PRESS RELEASE

Tuesday, 27 February 2007

Leeds, UK/Porza

Maney Publishing and SIMID® SA announce that medical journals contents will be made available through SIMID's database

Maney Publishing and SIMID® SA signed an agreement today so that all full-text articles of the medical journals of the publisher Maney Publishing will be inserted into the database of SIMID SA. With this cooperation both parties hope to increase their market share in Europe as providers of medical information.

SIMID SA began medical publishing in September 2005, one of their goals being to develop a medical library. Physicians and patients can quickly and easily find articles through SIMID's database on the internet (www.simid.org). This database contains summaries of medical articles published in scientific journals, from publishers with whom SIMID has a contractual relationship. The difference between the SIMID database and other databases (libraries) is that the full-text articles can be instantly downloaded. The interested physician or patient does not have to go to another website to retrieve the article, but can do this directly. 

Inserting the articles from the medical journals of Maney Publishing fits the strategy of SIMID® SA to enlarge the database and become the SIMID Medical Scientific Online Library.

Maney Publishing is an independent academic publisher of journals and books in healthcare, humanities and materials science. Founded in 1900, Maney has developed relationships with many important societies, universities and professional bodies in its publishing of more than 70 high-quality journals. Maney's portfolio of healthcare and biomedical titles forms a peer-reviewed and international collection of journals dedicated to a wide range of subject areas in the field. For more information please visit www.maney.co.uk. 

Shelly Lynds, Head of Customer Sales and Services at Maney, is delighted at the arrangement with SIMID: “At Maney we are always looking for new ways to provide easier access to our journal content for all parties. By inserting our full-text healthcare articles in to the SIMID database we will greatly increase the ease and speed with which customers can access our journal content online. This is an exciting opportunity for the development of Maney's healthcare collection.”