Establishment of the Biomedical Bibliographic Database in
西文生物医学期刊文献数据库（EMCC）建设

The study is to establish the biomedical bibliographic database in western journals taking the western periodicals from the PLA Medical Library as the target. The guiding principle for source journal selection, data processing and data integration is described by investigation of the western journal resources distribution in the library. The article outlines the structure, type, scope and characteristics of the database. The retrieval characters and service mode of the database is systematically introduced and meanwhile the significance and role of the database is emphasized.