Nick Shockey and Jonathan Eisen take us through the world of
open access publishing and explain just what it's all about. Make sure to watch it in HD and Fullscreen!
Thank you
PhD Comics for your great explanation of
'What is Open Access?'
Labels: access to research, epublishing, medical literature, medical publishing, medical research, open access, open access journals, PhD Comics, publishing industry, scientific research
Staying current, particularily in the rapidly developing area of medical research, has and continues to present a challenge. In response, creative solutions have given rise to syntheses presented in systemic reviews and meta-analyses of the research literature; the development of dynamic, point-of-care, evidence-based clinical summaries databases; technological innovations supporting anytime, anywhere access to the most current knowledge via handheld devices; as well as RSS for automatically bringing today's research news to you.
The
Open Medicine Wiki Project, is set to demonstrate the next innovative response to this challenge; one which we all do well to note! This project presents a whole new opportunity for publishing academic research while maintaining currency to boot! Online collaboration software, commonly referred to as
'wiki' software provides the vehicle for this conceivably fundamental change.
With
'open access' more of us could
Read more ; with
'open collaboration' more of us can now
wRite more; I will leave the
Math ['Rithmatic] up to you!
Find out more about this exciting project and follow its collaborative outcome going forward ...
Labels: medical research, open access journals, open collaboration, Open Medicine, staying current, wikis
Search the actual image content of over 34,000 open access articles from
PubMed Central.
One can chose to search the full text of the article; or just the title, abstract or image caption. However,the
Yale Image Finder is unique in that it uses
'optical character recognition'(OCR) which allows you to search even
within an image.
Labels: anatomical images, database searching, medical images, open access journals, PubMed Central, Yale Image Finder
Read the latest editorial from
PLoS ~ The Public Library of Scienceand their ~
Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTD) JournalWaging Peace through Neglected Tropical Disease Control: A US Foreign Policy for the Bottom Billion by Peter J. Hotez1 & Tommy G. Thompson.
[click on main title]The
Public Library of Science or PLoS provides this and other excellent open access peer-reviewed journals such as:
PLoS Medicine.
PLoS PathogensPLoS GeneticsPLoS ONEPLoS BiologyLabels: global health, health policy, medical education, neglected tropical diseases, open access journals, PLoS, Public Library of Science, tropical disease research, tropical medicine, US foreign policy
