Thomson Reuters announces free availability of its Disease Briefing on Influenza - May 22, 2009
The Healthcare and Science business of Thomson Reuters has announced the free availability of its Disease Briefing on Influenza, taken directly from Prous Science Integrity, a knowledge solution designed to empower discovery activities. The daily briefing provides information on Influenza A (H1N1) including development pipeline for… Read More
BMC Women’s Health publishes over 100 articles - May 20, 2009
BioMed Central journal BMC Women's Health has announced that it has reached and surpassed its 100th article milestone. The journal, launched in 2001, continues to steadily attract submissions, and publications have risen by 50 percent in the last three years. BMC Women's Health is an open… Read More
BioMed Central launches online reporting tool for OA prepay and postpay membership accounts - May 19, 2009
Open access publisher BioMed Central, UK, has announced the introduction of the 'Online Reporting System' for its open access Prepay and Postpay membership accounts. The move follows the recent rapid growth of institutional memberships for open access publications. Building on BioMed Central's publishing platform, the new… Read More
OARE programme registers 1500 institutions in less than three years - May 18, 2009
Research4Life has announced that the Online Access to Research in the Environment (OARE) programme has registered 1500 institutions since its launch in 2006, an increase of nearly 700 percent. Scientists, researchers and environmental policy-makers in 1,500 not-for-profit institutions in the world's poorest countries will now gain free or… Read More
Wiley-Blackwell launches online reference portal on influenza A H1N1 - May 18, 2009
Wiley-Blackwell, the STM and scholarly publishing business of John Wiley & Sons, Inc., US, has launched an online reference website offering free access to research articles and publications relating to influenza A H1N1. The complimentary content includes articles from the Cochrane Library, The Hospitalist and from… Read More
Highlights of 2008 collection free to access in Journal of Physics D - May 18, 2009
Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics, published by IOP publishing, UK, has announced the online publication of the 'Highlights of 2008' collection. Thirty articles represent some of the best work recently published in the journal. Articles include research papers, fast-track communications, review articles and cluster issue… Read More
Cornell Library removes restrictions on use of public domain reproductions - May 14, 2009
Cornell University Library, a US-based academic research library, has announced that it will no longer require its users to seek permission to publish public domain items duplicated from its collections. Instead, users may now use reproductions of public domain works made for them by the library… Read More
Gale offers free access to resources from Virtual Reference Library - May 12, 2009
E-research and educational publisher Gale, part of Cengage Learning, US, has announced that it is providing free access to Global Issues in Context and health and medical related e-books from the Gale Virtual Reference Library. With this move, Gale seeks to make reliable, expert information regarding… Read More
Mary Ann Liebert offers free online access of Journal of Women’ s Health - May 12, 2009
Medical publisher Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., US, has announced complimentary online access to all issues of its peer-reviewed publication, Journal of Women's Health, in recognition of National Women's Health Week (May 10-16, 2009). The offer can be availed of for the entire month of May at… Read More
Ovid provides free access to the Ovid MEDLINE and CABI’s Global Heath databases - May 8, 2009
Ovid, part of Wolters Kluwer Health, US, has announced that it is providing hospitals and healthcare centers around the world with free 30-day access to the Ovid MEDLINE's database and CABI's Global Health database on the OvidSP platform. The move is projected to help physicians, pediatricians,… Read More
