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Reading articles on Pub Med
Does anyone here use Pub Med?
There's an article I want to read on Dupuytren's treatment, and I don't know how to read it.
I'm willing to pay to read it if I can work out how to do so. The British Dupuytren Society (if we can afford it) probably need to get access to all these online medical journals.
What I'm not sure of is whether Pub Med has the full article or only the abstract.
How does one access online medical journals - what sort of cost is one looking at?
All advice welcomed.
There's an article I want to read on Dupuytren's treatment, and I don't know how to read it.
I'm willing to pay to read it if I can work out how to do so. The British Dupuytren Society (if we can afford it) probably need to get access to all these online medical journals.
What I'm not sure of is whether Pub Med has the full article or only the abstract.
How does one access online medical journals - what sort of cost is one looking at?
All advice welcomed.
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If it's just one single article you want, it can be worth a shot to see if you can contact the author(s) of it and ask for a copy from them.
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Journals have different policies about charging for articles, so it's worth checking whether they want money for the article you're interested in. The publisher I worked for made everything free to download after 2 years, but it depends very much on the field (how fast the state of the art changes) and on how mercenary the publisher is.
Now you have three options.
1) Find the author's website. They may have the paper available to download. If they don't, email them and ask, they may be able to send you a copy. This option is free but may be time-consuming and may not result in a copy of the paper.
2) Pay to read the individual article. If you follow the Elsevier link on the PubMed article you'll see there's a section at the bottom of the article headed "To access this article, please choose from the options below". One of the options here is "Purchase this article for 31.50 USD". That will get you a copy of just this article. More expensive than option 1, but faster and more reliable.
3) Pay for the whole journal. In that same box there's a link "Subscribe to this title". If you follow that through you can see they want $543 for an intrenational 1-year subscription. So now it's just a question of how much you expect to use the journal. If you just want a paper o two a year, then paying individually is better; if you want to read papers daily then a full subscription is cheaper and less hassle.
[*] If you don't know how to read journal citations to find these, then see e.g. http://library.duke.edu/services/instruction/libraryguide/citations.html
The citation for this article is: J Hand Surg Am. 2008 Sep;33(7):1208-10.
Which means:
J Hand Surg Am = Journal of Hand Surgery (American) - translating these is a bit of an art!
2008 = published in 2008
Sep = published in September
33(7) = published in volume 33, issue 7
1208-10 = pages 1208-10
Not all citations have all these parts; if you have journal, year and page number you can usually track down what you want. Googling for the title often finds the paper too, if you're really stuck!
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http://www.nlm.nih.gov/bsd/disted/pubmedtutorial/050_010.html
"Should", but some journals still haven't learnt how to monetize their content by making it easy, or they insist on a full subscription. In such cases, you may find that your local library has some sort of access. You will probably find that you local university library has access (they certainly will if they have a medical school), and while it's been a long time since I had any interest in such things, it used to be common for university libraries to offer membership to non-students for a nominal fee. In the current economic climate of degree factories, it's probably not nominal any more, alas.
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That gives the price ($31.50) and instructions on how to purchase the article.
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The PDF can be downloaded from the journal page here: http://benthamscience.com/open/openaccess.php?toorthj/articles/V005/SI00239TOORTHJ/283TOORTHJ.htm
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As others have said, PubMed just has information about the article, rather than the article itself.
It's often worth Googling for the exact article title once you've found something you're interested in - even content published in subscription-only journals is often freely available on the author's own websites (academic publishing has lots of weird and irrational T&Cs). This may vary by discipline, I'm not sure whether it is widespread for medical publishing.
Publicly funded medical research in the US must be published as open-access; there is ongoing debate about whether this practice should be followed in the UK/EU. (Bear in mind, of course, that there's plenty of medical research in the US that is not publicly funded).
This Scientific American blog post might also give you some useful tips; though it may be more US-biased, I'm not sure whether there is the same kind of access to academic articles through public libraries in the UK.
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As you probably know, we, Russians, invented love because we didn't want to pay all the necesary bills and checks :)
Similarly, we invented an Internet service, which gives a free access to any scientific publication.
Here is a link to the article you need:
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/03635023/33/7
Just paste it into the empty field there:
http://sci-hub.org/
And you can download a PDF file with the article or read it online. For free.
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