Where can I find free medical articles?
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Where can I find free medical articles?
Free full-text articles can be approached in the following ways.
- Medknow Publications.
- PubMed Central and PubMed.
- Directory of Open Access Journals.
- Electronic Resources in Medicine Consortium and National Medical Library.
- Google, Google Scholar, and Yahoo.
- The Cochrane Library.
- Public Library of Science.
- Free Medical Journals.
How do I find a medical article?
Finding a medical journal search engine
- EMBASE – owned by Elsevier with over 29 million records.
- MEDLINE – contains more than 22 million biomedical published articles in its archive.
- PsycINFO – contains more than 3.5 million records.
- Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews (CDSR)
- MedlinePlus.
How do you write an article for medicine?
The basic structure of an article. An original article contains the following items: A title page, an Abstract, Introduction, Patients (or materials) and methods, Results, Discussion, Summary or conclusion, the References, Tables, Figures, legends to Figures and any acknowledgements.
Are medical journals free?
Luckily, many medical journals offer some or all of their content for free to everyone, with or without a subscription. Some do so for all of their articles, but most make their articles free on the web six or 12 months after publication.
How do I find a medical database?
Search MEDLINE (or PubMed), preferably using a peer reviewed search strategy per protocol and apply any relevant methodology filters. Search EMBASE (or Scopus) and the Cochrane Central trials register using appropriately reformatted search versions for those databases, and any other online resources.
How do I get PubMed articles for free?
Click on the PubMed Central link or a Publisher’s link to access the full text of the article. Articles in PubMed Central are freely available. Articles on Publisher’s websites are either freely available or can be accessed with a fee. Contact the specific publisher for questions about their site.
Where can I find articles online?
Search
- Google Scholar. Google Scholar searches for scholarly materials such as peer-reviewed papers, theses, dissertations, books, preprints, abstracts and technical reports.
- DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals.
- PubMed.
How do you search for journal articles?
More advanced techniques for finding journal articles You can find journal articles by mining the bibliographies of sources you already have, by searching for articles on your topic in the Library’s databases, or using search engines, including Google Scholar.
How do I access PubMed articles?