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BioMed Central institutional membership continues to grow
BioMed Central now has 430 institutional members in 40 countries. In the short time since our last quarterly Librarian Newsletter we have welcomed two large consortia as members, outlined below, as well as numerous individual institutions on a global scale and have seen many of our valued existing members renew their membership for their third year! This proves the tremendous level of support that exists within the science and library community for our Open Access publishing model.
Recent new members include:
Alleanza contro il cancro
(ACC - Alliance Against Cancer)
This consortium includes nine oncology institutes in Italy.
FinELib
This is our first national deal whereby all publicly funded researchers in Finland, including all universities and research institutes, can publish in any BioMed Central journal without incurring the usual article-processing charge. FinELib, the National Electronic Library of Finland, organised the membership for 86 institutions.
For a complete list of member institutions visit our membership pages.
Open Access developments
The UK House of Commons Science and Technology Committee has now completed gathering evidence for its inquiry into access to scientific publications, including Open Access publishing.
There were four oral evidence sessions. Uncorrected transcripts of all sessions are available online. The panels were:
Session 1: commercial, subscription publishers
Session 2: society and Open Access publishers
Session 3: academics and librarians
Session 4: research councils
BioMed Central gave evidence to the inquiry, and has also responded to some of the 'myths' about Open Access publishing put forward by commercial publishers.
The Committee will publish its report, detailing its recommendations, in July. For more on the inquiry, see our special web page.
BioMed Central monthly usage statistics to include all products NEW
We are delighted to announce that from June 1st 2004 BioMed Central's monthly statistics, which are emailed to librarian administrators, will include data for all products purchased through BioMed Central. From this date we are including images.MD, Current Report Journals and Current Treatment Options Journals usage statistics in our monthly email reports which have up till now been sent as separate email reports. Library administrators will also be able to logon to “My BioMed Central†and access all these products' statistics from June onwards.
If you have any questions regarding our usage statistics reports please contact Customer Services.
Conference attendance
BioMed Central will be attending the following conferences over the coming months. Please contact us at institutions@biomedcentral.com for an appointment or just drop by our booth if you are planning to attend the event. We look forward to meeting you!
EAHIL 2004, Santander, Spain
Visit us at Booth Number 29 at the 9th European Association for Health Information and Libraries Meeting in Santander from the 20th - 25th September.
AGMB 2004, Mannheim, Germany
BioMed Central will be at Booth Number 13 at the Annual Meeting of the Working Group for Medical Libraries (AGMB) in Mannheim from the 27th - 29th September.
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Promotional Materials for your Library
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2004 Catalogue is Available
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If you haven't received your copy, or would like further copies sent to your library, please let us know at institutions@biomedcentral.com
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Critical Care, with its website the Critical Care Forum, is a peer-reviewed clinical medical journal that aims to improve the care of critically ill patients by acquiring, discussing, and promoting evidence-based information across the whole field of critical care.
Critical Careis an essential resource for all ICU staff. Its clear, comprehensible style and high-quality content make it authoritative, understandable reading for all nursing staff, training and established intensivists and clinical researchers, as well as anaesthetists, cardiologists and respiratory specialists.
Commentaries: Short, opinionated articles written by sub-specialists for the general intensivist.
Reviews: Comprehensive descriptions of any aspect of health care relevant to the journal's scope.
Reports: Providing comprehensive coverage of recent advances in the intensive care arena.
Research: High quality, Open Access, peer-reviewed research into all aspects of clinical intensive and critical care.
You can easily arrange a FREE 30-day trial of Critical Care at your institution through our online form. Alternatively, you can contact your sales representative with any queries you may have.
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BioMed Central is proud to announce the launch of Peoples Archive, the pioneering video archive that offers the chance to see and hear the world's greatest scientists talk at length and in depth about their life and work.
Subscriptions are available from May 24th at an introductory rate of just $100 (£60 or €85) for 1-3 concurrent users. More details plus price quotes for larger usage are available from your sales representative.
This unique resource contains over 2000 stories from a growing number of great biologists, physicists, chemists and mathematicians, including Noble Prize-winners such as Sydney Brenner, Hans Bethe, and Murray Gell-Man.
The website is easy to navigate and includes features such as:
• Intelligent titles that divide up the stories into manageable episodes that can be viewed chronologically for easy browsing.
• The option to search for stories on any subject throughout the archive.
• Links to outside sources of interest plus updated information on lectures and publications.
• Full bibliographies for each speaker, with direct links to Amazon.
• Word-accurate transcripts to allow for accurate quotation.
• Updated information about conferences, seminars, new papers and related events.
Comprising over 100 hours of screen time Peoples Archive provides scientists, students and historians of science with the opportunity to see and hear some of the greatest figures in science talk about their life and work, as they remember it.
New leaflets to promote publishing in Open Access journals
We have created new flyers to help our advocates promote our journals in various subject specialities. Each flyer includes several journals in a particular subject area and includes the journals' branding, website addresses, scopes and lists of Editorial Board members. Please visit our advocacy website to download the new promotional leaflets.
Send to the relevant leaflet to key faculty, colleagues and students who are interested in publishing in any of BioMed Central's Open Access journals.
Sign up for new journal launch alerts
BioMed Central has launched over 40 new Open Access journals in the last two years (full list here) and we have many more on the horizon. Please sign up here for e-mail alerts to notify you of newly launched journal title, ISSN, URL and journal scope information.
Recently we have launched the following new journals:
Harm Reduction Journal
Journal of Neuroinflammation
Retrovirology
To catalogue BioMed Central's Open Access journals on your own website please click here. As well as the existing comma-delimited format, the BioMed Central library catalogue data is now available in MARC format. This will enable easier imports into library systems.
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