Philosophy, Ethics, and Humanities in Medicine has recently been accepted for inclusion in MEDLINE, reflecting its growing importance and reputation in its field. Philosophy, Ethics, and Humanities in Medicine was launched in 2006, and has since published a variety of articles covering all aspects of the philosophy of medicine, and the ethical aspects of clinical… Read more »
With the upcoming launch of BMC Research Notes (which will have a strong data focus) BioMed Central’s development team has been hard at work improving the handling of additional material files. One request we have had from authors is to make it possible to upload collections of files that can be conveniently navigated in the… Read more »
Researchers, librarians and research administrators working in the UK may be interested in the following update from UK PubMed Central: 1. UKPMC Workshop We are entering the next stage of developing UKPMC into an innovative and useful resource for UK researchers. We want to ensure that your needs and ideas are heard and incorporated at… Read more »
For those who may not yet have seen the email, the Repositories Support Project is holding an event at the University of Wolverhampton, focused on the ever thorny issue of metadata within institutional repositories. Wolverhampton’s repository, WIRE, is an Open Repository service, so this will be an excellent opportunity to ask the Wolverhampton team all… Read more »
Halfway through January, a good time to cast a more general eye over what we’re doing at the moment and perhaps shed some light on what it is we get up to in the daylight hours. Each month we create a task list, broken down into roughly 4 areas: new repositories, major projects, small projects,… Read more »
The Journal of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance (JCMR) has published the first articles on BioMed Central’s open access publishing platform after its move from Taylor & Francis. JCMR, now in its tenth year, is the official journal of the Society of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance. JCMR readers now have free, instant online access to all published articles,… Read more »
As of only a few minutes ago, it is now possible to sort your search results on Open Repository in the same manner as you can with the browse options. That is to say, by Relevance, Title, by Submission Date and by Issue Date. Results can be ordered… Read more »
The nice people at FoxLand recently built us a rather lovely little Flash introduction to OR.
It has been drawn to our attention that there have been problems with the RSS feeds on OR. Specifically that they’re working backwards. Or in other words, the earliest submitted items are appearing first. But no more, it’s been fixed. A simple change has been made to the configuration file to draw the correct ordering…. Read more »
Some time ago, when we asked our customers what they wanted to know more of about the Open Repository service, one of the responses was to get more information on new customers and pilots. So, firstly, welcome to the Environmental Cancer Risk, Nutrition and Individual Susceptibility Network, based in Poland, Leeds Metropolitan University, the Health… Read more »