New OA Journals Launched by Pharmainfo Publications

"JOURNAL OF BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES AND RESEARCH" JBSR publishes original research articles in Biological as well as Medical fields including Anatomic pathology, Biochemistry, Biocomputing, Biophysics, Biotechnology, Chemical and Biochemical Analysis, Genetics, Herbal Technology, Immunology, Molecular, Cellular and Cancer Biology, Microbiology & Virology, Neurosciences, Pathophysiology, Pharmacology, Physiology. The journal accepts Review Articles, Original Articles and Short Communications
ISSN Number: 0975-542X
website: http://www.jbsr.pharmainfo.in

"JOURNAL OF PHARMACEUTICAL SCIENCES AND TECHNOLOGY"
Articles are invited for the forthcoming issue (November 2009)
website: http://www.onlinepharmacytech.info

Latin American Journal of Pharmacy (formerly Acta Farmacéutica Bonaerense)

Full Text Availability: Vol 1 (1982) Onwards

Aims and Scope

Latin American Journal of Pharmacy (formerly Acta Farmacéutica Bonaerense) is the scientific journal of the College of Pharmacists of Buenos Aires Province, Argentina. The journal publishes bimonthly research reports in the form of original articles or short communications, reviews or mini-reviews on all aspects of the pharmaceutical sciences, with strong emphasis on originality and scientific quality. More specifically, but not exclusively, the Journal publishes mainly reports in medicinal chemistry, pharmacology, drug absorption and metabolism, pharmacognosy, pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics, pharmaceutical and biomedical analysis, drug delivery, pharmaceutical technology and biotechnology, pharmaceutical care, pharmaceutical education and clinical drug evaluation.

Articles are indexed and abstracted in Chemical Abstracts Service, International Pharmaceutical Abstracts Service, BioScience Information Service (Biological Abstracts), Periodica (Index of Latin American Scientific Journals), International Pharmaceutical Technology & Product Manufacture Abstracts, Referativnyi Zhurnal (Institut of Scientific Information, Russian Academy of Sciences), EMBASE/Excerpta Medica, LILACS (Latin American and Caribbean Health Sciences Literature) and LATINDEX. The journal was awarded in 1986 and 2000 with APTA-Antonio Rizzuto prize (scientific journals category) and in 2002 was qualified as scientifical journal level one (excellent) by the Argentine Center of Scientific and Technological Information (CAICYT-.CONICET) within the LATINDEX Project and recently was proclaimed as a journal of provincial interest by the Honorable Deputy Chamber of Buenos Aires Province, Argentina.

Impact Factor: 0,141 (2008) *
Subject category "Pharmacology & Pharmacy"

FOR MORE DETAILS VISIT http://www.latamjpharm.org/

Journal of Medicine Use in Developing Countries (Open ),

Free Full Text Availabitliy: Vol 1 (2009 Onwards)

The Journal of Medicine Use in Developing Countries (JMUDC) is a peer reviewed international journal. It is the official publication of the Discipline of Social and Administrative Pharmacy (DSAP) at the School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Malaysia. The DSAP (http://www.usm.my/dsap) is committed to promoting research in medicine use problems in developing countries. Introducing a journal focusing on medicine use issues in developing countries is one of the new initiatives by the discipline to promote rational use of medicines and sustainable health in developing countries. The journal aims to provide a strong platform for the researchers from the developing countries to publish their research findings. Four issues will be published per year. The website of the journal is www.usm.my/dsap/journal

For more details visit http://www.usm.my/dsap/journal/

International Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences and Nanotechnology (Free Full Text Back Issues)

Full Text Availability: Vol 1 Issue 1 and Issue 2 (2008)

For more details visit http://www.ijpsnonline.com/ijpsnonline/archives.php

RELEASE OF OPEN ACCESS RESOURCES REVIEW ARTICLE ON THE OCCASION OF OPEN ACCESS WEEK

While celebrating Open Access Week, we are happy to release our article entitled
"Open access journals, magazines and other information sources for
scholarly literature in pharmaceutical education, research and
pharmacy practice". The article is published in "Research in Pharmaceutical Sciences, April 2008; 3(1): 1-20". The Journal Research in Pharmaceutical Sciences is an Open Access Journal available at http://journals.mui.ac.ir/rps. The full text pdf is available for free to download at http://journals.mui.ac.ir/rps/article/view/4205/1766

We hope that the article will be useful to pharmacy students, teachers, industry and pharmacists.


THE ABSTRACT OF THE ARTICLE IS AS FOLLOWS:

The open access (OA) to scholarly articles published in journals, magazines and other literature sources is extremely useful to pharmacy students, teachers, research scholars, scientists and pharmacists to update their knowledge with recent changes in their fields of Specialization. Open access (OA) to scholarly articles is provided either directly from journal homepages by the publishers or from repositories where publishers submit these articles to promote OA. Apart from these online repositories for thesis, online resources trials,sample copies of journals, free back files, author funded OA of individual articles are other important online resources for information retrieval. International organizations have also started initiatives to provide free or low cost access to online journals in developing countries. Searching internet for information requirements in specialized disciplines is becoming easier with the advancement of search engines through specialized and custom search engine facilities. Authors searched Internet with the help of various general purpose search engines, like google, yahoo, and live search, to find out URLs of websites of journals, magazines, science and technology publishers, pharmaceutical societies, and online repositories which provide open access to scholarly articles and other useful and authentic drug information in pharmacy and pharmaceutical sciences disciplines. Authors visited all these websites to confirm their free accessibility and their free contents available. Thereafter these journals, magazines and other literature sources are segregated according to their specialization and provided in this article. Open access journal full text links have been provided for 235 journals and 49 magazines in disciplines of pharmaceutics, pharmacology, toxicology, physiology, clinical pharmacy, epidemiology, chemistry, pharmacognosy, microbiology, biotechnology, bioinformatics and multidisciplinary pharmaceutical sciences. Websites for online drug information resources, and repositories which provide full text thesis have also been compiled. This article reviews most OA resources with special reference to the disciplines of pharmacy and pharmaceutical sciences.

Let's Celebrate Open Access Week (19th to 23rd October 2009)

October 19-23 will mark the first international Open Access Week.

Open Access Week is an opportunity to broaden awareness and understanding of Open Access to research, including access policies from all types of research funders, within the international higher education community and the general public. The now-annual event has been expanded from a single day to accommodate widespread global interest in the movement toward open, public access to scholarly research results.

Open Access Week builds on the momentum started by the student-led national day of action in 2007 and carried by the 120 campuses in 27 countries that celebrated Open Access Day in 2008. 2008 organizers SPARC (the Scholarly Publishing & Academic Resources Coalition), the PLoS (The Public Library of Science), and Students for FreeCulture welcome new key contributors for 2009: OASIS (the Open Access Scholarly Information Sourcebook); Open Access Directory (OAD); and eIFL.net (Electronic Information for Libraries), which will again spearhead events in developing and transitional countries.

There are also partner organizations that are engaging their communities in every corner of the globe and these are listed on the main page of this site (SPARC Europe, SPARC Japan, DOAJ and BIREME). If you want join them and help get the word out please contact dokubo@plos.org.

This year, the organizers will highlight a growing suite of educational resources that local hosts can use to design their own programs on Open Access, for their respective audiences and time zones. The OASIS project features the resources for researchers, administrators, librarians, students, and the public — as well as different OA awareness levels — that will be the centerpiece of the 2009 Open Access Week program.

These audience-specific resource lists will be supplemented by the growing clearinghouse of educational materials available through the Open Access Directory, which will again serve as the key index for participating campuses and organizations on five continents. Through the collaborative functionality of the two initiatives, videos, briefing papers, podcasts, slideshows, posters and other educational tools will be drawn from all over the Web to be featured during Open Access Week 2009.

The organizers will also work with registered participants to develop a variety of sample program tracks, such as “Administrators’ introduction to campus open-access policies and funds,” “OA 101,” and “Complying with the NIH public access policy” that take full advantage of available tools. Scholars, students, libraries, publishers, individuals, and campuses everywhere are invited to adapt these resources as needed and to mark Open Access Week by hosting an event, distributing literature, blogging, or wearing an Open Access t-shirt.

“After the success of last year’s Open Access Day, we’re delighted to be co-organizing the first ever Open Access Week with our fellow collaborators, again in conjunction with the anniversary of one of our flagship journals,” said Peter Jerram, CEO for the Public Library of Science. “We would ask our supporters to celebrate the fifth anniversary of PLoS Medicine by spreading the word about Open Access and getting involved in the week.”

“There’s no more certain sign of the momentum behind Open Access to research than an annual, global celebration of this scale,” added Heather Joseph, Executive Director of SPARC. “Occasions like this are the best possible way to attract attention from busy faculty members and administrators. It’s SPARC’s pleasure to be working with our partners to realize the event once again this year.”

FOR MORE DETAILS VISIT http://www.openaccessweek.org/

DOWNLOAD RESOURCES FROM http://www.openaccessweek.org/downloadable-resources-international/

Pharmacy Education (Open Access Journal)

Full Text Free Access: Vol 1 (2000) Onwards (Registration Requirements)

Pharmacy Education encompasses all scientific fields within pharmacy, with the common purpose of education and training.

Pharmacy Education is published with the endorsement and support of the International Pharmaceutical Federation (FIP), the World Health Organisation (WHO), and the European Association of Faculties of Pharmacy (EAFP). The Journal provides a forum for communication between academic teachers and practitioners, with an emphasis on new and established teaching and learning methods; new curriculum and syllabus directions; guidance on structuring courses and assessing achievement, as well as the dissemination of new ideas. The Journal also recognises the importance of policy issues and current trends in the context of education and professional development. The Journal publishes reports of research and innovation in all aspects of pharmacy education and training, case studies, country studies, essays and opinions for comment, innovations in laboratory practice, reviews and reports on information technology in education and reviews of current literature. The Journal has an international perspective, and has a longstanding policy of facilitating publication, in particular for younger Faculty, those authors whose first language may not be English, and manuscripts from low income countries seeking engagement with the wider global community.

For More Details Visit http://pharmacyeducation.fip.org/about/