Worldwide access to evidence-based mental health literature: how useful is PubMed in Anglo-Saxon and non-Anglo-Saxon countries?

The aim of this study was to verify the presence of cultural variety among the psychiatric journals available on PubMed, the major online tool for accessing literature. Data for analysis were taken from a survey of the world psychiatric journals indexed in Index Medicus 1999 (IM), the alphabetical list used by PubMed, and from the mean impact factor (IF) values of the journals. Approximately 80% of international psychiatric literature available on PubMed is published in Anglo-Saxon countries, especially in the USA (59.

S1 satellite DNA as a taxonomic marker in brown frogs: molecular evidence that Rana graeca graeca and Rana graeca italica are different species.

The brown frog Rana graeca was believed to be present in two areas, the Balkan Peninsula and the Italian Apennines. We have characterised the S1 satellite DNA family from Rana graeca graeca and compared it with that of Rana graeca italica. On Southern blots, the patterns of S1 satellite DNA bands are very different between Italian and Greek specimens, but homogeneous among various populations of the same taxon.