ebrary Launches Free H1N1 (Influenza) Searchable Information Center

ebrary, one of the best known ebook aggregators, has created a publicly available research center featuring an interactive, searchable, and browsable database of documents pertaining to the H1N1 influenza pandemic – the H1N1 (Influenza) Searchable Information Center.

The H1N1 (Influenza) Searchable Information Center contains a growing selection of reports, papers, newsletters, posters, and other important materials from government agencies and other trusted sources.

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DeepDyve: Rent an article

DeepDyve is the largest online rental service for scientific, technical and medical research with over 30 million articles from thousands of authoritative journals.  A DeepDyve user can rent an article and read its full-text for up to 24 hours for as little as $0.99 per article. These articles can only be viewed at DeepDyve and cannot be downloaded, printed or shared.

You also have the option of choosing the Silver ($9.99 per month) or Gold ($19.99 per month) monthly plans. These plans provide even greater flexibility and more peace of mind by allowing you to easily rent more articles per month, for longer periods of time. Free trial.

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New PLoS article collection

The Public Library of Science (PLoS), an open access publisher, has announced the publication of “Genomics of Emerging Infectious Disease”, a collection of essays, perspectives, and reviews that address the question – will genomics help prevent the next pandemic? The collection consists of 14 articles from six different PLoS journals (PLoS Biology, PLoS Medicine, PLoS Computational Biology, PLoS Genetics, PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, and PLoS Pathogens), reflecting the multidisciplinary nature of the topic. An audio interview with Jonathan Eisen, the collection Editor and PLoS Biology’s Academic Editor-in-Chief, Siv Andersson, an author on one of the PLoS Computational Biology papers, and Raj Gupta, a Google.org contributor, also accompanies the articles.

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Bioinformatics & Biodefense: A colloquium report

The American Academy of Microbiology has published a colloquium report “Bioinformatics and Biodefense: Keys to Understanding Natural & Altered Pathogens.” The report outlines the recommendations made by the world’s leaders in bioinformatics at an Academy colloquium held in November 2008.

The report can be downloaded at no charge at http://academy.asm.org/colloquia.

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