The Brazilian Hematology and Hemotherapy Journal (Revista Brasileira de Hematologia e Hemoterapia) was included in the data base of Scientific Electronic library on-line (SciELO) in October of 2001. This achievement encourages a historic registration of the means by which the performance of the Brazilian Hematology and Hemotherapy Society, which began in 1973, has been divulged. Until 1984, the Boletim was the instrument of notification of the work of the society which soon became a scientific journal. In 1999, the title was changed and the journal was modernized. At this time it also became the official publication of the Brazilian Society of Bone Marrow Transplantation. To better understand the importance of this victory, a historic review of the Institute for Scientific Information (ISI), the main international data base and SciELO, the national data base was assembled. Finally the author reflects on the future of the Journal and the paths that it should follow with the objective of increasing the periodicals importance in the scientific world.
Scientific Periodical; Data Base; SciELO
