Blackwell Journals Moving to Wiley Interscience - Some Downtime Expected

As part of the merger of Blackwell Publishing with John Wiley and Sons, the publishers will combine all Wiley-Blackwell's online products onto a single online platform. As of June 30, 2008, all Blackwell Synergy journal content and access rights will be moved to Wiley InterScience, and at that point Synergy will cease to be available. John Wiley plans to launch a next-generation online service in 2009 that will include the best features of both Blackwell Synergy and Wiley InterScience and which will introduce innovative new functionality and capabilities.

Over the weekend of June 28th and 29th, 2008, there will be a period when both Blackwell Synergy and Wiley InterScience will be unavailable to all users while the publisher transitions and re-indexes data.

If you have registered as an individual on Blackwell Synergy, please go to http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/aboutus/wiley-blackwell/transition_end-users.html
for more information.
If you have any questions, please call the Library at 713-7100.

DynaMed (evidence-based reference) now available for more PDA platforms

DynaMed has expanded the list of PDAs supported to include:

• Palms
• Pocket PC
• Windows Smartphone
• BlackBerry
• iPhone

For details on the compatible PDAs, such as models and technical specifications, please review this information: http://www.ebscohost.com/dynamed/technical.php.

To request a serial number for Dynamed, please submit this form: http://ewake.wfubmc.edu:88/library/forms/dynamed.html.

Updated Public Access Policy FAQs

On May 2, 2008, the NIH significantly updated the Frequently Asked Questions for the NIH Public Access Policy. You are encouraged to read the updated FAQs in full, but for a quick summary of the changes, please see the announcement from SPARC.

(Thanks to Peter Suber.)