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Informatics represents the following publishers, for their electronic journal packages which would increase the current journal base of the institute and provide access to more primary content. Library can select the subject specific package of their interest.
Annual Reviews
Annual Reviews publications are among the most highly cited in the scientific literature, and are available in print and online to individuals, institutions, and consortia throughout the world.
Since 1932, Annual Reviews has offered comprehensive, timely collections of critical reviews written by leading scientists. Annual Reviews volumes are published each year for 40 focused disciplines within the Biomedical, Life, Physical, and Social Sciences including Economics.
Annual Reviews is a non-profit organization whose mission is to provide the worldwide scientific community with a useful and intelligent synthesis of the primary research literature for a broad spectrum of scientific disciplines.
Annual Reviews publications are among the most highly cited in scientific literature as indexed by the Thomson Reuters Journal Citation Reports® (JCR).
Each year, Annual Reviews critically reviews the most significant primary research literature to guide you to the principal contributions of the field and help you keep up to date in your area of research.


Royal Society Publishing
The Royal Society is a self-governing Fellowship of many of the world's most distinguished scientists drawn from all areas of science, engineering, and medicine. The Society's fundamental purpose, as it has been since its foundation in 1660, is to recognise, promote, and support excellence in science and to encourage the development and use of science for the benefit of humanity.
The Society publishes nine peer-reviewed journals, including Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, the world's oldest scientific title. Awards for outstanding achievement are made each year in the form of medals, prizes and prize lectureships. The Society also hosts various events including conferences, lectures and discussion meetings and houses one of the world's most important collections of 17th and 18th century scientific journals and books in its library.
Cold Spring Harbor
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press is an internationally renowned publisher of books, journals, and electronic media, located on Long Island, New York. Since 1933, it has furthered the advance and spread of scientific knowledge in all areas of genetics and molecular biology, including cancer biology, plant science, bioinformatics, and neurobiology. It is a division of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, an innovator in life science research and the education of scientists, students, and the public.
Royal Society of Medicine
The Royal Society of Medicine is an independent, apolitical organisation, founded over 200 years ago. They are one of the largest providers of continuing medical education in the UK. They provide accredited courses for continuing professional development, which is so vital in allowing doctors, dentists, veterinary surgeons and other healthcare professionals their continuing freedom to practise.
Their aim is: 1. To provide a broad range of educational activities and opportunities for doctors, dentists and veterinary surgeons, including students of these disciplines, and for allied healthcare professionals. 2. To promote an exchange of information and ideas on the science, practice and organisation of medicine, both within the health professions and with responsible and informed public opinion. They receive no state funding to carry out our core work and are dependent on generous donations and legacies.
Cambridge University Press
Cambridge University Press is the publishing business of the University of Cambridge. Dedicated to excellence, their purpose is to further the University's objective of advancing knowledge, education, learning and research. Their peer-reviewed publishing lists comprises over 45,000 titles covering academic research, professional development, over 300 research journals, school-level education, English language teaching and Bible publishing. This list is growing at a rate of nearly 4,000 ISBNs every year and spans subjects from aesthetics through to zoology, with authors ranging from Shakespeare to English language teaching author, Ray Murphy.
Playing a leading role in today's global market place, they have over 50 offices around the globe, and distribute their products to nearly every country in the world. They publish 45,000 authors based in over 100 different countries.
American Medical Association
Since 1847 the American Medical Association (AMA) has had one mission: to promote the art and science of medicine and the betterment of public health. Today, the core strategy used to carry out this mission is a concerted effort to help doctors help patients. AMA does this by uniting physicians nationwide to work on the most important professional and public health issues.
AMA publishes several medical journals including the most widely circulated medical journal in the world - JAMA (The Journal of the American Medical Association).
JAMA, published continuously since 1883, is an international peer-reviewed general medical journal published 48 times per year. JAMA's 2009 impact factor is 28.9. JAMA's acceptance rate is approximately 9% of the nearly 6,000 solicited and unsolicited manuscripts it receives annually; its average time from submission to publication is 96 days and average time from receipt to rejection is 7 days.
Annual Reviews
Annual Reviews publications are among the most highly cited in the scientific literature, and are available in print and online to individuals, institutions, and consortia throughout the world.
Since 1932, Annual Reviews has offered comprehensive, timely collections of critical reviews written by leading scientists. Annual Reviews volumes are published each year for 40 focused disciplines within the Biomedical, Life, Physical, and Social Sciences including Economics.
Annual Reviews is a non-profit organization whose mission is to provide the worldwide scientific community with a useful and intelligent synthesis of the primary research literature for a broad spectrum of scientific disciplines.
Annual Reviews publications are among the most highly cited in scientific literature as indexed by the Thomson Reuters Journal Citation Reports® (JCR).
Each year, Annual Reviews critically reviews the most significant primary research literature to guide you to the principal contributions of the field and help you keep up to date in your area of research.

Bentham Science
A major STM journal publisher of 92 online and print journals, 200 plus open access journals, and related print/online book series, Bentham Science answers the informational needs of the pharmaceutical, biomedical and medical research community.
Leading journals include Current Pharmaceutical Design, Current Medicinal Chemistry (the leading review journal in its field and endorsed by 7 Nobel Laureates). Other high profile journals include Current Topics in Medicinal Chemistry, Current Drug Metabolism, Current Drug Targets, Current Molecular Medicine, and Current Cancer Drug Targets.
Bentham eBooks program covers all major disciplines of natural and social sciences and information technology. It has a variety of eBooks such as monographs, handbooks, proceedings, textbooks, review volumes.
Brill Online
Founded in 1683 in Leiden, the Netherlands, Brill is a publishing house with a strong international focus on Humanities and Social Sciences. With offices in Leiden and Boston (MA), Brill today publishes more than 100 journals and around 500 new books and reference works each year. The main subject areas of Brill’s publication program are history, religion, Islamic studies, Asian studies and classical studies as well as specialist scientific fields and international law. Brill’s mainly English language publications include book series, individual monographs and encyclopaedias as well as journals.
Brill e-books are in full-text, searchable electronic format. New titles are regularly added. Brill has e-book collections in the following subject areas:
- Asian Studies
- Biblical Studies, Ancient Near East and Early Christianity
- Biology and Materials Surface Sciences
- Classical Studies
- European History and Culture
- Humanities and Social Sciences
- Middle East and Islamic Studies
- Religious Studies: Theology and Philosophy
- Social Sciences
The Brill Journal Archive Online now offers access to over 100,000 articles published before the year 2010, covering over 3,300 volumes of now 157 scholarly journals. The Journal Archive consists of two parts, the first covering the 19th and 20th century and the second part of the first decade of the 21st century. The Archive holds the imprints Brill, Martinus Nijhoff and VSP.
CSIRO
CSIRO Publishing is Australia’s leading publisher of quality scientific, technical and health journals, books, multimedia and magazines. It is an autonomous business unit within Australia’s Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO).
Their internationally recognised publishing programme covers a wide range of scientific disciplines, including agriculture, the plant and animal sciences, and environmental management. Product range includes journals, books and magazines. Their editorial standards and production methods are at the forefront of e-publishing standards.
CSIRO Publishing proudly continues a tradition of journal publishing established over 50 years ago. Journals are published with the endorsement of CSIRO and the Australian Academy of Science, and are produced in cooperation with a number of other scientific societies in Australia and New Zealand.
Their journals present the latest research by leading Australian and overseas scientists and cover a broad range of subjects.
- All journals are peer-reviewed and are widely indexed
- e-journals use relevant technology to facilitate the use of content.
- Readership is international, with subscribers in 75 different countries.
Future Science Group
The Future Science Group is an expanding group of independent publishing companies active in the field of scientific information and endeavour, currently composed of Expert Reviews, Future Medicine and Future Science. As a leading provider of products and services for the medical, scientific and business communities, FSG save customers time and money by presenting the most important scientific breakthroughs in an accessible and evaluated format, while at the same time providing the scientific community with unique vehicles for disseminating forward-thinking research information and data.
Expert Review journals provide healthcare practitioners and research professionals worldwide with a unique source of objective cutting-edge information on the most exciting emerging trends in healthcare, best clinical practice and key advances in the major therapeutic areas. Their goal is to publish thought-provoking, authoritative and significant articles from international opinion leaders to inform clinical practice.
Future Medicine journal collection provides healthcare practitioners and research professionals with a unique source of objective, cutting-edge information on exciting trends emerging in the light of advances in molecular medicine and clinical practice. These journals are positioned at the forefront of modern medicine and are published according to industry-leading standards of peer review, presentation, speed of publication, online functionality and author service.
Future Science journals provide research professionals worldwide with a unique source of objective cutting-edge information on the most exciting emerging trends in their field of endeavour. Publications provide systematic coverage in healthcare R&D, including biology, chemistry, methods and instrumentation. Also addressed will be the environmental areas of concern, such as carbon management, together with advances in the science behind Man’s own created environment in the 21st Century.

Informa Health
Informa Healthcare is a specialised publisher with a portfolio of high quality peer-reviewed journals and books - print and electronic format, directories, encyclopaedias, databases and newsletters - essential resources for every scientific library, research facility, and laboratory whether in industry, government, or academia.
These resources span the pharmaceutical, life science and clinical markets. Their mission as a healthcare publisher is to connect scientists and clinicians with information they can trust and use. They aim to serve the advancement of drug discovery and development, clinical medicine and life sciences by enhancing the efficiency of communication among pharmaceutical and medicine researchers and decision-makers, and by providing innovative solutions to their information needs.
Informahealthcare.com offers more than 170 journals and 600 recently published online books covering all aspects of healthcare - including drug discovery and development, medical technology, bioscience, clinical practice and toxicology.
Informa Healthcare’s online book collection offers a comprehensive set of medical and pharmaceutical resources available for perpetual access or subscription for academic, corporate, government, and hospital libraries. With access to more than 600 recently published titles, Informa Healthcare’s online book collection delivers a rich stable of data. Access to this collection presents an exclusive opportunity to search approximately 600 recently published books - more than 240,000 pages and 16,000 chapters - of valuable medical and pharmaceutical content.
The Informa Healthcare journal portfolio offers more than 170 journals in the pharmaceutical science, allied health, clinical medicine, and life science areas. Informa Healthcare has gathered more than 2.8 million pages of historical journal content and made them available for researchers and clinicians. The digital archive - dating back to 1918 - allows you to utilize a friendly and functional delivery system; which combines the instant access and easy navigation features needed to find valuable data quickly.

Institute of Physics
IOP Publishing is a world leader in scientific publishing and the electronic dissemination of physics. Their publishing activity, which dates back to 1874, includes a wide range of journals, magazines and websites. IOP Publishing is the publishing arm of the Institute of Physics, a scientific charity with over 37,000 members, devoted to increasing the practice, understanding and application of physics.
IOP publishes a range of journals, websites and magazines including Physics World, the membership title of the Institute of Physics. More than 60 journals reflect the growth and interdisciplinary nature of scientific research and application, from topics as varied as astronomy, mathematics, the biosciences and of course, physics.
Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
Wolters Kluwer Health is a leading provider of information for professionals and students in medicine, nursing, allied health and pharmacy. Wolters Kluwer Health’s power brands include traditional publishers of medical and drug reference tools and textbooks, such as Lippincott Williams & Wilkins and Facts & Comparisons and electronic information providers, such as Ovid and UpToDate.
Founded in 1988 as a small software start-up, Ovid was one of the first businesses to recognize the rapidly expanding capabilities of information technology. From its start helping librarians and researchers access and search MEDLINE records, Ovid has grown into a world leader in information access providing electronic content, research capabilities, and support services to users worldwide. Today, millions of information managers, researchers, students, and clinicians around the world have access to the OvidSP complete research solution to inform their work to improve patient care, fuel new discoveries and enhance ongoing research.
Ovid offers tremendous depth and breadth of content via OvidSP and published by the world’s leading publishers:
- More than 3,000 ebooks, including 60 book collections, including archive collections of critical historical material, publisher collections, and topical collections
- Over 1,200 premium, peer-reviewed journals - with no embargoes! Plus 50 journal collections, including archive collections and packages based on publisher or subject
- Over 100 bibliographic and full-text databases
Maney Publishing
Maney Publishing was formed in 1997, and since then has established itself as a leading international academic publisher, combining technical and editorial innovation with its traditional values of quality and collaborative working. Specialising in print and electronic journal publishing, Maney is committed to technical and editorial innovation combined with traditional values of quality and collaboration. Maney publishes over eighty journals, the majority on behalf of societies, universities, and professional institutes.
Maney publishes journals in materials science, humanities, and health science. Its high quality journals, published in print and electronic format, are international in scope and peer-reviewed. MORE (Maney Online Research E-journal) Collections represent real value for money. Journals are peer-reviewed and regularly cited in BIOSIS, MEDLINE, Science Citation Index, Materials Abstracts and Social Sciences Citation Index. All online journals are included in CrossRef enabling interactive linking to and from cited references. MORE Collections include:
- MORE Full Collection
- MORE Materials Science & Engineering
- MORE Health Sciences
- MORE History
- MORE History & Humanities
- MORE Archaeology & Heritage
- MORE Language & Literature
Nature Publishing Group
Nature Publishing Group (NPG) is a publisher of high impact scientific and medical information in print and online. NPG publishes journals, online databases, and services across the life, physical, chemical and applied sciences and clinical medicine. NPG is a subsidiary of Macmillan Publishers Ltd, a global publishing group founded in the United Kingdom in 1843.
Focusing on the needs of scientists, Nature (founded in 1869) is the leading weekly, international scientific journal. In addition, for this audience, NPG publishes the Nature research journals and Nature Reviews journals, plus a range of prestigious academic journals including society-owned publications.
Scientific American is at the heart of NPG’s newly-formed consumer media division, meeting the needs of the general public. Founded in 1845, Scientific American is the oldest continuously published magazine in the US and the leading authoritative publication for science in the general media.
NRC Press
Canadian Science Publishing, a not-for-profit company (operating under the brand NRC Research Press, is the foremost scientific publisher in Canada and one of the most advanced electronic publishing services in the world. With over 50 highly skilled experts and an editorial staff comprising some of the world’s leading researchers, NRC Research Press communicates scientific discoveries to over 100 countries.
Canadian Science Publishing publishes 15 NRC Research Press journals in a broad range of scientific disciplines, with more than 2000 manuscripts each year. The first issue of the Canadian Journal of Research appeared in May 1929 and in 1951 the title was dropped and each section became a separate journal. All journals are now available online full-text and are accessible before print publication.
RMIT Publishing
RMIT Publishing is the largest specialist provider of research from Australia, New Zealand and the Asia Pacific region. Through its Informit databases and search platform, RMT Publishing makes it easy for people to search, research and discover the content they need for better results.
Informit content is sourced from over 500 publishers, associations and peak professional bodies and made available across over 70 bibliographic, full text and media databases. Content includes peer reviewed journals, specialist journals, monographs, reports, conference papers as well as bibliographic indexes – collated with a focus on regional perspectives and otherwise hard-to-find research.
- Informit Indexes
Since 1990 RMIT Publishing has offered electronic access to Australian academic content via more than 70 index databases referencing thousands of Australian scholarly journals. The number of Index compilations has grown over the years to encompass most subject areas.
- Informit Plus Text databases
Since 2000, RMIT Publishing has combined the authoritative bibliographic information of leading Informit Index databases with full text links to thousands of articles from hundreds of leading Australasian journals. RMIT Publishing has negotiated electronic Rights to journal articles from over 800 publications linking to five of our most popular index databases. These products are published as Informit Plus Text databases.
- Informit Collections
Early in 2005 RMIT Publishing launched the Informit e-Library service providing cover-to-cover access to full text of online journal articles, monographs, textbooks, conference proceedings, research reports, working papers and other literature. Informit Collections builds on the database publishing strengths developed by RMIT Publishing over the past 15 years.

Royal Society of Chemistry
The RSC is the largest organisation in Europe for advancing the chemical sciences. Supported by a worldwide network of members and an international publishing business, our activities span education, conferences, science policy and the promotion of chemistry to the public.
RSC Publishing (a not-for-profit publisher wholly owned by the Royal Society of Chemistry) is one of the largest and most dynamic publishers of chemical science information in the world. Over 230 people, globally located in offices in Cambridge (UK), Philadelphia (USA), Beijing and Shanghai (China), are employed in the publishing operation. With a publishing history that dates back to 1841, today RSC Publishing produces a wide range of Books/eBooks, Databases, Journals and Magazines.
RSC Publishing’s high quality books programme covers the breadth of the chemical sciences, ranging from the highly specialised to educational textbooks and popular science titles.
Their market leading journal portfolio is guaranteed to make an impact:
- The average impact factor across journals is 5.4. (It’s an impressive figure, especially when compared with the average for a chemistry journal of 2.4 - Data based on 2009 Journal Citation Reports).
- 90% of titles have an impact factor over 3.
- RSC Publishing titles make up 25% of the top 20 journals in the multidisciplinary chemistry category.
- Authors, readers, and customers are truly international. Over 70 countries were represented in published articles throughout the RSC portfolio in 2009.
S Karger
The family business was founded in 1890 in Berlin, when Samuel Karger decided to launch a publishing company devoted entirely to medicine and science. He was also amongst the first to foresee the demand for specialized journals. The first was founded in 1893 - Dermatologische Zeitschrift (now Dermatology). Ready to tackle the many challenges facing the publishing industry in the next few decades, S. Karger is confident that it will continue to serve the information needs of the scientific community as an independent, family-owned publishing house.
Currently, the company employs more than 200 people at the Basel headquarters and has a worldwide network of branch offices and distribution centres, and the publishing house produces close to 80 scientific journals and about 150 serial and non-serial book titles and supplement or themed journal issues per year, primarily in English. All journals and most of the books are also available in electronic format, since Karger was among the first to recognize the potential of the new media for publishing.
The Karger eBooks Collection comprises all series titles published in a Copyright 2011 year (October - September). The yearly price and a guaranteed minimum number of titles to be published are defined before a new Copyright 2011 year begins. The Karger eBooks Collection offers you these advantages:
- One-time buy, no additional maintenance fee
- Multiple simultaneous access
- Perpetual access to the purchased content guaranteed
- Access via IP range or User ID and password
- New Karger website and contents search powered by Google
- eBooks and eJournals accessible on the same platform
- MARC 21 records for easy integration into the library catalogue
- COUNTER compliant statistics available
Springer Science + Business Media
Springer’s business is publishing. Throughout the world, they provide scientific and professional communities with superior specialist information – produced by authors and colleagues across cultures in a nurtured collegial atmosphere of which we are justifiably proud.
Over 2,000 academic journals and around 6,500 new books are published each year by Springer. 90 percent of their publications appear on the market in English.
SpringerLink is the world’s most complete online collection of STM books, journals, reference works and databases. More than 60,000 librarians worldwide choose SpringerLink for online scientific content.
The SpringerLink Online Journal collection includes more than 2,400 peer-reviewed journals. Through the Online Archives Collection almost every journal is available online from Volume I, Issue I. Springer’s eBook Collection is the largest collection of STM Books Online with nearly 40,000 eBooks available. More than 4,000 new eBooks and eReferences are added every year. All Springer publications including eBooks, Online Journals and eReferences are contained in 12 Subject Collections.
Other e-products include SpringerProtocols, SpringerImages, SpringerMaterials, Zentralblatt MATH

Taylor & Francis Group
Taylor & Francis, founded in the City of London in 1798, is one of the oldest commercial journals publishers in the world, and one of the leading global academic publishers. Operating from a network of 20 global offices, the Taylor & Francis Group publishes more than 1,500 journals and around 1,800 new books each year, with a books backlist in excess of 20,000 specialist titles.
Taylor & Francis has continued to go from strength to strength, positioning itself for the demands of academic research in the 21st century. In 2004 Taylor & Francis merged with Informa to create a global force in the fields of events management, business-to-business magazines, subscription publications and publishing services.
CRCnetBASE (part of the Taylor & Francis Group) is made up of over 6,000 online books that span over 40 disciplines. In addition to e-books published under the imprint CRC Press, CRCnetBASE also includes online references from Auerbach and Chapman & Hall. The powerful research platform has been adopted throughout the world at academic and corporate institutions.

Wiley-Blackwell
Wiley-Blackwell is the international Scientific, Technical, Medical and Scholarly publishing business of John Wiley & Sons, with strengths in every major academic and professional field and partnerships with many of the world’s leading societies. Wiley-Blackwell publishes 1,500 peer-reviewed journals and 1,500+ new books annually in print and online, as well as databases, major reference works and laboratory protocols.
Wiley Online Library hosts the world’s broadest and deepest multidisciplinary collection of online resources covering life, health and physical sciences, social science, and the humanities. It delivers seamless integrated access to over 4 million articles from 1,500 journals, almost 10,000 online books, and hundreds of reference works, laboratory protocols and databases.
Featuring a clean and simple interface, this online service delivers intuitive navigation, enhanced discoverability, expanded functionalities and a range of personalization and alerting options.
- Easy-to-Use New Design: Developed in consultation with users to deliver intuitive navigation and easy access to articles, chapters, references, and supplementary information.
- Enhanced Tools to Discover Relevant Content: Comprehensive search engine optimization ensures easy discoverability of content, delivering relevant and immediate results to users.
- More Ways to Stay Up-to-Date: Content alerts and RSS feeds to keep you updated with the latest published research.
Walter de Gruyter
The Walter de Gruyter publishing group, which includes the imprints De Gruyter Mouton and De Gruyter Saur, is known throughout the world as a leading publisher of academic literature. For more than two-hundred and sixty years the name De Gruyter has been synonymous with high-quality, landmark publications in the humanities and natural sciences. De Gruyter publishes high quality content across a range of subject areas including language and linguistics, philosophy, theology and religious studies, art, classical and ancient studies, history, academic and library reference, library and information science, medicine and natural sciences, mathematics and physics, law and Jewish studies.
De Gruyter e-dition makes over 50,000 high-quality titles available from De Gruyter’s more than 260-year publishing history. At De Gruyter, even titles from 1749 are available with today’s state of the art technology. All eBooks are searchable in full text and indexed, and provide DOIs and MARC records.
The IET
The IET - formed in March 2006 by the Institution of Electrical Engineers (IEE) and the Institution of Incorporated Engineers (IIE) - is one of the world’s leading professional societies for the engineering and technology community, with more than 1,50,000 members in 127 countries and offices in Europe, North America and Asia-Pacific. The IET provides a global knowledge network to facilitate the exchange of ideas and promote the positive role of science, engineering and technology in the world.
The IET provides a range of leading publications and information services in the areas of engineering and technology.
- The IET member magazines are produced to the highest editorial standards by a team of specialist editors - all leading experts in their fields.
- The IET has a dynamic and expanding journals publishing program, including 20 Research Journals, Electronics Letters and Micro & Nano Letters. The journals cover the key areas of scientific practice.
- The Inspec database contains over 11 million bibliographic abstracts and indexing to journal articles, conference proceedings, technical reports and other literature in the fields of science and technology.
- The IET Digital Library holds more than 1,00,000 technical papers from 1994 onwards for all IET journals, magazines, conference publications and seminar digests.
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