Online Medical Library for Filipinos
Posted on July 18th, 2009
Filipino scientists can now share their knowledge to the world as the Philippine National Health Research System (PNHRS) invites them to post their publication in the web through a global medical search engine.
Dr. Jose Ma. Avila of Acta Medica Philippina said that the PNHRS new online library will include publication of researches done by Filipinos.
Avila said, pubmed, the online search engine is an online national library for medicine. “You could search on any researched topic or scholarly topic, scientific information (through pubmed),†Avila explained in a press briefing.
The WPRO-Global health library portal, a project of the World Health Organization-Western Pacific Regional Office, contains scholarly researched information and several medical journals in different languages. It will serve as a “one-stop-shop†for users looking for relevant medical information.
A few of the journals which will be available online are the Medical Research, Journal of Medical Informatics, Medical Heralds and Modern Doctors.
WHO-WPRO technical officer Charles Raby said the website is for all medical scientists and researchers from different countries. He said scientists can submit journals about health and biomedical researches. He added that the journals must have English abstracts and should be published at least annually.
Raby said the topics would be uploaded in the database hosted through the Institute of Medical Information, Chinese Academy of Medical Services service and would be fully functional by the end of 2009.
Currently, there are 2,000 journal publishers in China, 700 in Japan, 150 in Korea, and 14 in the Philippines. Raby said they aim to have 4,000 press journals by the end of this year.
