Abstract
“ALA is proud of JALA's online affiliations, and pleased with the pace of growth it continues to experience within each of them.”
You know that ALA members read JALA, but do you know that thousands of other science and health professionals around the world read it as well? JALA thrives in three different online dimensions.
Jala Online
As an ALA member reading this issue, it is likely that you are familiar with JALA Online, which can be reached from the ALA Web site at http://labautomation.org. JALA Online offers full text access to JALA articles from March 1999 through today. Access is free for ALA members, and available on a pay-per-view basis for nonmembers.
JALA Online allows users to search through JALA and all other Elsevier journals, save individual searches, and create search alerts, periodic table of contents alerts, and citation alerts.
In 2005, 55% of ALA members reported accessing JALA Online, and by year's end, more than 25,000 page views were tallied from 59 different countries.
Elsevier Sciencedirect
JALA is also featured in Elsevier ScienceDirect (http://www.sciencedirect.com), a subscription database that offers the largest electronic collection (more than 25%) of the world's science, technology, and medicine full text and bibliographic information.
ScienceDirect includes online reference works, handbooks, and book series, plus a rich journal collection of more than 2000 titles. In addition, its backfiles program offers the ability to search a historical archive of over 6.75 million articles. The collections contain 4 million articles prior to 1995, and 2.75 million articles from after 1994.
In 2005, the number of ScienceDirect subscribers entitled to access JALA increased 56%, and more than 10,000 requests for full text articles were made by subscribers from 57 different countries.
World Health Organization's Health Internetwork Access to Research Initiative
Health institutions in 113 developing nations have access to JALA via the World Health Organization's Health InterNetwork Access to Research Initiative (HINARI). HINARI (http://www.who.int/hinari/en) provides free or very low cost online access to more than 3100 major journals in biomedical and related social sciences to local, not-for-profit institutions.
HINARI was developed within the framework of the Health InterNetwork, which was introduced by United Nations Secretary Kofi Annan at the U.N. Millennium Summit in 2000, and was set up by the World Health Organization together with major publishers. HINARI benefits many thousands of health workers and researchers, and in turn, contributes to improved world health. In 2005, JALA material was accessed via HINARI a total of 54 times.
In addition to these important online venues, JA-LA's editorial content is also indexed in four important research databases: Chemical Abstracts, Analytical Abstracts, CINAHL, and EMBASE/Excerpta Medica.
ALA is proud of JALA's online affiliations, and pleased with the pace of growth it continues to experience within each of them. As the only journal devoted to reporting the research, development, and application of technologies within pharmaceutical, biotechnology, clinical, and associated scientific laboratories, this increased exposure benefits JALA readers and JALA authors alike, and speaks directly of