John 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.
Ovid Technologies has expanded its partnership with Blackwell Publishing. Under the agreement, Ovid will add more than 60 of the publisher's medical and nursing journals to its electronic content delivery platform, Journals@Ovid.
The Crohn's & Colitis Foundation of America (CCFA) has chosen John Wiley & Sons to publish its official journal, Inflammatory Bowel Diseases.
Elsevier has launched a drug tracking and analysis database. Inteleos contains over 8,000 drugs and 1,200 pharmaceutical and biotech companies.
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This article was jointly written by Andrea Chiarelli (pictured), Juliane Kant and Birgit Schmidt on behalf of Knowledge Exchange. Andrea Chiarelli is a consultant at Research Consulting. Juliane Kant is partner representative for the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) in Knowledge Exchange. Birgit Schmidt is head of knowledge commons at Göttingen State and University Library.
Active engagement and collaboration are needed to deliver the promise of preprints, writes Andrea Chiarelli
