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Date: Wed, 15 Dec 2010 14:19:30 -0000
From: Janice Flahiff <[log in to unmask]>
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Subject: [Net-Gold] Free and Low Cost Medical Articles   (How to Obtain)





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How to Obtain Free / Low Cost Medical Articles
in Medical and Scientific Journals



How to obtain free/low cost medical
articles in medical and scientific
journals



https://jflahiff.wordpress.com/2010/11/07/
how-to-obtain-medical-articles-for-free-
or-at-low-cost/



From Health and medical news edited by
Janice Flahiff



http://jflahiff.wordpress.com



Heard about a new treatment for
Alzheimer's disease and want to read
about the original research?
Need to go to the source about a new
surgical procedure? Medical articles,
written by physicians and scientists
just might be the answer.**

Most medical articles are quite
technically written and are published
in journals which require paid
subscriptions (even thoÕ they are
online!). Examples of medical
journals include the



New England Journal of Medicine

http://www.nejm.org/



the Journal of the American Medical Association

http://jama.ama-assn.org/



and the Lancet

http://www.thelancet.com/




Medical journals (a type of scholarly
journals) differ from popular
magazines (as Psychology Today) in
appearance, audience, and purpose.
Duke University has a great comparison
chart on the differences between
scholarly journals and popular magazines


http://library.duke.edu/services/
instruction/libraryguide/scholarlyjournal.html


A few great places to get free and
low cost medical articles



* Libraries Many public libraries
have at least some medical journals.
Most college, university, and medical
school libraries (and all receiving
some state funding) are open to the
public and provide some reference
services to the general public.



These academic libraries vary in the
number of subscribed medical journals.
Some hospital libraries are also open
to the public.It is best to call
ahead and ask a reference librarian to
see if the library is open to the
public, if they have the article you
need, and if you can use their
computers and printers. Ask about
interlibrary loan from any library
where you have borrowing privileges.
Your library will try to get any
article they do not have from another
library (there usually is a charge,
upwards of $11.00 or more an article).



* PubMed Central

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/


provides access to free articles
submitted by authors and publishers.
Some articles are free immediately when
they are published, others are free on
a delayed basis (ranging from a few
months to a year). Check the PubMed
Central home page for additional
information

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/

PubMed Central is a service of the
US National Institutes of Health.



* Docline

http://docline.gov/

is the National Library of Medicine's
automated interlibrary loan (ILL)
request routing and referral system.
The purpose of the system is to provide
efficient document delivery service
among libraries in the National Network
of Libraries of Medicine (NN/LM)

http://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/factsheets/nnlm.html

Individual users of NLMÕs PubMed and
the NLM Gateway do not have access to
DOCLINE, but they can make use of its
services by ordering documents through
Loansome Doc

http://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/
factsheets/loansome_doc.html

a document ordering service. All PubMed
or NLM Gateway users ordering documents
must identify a DOCLINE library or
libraries that are willing to serve
them (Ordering Library). The health
professional performs a PubMed or
NLM Gateway search, reviews the
citations retrieved, and identifies
specific documents to be ordered.
Orders are sent to DOCLINE from either
PubMed or the NLM Gateway. The NLM
PubMed server manages all
document-ordering activities.

LoansomeDoc is for people who are not
affiliated with a health or
medical institution that has a library.
(If your institution has a library,
just ask a librarian about ordering
articles through interlibrary loan).
To register for LoansomeDoc, contact
the closest medical library.

They can help you set up an account,
including payments for articles.

You should be able receive most, if not
all, ordered articles via email.




* DeepDyve

http://www.deepdyve.com/

is an online rental service for scientific,
medical, technical, and scholarly articles.
The About page

http://www.deepdyve.com/how-it-works

outlines how it works. An online article
about this service may be found here

http://findarticles.com/p/articles/
mi_hb3328/is_201009/ai_n55485389/




* Contact the Author Email, fax,
or write the author. Most authors
are happy to provide a free copy of
their articles if asked. Cannot
locate an address or fax number?
Ask a reference librarian!





* Contact the Publisher An increasing
number of publishers are providing free
copies of articles to patients, caregivers,
and others who do not subscribe to their
journals but only need a specific article
for personal use.

If the publisher does not advertise this
free service, consider contacting them and
requesting a specific article. Need help
contacting a publisher? Again, ask a
reference librarian!

Some publishers which provide free or low
cost articles

viaPatientInform

http://www.patientinform.org/
participating-organizations/#publishers

Elsevier Patient Research

http://patient-research.elsevier.com/
patientresearch/about

provides single copies of articles for $4.95.
Elsevier publishes over 2,000 journals.

AACR's (American Association for Cancer Research)
policy

http://www.aacr.org/home/scientists/
publications-of-the-aacr/readerssubscribers.aspx

for free patient access to medical articles

If You Need It, You Can Read It can be found
under Information for Readers/Subscribers

http://www.aacr.org/home/scientists/
publications-of-the-aacr/readerssubscribers.aspx

The Endocrine Society For Patients page

http://www.endo-society.org/journals/
Patient-Information-Journals.cfm

provides information on how to obtain free
articles from its six endocrine research journals.

**When a good summary of an article will do,
check out the resources at Summaries for
Patients help patients and others understand
medical studies and guidelines

http://jflahiff.wordpress.com/2010/11/06/
summaries-for-patients-help-patients-and-
others-understand-medical-studies-and-guidelines/



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I not only enjoy reading health news,
but also sharing items with others
and finding relationships among news
items.

This blog aims to present a sampling
of health and medical news of
general interest to the public,
health care professionals and
librarians.

My professional work experience and
education includes over 10 years
experience as a medical librarian
and a MasterÕs in Library Science.
In my most recent position I enjoyed
contributing to our library's
blog, performing in depth literature
searches, and collaborating with
faculty, staff, students, and the
general public.

Do you have an informational question
in the health/medical area?
Email me at [log in to unmask] or
through LinkedIn. I cannot guarantee
an answer, but will reply within
48 hours. I have over 10 years
experience as a medical librarian
and a Master's in Library Science.

While I will never be be able to
keep up with the universe of current
health/medical news

I do subscribe to the following to
glean entries for this blog




* MedLib-L

http://list.uvm.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A0=medlib-l

a medical librarian discussion list




* A Consumer and Patient Health (CAPHIS)
discussion list

http://caphis.mlanet.org/

by a section of the Medical Library
Association (MLA)




* MedlinePlus email updates
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/listserv.html

from the US National Institutes of Health




* Public Health Partners

http://www.nlm.nih.gov/listserv/
resources_assistance.html

from the National Library of Medicine




* US Agency for Healthcare Research and
Quality (AHRQ) electronic newsletter

https://jflahiff.wordpress.com/about/ce/
user.html?code=USAHRQ&login=#%23email%23%23

provides updates on the agency's
efforts to improve the quality, safety,
efficiency, and effectiveness of health
care for all Americans

* Krafty (Medical)Librarian

http://kraftylibrarian.com/

a collection of writings from Michelle Kraft
on items of interest to medical librarians.
She tends to write on technology and medical
libraries but she also writes about things
in general on librarianship, medicine and
health




* Research Buzz

http://www.researchbuzz.org/r/

news about search engines, digital archives,
online museums, databases, and other
Internet information collections since 1998




* Library Journal  Breaking News

http://www.libraryjournal.com/




* librarian.net

http://www.librarian.net/

by librarian consultant Jessamyn West




* (Gary Prices's) Resource Shelf

http://web.resourceshelf.com/go/resourceblog/

where dedicated librarians and researchers
share the results of their directed (and
occasionally quirky) web searches for
resources and information




* Open Medicine

http://blog.openmedicine.ca/

A blog by a peer-reviewed, independent,
open-access journal




* The Cornflower

http://nnlm.gov/gmr/blog/

The Blog of the National Network of Libraries
of Medicine Greater Midwest Region




* DocuTicker

http://www.docuticker.com/

collects abstracts from grey literature:
PDF reports published by government
agencies, think tanks, NGOs, research
institutes and other public interest
groups




* PubMed New and Noteworthy

http://pubmed.gov/

Updates from the largest indexer of
biomedical journals in the world




* Free Government Information

https://freegovinfo.info/

is a place for initiating dialogue and
building consensus among the various players
(libraries, government agencies, non-profit
organizations, researchers, journalists, etc.)
who have a stake in the preservation of and
perpetual free access to government
information




* EBM and Clinical Support

http://creakysites.wordpress.com/
ÒA blog for medical students, faculty and
librarians about their use of evidence based
medicine, clinical literature, Web 2.0,
sources and search strategies




* Scout Report

http://scout.wisc.edu/Reports/ScoutReport

weekly publication offering a selection of new
and newly discovered Internet resources of
interest to researchers and educators




* Latest from Brookings Institute

http://www.brookings.edu/?rssid=LatestFromBrookings

a non profit association which conducts
high-quality, independent research and,
based on that research, to provide
innovative, practical recommendations
that advance three broad goals:



1. Strengthen American democracy;



2. Foster the economic and social welfare,
security and opportunity of all Americans



and



3. Secure a more open, safe, prosperous
and cooperative international system.

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