TechXtra
Developed at Herriot Watt University in the UK, TechXtra is a suite of 10 freely available services which is said to simplify access to many different types of technology information from different sources.
Developed at Herriot Watt University in the UK, TechXtra is a suite of 10 freely available services which is said to simplify access to many different types of technology information from different sources.
The 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.
The 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.
Blackwell Publishing has acquired Cardiovascular Drug Reviews and CNS Drug Reviews. Both publish extensive review articles on preclinical and clinical studies with new drugs written by scientists.
Ebsco Publishing is making available the full-text versions of the CINAHL database (CINAHL with Full Text and CINAHL Plus with Full Text).
The 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.
The Society of General Internal Medicine (SGIM) has chosen Springer as the publisher of the Journal of General Internal Medicine (JGIM).
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.
James Gray assesses the situation and how it can be addressed
Matt Balara explains how an established publisher, De Gruyter, completed an extraordinary transformation
From rapid disease information to a way to promote and share regional knowledge in multiple languages, preprints have come into their own in recent years. Siân Harris finds out more
Céline Richard explains what the Large Hadron Collider has taught us about the importance of open access research
Ivy Cavendish tells the inspirational tale behind the formation of a writing tool for researchers, TooWrite
There is a continuing need for the sorts of insights and judgements that only a person can bring, writes David Stuart
COUNTER reports have an integral role to play in our wider scholarly communication system, writes Tasha Mellins-Cohen
Emerald Publishing CEO Tony Roche talks of his career in scholarly publishing and a love of eastern cuisine
Alicia Wise, CLOCKSS executive director, reflects on her career and explains the importance of robustly preserving academic resources
Heather Staines sums up proceedings at this year's Researcher to Reader conference