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RMIT Publishing presents the Informit Health Collection - a new ally in allied health
01 September 2009
RMIT Publishing, the premier source for authoritative content from the Australasian region, is pleased to present the Informit Health Collection ─ new for 2010. This new full text online resource will deliver instant, cover-to-cover access to core allied health content from the Australasian region. Many of the peer reviewed titles it includes are uniquely available through Informit, offering new perspectives of benefit to allied health professionals and students.
“Now, at a time where nurses and allied health professionals are under more pressure than ever, we are delighted to provide new and reliable reference points to support their work. Through our ongoing collaboration with leading publishers and content providers we look forward again to making unique and hard-to-find material easily accessible to the global health arena” commented Heather Crosbie, Director of RMIT Publishing.
Importantly, Informit Health Collection will provide access to evidence-based research and case studies of practical support to practitioners and students in therapeutic, diagnostic and preventative health roles. Subjects covered include alternative medicine, biotechnology, children's health, continence and urology, counselling, epidemiology, geriatric health, indigenous health, nursing, rehabilitation and rural health.
Informit Health Collection has been developed by RMIT Publishing in response to the growing demand for online allied health information and it will replace its more clinical and selectively indexed predecessor – Meditext - from January 1, 2010.
A representative from the National Library of Australia (NLA) comments that “the creation of a cover-to-cover, full text product specialising in health research from the Asia Pacific region is a move supported by us. Having provided the metadata since 1968 and copyright cleared scanned images for full text articles to Meditext from 2001, the NLA expresses its confidence in handing over the gauntlet to RMIT Publishing." The index upon which Meditext was based – the Australasian Medical Index – will be archived and remain available through Informit and the NLA.
RMIT Publishing previews the new Informit Health Collection in Brisbane at the International Congress on Medical Librarianship throughout this week. Informit Health Collection will be available to libraries and institutions on annual subscription from January 2010. Trials will commence on October 1 2009.
Read more and register for a free trial now.
About RMIT Publishing
RMIT Publishing is the largest provider of authoritative content from the Asia Pacific region. A preferred partner for content providers, RMIT Publishing collaborates with publishers, government departments, research institutes and others. Through its Informit brand and online platform, RMIT Publishing provides easy access to core content and specialist research not readily available elsewhere online. RMIT Publishing is a business unit of RMIT Training Pty Ltd – a wholly owned subsidiary of RMIT University. Read more here.
About Informit
Search, research and discover core and unique content from the Asia Pacific region. With over 70 subject databases to choose from, a subscription to Informit increases the diversity of your collections and fills gaps left by other content providers. Informit databases include A+ Education, Business Collection, Engineering Collection, Humanities & Social Sciences Collection, AGIS Plus Text (Law), Australian Public Affairs - Full Text, TVNews and RequestTV. Read more here.
Media contact:
Non Jenkins
RMIT Publishing
Tel: +61 (0)3 9925 8100
Non.jenkins@rmit.edu.au