Open-i – Open Access Biomedical Image Search Engine

When we think of the National Library of Medicine, USA, we think of PubMed. But the NLM has so much more to offer. One interesting resource is - Open-i  - a service that enables search and retrieval of abstracts and images from the open source literature, and biomedical image collections. This includes charts, graphs, clinical images, and more.  You could search by text queries or even query images. Open-i provides access to over 1.6 million images from about 580,000 PubMedCentral articles and 7,470 chest x-rays with 3,955 radiology reports. Have fun going through this massive collection, and for the terms of…
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Epidemiology and Reporting Characteristics of Systematic Reviews of Biomedical Research: A Cross-Sectional Study

Page MJ, Shamseer L, Altman DG, Tetzlaff J, Sampson M, Tricco AC, Catalá-López F, Li L, Reid EK, Sarkis-Onofre R, Moher D.Epidemiology and Reporting Characteristics of Systematic Reviews of Biomedical Research: A Cross-Sectional Study. PLoS Med. 2016 May 24;13(5):e1002028 Systematic reviews can help decision makers interpret research findings in the overload of published biomedical literature. However if a systematic review is not done well, or not reported correctly, its value is lost. The authors found that there was a huge increase in the number of systematic reviews being published, in the last three decades, but...when it came to the methods / reporting:At least…
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But PubMed does not have free articles

But PubMed does not have free articles

In a workshop on 'Literature Searching' for a group of DNB students I briefly explained the 'Filters' feature in PubMed. I gave an example of using this feature to locate 'free full text' articles. In this context a student remarked "Anyway 90% of articles in PubMed are not free, so this feature will not be of much use". I sigh again, thinking - "PubMed's role DOES NOT include providing free articles". And several students / health professionals do not know this. PubMed has been available free since 1997. That is nearly 20 years now. And yet, many health professionals (and…
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