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Sandra Porter I am a microbiologist and molecular biologist turned tenured biotech faculty turned bioinformatics scientist turned entrepreneur. My passion is developing instructional materials for 21st century biology (Geospiza Education).

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    Finding scientific papers for free: contributions from our readers

    Category: BioinformaticsPubMed
    Posted on: May 30, 2007 1:19 PM, by Sandra Porter

    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:

    • part I A day in the life of an English physician,
    • part II Comparing different methods,
    • part III My new favorite method,
    • part IV One last experiment

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    #1

    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

    #2

    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

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