Wellcome Library launches historic Arabic medical manuscripts online

The Wellcome Library has launched Wellcome Arabic Manuscripts Online, a digital manuscript library created in partnership with the Bibliotheca Alexandrina and King's College London Department of Digital Humanities.

The resource is now available online: http://wamcp.bibalex.org/

More details can be found in the Wellcome Trust press release: http://www.wellcome.ac.uk/News/Media-office/Press-releases/2011/WTVM052282.htm

2010 Journal Citation Reports now available

The latest Journal Citation Reports (JCR) for 2010 are now available. They provide a combination of impact and influence metrics, and millions of cited and citing journal data points that comprise the complete journal citation network of Web of Science. The 2010 JCR includes:


• 10,000 + of the world's most highly cited peer reviewed journals
• Nearly 2,500 publishers and 84 countries represented
• Over 1,300 regional journals
• 1,075 journals receiving their first Journal Impact Factor

RCSI users access JCR via the library's databases page.

Medscape Mobile apps

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Patient care guidelines app

Scottish Intercollegiate Guidelines Network SIGN

Hundreds of guidelines on patient care are available at SIGN

Also available now as iPhone, iPad and Android app

http://www.sign.ac.uk/guidelines/apps/index.html

Springer offers free access to research articles on E. coli bacteria

Springer Science+Business Media is offering all journal articles and book chapters which deal with the E. coli bacteria free of charge on its online information platform http://www.springerlink.com. The articles can be found by using the search terms “Enterohaemorrhagic and Escherichia and coli” or by using the link http://www.springer.com/ehec. A total of over 400 scientific articles are available to print out or download from now until 1 September 2011.

Where to publish?

SCImago

Many authors use Journal Citation Reports from Web of Science to find journals in a field and to get their impact factor. You can also use SCImago to find journal rankings and comparisions in all major reseaech areas.

Where does the Journal of Liposome Resarch stand in the field of pharmacology journals?
How does Ireland compare with the European average for journal papers published in pharmacology?
How many papers were published in neuroscience in the past five years and how many were never cited?
Has the level of international collaboration among Irish researchers increased?

All this and more at SCImago - published by Elsevier

Uniquely you - ResearcherID

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