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New Features in Faculty of 1000
Full-text
linking options
F1000
users now have three options with which to obtain the full-text for an evaluated
article in Faculty of 1000:
- Linking
to a document delivery service via SFX. If you want more information about
SFX go to http://www.sfxit.com/
- Using
the document delivery link from Infotrieve (or contact us about specifying
an alternate supplier)
- Configuring
a library's own system, so that when one of their users clicks from Faculty
of 1000 through to PubMed, we can ensure that links to the libraries
holdings appear.
To
find out more about how to enable or disable any of the above options. please
contact us info@facultyof1000.com
"Stored
searches" now available: Create your own sections!
Registered
F1000 users are now able to store
their own searches, such as "xenopus AND
embryogenesis"
or "CD25 cells", and receive regular updates of interesting relevant
papers recently selected by Faculty members by adding these searches to their "My
F1000" page, which will also be included in their e-mail alerts.
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References
lists for BioMed Central articles are now OpenURL linked
OpenURL is
a system for allowing institutions to customize the links that are seen by
their users when viewing bibliographic content online.
Recently
BioMed Central introduced OpenURL-compatible linking on the Faculty of 1000
site. This proved so popular with institutions that we have now extended
BioMed Central's OpenURL support to include article reference lists.
OpenURL
links are available both for articles on the BioMed Central site
And
on our other journal sites, such as Genome Biology
If
your institution operates an OpenURL-compatible link server (such as SFX or
LinkFinder Plus) and you would like BioMed Central to activate OpenURL
linking for your users, please contact institutions@biomedcentral.com
If
your institution already has OpenURL configured for Faculty of 1000, you
will find that the links on full text
articles are automatically activated.
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Product Starter Packs
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Information
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Pricing
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Thirty
eight members and counting!
Since January, 38 institutions have now
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institutions are actively supporting open access, and helping to effect
change in the way that research is published and disseminated. Why not
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Find out more about the BioMed
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Current
Opinion Journals available through BioMed Central search platform
4
new titles have been added to BioMed Central’s online portfolio:
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Current
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Current
Opinion in Drug Discovery & Development
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Like all journals
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A print version of
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SPARC come out
in support of BioMed Central
The Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC) have
agreed to support BioMed Central's efforts to develop its sustainable
business model to ensure long-term open access to biological and medical
research. In return, BioMed Central is publicly committing itself to maintaining an open access publishing
policy through the launch of an Open Access
Charter.
The charter commits BioMed Central to permanently maintaining its open access
publishing policy, retrospectively and prospectively, in all
eventualities, including any future changes in ownership.
If a change of ownership should be considered, an independent Board of Trustees will be asked to judge and
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Journal of Biology
- order free print copy
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To
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Please alert your researchers to this new journal launch which
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benefits of open access.
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Institutional
Gateway Page
BioMed
Central has created a new gateway page for institutions.
Here
member/subscribing institutions will find details of their level of
access and links to all of BioMed Central’s sites, allowing users to
browse our complete portfolio of online products; and access individual
sites from this one web address (controlled by IP recognition).
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Arthritis
Research name change
Arthritis
Research is changing its name to
Arthritis
Research & Therapy
with effect from January 2003.
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Arthritis
Research & Therapy
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Editors-
in-Chief:
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Peter
Lipski and Ravinder Maini
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Formats:
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Online
& Print
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Volume
No:
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3
(6 issues per year)
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ISSN
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1465-9905
(print)
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ISSN
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1465-9913
(online)
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Register for 30-day Free
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Introductory
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Petsko and Ringe
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This text is ideal for students of macromolecular structure and function
or bioinformatics.
Institutional subscriptions are now available
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Visual
Net's version of PubMed -
Demo version of a searchable map of PubMed, is this the future
of database searching?
Citebase
Search - Open archive
search engine that allows you to search across a variety of
archives (including BioMed Central)
Researchville
- a meta search engine that collects results from lots of
different search tools
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| Institutional
product pricing published on our website
BioMed Central
now publishes its institutional online and print pricing for each product on its
Library Information Pages.
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| BioMed
Central 2003 Catalogue – coming soon
Our
full product catalogue for 2003 will soon be ready.
If you would like us to mail you your copy e-mail your
request to institutions@
biomedcentral.com
indicating whether you want it sent by e-mail or snail-mail.
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New
Current Report Journals
2
new journals are to be published in the Current
Report Series:
Current
Hematology Reports
is due out this Fall. There will be 2-3 issues this
year and 6 issues per year thereafter.
Current Hepatitis Reports
is due out in February 2003. There
will be 6 issues per year.
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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!
IFLA,
Glasgow, UK
Visit BioMed Central at
STAND 210 between 18-21st August.
EAHIL, Cologne, Germany
Visit BioMed Central at STAND 19 between 16-21st September.
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