Table 1

Overview of the main Chinese biomedical bibliographic databases.

Database
Year launched
Number of journals covered
Open access
Web-site

CNKI
1999
Over 8,200 full-text journals, including 1,707 medical journals
No
http://www.cnki.net/index.htm
VIP
2000
Over 8,000 full-text journals, including 1,675 medical journals
No
http://www.cqvip.com
Wan Fang
2000
Over 8,000 full-text journals, including 1,004 medical journals
No
http://www.wanfangdata.com.cn/
CBM
1995
Over 1,600 biomedical journals
No
http://cbmwww.imicams.ac.cn/
CMCC
1994
Over 1,200 biomedical journals
No
http://www.mlpla.cn:8082/trscbf/gjhj/

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