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Document Delivery: Oxford University Press and SIMID® SA agree to make contents of Medical Journals available through SIMID’s database

23 November 2006

Oxford Journals, a division of Oxford University Press, and SIMID® SA have signed an agreement saying that all full-text articles from some of Oxford’s medical journals will be available for purchase via the database of SIMID SA. With this cooperation both parties hope to increase their market share in Europe as providers of medical information.

SIMID SA began medical publishing in September 2005, one of their goals being to develop a medical library. Physicians and patients can quickly and easily find articles through SIMID’s database on the internet. This database contains summaries of medical articles published in scientific journals, from publishers with whom SIMID has a contractual relationship. The difference between the SIMID database and other databases (libraries) is that the full-text articles can be instantly downloaded. The interested physician or patient does not have to go to another website to retrieve the article, but can do this directly. Extending its coverage to include the Oxford Journals’ medical collection fits the strategy of SIMID® SA of enlarging the database and becoming the SIMID Medical Scientific Online Library.


Oxford University Press aims to bring the highest quality research to the widest possible audience. As a major international publisher of academic and research journals, Oxford Journals publishes over 190 titles, many in partnership with the world’s leading prestigious learned societies. The Oxford Journals collections cover Life Sciences, Mathematics & Physical Sciences, Medicine, Social Sciences, Humanities, and Law, and include some of the most authoritative journals in their fields.

For more information, please contact:

Fiona Bennett
Head, Rights and New Business Development
Oxford Journals

Oxford University Press
Great Clarendon Street
OX2 6DP

Mark Gmelig Meyling
Managing Director
SIMID SA

Via Chiosso 15
6948 Porza (TI)
Switzerland