Tuesday, June 29, 2004

Health Services Research

Online access to Health Services Research is being denied. Publisher has been contacted.
http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/links/toc/hesr/

The Wellcome Trust Medical Journals Backfiles Digitization Project


Medical Journals Backfiles Digitization Project
Overview

The Wellcome Trust, in partnership with the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC), and the National Library of Medicine (NLM) are working together on a project to digitize the complete backfiles of a number of important and historically significant medical journals. The digitized content will be made freely available on the Internet – via PubMed Central – and augment the content already available there. The Wellcome Library exists as a resource to provide access to the documentary record of medicine. This project is one way of translating that vision into the digital age.
The project will commence in Spring 2004 and we anticipate that all the journals we plan to digitize will be available online by Spring 2006. However, as journals are digitized they will be made available, so we predict that the first few titles digitized under this project will be online early in 2005.
To learn more about this project see the accompanying FAQ page, the press release and list of participating journals to include.....
Annals of Surgery
Biochemical Journal
Journal of Physiology
Medical History

Robert Kiley
Head of Systems Strategy – Wellcome Library
June 2004

Wednesday, June 23, 2004

International Journal of Neuropsychopharmacology

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Wednesday, June 16, 2004

International Journal of Neuropsychopharmacology

We have noted for the article referenced below, that the PDF file opens/prints/saves to blank pages. This occurs in IE6 as well as Netscape7 using Adobe Reader 5/6. A note has been sent to the publisher to request a repair to the PDF file.
http://journals.cambridge.org/jid_PNP


Size : 136 Kb
PDF Published: 21 May 2004

The International Journal of Neuropsychopharmacology (2004), :1-6 Cambridge University Press
Copyright © 2004 Collegium Internationale Neuropsychopharmacologicum
DOI 10.1017/S1461145704004432

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Focus

Focus on CaMKII: a molecular switch in the pathophysiology and treatment of mood and anxiety disorders

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Jing Du a1, Steven T. Szabo a1, Neil A. Gray a1 and Husseini K. Manji a1c1

a1 Laboratory of Molecular Pathophysiology, National Institute of Mental Health, Bethesda, MD, USA

Mood and anxiety disorders are common, severe, chronic, and often life-threatening illnesses (Kaufman and Charney, 2000; Manji et al., 2001). There is a growing appreciation that, far from being diseases with purely psychological manifestations, severe mood and anxiety disorders are systemic diseases with deleterious effects on multiple organ systems. Indeed, a World Health Organization study has reported that depression is the leading global cause of years of life lived with a disability and the fourth leading cause of disability-adjusted life-years. Stressful life events have a substantial causal association with these disorders, and there is now compelling evidence that even early life stress constitutes a major risk factor for the subsequent development of depression (Charney and Manji, In Press). The emerging evidence suggests that the combination of genetics, early life stress, and ongoing stress may ultimately determine individual responsiveness to stress and the vulnerability to psychiatric disorders, such as mood and anxiety disorders.


(Received January 18 2004)
(Reviewed February 15 2004)
(Revised February 22 2004)
(Accepted February 24 2004)


Correspondence:
c1 Dr H. K. Manji, Laboratory of Molecular Pathophysiology Mood and Anxiety Disorders Program, National Institute of Mental Health, 9000 Rockville Pike, Building 10, Unit 3 West, Room 3s250, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA. Tel.: (301) 451 8441 Fax: (301) 480 0123 E-mail: manjih@intra.nimh.nih.gov



Tuesday, June 15, 2004

CROSSREF and ATYPON announce forward linking service

LYNNFIELD, MA – June 8, 2004. CrossRef, the cross-publisher reference linking service, and technology partner Atypon announced today the launch of CrossRef’s new Forward Linking service.

In addition to using CrossRef to create outbound links from their references, CrossRef member publishers can now retrieve “cited-by” links -- links to other articles that cite their content. This new service is being offered as an optional tool to allow CrossRef members to display cited-by links in the primary content that they publish.

According to Ed Pentz, CrossRef’s Executive Director, "Forward Linking is a natural extension of the CrossRef linking network and will provide a better online reading environment for researchers and scholars." Several publishers, including John Wiley & Sons, the American Physical Society, Blackwell Publishing, Annual Reviews, Institute of Physics Publishing, and the American Geophysical Union, have stated that they will participate and will complete their implementations of the new service later this year.

As part of the same functionality powered by Atypon, CrossRef is also offering a new Forward-Match feature that eliminates the need for users to query CrossRef repeatedly for citations that do not initially return a match. When a query is marked to enable alerts, the CrossRef system automatically sends an email containing the matched results once the relevant content gets registered in CrossRef.

Georgios Papadopoulos, President of Atypon, states: "Forward Matching offers online publishers truly dynamic linking. Publishing systems can now retrieve the latest linking information directly from CrossRef as soon as the information is available.”

Forward Linking and Forward Matching represent a major upgrade to CrossRef’s scientific and scholarly linking network. With these developments, CrossRef publishers now have access to full citation chains and truly dynamic citation linking, better enabling researchers to cross system boundaries as they navigate the research literature online.

Atypon is a leading software and services provider for the STM/scholarly information community, providing business-to-business solutions designed to help publishing companies leverage the Internet. Find out more at www.atypon.com.

CrossRef, which was established by scholarly publishers as an independent, non-profit entity in 2000, uses open standards. It is an official registration agency of the International DOI Foundation (IDF), and is the first full-scale implementation of the DOI system. More information is available at www.crossref.org.

CrossRef is an independent membership association, founded and directed by publishers. Its mission is to improve access to published scholarship through collaborative technologies. CrossRef operates a cross-publisher citation linking system, and is an official DOI (Digital Object Identifier) registration agency. More information is available at http://www.crossref.org.

Monday, June 14, 2004

Acrobat Reader update 6.0.2

Everyone:

Please upgrade to Adobe Reader 6.0.2 if you are using 6.0.1 -- see new update issued 6/7/2004

Thanks, Arta


Product: Adobe Reader
Version: 6.0.2
Platform: Windows
Released on: 6/7/2004


Filename: Acro-Reader_6.0.2_Update.exe
Filesize: 4.2MB
Download <http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/thankyou.jsp?ftpID=2589&fileID=2433>
Est. download time
56K: 11 mins, 24 secs
DSL: 1 mins, 32 secs
T1: 1 min




Downloads for Adobe Reader Windows <http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/product.jsp?product=10&platform=Windows>

Adobe Reader 6.0.2 update

The Adobe® Reader® 6.0.2 update addresses multiple known issues in Adobe Reader 6.0, including support for forms that use Adobe's XML forms architecture, creation of barcode-enabled forms, and a security update. For more information, see the technical document <http://www.adobe.com/support/techdocs/34222.htm>describing the 6.0.2 update in the Support Knowledgebase.

System requirements
This update requires that Adobe Reader 6.0.1 is already installed on your system. You can download Adobe Reader 6.0.1 <http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2.html> and then use the Updates menu entry within Adobe Reader 6.0.1 to update your system, or you can alternatively apply the Adobe Reader 6.0.2 update posted here.

Installation instructions
After downloading a ".exe" file in Windows, double-click on the ".exe" file to access the file's contents.

Need help with downloading? See our Downloading Help documents <http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/help.html>.

Adobe recommends that you use the Updates menu entry within Adobe Reader to retrieve product updates.

Manual installation instructions:
After downloading the Acro-Reader_6.0.2_Update.exe file, double-click it to begin the update process.



Wednesday, June 09, 2004

American Journal of Clinical Pathology

Online access to 2004 issues of American Journal of Clinical Pathology has been restored.
http://ajcp.metapress.com/openurl.asp?genre=journal&issn=0002-9173

Monday, June 07, 2004

MDC Mobile (MDConsult PDA version)

Monday, June 7, 2004
MDC Mobile upgrading to Pocket Consult - Free Handheld Drug Database included

At the end of June, MDC Mobile will be upgraded and will be delivered via Elsevier's new handheld platform, Pocket Consult. Pocket Consult is your user's gateway to accessing and managing all Elsevier handheld products and services in one place. It will bring them all the features they currently enjoy from MDC Mobile, plus many more.

MDC Mobile on Pocket Consult offers you these new features:

Access to Mosby's Drug Consult with over 900 drug monographs including brand-name indexing and the all-new Mosby's Drug IX, a drug interaction tool
20 Free Medical Calculators including BMI, Glasgow Coma Scale, Sodium Deficit, Metric Unit Conversion and more.
Integrated mobile library for accessing Elsevier electronic books you may have purchased for your PDA.
Plus, you continue to receive all of your current MDC Mobile features:
Ability to store and record searches of MD Consult from your PDA and initiate them upon Hot Sync
Access to abstracts and Tables of Contents from over 400 Journals on PubMed
Health news and Drug Updates from MD Consult

The transition to Pocket Consult will be easy as your users simply link to Pocket Consult by clicking the "My PDA" button located in the upper right of the MD Consult homepage screen. The first time they access Pocket Consult they will be asked to create a new Pocket Consult account, with all their profile information automatically being pre-populated for them. They will then manage all of their MDC Mobile content and features at Pocket Consult. Note, any existing journal selections and saved searches will be transferred to Pocket Consult as well.


Friday, June 04, 2004

Laboratory Investigation

Online access to Laboratory Investigation has been restored.
http://www.nature.com/labinvest/archive/

Directory of Open Access Journals

June 3rd 2004

For immediate release:

LUND UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES LAUNCHES PHASE 2 Of THE DIRECTORY OF OPEN ACCESS
JOURNALS - NOW WITH ARTICLE LEVEL SEARCH

Lund, Sweden - Lund University Libraries today launches the phase 2 of the
Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ, http://www.doaj.org). The new
version of DOAJ now includes records at article level and a search
functionality allowing users to search articles in potentially all Open
Access Journals.

The directory now contains information about more than 1100 open access
journals, i.e. quality controlled scientific and scholarly electronic
journals that are freely available on the web. As of today 270 of the 1100
journals are searchable on article level and both numbers are growing.
Researchers can now search almost 46.000 articles through the Directory of
Open Access Journals and be sure to get access to the articles.

"As a dynamic inventory of open-access journals, DOAJ has already
succeeded in demonstrating the broad and growing adoption of open access
and has enabled libraries to systematically present open-access journals
to their users," said Rick Johnson, director of SPARC. "Now, by adding
article-level records, DOAJ is taking an important next step that will
further expand use of articles published in open-access journals. SPARC is
proud to support this ground-breaking work."

"The DOAJ provides a platform for open access journals to gain greater
visibility and thereby increase their readership" said Melissa Hagemann,
Program Manager, Open Society Institute. Libraries throughout the world
have thus far been able to add 1,100 peer-reviewed titles to their
collections, and no where is this more important than to libraries in the
developing world, where access to journals is limited due to the high cost
of most titles. With today's launch of phase 2 of the Directory,
researchers will now be able to search, and have direct access to, the
thousands of articles included within the DOAJ. OSI is pleased to partner
w/Lund University Libraries and SPARC on this innovative project."

"With this new article level search functionality we have created an
incentive for owners of Open Access journals to submit article level data
to the DOAJ in order to further increase the visibility, reputation and
impact of their journals", said Lotte Jorgensen, Project Coordinator for
the DOAJ.

The goal of the Directory of Open Access Journals is to increase the
visibility and accessibility of open access scholarly journals, thereby
promoting their increased usage and impact. The directory aims to
comprehensively cover all open access scholarly journals that use an
appropriate quality control system.

The DOAJ is funded by the Information Program of the Open Society
Institute (http://www.osi.hu/infoprogram/) and Lund University Libraries,
and supported by SPARC (The Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources
Coalition, (http://www.arl.org/sparc) and BIBSAM (the Royal Library of
Sweden).

Information about how to obtain DOAJ records for use in a library
catalogue or other service you will find at:
http://www.doaj.org/articles/questions#metadata.

The database records are freely available for reuse in other services
and can be harvested by using the OAI-PMH
(http://www.openarchives.org/), thus further increasing the visibility
of the journals. The article level records will be available for
harvesting within 2 months.

Further information: contact Project Coordinator Lotte Jorgensen -
lotte.jorgensen@lub.lu.se or Director of Libraries Lars Björnshauge -
lars.bjornshauge@lub.lu.se

Wednesday, June 02, 2004

Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine

Online access to the Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine has been activated at the Highwire Press electronic journal platform. Access is by IP address for all UCL and UCHC users. There is no restriction on numbers of simultaneous users.
Full text access is from v.93 (2000)- .
http://www.jrsm.org/