In an ongoing effort to add greater educational value to ABC’s
membership benefits, ABC has introduced HerbEClips™, a twice-monthly
e-mail service providing many ABC members easier direct access to
newly-released HerbClip™ summaries and critical reviews. HerbClip is
part of ABC’s vast offering of educational online content, which is
available through ABC’s newly-revised website, www.herbalgram.org/. The first HerbEClip will be issued by ABC in September 2007.
HerbEClips will be delivered two times each month directly to ABC
members’ e-mail inboxes, and it will feature links to the most
recently-released HerbClip summaries. The new HerbEClip service also
offers ABC’s many members at the Individual level an opportunity to
upgrade their memberships to gain full access to all 14 HerbClips that
are released twice a month and to gain access to the more than 3,300
HerbClip summaries and critical reviews that are available in the
HerbClip database on ABC’s website. Currently, ABC’s Individual members
can access only two of the 14 HerbClips that are released twice a
month. In addition, each HerbEClip contains a message from the HerbClip
managing editor Lori Glenn about the latest issue of HerbClip online.
Since 1993 HerbClip has provided summaries and critical reviews of
seminal articles covering a wide area of topics of interest to members
of the medicinal plant community: clinical and scientific research,
regulation, conservation, market trends, etc. Published twice monthly,
each issue contains 14 articles drawn from a wide variety of scientific
journals, trade publications, government documents, special reports,
etc. In addition to online access, HerbClip is also available in a
paper version that includes the original articles when permission from
the respective publishers has been granted. The entire database of more
than 3,300 HerbClips is available online to all ABC members at the
Academic level and higher. The database is searchable by keywords,
including herb common name, Latin binomial, title, author(s) of the
study being reviewed, publication (e.g., journal name), indication
(when applicable), and more, in addition to being searchable by full
text for all words in each HerbClip.
More information on HerbClip is available online at abc.herbalgram.org/herbclip, and further information regarding ABC membership is available at abc.herbalgram.org/membership.
-Jeremy Pigg |