The Journal of Humanitarian Cardiovascular Medicine (JHCVM) is an annual scientific journal, dedicated to reporting clinical, epidemiological, public health, and basic research studies focused on Cardiovascular Medicine in low- and middle-income countries.

 

It is the official journal of the Global Forum for Humanitarian Medicine in Cardiology and Cardiac Surgery (GFHM) whose mission is to bridge the gap between the medical care services of the North and those of the South by developing programs and projects related to education, research , facilities, quality improvement and training in these countries.

 

The Journal of Humanitarian Cardiovascular Medicine (JHCVM) is intended to improve communication in the field of Humanitarian Cardiovascular Medicine with a special focus on articles originating from medical groups in low- and middle-income countries. At the same time, it wishes to publish articles from medical groups in high-income countries (such as Greece), which will concern their humanitarian medical actions towards low- and middle-income countries.

 

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The National Documentation Centre (www.ekt.gr) is a national infrastructure. Since 1980, it actively engages in the collection, organization and dissemination of scientific and technological information in Greece and internationally. EKT’s strategic priority is the aggregation, organized online dissemination and preservation of quality-assured scholarly and educational content in a single research infrastructure.

EKT’s vision is 'Access to Knowledge'. To this end, it implements Open Access policies in research, supports the transfer and dissemination of scientific knowledge, collaborates with research, education and cultural institutions for the aggregation, organization and dissemination of digital content and provides innovative services in scientific information.

EKT provides reliable ePublishing services as part of its scholarly content aggregation and dissemination activities. Its integrated online ePublishing environment is developed with open-source interoperable technology. This affords the incorporation of EKT’s infrastructures into the continuously developing international infrastructure environment.

EKT’s ePublishing services (http://epublishing.ekt.gr/) are directed to public and extended public institution publishers of accredited scholarly journals. They include, most significantly, the organization, documentation and organized dissemination of metadata and content of scholarly journals, the training and consulting services on issues such as intellectual property, the standardization of editorial processes according to internationally accepted standards, the inclusion of content and metadata in international content indexers and harvesters via interoperable systems.

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