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Information Today October 23, 2014 |
Elsevier Offers Medical Reference Digests The series uses updated content from Elsevier's Clinics Review Articles database that is targeted to specific practice areas such as asthma, obesity, and pain management. |
Information Today December 1, 2008 |
Free Resource--Global Library of Women's Medicine The Global Library of Women's Medicine has launched online and is freely available in beta. More than 650 world experts have provided a definitive resource on the latest therapeutic options in women's medicine. |
Information Today December 23, 2010 |
Wiley-Blackwell Launches Mobile Applications for Select Health Publications The applications, which will be freely available, will allow for the mobile delivery of title and abstract listings of articles with a feature that will enable users to create a "reading list" of desired full-text articles, available from the user's desktop computer through Wiley Online Library. |
Information Today May 6, 2013 |
EBSCO Releases Social Work Reference Center Social Work Reference Center is a comprehensive reference tool that provides evidence-based information to social workers and other mental health professionals directly at the point-of-care. |
Information Today August 2000 |
Harcourt to Be Sole Owner of MD Consult Harcourt, Inc., the global education, training, assessment, and professional information company, has announced it has signed an agreement with publisher Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, to acquire LWW's one-third interest in MD Consult, a clinical-information resource for physicians.... |
Managed Care October 2002 Joyce Ochs |
Decision Support Made Practical Making all the necessary information easily accessible is the motivation behind today's decision-support products. Most of them are called clinical information systems or primary care information systems and are designed for practicing physicians. |
Insurance & Technology January 21, 2010 Katherine Burger |
CIGNA Teams with MD On-Line to Grow Electronic Claims Submissions New initiative part of CIGNA efforts to offer providers enhanced service and reduced expenses. |
Information Today May 24, 2012 |
ProQuest and Elsevier Health Expand Medical Licensing Agreement ProQuest and Elsevier Health are expanding their long-standing relationship for licensing of the Lancet family of medical journals to include 36 additional health science titles from Elsevier in ProQuest's information products. |
Information Today September 24, 2007 Barbara Quint |
Elsevier Launches Vertical Portal With Ad Revenue Support: OncologySTAT The site carries a broad array of content, including current articles culled from more than 100 cancer-related journals, chemotherapy regimens, drug and drug interaction databases, and multimedia content. |
Pharmaceutical Executive April 1, 2007 |
Thoughtleader: Melissa Brown, Center for Value-Based Medicine Here, co-author Melissa Brown discusses her book Evidence-Based to Value-Based Medicine and what's driving the move toward value-based medicine, how it will affect pharma, and why executives should embrace it. |
Information Today February 2002 Dick Kaser |
Ghost in a Bottle The ghost is out of the bottle. That's how Derk Haank describes the current situation in which the authors of scientific papers are taking an increasing interest in who publishes them.... |
Information Today October 3, 2013 |
Elsevier Introduces Reference Modules on ScienceDirect These collections arrange Elsevier's scientific reference articles by subject for searching in individual databases. Now researchers can access Elsevier content as it is uploaded to ScienceDirect. |
Searcher January 2004 Barbara Quint |
Encyclopedia of the Future: "The Library" By the early years of the 21st century, the forces of technology began to press the information professional community to re-examine the basic infrastructure of service to clients and to consider centralizing national and international library resources... |
Information Today May 13, 2010 |
Elsevier Develops Scopus Alerts (Lite) iPhone App Elsevier announced it has built a new iPhone application, Scopus Alerts, which gives researchers mobile access to the Searching and Alerting features of Scopus, the abstract and citation database. |
Information Today April 17, 2006 Barbara Quint |
Microsoft Offers Alternative to Google Scholar: Windows Live Academic Search The new search tool will search proprietary content from scholarly publishers, as well as the open Web. The initial beta test offers content from 10 publishers; two more are on the way. |
Searcher June 2005 Barbara Quint |
Searcher's Voice - Tithing Set aside a portion of each year's library budget to support the information system you want to have in the future. |
Information Today November 1, 2007 Paula J. Hane |
Elsevier Creates Social Spaces for Researchers Elsevier's newest social networking initiatives are designed to support academic library communities and their researchers with advanced research tools. |
Information Today December 5, 2005 |
Weekly News Digest EBSCO Expands International Humanities Coverage... Snapdata Launches Company Portraits Series... Elsevier Introduces New Nursing/Allied Health Database... etc. |
ONLINE Nov/Dec 2003 Rick Noble |
Putting "Information" First in Information Technology IT professionals must continue to keep their focus on the improved access and enhanced use of information rather than the implementation of gadgetry. Hopefully, they can use some library/information science experiences to keep them on track. |
Information Today November 17, 2003 Paula J. Hane |
Cornell and Other University Libraries to Cancel Elsevier Titles Cornell University Library has posted a list of about 200 Elsevier journal titles it is canceling for 2004. Harvard University says it is preparing for similar cuts in its Elsevier subscriptions. It's journal renewal time and the strain of the tough decision making is evident. |
Information Today May 5, 2015 |
Elsevier Supports Researchers With Online Training Campus; Updates Article-Sharing Policies Elsevier launched Elsevier Publishing Campus, a free online platform that offers training resources to academic researchers. |
Nursing Management September 2010 Richard Hader |
The evidence that isn't... Interpreting research When patients seek a healthcare practitioner for services, they believe that the delivered care is based on proven science. But reality is far from patient perception. In fact, most care is still based on anecdote, not evidence. |
Pharmaceutical Executive September 1, 2005 Charlene Prounis |
Marketing to Professionals: Doctor-Patient Communication Improving doctor-patient relations can lead to increased patient compliance. |
Pharmaceutical Executive March 1, 2006 Alana Klein |
Alternative Media: Masters of Their Domain The entire medical community - physicians, hospitals, medical associations, medical students and residents, pharma and medical device companies, and patient groups - are taking advantage of the .md domain. |
Information Today December 2002 Richard Poynder |
A True Market Failure Professor Mark McCabe, an expert in mergers and anticompetitive practices at the Georgia Institute of Technology, talks about problems in the scientific, technical, and medical (STM) publishing industry. |
Information Today January 19, 2009 Paula J. Hane |
Elsevier Launches SciTopics--Now a Fully Developed Research 2.0 Resource The newly expanded SciTopics offers additional functionality and features and a new look and feel for the information and collaboration web resource designed for the scientific community. |
Information Today December 11, 2000 Paula J. Hane |
Elsevier Science Previews New Web-Based Science Search Engine Elsevier Science has announced that it's developing a Web search engine for scientific information that will search both free and proprietary (access-controlled) content... |
InternetNews February 1, 2010 |
Apple's iPad a Boon to Health Care Providers? Steve Jobs didn't mention it at the product's debut, but the iPad's specs and design position it as a good point-of-care device for health care professionals and telemedicine applications. |
Search Engine Watch October 27, 2003 Gary Price |
Amazon Debuts New Book Search Tool 'Search Inside the Book' allows you to search the full-text of more than 33 million pages from over 120,000 printed books. |
Searcher January 2002 Myer Kutz |
The Scholars Rebellion Against Scholarly Publishing Practices: Varmus, Vitek, and Venting In the decades-long arguments over STM (scientific/technical/medical) journal publishing, mainly about subscription price increases and intellectual property and accessibility issues, one thing has changed in the last few years. Scholars have become involved... |
Information Today January 28, 2010 |
Elsevier Launches Digital Learning Platform for Health Science Education: Pageburst The Pageburst platform is designed specifically for nursing and health professions students in North America who require anytime/anywhere access to course material and utilize texts as reference guides throughout their careers. |
Information Today April 19, 2004 |
Weekly News Digest Elsevier Launches Referex Engineering... ARTstor to Launch Digital Image Resource... Wiley Launches Organic Reactions Database... |
Nursing Management September 2008 Richard Hader |
Strategies for profitable growth Experience has demonstrated that a focus on expense reduction alone won't sustain or improve financial stability in health care services. |
Information Today September 9, 2010 Sue Polanka |
Elsevier's SciVerse Hub--Transforming Scientific Research SciVerse development began back in 2008, after Elsevier interviewed more than 3,000 researchers, librarians, and application developers to determine obstacles in scientific research. |
Information Today August 15, 2013 |
Elsevier Acquires Woodhead Publishing Titles Woodhead's book program is designed to enhance Elsevier's publications portfolio, offering quality content to researchers to improve productivity. |
Information Today March 15, 2004 Paula J. Hane |
Elsevier Announces Scopus Service After two years of planning, development, and initial testing by a select group of about 20 university libraries, Elsevier has finally made an official announcement of the first fully functioning version of Scopus, its highly anticipated, full-text linking, abstracting and indexing database. |
Information Today September 3, 2002 Miriam A. Drake |
Elsevier Teams with Dutch National Library for Digitization Project Elsevier Science and Koninklijke Bibliotheek, the National Library of the Netherlands, have announced an agreement that designates KB as the first official digital archive for Elsevier journals. |
Information Today May 19, 2011 |
Elsevier Launches Apps for Library Idea Challenge The international competition encourages librarians and information professionals to conceptualize solutions to the challenges that they and their constituents face in addressing the search and discovery of information. |
Information Today June 25, 2007 Paula J. Hane |
Scirus Partners With FAST and Elsevier Publishing to Create Topic Pages Scirus has announced it is partnering with FAST and the Elsevier Publishing Division to provide an additional free online resource for the scientific community that will create more of a portal community for the Scirus site. |
Information Today February 25, 2008 Marydee Ojala |
Reed Elsevier Chooses ChoicePoint, Rejects Business Publications It plans to add the ChoicePoint products to the Risk & Information Analytics subsidiary of LexisNexis. |
Managed Care February 2002 Bob Carlson |
Why You Should Care About Improving Clinical Practice Research on quality of care began over 30 years ago. Pages and pages document recent evidence of underuse, overuse, and misuse of resources. Yet only now does change appear imminent, thanks to a growing cadre of passionate reformers who preach clinical practice improvement... |
Searcher February 2012 Barbara Quint |
Searcher's Voice - Leverage I was talking with a colleague recently about what fixes we information professionals should be pressing the information industry to provide these days. He kept talking about finding the pressure points, and I kept mentioning leverage. |
Information Today February 2007 Miriam A. Drake |
Scholarly Communication in Turmoil Two leading experts provide some insight into scholarly publishing now and in the future. |
Information Today April 17, 2008 Barbara Quint |
Elsevier Upgrades ScienceDirect Elsevier has announced that it will be launching some improvements to its ScienceDirect service, which provides access to the publisher's STM full-text journals and ebooks. |
Information Today March 5, 2001 Barbara Quint |
Bowker for Sale, All or in Parts Reed Elsevier plans to sell off several of its major reference publishing operations, specifically Bowker... |
Information Today May 27, 2010 Marydee Ojala |
Reed Elsevier (Finally) Divests U.S. Trade Pubs: Facts and Fallout for Information Professionals When Reed Elsevier announced its intention to sell off its trade press unit, Reed Business Information, no one dreamed it would take more than 2 years to finalize or that the process would end up being so messy. |
Information Today February 19, 2007 Tara Breton |
Elsevier Introduces Emscopes Database for Drug Information Emscopes is a more powerful product literature database (PLD) that is a directed at the specific needs of subscribing clients in pharmaceutical and biotech companies. |
Knowledge@Wharton August 27, 2003 |
Code Blue: Combating Rising Healthcare Costs Calls for Strong Medicine It's been said many times over that the U.S. healthcare industry is a sick patient in search of a cure. The metaphor is a grim reflection of how the country is coping with an aging population, rising costs and an inefficient healthcare delivery system. |
D-Lib April 2001 |
To the Editor In response to the opinion piece, The Librarians' Dilemma: Contemplating the Costs of the "Big Deal"... |
Information Today October 29, 2013 |
Elsevier Rolls Out New Legacy Collection Content Elsevier is adding new titles to its Legacy Collection, which will offer more than 9,500 digitized books on the ScienceDirect full-text database by the end of the year. |