps – or imperfections – and doing something about them, than are the market’s behemoths. Some three quarters of our journals are now in one or more of ISI, Scopus and MEDLINE. To a degree, this is a pleasing validation of our work. But what is more interesting has been the noticeable increase, over the last decade, in the willingness of organisations of this sort to recognise the existence of small publishers; to acknowledge that while much of their output is necessarily niche, it is not without intrinsic value: that, in effect, there is more to ‘worth’ than can be captured by the crudeness of an Impact Factor”. More information Bill Hughes +44 1277 224632 [log in to unmask] www.multi-science.co.uk