Today’s Lesson: Using Literature to Drive Scientific Breakthroughs Made Easier

You’re a researcher at a pharmaceutical company. You have just located a journal article with potentially huge impact on the discovery process for a new blockbuster drug. You want to get your hands on the article and fast, and you also want your workgroup to receive copies. The sooner the team can read the article, the further along they’ll be towards their life-saving breakthroughs.

There’s just one problem: there isn’t an “iTunes for journal articles” – not yet, anyways. Even if there was, you have no idea if your company already owns the rights to access the article or how to navigate the issues involved in securing permissions or reproducing the article so you can legally distribute it to your coworkers.

Derycz Scientific of Santa Monica, CA, can help— by pioneering a fresh way of facilitating the flow of information from content publishers to enterprise customers and their constituents. As a “content repurposing company,” Derycz positions itself as a value-added middleman, working with content providers to ensure their published content is more easily accessible, and working with users to navigate the pitfalls of content reproduction, sharing and dissemination. For example, if the employer for the researcher described above had an account with Derycz Scientific, they would be able to receive the article quickly, along with information about their available sharing options and tools.

“I coined the term ‘The Article Economy’ because research articles and other types of published information ought to be assessed by their financial and intellectual worth,” says Jan Peterson, Head of Publisher Relations at Derycz Scientific. “Publishers can reap the greatest rewards if their articles are available and sold to the widest possible range of content users. Researchers profit when articles are easily and conveniently procurable and distributed.”

To this end, Derycz Scientific operates through two subsidiaries, Reprints Desk, Inc., and Pools Press, Inc. Reprints Desk specializes in distributing bulk reprints, e-prints and single articles to life science and other research-intensive enterprises. Pools Press works as a printing service provider. Reprints Desk is a channel supplier for over 100 scientific, technical, and medical publishers, serving most of the world’s top-50 pharmaceutical companies.

Visit Derycz Scientific at www.deryczscientific.com to see why leading pharmaceutical companies turn to Derycz Scientific and its subsidiaries to better utilize scientific literature.