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Elsevier announces beta launch of WiserWiki - 31 Jan 2008
STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, has announced the beta launch of WiserWiki, a wiki that allows board-certified physicians to collaboratively contribute and update medical information online. The site, which is open to and viewable by the public, is seeded with content from The Textbook of Primary Care Medicine (3rd Edition, 2001) by Dr. John Noble. Published by Mosby, an Elsevier imprint, the textbook was one of Elsevier's best-selling medical textbooks. No longer in print, the textbook seeding WiserWiki contains in-depth information on a full-range of medical problems, conditions and diseases encountered in the practices of family physicians, general internists, medical and surgical subspecialists, nurse practitioners, and physician assistants. WiserWiki provides exposure for physicians who wish to publish relevant, up-to-date and insightful medical content based on personal experience and expertise. It hopes to maintain a high level of relevancy and trustworthiness by ensuring that editorial privileges remain restricted to medical professionals.
Springer, OCUL agreement to provide member libraries with access to Springer eBook Collection - 31 Jan 2008
STM publisher Springer Science+Business Media, Germany, has signed an agreement with the Ontario Council of University Libraries (OCUL). Under the deal, Springer will provide OCUL member libraries with the complete Springer eBook Collection, 2005 - 2008. All of the 20 universities in Ontario are members of OCUL, including the University of Toronto, McMaster University, University of Guelph, and Nipissing University. With the OCUL consortium deal, over 12,000 Springer eBooks will be made available to nearly 400,000 students and faculty within OCUL. The Springer eBook Collection consists of textbooks, monographs, reference works, handbooks, book series and encyclopedias. With immediate effect, all students and researchers at individual universities will have electronic access and full archival rights to the Springer eBooks. Currently this includes more than 12,000 eBooks, all available on Springer's online platform, SpringerLink. SpringerLink also includes millions of articles from Springer's peer-reviewed journals and reference works.
MuseGlobal introduces information services, News Hound and Blog Hound - 31 Jan 2008
Metasearch technology provider MuseGlobal, Inc., US, has announced the release of two new products - News Hound and Blog Hound. Designed to aggregate, integrate, enrich and deliver comprehensive, current and relevant content to customers, the new products seek to fuse together a wide range of content sources. The aim is to create information services that inform decision-makers in both enterprise and consumer markets. Available through collaborative alliances with both OEM and distribution partners around the globe, News Hound and Blog Hound are also expected to help online news, media and entertainment companies to better monetise their content. Built using the Muse Content Machine, MuseGlobal's content integration platform, the two products enable organisations to build and deliver up-to-date information services to their internal and external audiences. Organisations can now create custom feeds from both structured and unstructured news sources including search engines, subscription databases, media outlets and web mining applications; access up-to-date content instantly with query-based searches and alert feeds; migrate and deliver information seamlessly into third party or custom applications; and generate new revenue streams from company-owned and syndicated content. MuseGlobal will work exclusively with OEM and distribution partners to bring News Hound and Blog Hound to market. Through these collaborative alliances, joint customers are projected to receive highly customised solutions that meet each organisation's precise information requirements.
Latest version of InSight Publisher launched with improved submission linking capabilities - 31 Jan 2008
Regulatory software vendor Liquent, part of Thomson Scientific, US, has announced the availability of InSight Publisher 3.6. The latest version of InSight Publisher adds intuitive hyperlinking and cross-reference management to its enhanced functionality set. Launched in 2006, InSight Publisher seeks to enable pharmaceutical companies to create, manage and publish regulatory submissions in both paper and electronic format using a single software application. The latest version helps companies enable cross-referencing in all critical stages of submission development - during authoring and submission preparation, and post publishing. By offering support at all three critical stages, the tool will help companies streamline the cross-referencing tasks and improve efficiencies during the publishing process. Liquent expects the latest version of InSight Publisher to not only address core cross-referencing requirements, but also the new cross-referencing complexities brought on by eCTD lifecycle management such as managing cross-sequence references and stale references. In 2007, Liquent completed a number of worldwide implementations of InSight Publisher with its clients ahead of the project timelines and on or below budget.
Institute of Physics Publishing introduces e-prints in IOPscience - 31 Jan 2008
Non-profit scientific publisher Institute of Physics Publishing (IOP), UK, has announced the introduction of e-prints to its new journal service, IOPscience. E-prints are delivered seamlessly from eprintweb.org (based on Cornell University's arXiv.org) and are presented in a new tab alongside regular search results, providing a valuable extra resource for researchers. IOPscience is a new online service for journal content published by IOP. It contains more than 290,000 articles, from 1874 to the present day. Available through an electronic-only, site-wide license, the service is designed to give easy access to scientific, technical and medical content. IOPscience is being enhanced continually, with the addition of new features and functionality to improve the user's experience. A recent release allows the user to tag articles with personal descriptions.
Allen Press journals to be accessible via SIMID SMILE - 31 Jan 2008
Healthcare information and education publisher Allen Press, US, has announced a strategic marketing and distribution agreement with SIMID S.M.I.L.E. (Scientific Medical Information Library Europe), a combination database and library of medical journals and books covering forty medical disciplines. Under the deal, Allen Press will provide metadata and full-text articles from its portfolio of medical journals to SIMID. With this move, the publisher aims to increase European readership and international exposure to key medical research. Journals to be included in the library include Anaesthesia Progress, Biomedical Instrumentation and Technology, The Cleft Palate-Craniofacial Journal, Journal of Endovascular Therapy, Journal of Oral Implantology, The Journal of Parasitology, The Journal of School Nursing, and Pediatric and Developmental Pathology. SIMID is a European corporation providing an online thematic library service to medical professionals. Launched in 2005 by SIMID, S.M.I.L.E. is a combination database and library of over 1.000 medical journals and E-books covering forty medical disciplines, including oncology, cardiology, neurosciences, respiratory and psychiatry. Medical professionals are able to search this exhaustive database.
Emerald Group Publishing to present Emerald Backfiles at VALA 2008 - 31 Jan 2008
Academic and professional literature publisher Emerald Group Publishing Ltd., UK, has announced that it will present Emerald Backfiles at the VALA 2008 Conference and Exhibition, to be held at the Melbourne Convention Centre, Melbourne, from February 5-7. Emerald will release the digitisation of the full archive of its journal titles in business, management, library and information services, materials science, and engineering. Working with the British Library, more than 50,000 articles, some going back to the 1800s, are now in PDF format and are being made available electronically for the first time. Andrea Gilbey, Emerald's new Australia-based Business Manager for the region, will be on hand at the Emerald booth to discuss Emerald Backfiles and Emerald's recent acquisition of Elsevier's Social Science Book Series, Serials and Monographs. Also on show will be Emerald's flagship product, Emerald Management Xtra. Emerald Management Xtra is claimed to be the largest, most comprehensive online collection of peer-reviewed management journals, created to meet the needs of educators, students, researchers and information professionals working in the business community.
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