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

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

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

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

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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