Open Access Journals – Life Sciences

With open access gaining momentum worldwide, it is to ensure that the published research has more accessibility and visibility to free the shackles of market monopolies of publishing markets as well as to encourage open scholarship for taxpayer access. As a developing country India has more than 70 institutional repositories in academic institutions, and many funders proposals – National Knowledge Commission, CSIR etc. are underway. There are variety of open access information resources available in all subjects. Here is a few list of open access publications in life sciences:

MedIndia List

DOAJ

IAS

Filed under: Journals, Reference , India, life sciences, Open access journals

Biomedical Resources

Indian Biomedical Resources

Indian biomedical literature is growing perennially, so do the educational institutions and affiliate organizations. Herewith, i am directing you to some few Indian databases of interest. Kindly check the individual resources and get further assistance from librarian\information managers. This is just an indicative list only, for assistance check with your institutional library managers.

Indmed: A Bibliographic database of Indian biomedical journals. Abstracts are available.

medIND: Fulltext of 38 Journals Indexed in IndMED.

Few Institutional Resources:

CMC Vellore

AIIMS, New Delhi

NTR MEDNET Consortium

National Medical Library

Filed under: Reference , Biomedical Resources, India

McKinsey Quarterly is Free Now!

Dear all,

Please be informed that McKinsey Quarterly is phasing out is premium membership in order to ensure more access to its diverse content – articles, podcasts, and videos etc.

A great source of information on management of diverse industries, for the information-drought Indian seekers, this comes in handy for easy access. A communiqué from McKinsey says:

Important information about McKinsey Quarterly Premium Membership

In an effort to make McKinsey Quarterly content more easily accessible, in November of 2010 we will begin phasing out Premium Membership.

At that time, you will no longer need to pay to access mckinseyquarterly.com content. Instead, all content—including articles, videos, podcasts, and multimedia—will be available upon registration. In future months, we will be enriching the site even more, adding new types of content and making content more accessible. http://www.mckinseyquarterly.com/mail/pr/free1.htm.

Why the waiting, go and make best use of McKinsey Quarterly, to revel and strategize. McKinsey has the following sections on health care & pharma:

1. Health Care: http://www.mckinseyquarterly.com/Health_Care
2. Pharmaceuticals: http://www.mckinseyquarterly.com/Health_Care/Pharmaceuticals
3. Strategy & Analysis: http://www.mckinseyquarterly.com/Health_Care/Strategy_Analysis.

Remember, registration is required to access content: http://www.mckinseyquarterly.com/.

Filed under: Reference , McKinsey Quarterly, Online Access

Know Your IPR

Intellectual Property Rights

IPR is increasingly become a widely discussed topic in India, as the innovation and productivity grow and encouraged among the innovative workforce. Every citizen in the country has rights to protect his invention, from forgery, unlawful reproduction and plagiarism.

IPR as an collective term encompasses the following components:

Patents
Copyrights
Trademarks
Registered ( industrial) design
Protection of IC layout design,
Geographical indications, e.g Tirupati Laddu, Kanchepuram Silk
Protection of undisclosed information

Companies and R&D houses who are hugely inventing with drugs, and novelties; artistic works – music, paintings, books, articles, industry secrets etc are protected and governed under copyright laws. Growing along is the IPR business in India. This latest BusinessWorld article supports the growing IPR business. Check the article here The Charge of the IPR Brigade. The legal hotshots who are dominating the booming intellectual property rights arena

The whole process starts with filing an application at patent office to becoming the copyrights holder. Government and companies has set up facilitation centers in different places to facilitate technology transfer, technology licensing and for commercial values.

For further reading:

1. http://www.pfc.org.in/workshop/workshop.pdf
2. http://newdelhi.usembassy.gov/ipr.html
3. http://www.patentoffice.nic.in/
4. http://www.iprlawindia.org/
5. http://www.wipo.int/portal/index.html.en

Filed under: Reference , India, Intellectual property rights, IPR

National Librarians’ Day

Dear Friends,

August 12th is being celebrated as National Librarians’ Day in India, in remembrance of national professor of library science, Padmashree Dr S R Ranganathan (1892-1972), who had spearheaded library development in India.

I request you friends out there, if you are associated with any library in your region; be it public library or academic library, pay a visit to the library and appreciate the library professionals and their service to the emerging society in national development. If we support and recognize the public service organizations like libraries, we have more opportunities to affirm that libraries are change agents in educating the citizens in public life. In India, lot is to be accomplished, your appreciation and motivation of library services will go a long way to make awareness about the importance of information and library services to reach the unreached.

In 2020, India is expected to have 574 million youngsters. There is a huge task ahead for librarians and information services industry to cultivate the reading habit among them. Illiteracy, poverty and lack of access to education in still more prevalent among the semi-urban and rural areas in India. While the successive governments and department of culture have neglected the library development, librarians and struggling their way to create the awareness of reading habit among the general public with limited resources. It is strongly believed that the coming days will change the face of libraries as ICT and social media are a big boost to learning and education.

This small token of yours will help all the librarians and information professionals to keep up good morale of their service, realize their mission and strive hard to reach out more masses in our country in the process of shaping our tomorrow’s leaders through learning and in national development.

Remember librarians work for you throughout the year, won’t you spare sometime to appreciate them on this occasion? Will you step out to acknowledge your librarians?

Read to lead.

Thank you

Filed under: Reference , 12th August, India, Librarians' Day, SR Ranganathan

Translation, Document Delivery Services

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Filed under: Reference , Document Delivery, Translation Services

Medicinal Chemistry – Roundup

With the scientific and interdisciplinary pursuits in chemical sciences throwing up new breakthroughs we believe that we will contain all the deadly diseases in the near future. It can defined that medicinal chemistry is an intersection of ” chemistry and pharmacology in design and delivery of drugs.” Today’s post discuss briefly and annotate about the medicinal chemistry information resources. This post does not guarantee any full text access, and copyrights are reserved with the concerned publisher\owner.

A. Journals – Medicinal Chemistry
1. The Open Medicinal Chemistry Journal
2. Open Access Reviewed Medical Journals
3. Future Medicinal Chemistry
4. Medicinal Chemistry Communications
5. ChemMedChem
6. Current Medicinal Chemistry

Filed under: Journals, Reference , Medicinal Chemistry

ToxRefDB

Toxicity Reference Database, is a broad reference database, functioning under the aegis of U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, contains awe-inspiring wide variety of data in toxicology domain.

Salient features of the database are:

coverage on extensive studies on in vivo animal toxicity

detailed chemical toxicity date.

For example: a search on carbon provide for all the properties of carbon in terms of substances, synonyms, toxicology data, hazard, acute toxicity, sub chronic toxicity, carcinogenicity, genetic toxicity, developmental toxicity, neurotoxicity, dermal toxicity, immunotoxicity, ecotoxicity, and food safety so on. Surely, a definitive collection of data to the delight of researcher.

Check out the ToxRefDB link at:

http://actor.epa.gov/toxrefdb/faces/Home.jsp

Related tools:

ToxCast

Aggregated Computational Toxicology Resource

Filed under: Reference , ACToR, ToxCast, ToxRefDb

Patinformatics

Patinformatics , patent mapping or patent intelligence as it is alternatively called is a emerging subject in the field of sciences combining bioinformatics and cheminformatics. Though these advanced developments are taking place, patent literacy in India, especially among the rural folks, and farmers, who are the unorganized real inventors – the unsung heroes at the grassroots level, is still at nascent stage. Even as this poise as a big challenge for the India, as a global player in the emerging economy, competing China, this CAS report indicates, a 300% growth in Indian patents in CAS registry in 2009. Click here to check the full CAS report

This post gives you a select links of guide to patent information resources:

A. India

Indian Patent Searchable Database
Patent Office – India
India.bigpatents.org

B. International

Patents Databases in Different Countries
WIPO Intellectual Property Digital Library
USPTO Web Patent Databases
Espace
http://www.i-mak.org/patent-databases/
http://www.freepatentsonline.com/
Google – patents search
http://www.the-business-of-patents.com/index.html
CSEN Global List of Websites On Patents

For further reading:
Patinformatics: Identifying Haystacks from Space
www.infotaday.com

Filed under: Reference , India, Patents, patinformatics

Impact Factor

Did you ever hear about Impact factor? Journal Impact Factor (IF) is from Journal Citation Report (JCR), a product of Thomson ISI (Institute for Scientific Information). JCR provides quantitative tools for evaluating journals.

The impact factor for a journal is calculated based on a three-year period, and can be considered to be the average number of times published papers are cited up to two years after publication. For example, the impact factor 2010 for a journal would be calculated as follows: A = the number of times articles published in 2008-9 were cited in indexed journals during 2010. B = the number of articles, reviews, proceedings or notes published in 2008-2009

impact factor 2010 = A/B.

According to Science Watch, this is the TOP Ten Most-Cited Journals (All Fields), 1999-2009. Check this link here to view the top ranked journals.

For further reading:

www.sciencegateway.org
www.thomsonreuters.com
www.bioreference.net
www.abhayjere.com
www.en.wikipedia.org

Filed under: Journals, Reference , Impact factors, Journal rankings