The primary goal of the Index to Chiropractic Literature is to provide indexing of the peer-reviewed literature produced by chiropractic publishers. (See Journal Directory.)  We also provide links to chiropractic organizations, to databases for searching the literature in related health professions, and links to high quality Web resources selected by chiropractic librarians. (See More Resources | Open Access Library.)

ICL is indexed by members of the Chiropractic Library Collaboration (CLC), a working group of the Association of Chiropractic Colleges. CLC members are health sciences librarians from chiropractic colleges throughout the world. For a comprehensive history of ICL, see: Harvey PJ. Index to Chiropractic Literature: Twenty -five years of progress. Chiropr Hist 2008 Sum;28(1):83-93. Download the article [publisher permission granted]

Subject terms for ICL records are taken from CLC’s thesaurus (ChiroSH: Chiropractic Subject Headings, 6th ed 2009) and from the U.S. National Library of Medicine’s MeSH (Medical Subject Headings).

ICL provides full bibliographic records, and abstracts are reproduced with publishers’ permissions. We provide Web links where available. Many articles are free online, and others are available by subscription only; for subscription information link to journal publishers (individual journal entries in our Journal Directory). For more information about Open Access resources, see our Open Access Library.   Updated March 17, 2021.

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