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Neuroscion – a meeting of minds
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Neuroscion – a meeting of minds Trends in Neurosciences (TINS) is pleased to announce that it is now fully available on Neuroscion located at http://neuroscion.com. Neuroscion is the first major Web-based neuroscience information system, with the specific aim to help researchers access up-to-date information in any branch of neuroscience. Neuroscion was launched on extended free trial at the November 1999 Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience in Miami, USA. This unique Website is one of the latest initiatives in electronic publishing by Elsevier Science, which is making all of its foremost neuroscience publications available online for the first time. From October 2000, user access to full-text journal articles will be enabled by payment of a modest membership fee (from $99 per annum); until then, during the current free trial, access to all the content on Neuroscion is free of charge. Neuroscion will initially offer access to over 50 Elsevier Science publications, including its substantial collection of primary and review journals. In future, this library will expand to provide access both to journals from other publishers and professional societies and to other types of content (books, reference works, brain atlases, etc.). From September this year, there will be full contents and abstracts from, and links to the full-text of, the Cell Press titles, Cell and Neuron. This will make the Neuroscion Online library one of the most comprehensive on the market. A unique feature of Neuroscion is the organization of each of its components by themes and topics (as defined by the Society for Neuroscience). Within 10 themes are 147 topics covering the whole spectrum of neuroscience research. Using this optional system of classification as a navigational tool, users may select and deploy their preferred topics to locate and organize the most upto-date information in their own specific areas of research. Alternatively, users can search or browse conventionally across all the journals in the library, including Brain Research, Neuroscience and Trends in Neurosciences, and across MEDLINE. Since researchers generally require only the most recently published articles, Neuroscion allows access to articles on a rolling window of nine months. Access to older articles (archive) is also available by direct link from Neuroscion tables of contents to fulltext in Elsevier’s ScienceDirect, for those with appropriate institutional entitlements to access the ScienceDirect platform.
Neuroscion on ‘free trial’ contains a host of features • Selection from 147 topics – All users are entitled to select up to 12 topics. Nevertheless, all articles are accessible even where no topics have been chosen. • Customized alerting (by e-mail) – All users may receive regular (weekly or fortnightly) e-mail updates of new content, based on your choice of topic(s) or on the results of a keywords search. Such alerts allow direct access to abstracts/full-text articles for each of the listed items, many before their appearance in print. • Research and review articles – All full-text journal articles are available in both HTML (with rich linking) and PDF formats through a rolling window of nine months. • Laboratory research tools (for example, rat brain maps). • MEDLINE searching. • News and Comment. • Discussion groups. • Conference and meeting information.
Future Neuroscion In addition, the October 2000 commercial release will contain: • SMARTWorks 2000 – This tool will enable Authors to submit articles via the Web to their preferred journal(s) more easily and have them peer-reviewed significantly faster than at present. All articles submitted in this way will appear in the 0166-2236/00/$ – see front matter © 2000 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved.
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eNeuroscion PrePrint database – a temporary repository for journal articles within 24 hours of their acceptance for publication and prior to processing in production for web and print. Authors and their readers will be able to see their article immediately upon acceptance and citations to the article may begin to accrue at this time instead of waiting for publication in print or appearance in PubMed and MEDLINE. Interactive Journals (for example, Brain Research interactive) – The articles in these interactive journals (the hottest 10% of papers from the parent journals of the same name) will all be available free of charge within six to ten days following their acceptance for publication, in some cases months prior to their appearance in print. Each full-text article may support additional (non-printable) datasets and/or a discussion thread, enabling users to debate the latest research. Special interest groups – There will be dedicated areas for special interest groups, such as The Serotonin Club, to view and discuss the latest news and research (including an ‘Editor’s choice’) in their special area. Societies – Certain societies will have an area and gateway on Neuroscion dedicated to the specific needs of their members, including unrestricted access to the their own journal. Discounts towards other Elsevier Science Neuroscience products – Books, CDs, special journal issues and personal subscriptions. Job searching through ScienceJobs.com – The new ReedElsevier Website serving the biomedical jobs market.
Neuroscion Free Trial Neuroscion is currently holding a FREE trial (ending September 2000). Everyone who joins will receive 120 credits, which are redeemable against articles in the Neuroscion library. When users locate an article that they wish to examine, they may choose from a variety of formats: abstract (0 credits); SummaryPlus (2 credits); an HTML outline of the article with abstract, all figures and tables and references and full-text, either HTML or PDF (4 credits). During the free trials, you may purchase up to 30 full-text articles. In addition, users enjoy unlimited access to article abstracts associated with all journals in the Neuroscion library and their choice of topic (browse) or keyword (search) e-mail alert. It’s so easy to join. Simple go to http://neuroscion.com. Fill in the registration form making sure to remember your Username and Password. A whole online library of neuroscience information is now accessible at your fingertips.
Further information If you have any further questions, please contact Samar Syed, Neuroscion, 84 Theobald’s Road, London UK WC1X 8RR E-mail: [email protected] Tel: +44 20 7611 4362 Fax: +44 20 7611 4201
neuroscion.com Neuroscion at FENS Neuroscion will also be present at stands S53–S54 at FENS in Brighton, UK, on 24–28 June. We shall be demonstrating on the site and explaining its content and functionality. Everyone is welcome to join us so please come along. We look forward to seeing you. PII: S0166-2236(00)01619-2
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Neuroscion – a meeting of minds Trends in Neurosciences (TINS) is pleased to announce that it is now fully available on Neuroscion located at http://neuroscion.com. Neuroscion is the first major Web-based neuroscience information system, with the specific aim to help researchers access up-to-date information in any branch of neuroscience. Neuroscion was launched on extended free trial at the November 1999 Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience in Miami, USA. This unique Website is one of the latest initiatives in electronic publishing by Elsevier Science, which is making all of its foremost neuroscience publications available online for the first time. From October 2000, user access to full-text journal articles will be enabled by payment of a modest membership fee (from $99 per annum); until then, during the current free trial, access to all the content on Neuroscion is free of charge. Neuroscion will initially offer access to over 50 Elsevier Science publications, including its substantial collection of primary and review journals. In future, this library will expand to provide access both to journals from other publishers and professional societies and to other types of content (books, reference works, brain atlases, etc.). From September this year, there will be full contents and abstracts from, and links to the full-text of, the Cell Press titles, Cell and Neuron. This will make the Neuroscion Online library one of the most comprehensive on the market. A unique feature of Neuroscion is the organization of each of its components by themes and topics (as defined by the Society for Neuroscience). Within 10 themes are 147 topics covering the whole spectrum of neuroscience research. Using this optional system of classification as a navigational tool, users may select and deploy their preferred topics to locate and organize the most upto-date information in their own specific areas of research. Alternatively, users can search or browse conventionally across all the journals in the library, including Brain Research, Neuroscience and Trends in Neurosciences, and across MEDLINE. Since researchers generally require only the most recently published articles, Neuroscion allows access to articles on a rolling window of nine months. Access to older articles (archive) is also available by direct link from Neuroscion tables of contents to fulltext in Elsevier’s ScienceDirect, for those with appropriate institutional entitlements to access the ScienceDirect platform.
Neuroscion on ‘free trial’ contains a host of features • Selection from 147 topics – All users are entitled to select up to 12 topics. Nevertheless, all articles are accessible even where no topics have been chosen. • Customized alerting (by e-mail) – All users may receive regular (weekly or fortnightly) e-mail updates of new content, based on your choice of topic(s) or on the results of a keywords search. Such alerts allow direct access to abstracts/full-text articles for each of the listed items, many before their appearance in print. • Research and review articles – All full-text journal articles are available in both HTML (with rich linking) and PDF formats through a rolling window of nine months. • Laboratory research tools (for example, rat brain maps). • MEDLINE searching. • News and Comment. • Discussion groups. • Conference and meeting information.
Future Neuroscion In addition, the October 2000 commercial release will contain: • SMARTWorks 2000 – This tool will enable Authors to submit articles via the Web to their preferred journal(s) more easily and have them peer-reviewed significantly faster than at present. All articles submitted in this way will appear in the 0166-2236/00/$ – see front matter © 2000 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved.
•
•
•
• •
eNeuroscion PrePrint database – a temporary repository for journal articles within 24 hours of their acceptance for publication and prior to processing in production for web and print. Authors and their readers will be able to see their article immediately upon acceptance and citations to the article may begin to accrue at this time instead of waiting for publication in print or appearance in PubMed and MEDLINE. Interactive Journals (for example, Brain Research interactive) – The articles in these interactive journals (the hottest 10% of papers from the parent journals of the same name) will all be available free of charge within six to ten days following their acceptance for publication, in some cases months prior to their appearance in print. Each full-text article may support additional (non-printable) datasets and/or a discussion thread, enabling users to debate the latest research. Special interest groups – There will be dedicated areas for special interest groups, such as The Serotonin Club, to view and discuss the latest news and research (including an ‘Editor’s choice’) in their special area. Societies – Certain societies will have an area and gateway on Neuroscion dedicated to the specific needs of their members, including unrestricted access to the their own journal. Discounts towards other Elsevier Science Neuroscience products – Books, CDs, special journal issues and personal subscriptions. Job searching through ScienceJobs.com – The new ReedElsevier Website serving the biomedical jobs market.
Neuroscion Free Trial Neuroscion is currently holding a FREE trial (ending September 2000). Everyone who joins will receive 120 credits, which are redeemable against articles in the Neuroscion library. When users locate an article that they wish to examine, they may choose from a variety of formats: abstract (0 credits); SummaryPlus (2 credits); an HTML outline of the article with abstract, all figures and tables and references and full-text, either HTML or PDF (4 credits). During the free trials, you may purchase up to 30 full-text articles. In addition, users enjoy unlimited access to article abstracts associated with all journals in the Neuroscion library and their choice of topic (browse) or keyword (search) e-mail alert. It’s so easy to join. Simple go to http://neuroscion.com. Fill in the registration form making sure to remember your Username and Password. A whole online library of neuroscience information is now accessible at your fingertips.
Further information If you have any further questions, please contact Samar Syed, Neuroscion, 84 Theobald’s Road, London UK WC1X 8RR E-mail: [email protected] Tel: +44 20 7611 4362 Fax: +44 20 7611 4201
neuroscion.com Neuroscion at FENS Neuroscion will also be present at stands S53–S54 at FENS in Brighton, UK, on 24–28 June. We shall be demonstrating on the site and explaining its content and functionality. Everyone is welcome to join us so please come along. We look forward to seeing you. PII: S0166-2236(00)01619-2
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