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New resource for drugs analysisElsevier has launched a drug tracking and analysis database. Inteleos contains over 8,000 drugs and 1,200 pharmaceutical and biotech companies. The database also includes medical conference news from Elsevier's IMNG, weekly updates from The Pink Sheets, and ontology files of 1.25 million terms to enhance searching. With Inteleos, users are said to be able to track and analyse drug activity from late-phase preclinical development through to launch and post-marketing studies. Users can also monitor licensing, or merger and acquisition activities.
Sage buys two medical journalsSage Publications has acquired two journals from Prime National Publishing Corporation: American Journal of Hospice and Palliative Medicine and American Journal of Alzheimer's Disease and other Dementias. Both journals are now available electronically via Sage Journals Online. Unlimited free full-text access to each journal will be available until 31 August 2006 to enable users to familiarise themselves with the publications and their online features and functionality.
Wiley will publish Inflammatory Bowel DiseasesThe Crohn's & Colitis Foundation of America (CCFA) has chosen John Wiley & Sons to publish its official journal, Inflammatory Bowel Diseases. Inflammatory Bowel Diseases is said to be the only peer-reviewed journal dedicated exclusively to inflammatory bowel diseases. Wiley will begin publishing the journal in 2007 and will continue to make it available in print and online to CCFA professional members, and through subscription to other individual and institutional customers.
Ovid partnership with BlackwellOvid Technologies has expanded its partnership with Blackwell Publishing. Under the new multi-year agreement, Ovid will add more than 60 of the publisher's medical and nursing journals to its electronic content delivery platform, Journals@Ovid. Ovid is now the only aggregator able to distribute most current Blackwell medical and nursing content without an embargo, and will continue to sell Blackwell content globally to hospitals, medical schools, higher education institutions, government entities, corporations, and consortia. Ovid will offer the Blackwell content as a site licence. Blackwell titles are also included as part of Ovid's PayPerView service, which gives end-users immediate single-article access to full text.
Wiley partners with EpocratesJohn Wiley & Sons has announced a new agreement with Epocrates, a provider of mobile and web-based clinical applications, to make Wiley's recently-acquired InfoPOEMs medical content available to Epocrates users. Under the terms of the agreement, Epocrates will integrate selected POEMs – daily summaries of the latest evidence-based medical research – into its free DocAlert medical news service. DocAlert messages are distributed to the mobile devices of more than 500,000 healthcare professionals and help clinicians stay abreast of current information regarding clinical trials, drug withdrawals and study data. With the addition of InfoPOEMs' content, the DocAlert service will further provide clinicians with important content to support decision-making at the point of care.
Springer partners Society of General Internal MedicineThe Society of General Internal Medicine (SGIM) has chosen Springer as the publisher of the Journal of General Internal Medicine (JGIM). Springer will begin publishing the journal both online and in print in January 2007. It will also now offer all authors, via the Springer Open Choice programme, the option of publishing their articles with open access.
Beilstein Journal of Organic Chemistry joins PubMed CentralThe Beilstein Journal of Organic Chemistry (BJOC) is one of the first chemistry journals to be included in PubMed Central, the world's largest digital archive of freely available full-text journal literature. BJOC, published by the Beilstein-Institut, was one of the first open-access journals in chemistry. Martin Hicks, director of the Beilstein-Institut, said 'We are delighted that inclusion in PubMed Central will bring the high quality articles published in BJOC to the attention of the growing number of biomedical researchers with an interest in organic chemistry and chemical biology.'
Full-text versions of CINAHLEbsco Publishing is making available the full-text versions of the CINAHL database (CINAHL with Full Text and CINAHL Plus with Full Text). These two databases provide immediate access to full-text articles from hundreds of journals and other resources. In addition, CINAHL Plus with Full Text also offers an expanded range of indexed content. CINAHL with Full Text provides indexing for 2,737 journals from the fields of nursing and allied health. The database contains more than 1,000,000 records dating back to 1982 and covering nursing, biomedicine, health sciences librarianship, alternative/ complementary medicine, consumer health and 17 allied health disciplines. In addition, this database offers access to healthcare books, nursing dissertations, selected conference proceedings, standards of practice, educational software, audiovisuals and book chapters. PDF backfiles to 1982 are also included. CINAHL Plus with Full Text includes all of the content provided by CINAHL with Full Text as well as indexing for an additional 287 journals with coverage dating as far back as 1937. PDF backfiles to 1937 are also included. Both databases also include access to PreCINAHL, which provides current awareness of new journal articles, and includes a rotating file of limited bibliographic information (no subject indexing) that is available to searchers only while these articles are being indexed. Once the bibliographic records are complete, they are added to the CINAHL database and removed from PreCINAHL.
Drug Reviews join BlackwellBlackwell Publishing has acquired Cardiovascular Drug Reviews and CNS Drug Reviews. Both journals publish extensive review articles on preclinical and clinical studies with new drugs written by scientists who studied these drugs in the laboratory or clinic. Both journals are published quarterly with review articles on pharmacology, pharmacokinetics and toxicology.
Author-paid option for British Journal of PharmacologyThe British Journal of Pharmacology (BJP) has started accepting open-access articles, subject to payment of a publication fee. The journal is moving to a mixed-revenue model of subscription charges and publication fees. For the remainder of 2006, the publication fee will be $2,500, €e1,850 or £1,250 + VAT (where applicable). Articles published with a publication fee will be clearly identified in the online and print editions of the journal with a 'BJP Open' logo (BJPOpen). BJP is published by Nature Publishing Group (NPG) on behalf of the British Pharmacological Society (BPS). Editors will be blind to the author's choice. Authors paying the publication fee will be entitled to self-archive the published version immediately on publication, in the repositories of their choice, and in any format. Other articles will continue to be published under NPG's exclusive license-to-publish, where NPG's usual self-archiving policy will apply. Print subscription prices will be unaffected. This change follows the introduction of 'Online Open' on the British Journal of Clinical Pharmacology, published by BPS and Blackwell Publishing.
Healthline announces content partnershipsThe internet search engine for consumer healthcare, Healthline, has expanded its health information content base through partnerships with medical reference publishers such as A.D.A.M., Thomson Gale, ProQuest and Cerner Multum. Healthline delivers open web results together with doctor-reviewed articles, journals, encyclopaedias and illustrations. Content from these publishers and others is integrated via its proprietary medical taxonomy system and combined with advanced semantic search capabilities. Healthline's Medically Guided Search technology is said to combine a one-million word taxonomy system developed by more than 1,100 physicians and medical experts with advanced search of the HealthWeb – more than 170,000 health-related sites selected for their content relevancy.
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