When we’re not blogging for Doody’s Views, Dan Doody and I devote some of our time and energy to consulting assignments with small publishing organizations, primarily healthcare societies. Over the last three years, a lot of our consulting has involved helping societies add eBooks to their nonperiodical publishing mix. No two engagements were the same. [...]
News about Doody’s book and journal literature update services for healthcare professionals and medical librarians has popped up in a variety of places lately. Here’s a recap:
Information Today, Inc., recently ran an article reporting on the integration of Doody’s Reviews into Syndetics Solutions, Bowker’s online public access catalog (OPAC). This represents an expansion of how Bowker [...]
Every week, we feature an important or interesting book that has recently been reviewed by our experts or has just been published.
With the publication just last week of the 10th edition of this venerable classic, Elsevier demonstrates how multiple media outlets enhance the value of such an important textbook. The first edition of this book [...]
Every week, we feature an important or interesting book that has recently been reviewed by our experts or has just been published.
If you are a healthcare professional caring for children, where do you go in this information age to get answers to clinical problems you have to solve or to get sufficient background on the pathophysiology [...]
Every week, we feature an important or interesting book that has recently been reviewed by our experts or has just been published.
It’s only fitting that The Honor Society of Nursing, Sigma Theta Tau International has published the first book we are aware of on the use of social media specifically by nurses. The author, Robert Fraser, BScN, RN, covers [...]
In contrast to the report in the previous post about the inconclusive results of a recent study of the health effects on children whose mothers had radiological examinations while pregnant, the consequences to people of the type of radiation released by the nuclear facilities in Japan are, unfortunately, much better documented. In an article published [...]
MedInfoNow, the time-efficient, inexpensive literature update service that has kept healthcare professionals on top of developments in their fields for the past 10 years, is set to unveil a completely new look and feel in early March.
MedInfoNow 3.0 features a redesigned Weekly Literature Update, new state-of-the-art search capabilities for Medline®, and straightforward and easy navigation, [...]
The recent New York Times article describing a ghostwritten psychiatry textbook, the subject of the previous post by my colleague Rich Lampert, represents another thread in the lively discussion of the pharmaceutical industry’s abuse of the power and influence of the “thought leader” in medicine.
“Thought leader” is a relatively new term coined during the information age [...]
I’ve been in medical publishing for over 30 years, and this article in the New York Times really caught me by surprise. Very simply, a drug company paid ghost writers to write a book on the use of psychiatric drugs, and the book was published under the names of two of the best-known authorities in [...]
Every week, we feature an important or interesting book that has recently been reviewed by our experts or has just been published.
One of the greatest challenges for medical publishers over the last few decades is to publish a successful book aimed at primary care practitioners (PCPs). The reasons hypothesized for this dilemma are many, but [...]
