July 2011

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2010 Journal Citation Reports are Available

The 2010 Journal Citation Reports (JCR) are now available. The 2010 release features the largest JCR ever with a total of 1,075 journals receiving their very first Journal Impact Factor. The 2010 release includes 8,005 journal titles in the Sciences edition, some for the first time. A new subject category, Primary Health Care (or Family Medicine), has also been added. To see the list of new titles in JCR, click here. To see a complete list of JCR titles, click here.

JCR provides 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 2011 edition of Journal Citation Reports will be made available in the summer of 2012.

Click here to access the 2010 Journal Citation Reports through the Research Medical Library.

The National Academies Press Makes All PDF Books Free to Download

“All PDF versions of books published by the National Academies Press are downloadable to anyone free of charge.  This includes a current catalog of more than 4,000 books plus future reports produced by the Press.  The mission of the National Academies Press (NAP) — publisher for the National Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Engineering, Institute of Medicine , and National Research Council — is to disseminate the institutions’ content as widely as possible while maintaining financial sustainability.  To that end, NAP began offering free content online in 1994. Printed books will continue to be available for purchase through the NAP website and traditional channels.  The free PDFs are available exclusively from the NAP’s website, http://www.nap.edu.”

Here are a few of the free books available to you online from The National Academies Press:

• Multi-Center Phase III Clinical Trials and NCI Cooperative Groups, 2009
• Evaluation of Biomarkers and Surrogate Endpoints in Chronic Disease, 2010
• Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals: Eighth Edition, 2010
• The Future of Nursing: Leading Change, Advancing Health, 2011

[Original post from the Bringing Health Information to the Community (BHIC) blog.]

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