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ecancer is happy to announce that its open access journal ecancermedicalscience is now indexed in PubMed and PubMed Central. All articles since launch now appear, and all future articles will also benefit from indexing. ecancermedicalscience is the first gold open access peer-reviewed comprehensive cancer journal on PubMed, with no author or submission fees. PubMed is an electronic archive of journal articles, offering free access to its contents. To be included, journals must qualify on two levels: On the scientific and editorial quality of the content, and on the technical quality of the digital files. It's the place to start searching for information in the biomedical journal literature; a bibliographic database made up of the citations and abstracts of millions of articles from almost 5,000 journals. Founding Editor Prof Umberto Veronesi commented: "I am very proud that our IEO journal has been accepted by PubMed. ecancermedicalscience was designed to be different because to be effective globally it had to be free. We are delighted to have over 40,000 unique visitors coming to the journal each month from 190 countries. Cancer is a problem in developing as well as developed countries so ecancermedicalscience meets the needs of all oncologists irrespective of wealth." ecancermedicalscience is already fully-indexed in other leading databases, including Embase, Scopus, EBSCO and Google Scholar, so any article published will be highly accessible to other researchers in the field. Authors retain the copyright of their articles so are free to distribute them as they wish.
'Outstanding creativity' and 'inspirational' ecancer website - judges say
ecancermedicalscience has won its fifth major award in the past 12 months. According to the award judges, the website was 'inspiring' and 'outstandingly creative'. ecancermedicalscience, published by Cancer Intelligence, is the leading online cancer journaland media channel for cancer professionals in Europe. ecancer's goal is to facilitate the exchange of knowledge and information across all cancer specialities around the globe to improve outcomes for patients.
The Ability Media International Award is run by Leonard Cheshire Disability and is designed to identify creativity that encourages a more inclusive world disabled, chronically ill and marginalised groups of people. Covering every aspect of the arts, the winners were chosen for producing work that 'positively represents, involves or assists people facing major physical, mental, emotional or social challenges.'
ecancermedicalscience impresses the judges as 'an impressive, free to use, online social network rapid exchange platform which explains the advances in the latest approaches to cancer and patient treatment. It enables cancer professionals to read, listen, watch, comment on and share scientific information and news via video, text and images and makes a major and much needed contribution to healthcare internationally.'
The website was developed by the agency Brandcast Media. The Managing Director, Charlie Grieve who received the award, said he was surprised and delighted by the award from the Ability Media Creative Board and Leonard Cheshire. "This is really a team award and our team includes every cancer doctor we have interviewed about developments which will ultimately help millions of people to deal with this most feared and increasingly common disease," he said.
"Cancer professionals have to face the reality of caring for people; trying to save their lives or trying to enhance their quality of life. These are the people who really deserve awards," said Charlie. "Put simply, what we strive to do is to help everyone know and recognise the potential of new discoveries and developments in the treatment of cancer and to understand that real progress is being made in this vital area of modern medicine."
ecancermedicalscience wins highest accolade for web TV
The 29th IVCA Awards celebrated effective communication in video and digital media across Europe. The glittering ceremony held in London on 26th March was attended by over 700 commissioners, government representatives, industry colleagues and the media.
ecancer, the journal from the European Institute of Oncology, Milan, won the gold award for its web TV channel, ecancer.tv The channel features over 300 videos of leading oncology professionals discussing cancer news from around the world. The channel also hosts animations, round table discussions, educational modules and press briefings. ecancer actively encourages all those involved in cancer care to exchange ideas and research, speeding up the time it takes from discovery to patient. The channel is not for profit and all content is provided free of charge.
Prof. Gordon McVie, Managing Editor of ecancer, comments, ‘”We are leading the way in the field of online video for busy oncology professionals. We offer all our content free of charge and we are extremely grateful to our founding partners who had the foresight and courage to back this innovative idea.”Marco Forgione, IVCA’s Chief Executive commented “The IVCA Awards are an annual celebration of the finest creativity, innovation and expertise that the communications industry has to offer. Once again this year the standard of entries was exceptional.”
The Founding partners of ecancer are: The European Institute of Oncology Foundation, ECCO (The European CanCer Organisation), The Umberto Veronesi Foundation and Swiss Bridge.
ecancermedicalscience, the online journal from the European Institute of Oncology has won The best online educational tool for healthcare professionals: category at the PM Digital Media Awards.
The accolade recognises ecancer’s role in the development of online educational materials for cancer professionals. ecancer publishes the latest cancer research incorporating social networking tools and blogs. The site also hosts a comprehensive collection of video interviews, webcasts and roundtable discussions to support oncologist’s training and education.
Prof Gordon McVie, Managing Editor of ecancermedicalscience commented,
‘As a medical oncologist I think it is really important that professionals have easy access to quality educational materials. I believe ecancer is delivering gold standard content and is leading the way for cancer communication in Europe’.
The inaugural Digital Media Awards celebrated the very best in digital media solutions within the pharmaceutical and healthcare industries. This years winners were selected from 130 entries and ecancer beat off competition from other well established websites. The team was formally honoured at an awards dinner on 1st October 2009 in London overseen by former Labour party spin-doctor Alastair Campbell.
ecancer is a not for profit journal with all of the material free to access. ecancer is supported by a number of charities including ECCO (The European CanCer Organisation), The Umberto Veronesi Foundation, The Fondazione IEO and Swiss Bridge.