Guest guest Posted February 23, 2006 Report Share Posted February 23, 2006 [doctoryourself.com] WORSE THAN MERE BIAS: NOW IT'S LIES AND DECEPTION AT NLM-MEDLINE When a concerned physician recently wrote to MEDLINE Executive Editor Sheldon Kotzin to request the email address of each member of the NLM Literature Selection Technical Review Committee, the doctor received this reply: From: " Kotzin, Sheldon (NIH/NLM) [E] " <kotzins@...> Date: February 3, 2006 4:10:22 PM EST Subject: RE: The JOM and Medline " this list you referenced below is an internal NIH committee that advises on a database called medlineplus. the website for the committee that advises on the selection of medline journals is located at http://www.csr.nih.gov/Roster_proto/members.asp?cid=100753 & Title=Literature+Sele\ ction+Technical+Review+Committee & ABBR=LSTR " no email addresses are provided for either of these sites. " " sheldon kotzin " Please make careful note of that last statement. Asking again, here is the reply the doctor got to a second request for the Committee's email addresses: From: " Kotzin, Sheldon (NIH/NLM) [E] " <kotzins@...> Date: February 6, 2006 5:29:21 PM EST Subject: RE: The JOM and Medline " unfortunately i don't have easy access to the individual email addresses. " " sheldon kotzin " Mr. Kotzin is either inept or is simply not telling the truth. All the email addresses, for each and every Literature Selection Technical Review Committee member, are posted right at the NLM's website at http://www.nlm.nih.gov/bsd/lstrc/lstrc.html I would consider that easy access, Mr Kotzin. Why don't you? Now look here, everyone: Mr. Kotzin has a Master's degree in Library Science. As Editor of MEDLINE, it is presumably his business to know how to quickly contact his own reviewers. Furthermore, as a taxpayer-supported Chief, Bibliographic Services Division of the US National Library of Medicine, he should have little difficulty finding 15 emails at his library's own website. IT'S TIME TO WRITE TO INDIVIDUAL " MEDLINE " REVEWERS (And here are their emails, Mr Kotzin. May I suggest that you please put them in your address book for future reference?) McCLURE, Lucretia , M.A. (CHAIRMAN) lmcclure@... BAUCHNER, , M.D., howard.bauchner@... DELCLOS, L., M.D., M.P.H george.delclos@... FREY , J.III, M.D. jfrey@... KAPLAN, Jerry, Ph.D. jerry.kaplan@... LI, Rong, Ph.D. rli@... MANNING, Phil , M.D. manning@... RACZ , Gabor B., M.D. a.Brashier@... SHARPS, Phyllis W. , Ph.D., R.N psharps@... SIEGEL, Vivian, Ph.D. viviansiegel@... SOEHNER, B, M.L.S soehner@... SPANN , Melvin, Ph.D mspann@... STERNBERG, Esther M., M.D ems@... TOM-ORME, Lillian, Ph.D., MPH, RN ltomorme@... VAN PEENEN, Hubert J., M.D hjvanp@... (AND LET'S NOT FORGET MR. KOTZIN: ) KOTZIN, Sheldon, M.L.S. Chief, Bibliographic Services Division kotzin@... We now see that the 15-member NLM Literature Selection Technical Review Committee, contrary to what MEDLINE Executive Editor Sheldon Kotzin has said, does INDEED have easy accessibility. It is time to write and give them YOUR views, or all you will have to read on MEDLINE is THEIR views. (Remember to be polite, please, and always request a reply.) Please send a copy of your letters, and responses, to me a drsaul@... STILL MORE ON MEDLINE: Steve Hickey, PhD, Manchester Metropolitan University, writes: " Medline, provided by the US National Library of Medicine, has restricted access artificially, over a prolonged period. Journals in fields such as orthomolecular and nutritional medicine are generally not indexed. For example, the Journal of Orthomolecular Medicine has been excluded for over three decades. As clearly pointed out by BMJ respondents, such exclusion would be expected to make barred journals less attractive to authors. It is too easy to censor medical information, even in apparently open forums. With the current commercial considerations, it is surprising how medical science can progress at all. " Read Dr. Hickey's complete paper, " Importance of open access, " (BMJ Rapid Response, 20 February 2006) at http://bmj.bmjjournals.com/cgi/eletters/332/7538/394#128557 The campaign against MEDLINE BIAS is growing: http://www.thenhf.com/articles_264.htm and: http://www.newmediaexplorer.org/sepp/2004/06/22/medline_oversight_orthomolecular\ _journal_not_indexed.htm Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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