Document Actions
February 2009 Institutional Newsletter
Welcome to the February 2009 edition of the Institutional Newsletter.
Designed to keep you up-to-date on all the news from across the BMJ Group.
This dedicated area of the BMJ Group site is designed to bring you more of the information you need to get the most out of your subscription. You will be able to access all the newsletters produced throughout 2009 as well as the following:
Pre-written emails are available to send to your end users to increase the usage of each product your institution subscribes to. If you require bespoke versions of the emails, these can be provided by contacting Genie Powers.
All the literature we have produced is now situated in one easy to access area of the site. Choose from user guides to give users a detailed description of how to use the products to posters advertising access to the products you subscribe to.
Our newest area to the site is the Training area where you can see where our training representatives will be next, join in to the WEBEX they will be running, request training at your institution and meet them at up and coming events.
If you would like more information or would like to request a training visit, please contact trainingandsupport@bmjgroup.com
This month we have news and updates for the following products:
New look DTB! 
This month a new and improved Drug and Therapeutics Bulletin (DTB) was launched, increasing from 8 to 12 pages. As well as allowing DTB to cover many more topics, the new format also includes a monthly editorial column and makes it easier to incorporate diagrams and other illustrations to enhance the text.
Not everything has changed, of course. DTB continues to be an independent, indispensable part of evidence-based clinical practice, offering healthcare professionals detailed assessment of, and practical advice on, individual medicines and other treatments, groups of treatment and the overall management of disease, as it has for over 45 years.
Stay tuned for more improvements to DTB this year, including a new look website and launch of the DTB archive back to 1962.
To find out more about subscribing to DTB or for information on free trials to DTB online are available for institutions, please contact our Sales Team today on tel: +44 (0)20 7383 6693 or e- mail: consortiasales@bmjgroup.com.
BMJ Learning
Ensure your users are keeping up with their continuing professional development by forwarding them this list of the five most popular modules completed on BMJ Learning:
The tympanic membrane: diagnostic picture tests
Liver function tests: interpreting abnormal results
Parkinson's disease: initial assessment and referral
Anaphylaxis: an update on management
Heart failure: an update on management
BMJ Journals
NEW journal acquisition - Acupuncture in Medicine
The BMJ Group is to begin publishing a medical journal on acupuncture from March 2009. Acupuncture in Medicine is a quarterly title, which aims to build the evidence base for acupuncture.
More and more healthcare professionals are learning how to use acupuncture within their practice, and they stand to benefit from the journal’s rigorous approach to research.
Acupuncture is being researched to increasingly high standards, and all healthcare professionals need to be aware of the findings so they can help their patients choose the best treatment for their condition. The journal is currently self-published by the British Medical Acupuncture Society (BMAS).
From March, it will be issued through the BMJ Group’s Affinity programme on behalf of the Society. As part of the service, the journal will be fully digitised and an archive of all its back issues will be made available online. The journal will be hosted on HighWire in early March.
Acupuncture in Medicine was first published in 1982 and boasts a multidisciplinary international editorial board.
More information will follow within the next newsletter.
Looking for an article published in the sixties, seventies or even earlier?
The full back archive for ALL of the specialist BMJ Journals is now available, right back to volume 1 issue 1. Our journals cover a range of specialist topics and include titles such as Gut, Heart, Thorax, Tobacco Control and many more.
Subscribers may access the entire archive freely. Non-subscribers have free access to all articles prior to 2006. A simple one-time registration is required that grants access to all archive content, across all of our specialist titles.
Institutional customers - users covered by an institutional subscription may browse the archive as usual without registration.
Browse by journal at journals.bmj.com
Or use the link below to register
journals.bmj.com/cgi/register
The online archives were digitised with the help of the National Library of Medicine
BMJ podcasts go weekly...
You can now download the weekly BMJ podcast, which also includes a round-up of the latest news, at itunes, or by visiting BMJ podcasts
Student BMJ
Student BMJ readers will soon enjoy every click as we get ready to relaunch student.bmj.com later on this year. The new website will be easier to use, provide links to useful content, save users from trawling aimlessly through the internet…and will be free to access. student.bmj.com is going to brighten up students medical knowledge soon.
For more information email: response.studentbmj@bmj.com
BMJ Point of Care
Effective Decision Support at the Point of Care
The BMJ Group would like to invite our North American customers to consider a subscription to BMJ Point of Care, a new and cost-effective decision support resource that delivers highly relevant disease diagnosis and treatment guidance at the immediate point of care. BMJ Point of Care blends clear, concise expert opinion with the best available medical evidence to provide fast, authoritative answers to the most pressing patient care questions.
Containing vital information for over 5,000 distinct diagnoses, a subscription to BMJ Point of Care may be a more cost-effective way to meet your users unique needs than your current subscriptions to resources like UpToDate, Dynamed and First Consult. With pricing and access that are extremely competitive and attractive, BMJ Point of Care is worth a serious look.
Please take a moment to click here and view our short flash demo highlighting the unique features of BMJ Point of Care.
And for more information about BMJ Point of Care and to inquire about free trials, please email productinfo.usa@bmjgroup.com.
Please note: BMJ Point of Care is available for purchase by institutions in North America only. For the international edition of this service, please see Best Practice.
