Library Data PRODUCTS
Product update Brain atlas app launches
Elsevier has launched NeuroApps: MRI Atlas of Human White Matter. This is the first in a new series of apps created for the iPad and is based on the MRI Atlas of White Matter by Kenichi Oishi, Andreia V. Faria, Peter C M van Zijl and Susumu Mori.
The new, interactive application is said to enable researchers, clinicians and students to find, visualise, and learn to identify the major pathways through the brain
and their proximity to key neuroanatomical structures. The app also allows the user to scroll through the brain in sequence to follow a tract from beginning to end.
www.elsevier.com
EBSCO adds occupational health content
Haz-Map has been added to ExPub from EBSCO Publishing, a resource that provides up-to-date chemical hazard information for environmental health and safety professionals. Haz-Map is designed to provide information about the health effects of exposure to chemicals and biological agents in the workplace.
Haz-Map is said to reference hundreds of resources and link jobs and hazardous tasks with occupational diseases and their symptoms. It contains profiles on thousands of chemicals – focusing on uses, adverse effects, and other information needed for exposure assessment.
www.ebscohost.com
Springer launches medical review journals
Springer has launched six quarterly, clinical-review journals, focusing on dermatology, geriatrics/ gerontology, nutrition, obesity, obstetrics/gynaecology and respiratory care. Editorial responsibilities will be carried out at the Springer Philadelphia office. The review journals are
www.researchinformation.info
intended to help physicians keep up to date with the latest medical information. Each of the 28 comprehensive review articles published per volume promises to feature annotated reference lists that highlight new developments and recently published papers of major importance.
www.springer.com
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Products in Brief
EMBO Molecular Medicine moves to open-access publishing model Wiley-Blackwell and EMBO have announced that EMBO Molecular Medicine has joined the Wiley Open Access publishing programme. Converting to open access allows all readers to benefit from the high-level research advances reported in the journal, aiding the dissemination of biomedical research and accelerating discovery, say the partners.
www.wileyblackwell.com www.embo.org
InTech resources covered in Inspec and Scopus The Inspec database now includes 620 books from open-access publisher InTech. InTech has also announced the inclusion of the International Journal of Engineering Business Management in the Scopus database.
www.intechweb.org
Thieme E-Book Library continues growth Thieme’s E-Book Library has added titles in the areas of anatomy, complementary medicine, dermatology, neurology, and toxicology. The publisher
says that the resource gives students, researchers, and clinicians access to an exciting online collection of full-colour textbooks from Thieme’s Color Atlases and Flexibook series.
www.thieme.com
Mathematics book series launches
Springer and the Italian Society of Applied and Industrial Mathematics (SIMAI) will partner to publish a new book series: SIMAI Springer Series. The series will include research-level monographs, advanced textbooks and collected works in English, focusing on the applications of mathematics to social and industrial problems, say the partners.
www.springer.com
Historical databases discoverable in EBSCO Discovery Service American County Histories to 1900: New England and The Civil War: Parts V and IV are being included in EBSCO Discovery Service (EDS). The agreement allows metadata from these two Accessible Archives resources to be added to the Base Index of EDS.
www.ebscohost.com
Maney announces seven new journals
Maney Publishing is adding seven new journals to its portfolio in 2012. New partnerships for the publisher this year include the European Association of Archaeologists, the European Medical Writers Association, The International Institute for Conservation of
Historic and Artistic Works, and The Chinese Historians in the United States.
The new titles will include four in health sciences; two in archaeology, heritage and conservation titles; and one in Chinese studies.
www.maney.co.uk/journals
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