We are proud to announce that the National Library of Medicine, has approved inclusion of the manuscripts published in the "Frontiers in Bioscience" in the Index Medicus and MEDLINE. This approval, only after a year of existence of the "Frontiers in Bioscience", is a clear evidence that manuscripts published in this platform bear a significant scientific value and will assure that they remain as a lasting treasure for the scientific community. The following is part of the letter received by the "Frontiers in Bioscience" from the National Library of Medicine on March 3, 97.

Dear Dr. Tabibzadeh:

The National Library of Medicine uses an advisory committee, the Literature Selection Technical Review Committee, composed of authorities knowledgeable in the field of biomedicine, such as physicians, researchers, educators, editors, health science librarians, and historians, to review and recommend the journal titles NLM should index. The Committee recently completed a review of journals for possible inclusion in the National Library of Medicine's MEDLARS system. I am pleased to inform you that Frontiers in Bioscience has been selected to be indexed and included in Index Medicus and MEDLINE on the MEDLARS system. Databases in the MEDLARS system are available online in the U.S. and throughout the world. Citations from the articles indexed, the indexing terms, and the English abstract printed in the journal will be included in the databases.

Sincerely,

Lois Ann Colaianni
Executive Editor
Index Medicus

March 3, 1997

Greetings!

You are publishing important, high-quality material on the Web. For this reason, ISI has selected your site (http://www.bioscience.org) for inclusion in Current Web Contents (http://www.isinet.com/products/webselect/webselect.html), a new section of Current Contents Connect TM (CC Connect TM ). ISI editors -- following carefully structured evaluation criteria (http://www.isinet.com/hot/essays/23.html) -- have visited your site, reviewed it, developed a standardized descriptive record, written an abstract and created a link from CC Connect to your site.

CC Connect (http://www.isinet.com/products/cc/ccc.html) offers Web access to Current Contents, the ISI premier current awareness database that provides information in the fields of science, social science, technology, and the arts & humanities.

For more than 40 years, ISI has delivered this multidisciplinary table-of-contents database to researchers, scientists and information professionals around the world. Since its inception, this journal-based resource has reflected the strict guidelines for selection developed by the ISI Editorial Development Staff. The result is the most prestigious database available internationally.

High standards of selection -- and data quality -- have made ISI a leader in the information industry.

ISI has now applied these selection standards to the creation of Current Web Contents (http://www.isinet.com/products/webselect/faqwebselect.html), an ever-growing collection of high-quality, scholarly Web sites. We welcome you to this prestigious database and we invite you to include on your site the Current Web Contents logo. To obtain this logo, go to http://www.isinet.com/img/ico/websel.gif and retrieve the gif file. Link the gif to our Current Web Contents page (http://www.isinet.com/products/webselect/webselect.html).

We look forward to working with you in the future. If you have any questions about this procedure, contact us at mailto:Current.Web.Contents@isinet.com.

We confirm our completed decision to cover Frontiers in Bioscience in the following ISI products:

- Current Contents/Life Sciences
- Science Citation Index-Expanded (available as SciSearch on Dialog or as the ISI Web of Science on the Internet)
- Research Alert
- Journal Citation Reports, with first Impact Factor to appear at the completion of three years' coverage.

Sincerely,

James Testa
Director
Editorial Development
ISI

March 24, 2000 and

Marie E. McVeigh
Senior Editor, Life Sciences
marie.mcveigh@isinet.com

Institute for Scientific Information
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April 19, 2000

The manuscripts published in the "Frontiers" in Bioscience are also being cited by the Chemcial Abstracts and "BIOSIS". "BIOSIS" is the World's largest abstracting and indexing service for the life sciences and is the publisher of "Biological Abstracts" and "Biological Abstracts/RRM (reports, reviews, meetings)". The content of these print products is available as the "BIOSIS Previews database".