CAB Abstracts to include full text - October 29, 2008
Bibliographic databases, books, and interactive electronic resources publisher CABI, UK, has announced that its life sciences bibliographic database, CAB Abstracts, will include full text content that was previously available only through a separate subscription, starting January 1, 2009. More than 36,000 journal articles, reports and conference… Read More
Informa provides archive service for pharmaceutical science and medical journals - October 22, 2008
The Pharmaceutical Science and Medical publishing divisions of publisher Informa Healthcare, UK, have announced that current subscribers of their collection of journals are being given access to their archive service as well. The free online service, available immediately, is seen to provide readers with an efficient,… Read More
BioMed Central set to publish the Journal of Biomedical Science - October 22, 2008
Open access publisher BioMed Central, US, has announced that it has been selected by the National Science Council (NSC) of Taiwan to publish the Journal of Biomedical Science. The journal is currently accepting submissions via its new BioMed Central website and will publish its first open… Read More
Part 1 of Arthritis Research & Therapy’s 10th anniversary issue available online - October 21, 2008
Open access publisher BioMed Central, US, has announced that the journal Arthritis Research & Therapy is publishing a comprehensive collection of review articles, entitled 'The Scientific Basis of Rheumatology: A Decade of Progress' to mark its 10th anniversary. Part 1 of this special issue is currently… Read More
Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association launched - October 16, 2008
The Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association, OASPA, was officially launched in conjunction with an OA Day celebration hosted by the Wellcome Trust in London. OASPA seeks to support and represent the interests of Open Access (OA) journals publishers globally in all scientific, technical, and scholarly disciplines.… Read More
BMJ completes 10 years of offering open access content online - October 16, 2008
British Medical Journal (BMJ), published by medical publisher BMJ Group, UK, has announced that after 10 years of providing free access to its peer reviewed research online, it is now officially an open access (OA) journal. The announcement was made on the first international Open Access… Read More
New journal on ovarian research launched - October 8, 2008
Open access publisher BioMed Central, US, has announced the launch of a new journal - Journal of Ovarian Research. David T. Curiel, Sham S. Kakar, Fumikazu Kotsuji and Stefano Palomba will serve as Editors-in-Chief of the journal. The Journal of Ovarian… Read More
JISC, ProQuest deal to provide journal content to UK’s academic communities - October 2, 2008
ProQuest, part of Cambridge Information Group, and JISC Collections have agreed to make a collection of 80 journals from ProQuest's Periodicals Archive Online available to the UK's academic HE and FE communities. The move is part of JISC Collections' ongoing commitment to… Read More
Asia Pacific Family Medicine moves to BioMed Central - October 2, 2008
Open access publisher BioMed Central, US, has announced that Asia Pacific Family Medicine, the official journal of the Asia Pacific Region of WONCA, has relaunched on BioMed Central's publishing platform. The move is expected to increase the exposure of the journal to the widest possible global… Read More
JISC in pact to give UK researchers wider access to ACS Legacy Archives - October 1, 2008
The Publications Division of the American Chemical Society (ACS) and JISC Collections have announced an agreement. Under the deal, the two will make the ACS Legacy Archives, a digital collection of 22 peer-reviewed journal titles, widely available to universities, colleges and research… Read More
