Wiley, Elsevier warn authors against e-mail scam - February 13, 2008
Wiley-Blackwell, the STM and scholarly publishing business of John Wiley & Sons, Inc., US, and STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, have alerted authors against an e-mail spam through their respective websites. An e-mail message, circulated last week, sought manuscript submissions for peer-reviewed journals and claimed to come from Blackwell Publishing. It… Read More
Osteopathic Medicine and Primary Care completes first year of publication - February 13, 2008
Open access publisher BioMed Central, US, has announced that its journal, Osteopathic Medicine and Primary Care, has completed its first year of publication. Editors-in-Chief John Licciardone and Roberto Cardarelli, have published an editorial detailing the progress of the journal to date, and looking forwards the future.… Read More
McGraw-Hill’s AccessPharmacy wins ‘Award of Excellence’ from Association of American Publishers - February 13, 2008
AccessPharmacy, an online content solution from McGraw-Hill, has been awarded the 'Award of Excellence' for Best Electronic Publication or Product from the Professional/Scholarly Publishing Division of the Association of American Publishers (AAP). The award was announced at the annual conference of the Professional/Scholarly Publishing Division of… Read More
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CED report moots open access to improve healthcare system - February 12, 2008
The Committee for Economic Development (CED), a non-profit, non-partisan think-tank, recently released a report which prescribes openness in medicine, including open-access publishing of research data, as a way for improving the healthcare system. The researchers, led by Eliot Maxwell, look at OA as a transformative lens… Read More
Indian medical library launches e-journal consortium - February 12, 2008
The National Medical Library in India has announced the launch of an electronic journal consortium - Electronic Resources in Medicine (ERMED). The consortium will provide full-text electronic journal service to 39 medical colleges and institutions across the country. These include 10 Directorate-General of Health Services libraries,… Read More
