We keep hearing about open access and creative commons. What exactly is Creative Commons? It is a license by which the author retains the copyright (unlike what happens when s/he publishes in a journal - the article becomes the journal's copyright). And public who read the author's works have a right to copy, acknowledging the author's work. This way research is shared with a much wider audience. There are six types of CC licenses. This infographic by Wiley Publishers explains all of them clearly. To read more of our "Do you know" posts, do check out our blog posts on these 

 PubMed has made some recent changes. In the "Abstract display", A Digital Object Identifier (DOI) link is displayed if available. And the "Items per page" selection has been moved to the bottom of the results page. To see illustrations click here  

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…