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PubMed Reaches Major Milestone: Adds 15 Millionth Citation

October 4th, 2004 by UI Libraries

PubMed, NLM’s online retrieval service for citations for biomedical articles back to the 1950s, just reasserted its claim to the title "the world’s largest biomedical database" by climbing to 15 million references. This milestone occurred August 11, 2004. The landmark citation was:

Zheng Y, Zhou ZM, Yin LL, Li JM, Sha JH.
Molecular cloning and characterization of a novel splicing variant of PIASx.
Acta Pharmacol Sin. 2004 Aug;25(8):1058-64.
PMID: 15301740 [PubMed - in process]

PubMed citations are from MEDLINE and additional life science journals. Free online access to this resource was announced in 1997, when the database stood at approximately 9 million citations. More than 2.2 million searches of PubMed are conducted each day. http://www.nlm.nih.gov/news/pubmed_15_mill.html

Four New Journals from BioMed Central

October 4th, 2004 by UI Libraries

Nutrition & Metabolism
http://www.nutritionandmetabolism.com/
Fulltext v1+ (2004+)
ISSN: 1743-7075

Description: Nutrition & Metabolism is an open access, peer-reviewed, online journal focused on the integration of nutrition, exercise physiology, clinical investigations, and molecular and cellular biochemistry of metabolism. The areas of interest of Nutrition & Metabolism encompass studies in obesity, diabetes, lipidemias, metabolic syndrome and exercise physiology that have an underlying basis in metabolism. Likewise, we seek submission of manuscripts on the biochemistry of metabolism, cell signaling, molecular and cellular biology of nutrients, nutrient gene interactions and other areas that have implications for human nutrition and medicine. Current, but not exclusive, interests are metabolic effects of diet composition, interactions of macronutrients, effect of nutrients on gene expression, metabolic control and compartment models, nutritional effect of hormones, and genomic analysis of dietary phenomena.

Theoretical Biology & Medical Modelling
http://www.tbiomed.com/
Fulltext v1+ (June 2004+)
ISSN: 1742-4682

Description: Theoretical Biology and Medical Modelling (TBiomed) is an Open Access, peer-reviewed, online journal adopting the broadest definition of "biology", and the conceptual modelling required to understand its complexity. Theoretical biology inevitably involves modelling, our way of conceptualizing something tangible enough not to rely entirely on the spoken word. Medical modelling is included in the journal scope because a lot of fundamental biology leads to medical or veterinary applications. Cancer is a clear example. In this age of computing and bioinformatics, mathematicians, biophysicists, philosophers, historians of science, surgeons and cell physiologists come together to lend their talents to our emerging concepts. This is the field in which TBiomed will operate.

Virology Journal
http://www.virologyj.com/
Fulltext v1+ (2004+)
ISSN: 1743-422X

Description: Virology Journal is an Open Access, peer-reviewed, online journal that presents high-quality original research concerning viruses, and establishes a strategic alternative to the traditional virology communication process. Virology Journal will feature articles on human, animal, plant, insect, bacterial, and fungal viruses. The journal will also publish articles on molecular aspects of the control and prevention of viral infections with vaccines and antiviral agents and on the use of viruses as gene therapy vectors. The approaches and techniques used are expected to encompass many disciplines, including molecular genetics, molecular biology, biochemistry, biophysics, structural biology, cell biology, immunology, morphology, genetics and pathogenesis.

CytoJournal
http://www.cytojournal.com/home
Fulltext v1+ (Sept 2004+)
ISSN: 1742-6413

Description: CytoJournal publishes papers on all aspects of diagnostic cytopathology including complimentary applications such as molecular pathology. Cytopathology is a well-established diagnostic sub-specialty of pathology; it attempts to identify diagnostic and prognostic information from dispersed cells obtained by non-invasive or minimally invasive techniques.

NIH Proposal: Government Funded Research to be Made Open Access after Six Months of Publication

October 4th, 2004 by UI Libraries

The National Institutes of Health has proposed a major change to its funding policy — it would mandate that all scientists who receive grants from the agency make the results of their research available to the public for free six months after publication. The policy change comes in response to a report by the House Appropriations Committee expressing concern that U.S. taxpayers are not reaping the benefits of research that they have paid for. The report urges NIH to devise a system whereby research results would be "freely and continuously available no later than six months after publication."

The proposal drew swift criticism from the scientific publishing industry, which argued that if people stop subscribing to their publications because they can read about these research results for free, the journals will be unable to perform the costly process of selecting, peer-reviewing and editing the results into the reliable products now available. However, NIH Director Elias A. Zerhouni says he’s concluded that publishers’ estimates of how much such a system would harm them or cost the government were "way out of line" with reality. Although about 60,000 articles are published each year reporting on NIH-funded research, they constitute only a third of all biomedical journal articles. "Do you really think people are not going to subscribe to a journal because they can read 30% of the articles in it for free?" asks Richard Roberts, a research director at New England Biolabs, who strongly supports the shift to open access. ( Washington Post 6 Sep 2004) <http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A64389-2004Sep5.html>

Read the full proposal at: http://grants1.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice-files/NOT-OD-04-064.html


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