I never thought that writing a blog would provide such a wonderful chance to learn from the community. In these past few days, I have learned so much from readers about finding and accessing information. Now, I want to share their knowledge with those of you who might not be checking the comments sections of my posts. I'm sure you, too, will be thankful for their contribution.
The first set of great suggestions is here
and next, the real information experts, the librarians chime in and demonstrate why they are the experts on finding information.
Be sure to read all the way to the bottom or search for CogSciLibrarian. I suspect that this librarian can find any media that's been in print or other published form.
Read the whole series:
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My suggestion, and perhaps the most obvious one: the PLoS journals. No, there aren't a lot of archives to search through yet, and it's no Science or Nature, but...it's all free.
Posted by: bdf | May 30, 2007 5:09 PM
We have an network map visualization of related concepts as extracted from PubMed here:
http://www.curehunter.com/public/dictionary.do
Please give it a try if you get the chance.
If anyone would like a trial account for the medical research interface beta, please drop me a note at alex at curehunter dot com.
Posted by: Alex | May 15, 2008 2:40 AM