Journals Now on PubMed Central

In order to fulfill the National Institutes of Health's Public Access Policy mandate (see below), Comparative Medicine (CM) and the Journal of the American Association for Laboratory Animal Science (JAALAS) are now available on the PubMed Central website. This is another service the editorial office will be providing to the authors free of charge. The articles of all authors published in either journal will be made available to the general public in the PubMed Central website at the end of their embargo, that is, 6 months after publication. All articles published in 2008 and January JAALAS are already available:

JAALAS: http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/tocrender.fcgi?action=archive&journal=817

Comparative Medicine: http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/tocrender.fcgi?action=archive&journal=833

"The NIH Public Access Policy ensures that the public has access to the published results of NIH funded research. It requires scientists to submit final peer-reviewed journal manuscripts that arise from NIH funds to the digital archive PubMed Central upon acceptance for publication. To help advance science and improve human health, the Policy requires that these papers are accessible to the public on PubMed Central no later than 12 months after publication." (http://publicaccess.nih.gov/)

Denver National Meeting Housing Open

The Denver Housing Bureau is now open for attendees of the 60th AALAS National Meeting. To make reservations, please visit the National Meeting website for the direct link to the bureau site.

In addition, the program for the meeting is now online. You will be receiving a printed preliminary program in the next few weeks. Please remember that due to the extended deadline for poster and platform sessions, the poster and platform schedules are not yet finalized. The poster and platform abstracts will be online in the coming weeks.

Times and locations for committee and affiliate meetings can be found online here.

Registered attendees may also sign up for workshops online. Remember, you must have registered for the meeting before you can register for workshops. Be sure to keep checking the AALAS National Meeting website for the latest updates.

See you in Denver!