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In my opinion there is a "full text retrieval bias": • Most of HighWire-hosted journals are free after 6-12 months • Many health professionals use Google to find the full text articles. If you paste the title of any article in Google in first 3-4 results you will have the full text-link (more than the MEDLINE link). • In MEDLINE, the coloured icons about full text availability, are soon inaccurate I think that the results could be different for non HighWire-hosted journals (e.g. for Elsevier or Blackwell) Regards Nino Cartabellotta -----Messaggio originale----- Da: Evidence based health (EBH) [mailto:[log in to unmask]] Per conto di Paul Glasziou Inviato: giovedě 5 gennaio 2006 15.11 A: [log in to unmask] Oggetto: Re: Searching for the right search - NEJM piece Badri, Thanks for the alert - an interesting piece. The most surprising fact was the way people now get to Medline articles: "In June 2005, Google provided the majority (56.4 percent) of the referrals from search engines to articles in HighWire-hosted journals (see <http://content.nejm.org/cgi/content/full/354/1/4#F1>pie chart). PubMed accounted for 8.7 percent, Google Scholar 3.7 percent, and Yahoo 3.4 percent. " Amazing, Best wishes, Paul Glasziou At 05/01/2006, you wrote: >Dear Colleague, > >New Year greetings to you all from historic Bury St Edmunds in the >east of England. > >To day's NEJM carries a piece "Steinbrook R. Searching for the right >search - Reaching the medical Literature. New Engl J Med >2006;354:4-7". This paper highlights the increasing role of search >engines in accessing medical literature. > >I though this might be of interest to some of you. > >Warm regards & very best wishes, > >Badri > >Dr.P.Badrinath MD, BS, M.Phil, MPH, PhD (Cantab), MFPH >Consultant in Public Health & Affiliated Clinical Lecturer, >Suffolk West PCT & University of Cambridge, UK >http://myprofile.cos.com/badrishanthi > >Disclaimer: The above views are my own and not that of my employing >organisations. Paul Glasziou Department of Primary Health Care & Director, Centre for Evidence-Based Practice, Oxford ph: 44-1865-227055