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PubsHub (ADVERTORIAL)
Published 27 February 2009, written by David Schuh of PubsHub
The drug development process is changing. Timelines are shorter, and expectations are higher than ever before. In-house staff sizes are shrinking, and there are too few hands to complete all of the work that must be done. Decisions must be made.
One item that frequently falls to the bottom of the to-do list is tracking submission criteria for your target medical journals and meetings. It’s a hot issue that you know must get done, but it’s not hot enough . . . until it’s on fire.
We’ve all been there. The mandated deadline for publishing on the clinical trial data is looming, and all hands are on deck to get the manuscripts, reviews, abstracts, and presentations written, edited, formatted, and ready to go out the door.
But what format does the journal require for submissions? When is the deadline for that meeting poster? Suddenly, that “round-to-it” task has become mission critical, and the race is on to gather the information you need to get your critical data out to the practitioners.
Because no one has been specifically assigned to the task, and because this is not a search your team does on a regular basis, a tremendous amount of time is spent searching, re-searching, and digging through website after website seeking the data points you need.
Worse yet, your team discover that the key target meeting you were planning on submitting to moved its abstract due date. You’ve missed it by a week. And it’s a bi-annual meeting so you’ve missed the key venue for your exact target audience.
Now what?
There are a number of tools designed to keep you abreast of this data that do not require an in-house person dedicated to the task. The premier tool in this arena is www.PubsHub.comTM.
PubsHub continuously tracks the submission criteria for more than 5,300 medical journals and meetings, providing up-to-date information for more than 50 critical data points on each one.
Accessed through a web-based portal, PubsHub allows you to tailor your search results based upon your therapeutic area, audience/readership, Impact Factor, circulation, time to publication, rejection rate, and other data points critical to your publication planning needs.
You may even save your searches in order to refresh your list of target meetings and journals quickly, and you may set up e-mail alerts for those individual journals and meetings for which you need to capture changes to submission criteria on an ongoing basis.
PubsHub’s full-time dedicated staff updates the database daily, ensuring the accuracy of every single record a minimum of four times a year. In reality, however, many records are updated far more frequently because publishers and meeting organizers recognize PubsHub’s dominance in this arena and provide updates to PubsHub as they happen.
Beyond updating records already in the database, PubsHub is growing on a daily basis, and new journals and meetings are added each week.
“But,” you may be wondering, “what if PubsHub is missing a meeting or journal I need right now?!”
The answer is simple. Let us know as much about it as you know, and we will find it and put in into PubsHub as quickly as possible. For a meeting, the basic information will typically be there within 30 minutes of your request. A journal takes a bit longer, and a basic record will be there within a couple of hours. Any data that we can’t find right away is immediately requested from the organizer or publisher. As soon as they respond to the inquiry, the data is added to the record.
It’s as simple as that.
PubsHub’s key competitors charge tens of thousands of dollars (or in some cases, hundreds of thousands of dollars) for access to less information. We know that most organizations can no longer afford that level of payment. For smaller organizations, those sorts of figures have always been completely out of reach.
At PubsHub, there is a different model in place. Because we focus solely on the critical submission criteria you need for your key medical meetings and journals, we are able to keep our costs down. We pass that along to you in the hope that we are being of service and are furthering the cause of getting word out on important new therapies that are under development.
For $4,995 per year, you can have up-to-date access to the information that you need to do your job. That’s less than one fifth of the cost of hiring someone in-house to do the same task for you.
What’s more, you can try PubsHub before you buy it, with a no-obligation 30-day trial subscription. With the trial, you have access to the full PubsHub database. We hide nothing from you during this trial. If you find it useful, we invite you to subscribe. If not, you’ve lost nothing.
We believe, however, that you will find PubsHub to be an invaluable addition to your toolbox of resources for getting your scientific data to those who need it most.
About the author
David Schuh is Business Development Director at PubsHub. Do you have questions? Would you like a guided tour of the PubsHub interface? Contact us today at +1 800.918.9612 or DS@PubsHub.comor go to www.PubsHub.com today and register. See you there soon!
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Feedback: Do you have any comments about this article? Contact the Publisher, Peter Llewellyn.
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