Technology

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has linked its freely available PubChem database of small molecule data with the Compound Index on Elsevier MDL's DiscoveryGate platform.

A number of features have been added to the EBSCOhost interface which should provide database users with a more efficient and enjoyable search experience.

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.