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RoMEO – Helps you check if a journal allows archiving of your paper

RoMEO – Helps you check if a journal allows archiving of your paper

2.1 - Do you know - Resources
You wish to decide which journal to send your paper to. There are several factors involved here. One important factor is if a journal permits archiving your paper. After all you want people to read your paper! And if the journal is not open access or does not make articles freely available, you want the choice of archiving it somewhere. Check out the RoMEO initiative at http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo/index.phpEnter the name of the journal or its ISSN and search. RoMEO will tell you instantly about its archiving policies. Here is a sample result for the Indian Journal of Medical Research - http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo/search.php?issn=0971-5916Ideally we all need to…
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Finding full text articles

Finding full text articles

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The QMed website has a page with tips on finding full text journal articles that may not be marked free in PubMed / indexing sources. Do check out this page http://www.qmed.ngo/full-text-articles/ and the way you can get articles will change. Do be aware that some articles will be available to us only in the scanned format; the whole world is not yet digitised.  
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Use of scientific social networking to improve the research strategies of Pubmed readers

Use of scientific social networking to improve the research strategies of Pubmed readers

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Evdokimov P et al. Use of scientific social networking to improve the research strategies of PubMed readers.BMC Res Notes. 2016;9:113.PubMed PMID 26892337Keeping up with journal articles on a daily basis is an important activity of scientists engaged in biomedical research. Usually, journal articles and papers in the field of biomedicine are accessed through the Medline/PubMed electronic library. In the process of navigating PubMed, researchers unknowingly generate user-specific reading profiles that can be shared within a social networking environment. This paper examines the structure of the social networking environment generated by PubMed users. Do read the full paper - it does sound exciting!To see…
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Digital Collections of the National Library of Medicine, USA

Digital Collections of the National Library of Medicine, USA

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This one is for anyone interested in Historical works in Medicine. Here is something from the National Library of Medicine (NLM), USA - "Digital Collections" a free online resource of biomedical books, still as well as moving images. Unless mentioned specifically, the content is totally free. Wish to read about Semmelweiss' work on puerperal infections? Just search by the name Semmelweiss and you get 35 items. You can filter by the format option on the left side, and get images or his works - full books to download! The coverage of items is from - hold your breath - before 1600! There is such a…
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Household products database

Household products database

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Wish to know more about potential health effects, safety and handling of the several products that we use in our kitchen, bathroom and laundry area? Check out the Household products database by the National Library of Medicine, USA. Available at https://householdproducts.nlm.nih.gov/index.htm, this is an initiative of the National Library of Medicine. While it is US oriented, a lot of it will be useful in our Indian context. Ideally of course, we need our own Indian database like this one!To read more of our "Did you know" posts, do check out our blog posts on these  
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