Journal production services provider Dartmouth Journal Services (DJS) and The Sheridan Technology Lab have upgraded the Endo Pubs app, which was originally launched as an abstracts app for The Endocrine Society's (TES) journals, to a full-text plus annual meeting abstracts version. TES titles include JCEM: The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism, Molecular Endocrinology, Endocrinology and Endocrine Reviews.

Developed and launched on both the Apple and Android platforms, this full-text upgrade allows clinicians and researchers to access both abstracts and full-text articles, including full-text PDFs, from the free Endo Pubs app as soon as articles and issues are published. As a bonus to users, The Endocrine Society has made the full-text content of all four journals freely available through August 1st. After the free introductory period, users can authenticate themselves within the app as either an individual subscriber, member, or as an institutional subscriber to continue accessing the full-text content.

Unauthenticated users will still have access to article abstracts and all of the other features of the app, including multi-tier title and author search, article bookmarking, and article sharing via email, Twitter, and Facebook. Full-text readers can also view high-resolution images, expanded view of tables, and in-article reference citations. The Endo Pubs app also supports advertising and sponsorship opportunities through its integrated ad mediation system.

Sheridan's ongoing commitment to developing and providing the latest publishing technology advancements extends beyond Full-Text and Alert Apps to include Sheridan Mobile Alerts, Sheridan Mobile Editions, Sheridan Mobile ePrints, and Sheridan Print-to-Mobile QR Codes.

Annual Reviews, the non-profit publisher that synthesises critical research literature, has partnered with Dartmouth Journal Services and the Sheridan Technology Lab to develop and launch a multi-title full-text iOS and Android app - EconScholar - that will release in October 2012.

The free EconScholar app allows immediate access to the full-text articles of the Annual Review of Economics, the Annual Review of Financial Economics and the Annual Review of Resource Economics for both personal and institutional subscribers. Non-subscribers can access article abstracts and selected complimentary articles.

Authenticated users can read full text articles, view high-resolution images, bookmark articles, search journal content, and access social media tools. Through the integration of social media tools, users can also share content via email, Twitter, and/or Facebook. In addition, the full-text content is automatically cached to the user device, providing full reading capability whether the user is online or offline.

Although the free app requires users to be authenticated in order to access the full-text of articles, the publisher will also include selected complimentary articles, which will be freely accessible to all users of the app.

Sheridan’s ongoing commitment to developing and providing the latest publishing technology advancements extends beyond Full-Text and Alert Apps to include Sheridan Mobile Alerts, Sheridan Mobile Editions, Sheridan Mobile ePrints, and Sheridan Print-to-Mobile QR Codes.

Journal production services provider Dartmouth Journal Services (DJS) and the Sheridan Technology Lab, together with the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (ASTMH), have announced the release a full-text journal app – AJTMH – available October 2012 in Apple and Android platforms.

The iPad, iPhone and Android mobile app will offer immediate access to full-text articles, allowing users to read, bookmark, download, and search journal content at any time, including high resolution images and feeds. App users will receive alerts to new content and will be able to easily share content through social media tools. Free full-content access will be available to the public through January 15, 2013, after which access will be available only to ASTMH members and individual journal subscribers.

The American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, a monthly peer-reviewed publication aimed at tropical medicine specialists including parasitologists, virologists, medical entomologists, and epidemiologists leads the tropical medicine field in the scope, quality and breadth of its published scholarship. The journal, available to members and through institutional subscriptions, is freely available to non-profit institutions in developing countries through ASTMH's participation in HINARI (Access to Research in Health Programme).

Sheridan's ongoing commitment to developing and providing the latest publishing technology advancements extends beyond Full-Text and Alert Apps to include Sheridan Mobile Alerts, Sheridan Mobile Editions, Sheridan Mobile ePrints, and Sheridan Print-to-Mobile QR Codes.

The Academy of Management has selected Dartmouth Journal Services and the Sheridan Technology Lab to develop a multi-journal app. Scheduled for release in mid-July, the app is branded as AOM Pubs. Journal titles accessible in this app include the Academy of Management Journal (AMJ), Academy of Management Review (AMR), Academy of Management Learning & Education (AMLE), and Academy of Management Perspectives (AMP).

The app is available for both the iPhone and iPad. It offers complete access of full-text articles to AOM members. Non-members can access the abstracts, and will also be able to access special free content for a period of 90 days after the release.

The app permits users to download, view, save, and search full-text articles; and even publish-ahead-of-print content. Users can access supplemental material, high resolution images, video, listen to podcasts and newsfeeds, and bookmark content. They may also receive instant alerts for new content, and read and share content through email, Facebook, and Twitter. User-configurable offline content caching – A Sheridan exclusive – offers access to full-text articles, figures, and tables anytime, anywhere, without a network connection.

Through its scholarly journals, The Academy of Management is committed to advancing theory, research, education, and practice in the field of management. AMR provides a forum to explicate theoretical insights and developments. Articles published in AMJ empirically examine theory-based knowledge. AMLE provides a forum to examine learning processes and management education. AMP features important issues concerning management and business.

Sheridan Full-Text Apps are the latest in a suite of mobile products developed and supported through The Sheridan Group companies. Others include Sheridan Mobile Alerts, Sheridan Mobile Editions, Sheridan Mobile ePrints, and Sheridan Print-to-Mobile QR Codes.

Journal production services provider Dartmouth Journal Services (DJS), part of The Sheridan Group, US, has been working with the American Diabetes Association (ADA) to create and launch a multi-journal app for both the iOS and Android platforms (the iOS app to launch in March 2012, and Android app slated for an April 2012 launch). The ADA Journals app will provide immediate access to full-text articles for users with personal or institutional subscriptions to Diabetes, Diabetes Care, Diabetes Spectrum, and/or Clinical Diabetes.

The ADA Journals app will provide users with the ability to download, search, view, and save abstracts and full-text articles, including publish-ahead-of-print articles. In addition to accessing the latest journal content, both as full-text HTML and as PDF, users can also access supplemental material, listen to podcasts, subscribe to and follow diabetes-related news feeds, bookmark content, and share articles via email, Facebook, and Twitter.

Although the app will initially provide free access to all content for an introductory period, the app manages the authentication of both individual and institutional subscribers via a simple and easy feature. A Sheridan exclusive – user-configurable offline content caching – gives users access to full-text articles, figures, and tables anytime, anywhere - without a network connection.

Sheridan Full-Text Apps are the latest in a suite of mobile products developed and supported through The Sheridan Group companies, and with the support of the Sheridan Technology Lab. Others include Sheridan Mobile Alerts, Sheridan Mobile Editions, Sheridan Mobile ePrints, and Sheridan Print-to-Mobile QR Codes.

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Global library cooperative OCLC, US, together with OCLC Global Council and members, has introduced a new platform, OCLC WorldShare. The platform is projected to enable library developers, partners and other organisations to create, configure and share a wide range of applications that deliver new functionality and value for libraries and their users.

OCLC will also deploy data centres around the world in support of OCLC WorldShare and other services. The first data centre outside the US will be implemented this week in the UK. Additional data centres will be deployed in continental Europe, Australia and Canada in the coming year.

The OCLC WorldShare Platform facilitates collaboration and app-sharing across the library community, so that libraries can combine library-built applications, partner-built applications and OCLC-built applications. This is seen to enable the benefits of each single solution to be shared broadly throughout the library community.

In the coming weeks, participants from platform pilot libraries will work with members of the OCLC Developer Network to help create and build new applications to populate the OCLC WorldShare App Gallery. Here, where users will see available apps and install them into current work environments. Developers can showcase their creativity, partners can create add-on functionality and library staff can find practical, everyday solutions to streamline and enhance their workflows.

The first services built on this new technical infrastructure are Webscale Management Services, which have been rebranded as OCLC WorldShare Management Services, and include circulation, acquisitions and license management applications. Today, more than 30 libraries are already using OCLC WorldShare Management Services, and more than 150 libraries worldwide have committed to the new service since September 2010.

Over time, OCLC will bring together additional OCLC services and applications under the OCLC WorldShare name, including resource sharing, consortial borrowing, metadata management and additional applications. OCLC's currently deployed library management solutions will continue to be maintained and enhanced in line with libraries' ongoing requirements under their current brand names.

WorldCat will continue to serve as the name for shared data, including registries and the knowledge base, as well as discovery services such as WorldCat.org and WorldCat Local.

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The Sheridan Technology Group and Dartmouth Journal Services (DJS) have developed iPhone and iPad apps for the Journal of Cell Biology, The Journal of Experimental Medicine, and The Journal of General Physiology. These journals will soon be available in the iTunes App Store as downloadable, full-text, mobile applications. The apps were developed in conjunction with The Rockefeller University Press (RUP).

App users can stay up-to-date with the latest articles, search full-text, and bookmark content for later viewing. The apps will include a number of features that are firsts for Sheridan's mobile app offering, including individual and institutional authentication, PDF download, and access to supplemental data and related articles. Another first, user-configurable offline caching of content, provides access to full-text articles (including high resolution figures and tables) – anywhere, anytime – even without a network connection.

In addition to journal content, the apps also offer access to a number of social media channels such as Facebook, Twitter, and Flickr, plus RUP's biosights and biobytes podcast series and other RSS feeds. The incorporation of social media tools makes it easy to share content, and the instant alert feature immediately notifies users of the availability of new content.

RUP plans to launch the apps, free of charge, in mid-November 2011. During a brief introductory trial period, access to full-text will be available to all who download them. After the trial period, access to full-text will require a subscription, but abstracts will be available to all users.

Sheridan Full-Text Apps are the latest in a suite of mobile products developed and supported through Sheridan Technology. Others include Sheridan Mobile Alerts, Sheridan Mobile Editions, Sheridan Mobile ePrints, and Sheridan Print-to-Mobile QR Codes.

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Health information services provider WebMD Health Corp., US, has announced the launch of its leading consumer health app on the Android platform. With over 5 million downloads since launching WebMD for iPhone and iPad, the release of WebMD for Android is the latest move by WebMD to meet increasing consumer demand for its trusted health information.

WebMD for Android seeks to help consumers in their decision-making and health improvement efforts by providing 24/7 access to mobile-optimised health information and decision-support tools, including WebMD's Symptom Checker, Drugs & Treatments, First Aid Information and Local Health Listings. It incorporates the new voice search functionality by providing users with voice activated search for information on a health condition, drug, treatment or first aid topic.

WebMD for Android can be found by searching for WebMD at the Android Market www.android.com/market/ or by typing 'mobile' at WebMD.com.

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The American Chemical Society (ACS) has announced the expansion of its mobile application, ACS Mobile, to tablet and smartphone devices with Google's Android operating system.

Launched initially in 2010 for Apple iOS devices, including an optimised version for the iPad tablet, ACS Mobile allows scientists to keep current with a live, multi-journal stream of new peer-reviewed research content (Articles ASAPSM) published across the Society's portfolio of 39 scholarly research journals, including the flagship Journal of the American Chemical Society. The app is augmented by 'Latest News' from Chemical and Engineering News (C&EN) - the Society's industry-leading magazine and preferred source of online news for its more than 163,000-member professionals.

Along with numerous positive user reviews and testimonials, ACS Mobile recently received the PROSE (Professional and Scholarly Excellence) award for both the 'Best New eProduct in Physical Sciences and Mathematics,' and 'Best New eProduct/Innovation in ePublishing' from the Professional and Scholarly Publishing Division of the Association of American Publishers.

It has been observed that Android-powered smartphones are propelling much of the growth in the smartphone market. A February 2011 Gartner report ranks Android phones second in worldwide sales with 22.7 percent of the market.

A video demonstration of the features and functionality of ACS Mobile can be accessed at http://www.acsmobile.org. The Android version of the application is currently available for individual purchase and download via the Android Market. The Apple version can be purchased directly from the iTunes Store.

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Journal production services provider Dartmouth Journal Services (DJS), part of The Sheridan Group, US, has collaborated with Cell Press, an imprint of Elsevier, to create a publisher-branded mobile application, launched through the iTunes App Store on December 3, 2010.

The Cell Press app, titled Cell Alerts, encompasses 14 Cell Press titles. It functions as a content discovery application featuring access to article abstracts, including graphical, video, and audio abstracts, as well as content search, user selected 'My List' storage, and a conference events calendar. The app is formatted for the iPhone with other platforms planned as future enhancements. Other features of the Sheridan Mobile App offering include multiple RSS feed support; social sharing of in-app content; push notification alerts on content updates; real-time usage analytics via Google Analytics; and comprehensive user settings.

The latest offering in Sheridan's ongoing suite of proprietary technology solutions, Sheridan Mobile Apps are customised mobile content delivery mechanisms that can feature article abstract viewing or full-text article access, per the publisher's request. Sheridan Mobile Apps are compatible with the predominant mobile platforms, including iOS (iPhone and iPad) and Android. All are built on top of a scalable and configurable XML-based Mobile Content Delivery System (MCDS) that handles the content import, conversion, management, and distribution.

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Scientific publisher Nature Publishing Group, UK, has announced the launch of the nature.com Reader for iPad. Users of the iPad application (app) can view all news content from Nature and article abstracts from Nature, Nature Genetics, Nature Medicine, Nature Biotechnology, Nature Physics, Nature Reviews Microbiology, Nature Reviews Genetics and Nature Communications free of charge.

The nature.com iPad app is available free to download from the iTunes App Store. As an introductory offer, access to the full text of Nature is available free on the nature.com Reader until February 28, 2011.

Access to the full text of the journals through the app is included in existing personal subscriptions. Alternatively, low cost thirty-day and annual mobile subscriptions offer full text access, including six months of archived content. Mobile subscriptions provide access on both the nature.com Reader for iPad and the nature.com iPhone app.

Users will now be able to read abstracts immediately or save them for later, set up saved searches, or browse the latest news and research. The nature.com iPad app also enables users to read abstracts from other journals by setting up a saved search with PubMed, or arXiv, an archive for electronic preprints of scientific papers.

NPG has designed the nature.com Reader specifically for the iPad's larger screen. Articles are presented simply and clearly, and high resolution figures, pop-up references and data tables are handled by special helper views for an optimal reading experience. A future release of the app will allow iPad users to purchase a week's access to individual articles for $3.99, and support site license access via IP range. NPG has future plans to offer the remaining Nature branded titles on the nature.com Reader.

The nature.com iPad app is the latest mobile offering from NPG. Earlier, in December 2010, Scientific American launched a special one-off edition 'Origins and Endings' on the iPad. 'Origins and Endings' features a compilation of articles, interactive informational graphics, slide shows, and audio interviews with scientists and video supplements. The nature.com mobile app for iPhone was released in February 2010.

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