Comments on: Where do I look for recent publications on a topic I am doing an independant research in? http://www.mullenpublications2.com/research-publication/where-do-i-look-for-recent-publications-on-a-topic-i-am-doing-an-independant-research-in Sat, 08 May 2010 20:54:20 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Geoff http://www.mullenpublications2.com/research-publication/where-do-i-look-for-recent-publications-on-a-topic-i-am-doing-an-independant-research-in/comment-page-1#comment-2576 Geoff Sun, 20 Dec 2009 15:45:59 +0000 http://www.mullenpublications2.com/research-publication/where-do-i-look-for-recent-publications-on-a-topic-i-am-doing-an-independant-research-in#comment-2576 I would suggest that your basic first-stop shop should be Google Scholar to search for your articles. Although in most cases you won't be able to access the full text of the article, if the full text is available for free online, Google Scholar will usually provide the link. Next you might want to try searching on PubMed Central. This is a database maintained by the National Institutes of Health, which recently mandated that all publications on research funded with NIH money (which is most biomedical research in the US!) must be made freely available on PubMed Central within 1 year after publication. So this is a potentially good source for articles. After that, you might start looking at specific sites that offer free access to scientific journal articles. For example, the Public Library of Science (PLoS) publishes several journals, including journals on medicine and genetics, which are "open-access" journals, meaning that as soon as an article is published, it is made freely available to the public on the website. You could try sites such as this and see if you can uncover anything. I've never tried to individually sign up for access to scientific journals without going through a university, so I can't say much about that, but from what I understand, it's pretty expensive. Oftentimes a journal will sell access to individual articles, which might be good if you've read the abstract and are fairly sure the article is going to be relevant to your research, but even this is pretty expensive, I think typically around $10 per article.<br><b>References : </b><br>http://scholar.google.com http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov http://www.plos.org I would suggest that your basic first-stop shop should be Google Scholar to search for your articles. Although in most cases you won’t be able to access the full text of the article, if the full text is available for free online, Google Scholar will usually provide the link.

Next you might want to try searching on PubMed Central. This is a database maintained by the National Institutes of Health, which recently mandated that all publications on research funded with NIH money (which is most biomedical research in the US!) must be made freely available on PubMed Central within 1 year after publication. So this is a potentially good source for articles.

After that, you might start looking at specific sites that offer free access to scientific journal articles. For example, the Public Library of Science (PLoS) publishes several journals, including journals on medicine and genetics, which are "open-access" journals, meaning that as soon as an article is published, it is made freely available to the public on the website. You could try sites such as this and see if you can uncover anything.

I’ve never tried to individually sign up for access to scientific journals without going through a university, so I can’t say much about that, but from what I understand, it’s pretty expensive. Oftentimes a journal will sell access to individual articles, which might be good if you’ve read the abstract and are fairly sure the article is going to be relevant to your research, but even this is pretty expensive, I think typically around $10 per article.
References :
http://scholar.google.com
http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov
http://www.plos.org

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