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Scholar Google: www.Scholar.Google.com (not to be confused with www.Google.com ), the “regular” Google. Every one knows the Google search engine, and probably we all use it frequently for searches unrelated to science. But now there is a new search engine for scholar literature which has the novelty of informing how many times a given article was cited by others, and provides a link to list all such citations. Isn't that just MARVELOUS !?
The screen is almost identical to the regular Google, which makes it familiar from the start. To the right of the “Search” button on the familiar Scholar Google main page you find links to several Help pages which are worth reading.
conbls (Consortium of Biomedical Libraries of the South): http://www.uab.edu/conbls is a consortium of 18 Medical Libraries. (UPR-Medical Sciences Library is member). The interesting thing of this consortium is that they have agreed not to charge for borrowing and lending scientific articles among them. For you as a user this means that articles requested from the UPR-Medical Sciences Library, which are in the collection of any CONBLS library will have a special low price of $ 3.00 per article. In order to find out what libraries form part of CONBLS, go to www.uab.edu/conbls/libraries.html and in turn to find if the article you are looking for is in the holdings of some of them, use the “Links” link on the extreme right of the PubMed screen, and chose the “LinkOut” option. This will present you a screen which shows who has the given article. In this screen if you expand the “Libraries” link and choose “All” you will see an alphabetic listing of all the Libraries members of the DOCLINE network that have informed the NLM that they have this article.
PubMedCentral: Besides the ubiquitous PubMed known to all of you which is at http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez , remember that there also exists PubMedCentral at www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov PubMed Central is not a journal publisher, but rather a digital archive of life sciences journal literature at the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH), developed and managed by NIH's National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) in the National Library of Medicine (NLM). It grants an unrestricted access to the electronic literature.
HighWire Press: http://highwire.stanford.edu/ is a portal of the Stanford University Libraries, which produces the online versions of high-impact, peer-reviewed journals and other scholarly content. HighWire Press hosts the largest repository of free full-text life science articles in the world, with 1,182,600 free, full-text articles from 256 journals. Do not miss HighWire in your searches.
EBSCO Databases titles listings: http://www.epnet.com/titleLists.asp in this page you can see the listings of the titles of the journals included in the different DataBases offered by EBSCO. The lists are in PDF and XLS formats and specify for each title, the name of the publisher, the ISSN number, the full text delay (embargo time), if the journal is (peer-reviewed) and if full text is available to EBSCO subscribers. This listings could be useful if your institution, as many Institutions in Puerto Rico are, is subscribed to some of such DataBases.
NLM Journals Listing: ftp://nlmpubs.nlm.nih.gov/online/journals/lsiweb.pdf This “pdf” file, close to 1Mbyte, contains a 270-pages listing of more than 10,000 journal titles and provide bibliographic information for serials from which articles are indexed with the MeSH® vocabulary and cited in MEDLINE®, the backbone of NLM's PubMed® database. It specifies their ISSN numbers, (printed and electronic formats), full and abbreviated titles and more importantly if a journal continues under another name, or is a continuation of one with older name.
FreeShare - Free Reciprocal Interlibrary Loan Group (interesting to Librarians): http://nnlm.gov/libinfo/docline/freeshare.html Is a group of libraries that fosters free Inter Library Loan operations among members (similar to the CONBLS group mentioned above). ABESI encourages Libraries of the PR-AABRE Program to affiliate to such groups to help spread free access to scientific information.
Journals Impact Factors: Find a listing of the Journals Impact Factors in http://www.starrepublic.org/encyclopedia/wikipedia/i/impact/2003a.html
Journal Impact Factor is a product of Thomson ISI (Institute for Scientific Information). It provides quantitative tools for ranking, evaluating, categorizing, and comparing journals. The impact factor is one of these; it is a measure of the frequency with which the "average article" in a journal has been cited in a particular year or period.
NIH Forms for budgets and Grants submission (PHS 398) can be found at http://grants.nih.gov/grants/funding/phs398/phs398.html You can download the forms in WORD or PDF format individually or the whole package.
NIH Grants Policy Statement: http://grants.nih.gov/grants/policy/nihgps_2003/ this link contains the NIH Grants Policy Statement (12/03) - Effective for all NIH grants and cooperative agreements with budget periods beginning on or after December 1, 2003.
A Dictionary of Units and Measurement: http://www.unc.edu/~rowlett/units/. Although this is something completely unrelated to ABESI and its mission, there is a plethora of information and definition of almost every imaginable unit of measurement. Might be handy sometimes.
End Note Search tool: This is not a LINK. !! It is a remainder…!!
The easiest way of searching for scientific articles in Pub Med without being an expert in Pub Med search syntax, and on top of that getting the references directly into your End Note library is using the “Remote Database Search” facility of End Note. To do so, open End Note, select “Tools” Menu, - “Connect” - “PubMed(NLM)” and specify your search criteria in an easy way as simple or as complex as you wish. (you can specify any number of fields, search their contents, use “AND”, “OR” and “NOT” operators in any combination etc…)
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