Ovid Partners with Leading Publishers CIG Media and A & C Black to Offer Core E-Resources to the Medical Research Community 

8 Oncology Journals from CIG Media and 5 Reference Books
from A & C Black Coming to OvidSP.

New York, NY (August 31, 2009) – Ovid, a part of Wolters Kluwer Health and a global leader in electronic medical, scientific, and academic information research solutions, is pleased to announce new licensing agreements with Cancer Information Group (CIG) Media, a leading publisher of tumor-specific, clinically focused cancer journals, and A & C Black, which publishes a diverse set of books in a wide variety of subjects and categories, including scientific reference. As a leading aggregator of online scientific information, Ovid works with more than 150 international and society publishers, offering a wide selection of online books, journals, and databases via OvidSP, its leading precision search and discovery platform.

“We’re thrilled with the addition of these two highly regarded publishers to our partnership portfolio. Both CIG Media and A & C Black are recognized worldwide for the quality of their content, which complements and expands upon Ovid’s existing offerings,” said Andrew L. Popper, Vice President of Publishing & eProducts at Ovid. “CIG Media’s specialized titles add depth to our clinical offerings in oncology, one of Ovid’s strongest medical specialties. A & C Black’s dictionaries and handbooks provide breadth to our growing collection of general reference books.”

As part of its agreement with Cancer Information Group (CIG) Media, the following 8 journals are scheduled to be available for annual subscription in September:

• Clinical Breast Cancer
• Clinical Colorectal Cancer
• Clinical Genitourinary Cancer
• Clinical Lung Cancer
• Clinical Leukemia
• Clinical Lymphoma & Myeloma
• Clinical Ovarian Cancer
• Supportive Cancer Therapy

Based in Dallas, Texas, CIG Media Group is dedicated to providing peer-reviewed, tumor-specific content from key specialists and opinion leaders in various types of cancers and hematology fields. CIG journals feature internationally prominent editorial boards and provide up-to-date clinically relevant information, original studies, reviews, meeting highlights, and more.

UK publisher A & C Black has an extensive selection of books, including dictionaries and handbooks for students and researchers. Five of these will be available on OvidSP in September, including Black’s Medical Dictionary, the bestselling medical dictionary for more than 100 years which includes over 5,000 definitions, medical terms and concepts, as well as illustrations; Dictionary of Nursing, with over 11,000 nursing terms; and Black's Veterinary Dictionary, a bestseller for over 70 years; as well as two brand-new titles, The Sports Injuries Handbook, written for practitioners as well as coaches and administrators, and The Complete Guide to Abdominal Training. Ovid’s global customer base can access these titles on Books@Ovid, OvidSP’s ebooks platform, as either an annual subscription or as a one-time purchase, which gives them perpetual access on Books@Ovid.

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