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New Homepage Search

JEFFLINE’s current interface has been active for just over a year. While it’s [...]

 RoMEO, a web tool used by Jefferson authors to determine publishers’ copyright policies, has been upgraded to include:  

A new field for the self-archiving of the Publisher’s Version/ PDF
Expanded journal coverage
New search options for journal abbreviations and electronic ISSNs
New tabular browse view for publishers
Selective display of publishers’ compliance with funding agencys’ mandates

Previous versions of RoMEO have concentrated on highlighting information [...]

Two scientific publishers have announced special tributes to Charles Darwin, on this 150th anniversary of the publication of his seminal work, On the Origin of Species, and the 200th year of Darwin’s birth.  The American Institute of Biological Sciences (AIBS) is offering open access to two peer-reviewed articles in BioScience, and Springer is providing limited free [...]

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services invites you to comment on the DRAFT set of objectives for Healthy People 2020.
For three decades, Healthy People has provided a set of national 10-year health promotion and disease prevention objectives aimed at improving the health of all Americans.
Visit http://www.healthypeople.gov/HP2020/Comments/  to

View proposed draft objectives for Healthy People [...]

Scott Memorial Library is preparing to withdraw almost 50 years of the print version of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), and over 100 years of the Annals of Surgery:
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
volume 43, 1957  – volume 103, 2006
Annals of Surgery
volume 3, 1886 – volume 246, 2007
The Library provides access to [...]

From the BioMed Central blog:

BioMed Central has recently launched the Stem Cell Gateway, providing easy access to all the latest stem cell related research published across BioMed Central’s journals.  The Gateway complements the new journal  Stem Cell Research & Therapy – the major forum for translational research into stem cell therapies – which is now accepting [...]

The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), publisher of  Science, has launched a pair of online social networking sites to accompany the journal:

CTSciNet is a community for people pursuing careers in clinical and translational research.
MySciNet supports aspiring scientists from diverse backgrounds.

From the news release:
Both sites are expected to help scientists and students network, find [...]

Arthritis Research and Therapy (AR&T) is celebrating 10 years of publishing with a new collection of reviews.  The collection of 38 articles provides an in-depth overview of the current status of basic and clinical research in rheumatology, and focuses particularly on developments in the past decade, during which there has been an explosion of new [...]

Open access publisher Public Library of Science (PLoS) has introduced 3D molecular animation technology in its flagship journal, PLoS ONE.   Starting with a kernel of 5 articles in structural biology, this represents a new collection within PLoS ONE:   “Structural Biology and Human Health: Medically Relevant Proteins from the SGC” (Structural Genomics Consortium).
The SGC is an international public-private partnership [...]

Registration is now open for the Medical Film Symposium, a four day event that will take place in Philadelphia, PA from January 20th-23rd, 2010.
The symposium will examine the history, aesthetics, ethics and preservation of medical film production and exhibition, with one full day of presentations at the Mutter Museum and four [...]

Well-known publisher Springer has announced the launch of a FREE, multidimensional professional networking site, at TheNeuroNetwork.com.

TheNeuroNetwork is an online community and networking site for all who study neural activities in the brain (invertebrate to human), including brain-like systems and networks.  More than 1,300 individual members and 40 interest groups representing over 70 countries have created [...]

Open access publisher Public Library of Science (PLoS) now includes article-level online usage data on all 7 of  its scientific and medical journal articles (about 14,000 articles).
Look for the new data on the “Metrics” tab of every article.
With the latest expansion of the program initiated in March 2009, PLoS seeks to transparently provide a set [...]

Sharing knowledge is essential for the progress of science, but researchers do not always release data and research materials, even after publication of work.  Earlier this year, two research communities held meetings with a broad range of stakeholders to discuss this issue, and they reported their proposals to promote data sharing in biology in two [...]

The National Library of Medicine has been working on a redesign of PubMed to improve its usability.  The new site will be released shortly, but you can preview it NOW.
Want to know what went into the design planning, or some of the details about how it works?
Read an article:  PubMed® Redesign.
Attend a live webcast [...]

Noted information scholar Peter Jasco, PhD, has published a critique of Google Scholar’s handling of article metadata. While basic topical searching produces good results, author-based searching or citation searching is problematic:
Google’s algorithms create phantom authors for millions of papers. They derive false names from options listed on the search menu, such as P Login (for Please [...]