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BioMed Central is an STM (Science, Technology and
Medicine) publisher of 257 peer-reviewed open access journals. The portfolio
of journals spans all areas of biology, biomedicine and medicine
and includes broad interest titles, such as BMC
Biology and BMC Medicine alongside specialist journals,
such as Retrovirology
and BMC Genomics. All original research articles
published by BioMed Central are made freely accessible online immediately
upon publication.
Free access to the electronic version of the
British Medical Journal Publishing Group's 25 specialist journals now
including Evidence-based journals.
Free to search abstract database from the US
National Cancer Institute.
eLife is a unique collaboration between funders
and practitioners of research to communicate influential discoveries in the
life and biomedical sciences in the most effective way.
A Gateway to selected Web sites of special
interest to health professionals, medical library communities, publishers,
and NGOs in developing and transitional countries. It covers General
Resources (search engines, gateways, bibliographic databases, abstracts,
clinical trials databases, research networks, dictionaries, glossaries,
disease classifications, evidence based medicine, full-text E-books, image
collections, journals, newsletters, medical education resources, news, useful
email lists, and WHO sites); plus Subject Index (e.g. Anaesthesiology, Basic
Sciences, Dermatology, HIV/AIDS etc.); plus Library and Publishing Support
and Use of ICTs (Information for Development, Internet Skills, Medical
Informatics/E-Health, Publishing Tools).
The AMEDEO Group are now making many important
medical textbooks available online, free and in full-text. 1 Currently 600
titles are included in the service, sorted by speciality and title.
FreeBooks4Doctors! also provides a free alert service as new titles are
added.
The Free Medical Journals Site is dedicated to the
promotion of free access to medical journals over the Internet. Currently1380
full-text journals sorted by subject, language, and title, as well as
highlight free journals with high impact factors. There is also a mailing
list to alert you as new free journals are added to their list.
Collection of open access and free journals in a
wide range of medical disciplines.
The Global Library of Women's Medicine
(GLOWM) is designed to be a constantly evolving resource reflecting the
very best of current medical opinion. Resources available include 442
specialist chapters on women's medicine, plus 53 supplementary chapters,
authored by over 650 expert contributors citing more than 40,000 references.
Indias contribution in the areas of biomedical
research and health care has been significant and conforming to international
standards. However, only a small fraction of it is available for reference
through international bibliographic databases. In an effort to redress this
imbalance, the National Informatics Centre of India has developed INDMED.
Initially this site offers access to the tables of contents and abstracts of
75 leading Indian journals. More journals would be added to the list as their
quality improves in coming years. Access to this database is free and open to
all users. See also http://medind.nic.in/ for a one point resource
of peer reviewed Indian biomedical literature covering full text of IndMED
journals.
The Lancet publishes a weekly journal and six
monthly specialty journals in the fields of global health, diabetes and
endocrinology, oncology, neurology, respiratory medicine, and infectious
diseases. All content published in The Lancet publications is freely
available to readers residing in developing countries, as defined by the UNDP
Human Development Index, via the recognition of geographical-based IP
addresses (Geo-IP).
MedicalStudent.com is described as a digital
library of authoritative medical information for all students of medicine. It
is meant to serve as a "pico portal" for users interested in
quality medical resources on the Internet. Contains over 250 medical
textbooks arranged alphabetically in topics from Anatomy to Urology. Each
textbook included is free to use, in part or in whole.
With new technologies, increased resources and
greater understanding now more available than ever for tackling malnutrition,
practice on the ground is still struggling to show results as it attempts to
keep up with the pace. This website and the links contained therein aim to
address these shortfalls by offering online access to the latest worldwide
developments in the fields of preventive and curative nutrition. A section of
the resource is devoted to addressing mother and child nutrition and
malnutrition in India.
POPLINE, the world's largest bibliographic
database on population, family planning, and related issues, is now available
free of charge on the Internet. All 280,000 citations, representing published
and unpublished literature, can be accessed for no charge. Individuals from
developing countries can request up to 15 fulltext documents per day through
the document delivery service.
PubMed, a service of the National Library of
Medicine, includes over 22 million citations for biomedical articles back to
the 1950's. These citations are from MEDLINE and additional life science
journals. PubMed includes links to many sites providing full text articles
and other related resources. To access the full text available, please make
sure that the box "Free full-text only" is ticked when you perform
your search.
The U.S. National Library of Medicine's digital
archive of life sciences journal literature claims to offer open access to
over 80,000 articles from over 100 journals. Access to much of the full text
on PMC is free and unrestricted. A journal may make its content available in
PMC as soon as it is published, or it may delay its release in PMC for a
specified period after initial publication. Current PMC journals have delays
ranging up to two years, with most releasing their material six months or
less after publication.
The Royal College of Psychiatrists allows free
access to the online full-text version of its three journals ('British
Journal of Psychiatry', 'Psychiatric Bulletin' and 'Advances in Psychiatric
Treatment') to 75 different developing countries.
Source is a key point of access to up-to-date, relevant
information on international health and disability. Over 25,000 abstracts and
resources with many links to full text online are available, with many
materials coming from developing countries, and including both published and
unpublished literature. Source is updated bi-monthly and covers topics
including: disability, development and inclusion, HIV and AIDS, participatory
communication, mother and child health, early childhood development, ICT and
health.
WHOLIS is the World Health Organization library
database containing WHO publications and journal article since 1948. An
on-site card catalogue provides access to the pre-1986 technical documents.
It contains bibliographic information with subject headings and, for some
records, abstracts and full text links are available.
This links to a collection of health and
biomedical databases covering the following regions: Africa, Eastern Mediterranean, South-East Asia, Latin America and the Carribean
(languages: Portuguese, Spanish and English), and Western Pacific. Each
regional database includes resources that are not easily found elsewhere, as
well as international journals.
The WHO Reproductive Health Library (RHL) is
an electronic review journal published by the Department of Reproductive
Health and Research at WHO Headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland. RHL takes the
best available evidence on sexual and reproductive health from Cochrane
systematic reviews and presents it as practical actions for clinicians (and
policy-makers) to improve health outcomes, especially in developing
countries.
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