Journals Full Text Resources

Including MedIND

For Scholarly Information

• We start with Bibliographic Databases having references to journals and other scholarly literature

• Knowledge of search techniques is required for effective searching – PubMed, Scirus – International– IndMED – Indian

• Finally we may require full text of Journal Articles

Full text Journal Articles

• Most expensive Resource• No Library can afford all

the journals / Not even the core Journals of a subject

• Internet has become the first place to look for Journal Articles

• How about Internet Resources ?

Ok, let us start with Google..

http://scholar.google.com/

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

http://www.freemedicaljournals.com/

http://www.bioline.org.br/

http://www.scielo.org/php/index.php?lang=en

http://highwire.stanford.edu/lists/freeart.dtl

https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/browse

http://www.openjournals.net/index.php/journals/browse-by-title

Open Access and OA /Free

Resources

• Open Access Publishers

• Indian Journals online

• Institutional / Subject Repositories

I am not talking about

• Open Source

• Open Standards

• Right to Information

But on similar concept

• It relates to access to results of public funded research

• It relates to access to that knowledge which scientists and scholars give away for free after years of hard work

12 – 18 Months

Research Impact

Now the Question being asked is

Where is the catch?

• Scientists / scholars need to publish articles

• Publishers seek transfer of copyrights in their favour in lieu of publication of their articles

• They had no other alternative than to gave away their copyrights to get their articles published

Open Access is the answer to the ills of conventional academic publishing

Open-access (OA) literature• is [scholarly,] digital, online, • free of charge, • and free of most copyright and licensing

restrictions. What makes it possible is the internet and the

consent of the author or copyright-holder.[Peter Suber -http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/brief.htm]

Impact“Articles freely available online are more highly

cited. For greater impact and faster scientific progress, authors and publishers should aim to make research easy to access”. Online or Invisible? Steve Lawrence. Nature, Volume 411, Number 6837, p. 521, 2001. http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/online-nature01/

Open Access (OA) means free and online access to scholarly literature that can be freely disseminated further with proper author attribution.

It brings down barriers to scientific communication by using Internet

Open Access Publishing

• Open Access Journals perform peer review like their conventional counterparts and then make the approved contents freely available to the world.

http://www.doaj.org/

http://www.biomedcentral.com/

http://www.plos.org/

Open Access Repositories

• Open Access Repositories allow authors / right holders to deposit their articles

• May allow preprints (pre-published manuscripts)• Normally allow post-prints (peer-reviewed and

published articles)• Most reputed academic publishers allow authors

to deposit some version of their articles in such repositories

http://www.opendoar.org/index.html

Open Access and India

Open Access Journals

http://www.doaj.org/doaj?func=journalsByCountry&cId=89&year=2013&uiLanguage=en

Open Access Hosts / Publishers

http://www.ias.ac.in/

http://medknow.com/

http://medind.nic.in/

64 Indexed Journals from India

Open Access Repositories

National Aerospace Laboratories

Indian Institute of Astrophysics Repository

http://dkr.cdri.res.in:8080/dspace/index.jspCentral Marine Fisheries Research Institute

http://eprints.cmfri.org.in/

http://repository.ias.ac.in/ http://dspaces.uok.edu.in:8080/jspui/

http://openmed.nic.in/

http://www.nihfw.org/National%20Health%20Portal.html

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