Reminder: Wiley-Blackwell interruption

We would like to remind you that all content of Blackwell Synergy and Wiley InterScience will not be available next weekend. From the Blackwell/Wiley Newsletter:
As of Monday, June 30th 2008, all Blackwell journal content—including all full-text HTML and PDF versions of articles from current issues, backfiles, and issues published online before print—will be incorporated into Wiley [...]

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Impact factors 2007 available

The impact factors and other journal data for 2007 are made available by Thomson Reuters. You will find these figure in the Journal Citation Reports. There are about 251 journals extra that are been listed (now: 6,417 titles).
It could be interesting to compare the impact factors and rankings with SCImago journal indicators (data from Scopus). We [...]

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Short interruption Wiley InterScience

There will be a short interruption of the Wiley InterScience platform on Thursday, May 29th. Duration: probably one hour (from 9 am).
As of July 1, 2008, all Blackwell Synergy journal content will be incorporated into Wiley InterScience. Over the weekend of June 28th and 29th, 2008, there will be a period when both Blackwell Synergy and [...]

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An alternative for impact factors

Every year Thomson Scientific - last week renamed as Thomson Reuters - publishes the new impact factors in june/july in the Journal Citation Reports (JCR). The impact factor is almost certain the best known and most used index for measuring the impact of scientific journals. There are more than 6100 journals wich are followed by Thomson in the Science [...]

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Backfiles American Society for Microbiology

Since the end of March the library provides access to the archives of the journals of the American Society for Microbiology (ASM).
Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy, from 1(1972) -
Applied and environmental microbiology, from 31(1976) -
Applied microbiology, from #1(1953) till 30(1975)
Clinical and vaccine immunology, from 13(2006) -
Clinical and diagnostic laboratory immunology, from #1(1994) till 12(2005)
Clinical microbiology reviews, from [...]

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Ovid Gateway changes in OvidSP soon

While visiting the Ovid platform for accessing journal articles you may already have encountered the links above each page with the text “Try OvidSP!”:

As from Monday February 4 there will be a transition from the current Ovid gateway to the new platform OvidSP. You will certainly notice the new look and feel of their website [...]

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News about K.U.Leuven e-resources

Our colleagues from the University Library have announced some changes in the collection of e-resources at our University. Below you will find a selection of the most important changes concerning the biomedical sciences:
* ISI Web of Knowledge

ISI Proceedings now is a part of the package databases for which the K.U.Leuven has a licence; as a [...]

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Trial of Bentham Science Publishers

Until the 15th of December 2007 the library offers access to 83 journals of Bentham Science Publishers.
“Bentham Science Publishers is an international STM publisher answering the information needs of the pharmaceutical and biomedical research journal. Publisher of many high impact factor journals and books, leading titles include Current Molecular Medicine (Impact Factor 4.94 ) and [...]

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American Physiological Society legacy content

From today on the library will offer access to the archives of several journals of the American Physiological Society. The following titles are available starting from volume 1:
Advances in physiology education
American journal of physiology
Journal of neurophysiology
Journal of applied physiology
News in physiological reviews continued as Physiology
Physiological reviews
Access is limited to the users of the K.U.Leuven Network. [...]

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Nature Protocols on trial

The library has set up a trial for the journal Nature protocols published by the Nature Publishing Group. Access is free until October 31st. At this moment this title is the only one from the Nature journals without electronic access at K.U.Leuven.
“Nature Protocols aims to publish the protocols being used to answer outstanding biological [...]

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