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The Public Library of Science (PLoS) has created PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, said to be the first open-access journal devoted to the world’s most neglected diseases.

International Journal of Biomedical Sciences (IJBS) is a new quarterly, open-access journal focusing on theories, methods and applications in biomedical sciences, computational and systems biology.

Elsevier has partnered with SOAPware to allow Elsevier’s iCONSULT clinical decision support content to be offered as a Clinical Knowledge Module to SOAPware v5 (liger) EHR users.

Ovid has expanded its partnership with Oxford University Press (OUP) to add more than 180 titles in medicine, neurosciences, social and behavioural sciences to Books@Ovid, its e-books search and discovery platform.

John Wiley & Sons has been selected by the International Union of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (IUBMB) to publish Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Education

Cell Press is launching Cell Hose & Microbe, which will focus on the interactions between microbes and their hosts.

All papers in Plant Physiology by American Society of Plant Biologists (ASPB) members are to be published with full open access.

HFSP Publishing is launching the HFSP Journal, Frontiers of Interdisciplinary Research in the Life Sciences to foster communication between scientists publishing innovative interdisciplinary research at the interface between biology and the physical sciences.

Sage 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.

Thomson Pharma, the drug discovery and development information solution, has been enhanced with a new module that provides regulatory, legal and scientific information for development and registration of medicinal products and biologics.