We are happy to announce that, as of Volume 18,
2005, The Network: TUFH journal Education for Health is indexed
in
SIIC’s
indexing and reviewing services. SIIC is the abbreviation of
Sociedad Iberoamericana de Información Científica.
SIIC publishes in Spanish and Portuguese, scientific information
on medicine and healthcare.
SIIC´s
homepage is placed among those of greater impact and prestige
among physicians, healthcare professionals and institutions of
Latin America, Spain and Portugal.
Every month an average of 500,000 professionals visit the 3,000,000
pages of SIIC On the Internet. Fiftyfive specialized News Letters
are emailed every week to 130,000 personally registered users
(professionals, institutions and health managers). SIIC´s
website daily publishes 60 to 80 new scientific reports which
have been selected by experts and cover 1,250 biomedical issues
and specialities.
SIIC´s
Data Bases holds 70,000 reports and articles in Spanish, English
and Portuguese. Original papers written by renown international
researchers are published every day. SIIC´s print editions
amount to one hundred thousand (100,000) monthly issues distributed
in most Latinamerican countries, Spain and Portugal.
SIIC´s Data Bases are the only data
bases in Spanish and Portuguese that index the most outstanding
articles from international medical literature.
SIIC´s
Scientific
Council and
Scientific
Committees select among the journals that are catalogued
in
Publicaciones
Periódicas those articles they wish to highlight
and decide to include in SIIC´s Program of Continuing
Medical Education.
Please, access http://www.siicsalud.com/main/ingresoa.htm
to read SIIC´s Institutional Statement and field of
endevour.
Also, if you go to SIIC's
home page you can see how the journals are featured (journals
appear at the botton and as bibliographic citation under titles).
Lista Maestra de Revistas: http://www.siicsalud.com/lmr/listamaestra.htm
Revistas Distinguidas: http://www.siicsalud.com/tit/pp_distinguidas.htm
Especialidades: http://www.siicsalud.com/main/distribuidorarevxespe.htm
Revistas Seleccionadas: http://www.siicsalud.com/lmr/articlavea.htm
Members of SIIC´s
editorial medical staff write an objective summary
in Spanish or Portuguese of those articles. This summary
is an objective and conceptual summary which is written
after having read the full text. The complete bibliographic
reference is always mentioned.
This information is also included in the News Letters
sent electronically every week to Medical Associations
and professionals. The same is done with information regarding
International Scientific Congresses which SIIC freely
promotes.
The regional mass media and governmental
institutions also receive SIIC`s press releases via the
news
agency "aSNC" of outstanding information on
medicine and health. These include news reports from the
journals indexed in SIIC´s Data Bases.
Education for Health: Change in Learning & Practice
(EfH) is highly consulted by SIIC´s Scientific
Committees. It is among the journals mostly recommended
to the physicians of the region. Thus it is freely
promoted among Spanish and Portuguese speaking medical
community.