The journey so far

As part of our efforts in establishing biij as one of the important open-access journals dealing with topics relating to radiology, biomedical imaging and biomedical intervention, we have tirelessly pursued the indexing of biij in various relevant scientific indices and databases. For this reason, biij has been a member of CrossRef and has been made searchable by the Google Scholar search engine since it was first launched in July 2005. In that year, biij was only listed in the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ). By the end of 2006, the journal was listed in and/or indexed by Chemical Abstracts Service, Inspec, Index Copernicus International, and eGranary Digital Library. In 2007, it was listed in the Open-J Gate web directory. In December 2007, biij received the best news so far in its history of publication: being accepted for indexing by the Elsevier Bibliographic Databases as of 2008 onwards. In the confirmation letter from Elsevier, the inclusion of biij is “in recognition of the high quality and relevance (of its contents) to the scientific community”. The acceptance means that the contents of biij will now be available in Scopus, EMBASE, EMCare, Compendex, and several other specialised niche databases once the subscription processes have been completed. The inclusion of biij in Scopus is particularly important, as it is one of the largest abstract and citation databases of research literature and web sources, and has developed a large worldwide customer base. This will certainly pave the way for the inclusion of biij in other important indexing services, particularly those provided by Thomson Scientific and National Library of Medicine.