Thomson Scientific has announced that ISI Web of Knowledge will soon incorporate content from Medline. From the April 7 press release: 'Today, Thomson Scientific, a business of The Thomson Corporation, announced that the ISI Web of Knowledge content will be enhanced with MEDLINE, which contains nearly eleven million records from over 7,300 different publications from 1965 to the present. The MEDLINE data will be augmented with all the unique capabilities of the ISI Web of Knowledge premier research platform, creating a unique version of MEDLINE’s comprehensive life sciences and biomedical bibliographic data. MEDLINE through ISI Web of Knowledge will include: [1] Citation Alerts that notify users when another author has cited their work. [2] Unique links to citation information within Web of science that allows users to track a work through time to discover its foundation and influence, as well as to uncover works with common citations to reveal hidden relationships between them.' (Thanks to ResourceShelf.)
(PS: Medline is OA and ISI Web of Knowledge is not. This is a good case study in the commercial re-use of OA content.)
Posted by
Peter Suber at 4/15/2005 02:13:00 PM.
The open access movement:
Putting peer-reviewed scientific and scholarly literature
on the internet. Making it available free of charge and
free of most copyright and licensing restrictions.
Removing the barriers to serious research.
I recommend the OA tracking project (OATP) as the best way to stay on top of new OA developments. You can read the OATP feed on a blog-like web page or subscribe to it by RSS, email, or Twitter. You can also help build the feed by tagging new developments you encounter.
