Launch
of Library Pages
BioMed Central has recently
launched its Library
Information Pages which include full details on all BioMed Central’s products, Institutional
Membership, pricing, free trials and licencing information.
The
Library Information Pages also include details of special
collection offers and essential contact information.
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BioMed
Central Institutional Membership
Is your institution a member
of BioMed Central? Introduced in
January 2002, The BioMed
Central Institutional Membership Program gives institutions a way to
actively support open access, and to effect change in the way that scientific
research is published, priced and disseminated.
Harvard
University, Cancer Research UK, Imperial College, The Memorial Sloan-Kettering
Cancer Center and many other institutions
worldwide have already joined as
members, thereby lending support to our publishing policy.
If you would like more information,
please contact our Membership Director, Becky Fishman
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User
Statistics
BioMed
Central is delighted to offer institutions full users statistics
on a regular basis. We
hope that this will help our trialing and subscribing customers
to make informed decisions on subscribing to and renewing
subscriptions to BioMed Central products.
BioMed
Central users stats will include the following information:
EXAMPLE
Institutional Access Report
Start
Date:04-Mar-2002
Expiry Date:04-Apr-2002
Acesses: Article Views:21
Estimated Page Impressions:420
Distinct IP's: 4
For
your free institutional access report contact institutions@biomedcentral.com
In
addition to access statistics, you can now discover what are the most
viewed research articles in our journals, simply select a journal and click
on the most viewed option.
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Discussion
Forum - Online Archiving
We are interested
in your views, so let us know what you think about Online Archiving and we will
address some of your concerns in the next update.
- how ready is your library to go totally
digital with acquisitions?
- what is it that is holding you back? (money,
fear of lack of permanence, etc.)
- should providing a permanent e-archive be
the responsibility of the publisher or of the librarian?
- does your institution have or plan to have a
permanent e-print archive for certain papers?
Send your answers by e-mail to institutions@biomedcentral.com
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Product Focus - Faculty
of 1000
Faculty of 1000
is a revolutionary new online
research service that highlights and evaluates the
most interesting papers published in the biological
sciences, based on the recommendations of a faculty of over 1400
selected leading researchers.
19 Institutions are
now subscribing to Faculty of 1000 and hundreds are taking advantage of
the 30-day
free trial. Why not try it out at you institution?
User’s
quote
"Awesome!
a very nice way to look for interesting papers that I otherwise would
have missed!" - Professor Ben A Barres, Stanford University
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Budapest Open Access Initiative
The
Budapest Open Access Initiative (BOAI) was launched by George Soros's
Open Society Institute at the end of February. This initiative is
dedicated to freeing online access to peer-reviewed research literature.
BioMed Central is pleased to announce its involvement in, and support
for, this initiative, by providing the technology that can deliver open
access peer-reviewed research in biology and medicine.
For further information read the BioMed
Central press release and sign up to the open letter on the BOAI
website
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E-mail
to a friendIf you think a colleague
might be interested in this newsletter or finding out more about BioMed Central please
forward this e-mail to them. To
start receiving the BioMed Central Librarian Update send a blank e-mail to:
join-library-updates@news.biomedcentral.com
To stop receiving the BioMed
Central Librarian Update send
a blank e-mail to:
leave-library-updates@news.biomedcentral.com
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BMC
Special Offers
We
are offering all institutions special rates to our subscription
products on orders placed before 31st May 2002.
Benefit
from 10% discount off individual products for your library or
purchase BioMed
Central Collection packages and benefit from a massive
30% discount.
To
order these products at the special rates advertised here e-mail
or call +44 (0) 20 7631 9131.
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Register for 30-day Free
Trials
We
are delighted to offer institutions free 30-day trials of all
BioMed Central online products, as we appreciate that this is
helpful when evaluating new products with a view to subscribing
to them.
To benefit from a free online trial of one or more of our
products, please complete the request
form.
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| In the Press
Library
Journal
Is the Public Library of Science Moving ahead?
Read
online
Library Journal 11 March 2002
FOS
Newsletter
The World Health Organization (WHO) has become an
institutional member of BioMed Central (BMC).
Read
online
FOS Newsletter 3 March 2002
The ELSO Gazette
All change at BioMed Central as it introduces new services
and charges
Read
online [requires registration]
The ELSO Gazette March 2002 Issue 9
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| Cool Sites
The
Free Online Scholarship newsletter - Weekly newsletter
concerning open access to scholarly information
Free
Pint -
a free e-mail newsletter with tips on Internet searching
Free
Medical journals - Useful site listing freely accessible
medical research papers
Wayback
Machine - lets you view how web sites use to look
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tag
Each issue we will be trawling our
correspondence with librarians to find the best signature tag.
This weeks winner is Priscilla Schneider
from the Virgin Islands.
"Outside of a dog, a book is
man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it is too
dark to read".
- Groucho Marx.
A Faculty of 1000 backpack is
on its way to the Virgin Islands.
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Conference Attendance
BioMed
Central will be at the forthcoming exhibitions and conferences. Please contact
us for an appointment or just drop by our booth if you are also planning to
attend any of these events. We look forward to meeting you!
UKSG, Warwick UK
Visit BioMed Central at
STAND 41 at UKSG, Warwick UK between 15-17th April.
MLA, Dallas US
Visit BioMed Central at Booth Number 1011 at Medical Library Association
Conference, Dallas US between 17-23rd May.
SLA, Los Angeles US
Visit BioMed Central at Booth Number 1341 at Special Library Association
Conference, LA between 8-13th June.
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