Citation
(2004), "NHS England purchases online medical image database from BioMed Central", The Electronic Library, Vol. 22 No. 3. https://doi.org/10.1108/el.2004.26322cab.024
Publisher
:Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Copyright © 2004, Emerald Group Publishing Limited
NHS England purchases online medical image database from BioMed Central
NHS England purchases online medical image database from BioMed Central
BioMed Central has announced that it has signed a subscription agreement with The National Health Service (NHS) England for the online encyclopedia of medical images, images.MD. NHS England’s subscription, commencing in April 2004, provides access to the entire content of images.MD for all 1.2 million NHS staff.
The decision to subscribe to the innovative medical images product was in direct response to requests from medical researchers, the NHS said. According to Scott Gibbens, Project Manager of the NHS Core Content Group:
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Our decision to subscribe to images.MD for the whole of NHS England was driven by high demand from users. This product is great value for money, and meets our need for a comprehensive, high-quality images database for teaching and diagnosis. As a company BioMed Central continues to provide new invaluable and innovative resources along with excellent service.
NHS England’s decision to purchase images.MD further cements the relationship between the Health Service and BioMed Central. BioMed Central is fast becoming a key service provider to the NHS. As well as providing a valuable publishing service to NHS researchers, whereby under the NHS 2003 membership agreement all NHS staff can publish an unlimited number of research articles in BioMed Central journals without incurring the usual article processing charge, BioMed Central provides indispensable content including the 100+ Open Access journals it publishes and a range of secondary, value-added products like images.MD. The Open Access journals are free to access for anyone with an Internet connection.
images.MD compiles over 50,000 high-quality images spanning all of internal medicine, all derived from Current Medicine’s renowned series of illustrated atlases. Each image is accompanied by detailed and informative text written by over 2,000 contributing experts.