Autumn 2010 Institutional Newsletter

Welcome to the institutional newsletter, bringing you all the news and updates.

Take a look at the new and improved BMJ Group Product Training & Support website.  Features include all your usual tools and services to ensure you get the most out of your institution's subscription but now even easier to find.

• Book online webex training for your institution
• Customise training to suit your needs
• Access promotion tools to display around your institution to increase usage
• Request usage statistics to track your institutions interest in BMJ Group products
  
• Contact us for information on training, sales or to request further materials and marketing ideas to increase awareness!

Please take a look around the site and let us know what you think of it.

BMJ Group news

BMJ Case Reports - WINNER!

BMJ Journals - How to personalise your pages

New to BMJ Group - Find out what products we've added to our collection of products and services

Conferences you can meet the BMJ Group Sales team at

Winner!

BMJ Case Reports recently won the coveted award "ALPSP Best New Journal Award 2010"! 

BMJ Case Reports has been recognised for its innovative publishing model and for providing a forum for case reports which are typically rejected by other journals.

BMJ Case Reports now has over 1,600 case reports from over 72 countries.  Types of cases include:

• Learning from errors
• Novel treatment
• Rare disease
• Reminder of important clinical lesson
• And more
  

If your institution has access to BMJ Case Reports, we have a number of promotional items you can use to increase awareness.  If you would like to request posters, userguides and more, please contact Daniela Petkova.

If you would like a free trial to this award winning product or details of a subscription, please contact our sales team consortiasales@bmjgroup.com

BMJ Journals personalisation

Are your users aware their institution has provided them access to a collection of authoritative general, specialist and public journals from BMJ Group?

You can now upload your institution’s logo and name onto the HighWire system, which will be displayed to members of your community accessing content through the institutions IP addresses. The logo will be visible at the top right of all our journal pages.

We support a logo size of 110-150px by 40-60px in .jpg, .gif, or .png format. The maximum file size that can be uploaded is 15KB.

Each institution has an administrator who can login to a designated area of each journal website through the ‘Sign in’ link. The administrator username and password are sent to customers as soon as they subscribe to any of our journals. If you have not received these details, contact Customer Services at the following email address support@bmjgroup.com

New to BMJ Group

We're always looking to expand our collection of products and services and 2010 has been no exception, see below for a list of newly added journals, products and services:

Frontline Gastroenterology - Added to the collection for 2010, this journal is an additional benefit  for one of our top journals GUT.  The journal aims to accelerate the adoption of best practice in the fields of gastroenterology and hepatology.

Quality & Safety in Health Care - For 2011 we are relaunching this journal. The following the improvements will be made:

• It will be published monthly
• Content will be increased to provide a rich mix of news, opinion, debate and research fro academics, clinicians, healthcare managers and policy makers
• Renamed - BMJ Quality and Safety.

If you subscribe to the collection and Quality & Safety in Health Care is part of your bundle, this will be updated automatically.

New Product

Clinical Leadership Programme - This new addition to the ever growing portfolio of learning tools from BMJ Group is designed to increase the quality and efficiency of your services by equipping your staff with the right clinical leadership skills to motivate them and assist their contribution to change.

In partnership with The Open University, our online courses and dedicated tutor support ensure that your staff acquire the knowledge and skills necessary to improve and develop the services in your organisation. And as our students study around their schedules it means that there is no expensive backfill. Our courses are grounded in clinical practice. This means that our students develop work based skills which can be applied in the work place immediately.

To find out more information, please visit the website and contact us for more information - http://clinicalleadership.bmj.com/employer

BMJ Group have also been busy creating iPhone apps for our users to access our products on the move. The apps we have created throughout 2010 are:

• Differential Diagnosis (DDx) - £4.99 (launched in January) - Enabling healthcare professionals to reach an accurate diagnosis quickly and efficiently by providing essential mobile decision support information from web tools Best Practice and Clinical Evidence.

• Student BMJ app - Free (launched in June) - Students can read the latest news, digest research or check out medical events relevant to them at any time.

• A range of onExamination apps - various costs (launched in July) - Users can now answer exam questions relevant to their upcoming exams whenever they get the chance on their iPhone.

• BMJ Careers - Free (launched in July) - An ideal job search tool for doctors seeking their next medical role.
• NEW Doctor's Toolbag - £12.99 (launched in September) - Developed by BMJ Group and the Centre for Evidence Based Medicine, this app provides a fast and simple way to use the most effective rules in a busy clinical setting.

If you think this information would be useful for your users, please pass this on.

Conferences BMJ Group staff will be visiting

Below are the conferences BMJ Group staff will be attending in the coming months and they would welcome the opportunity to meet you and answer any questions you may have.

To arrange a meeting, click on the name of the manager attending to email them.