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Resource Sharing

DOCLINE Hold Request Form

DOCLINE Stats

Loansome Doc for Librarians

Loansome Doc for Users

LinkOut

Electronic Funds Transfer System

ILL Management Applications

Open Access and Electronic Journals

Electronic Document Delivery

Copyright and ILL

Consortia Agreements

Electronic Journals and Open Access

This is a selection of links to basic resources about electronic journals in the health sciences and about open access to health science information.

Electronic Journals: A Selected Resource Guide defines electronic journals : "... serial publications available in digital format. Some are distributed on CD-ROMs, some over the internet. Of the internet-available ones, some are delivered over the World Wide Web, some by e-mail. Some are ASCII text, some are HTML WWW pages, some use proprietary formats such as Adobe's PDF (portable document format). Some have paper equivalents, some are purely electronic. Some are published in electronic form, some are digitally reformatted print journals. Some are free, some are available by subscription only. Some are peer-reviewed scholarly journals; many are not quality-controlled."

Some electronic journals are open access journals. Peter Suber has provided a brief definition of open access as literature that is "digital, online, free of charge, and free of most copyright and licensing restrictions" and discusses more details in his Open Access Overview.

About Open Access

News: Peter Suber's Open Access News.

Related Policies and Projects

• Public Access to NIH-Funded Research
  Final policy, news, and background

  see also: Information for NIH-Funded Researchers from SPARC

• Alliance for Taxpayer Access
  Organizations supporting open public access to taxpayer-funded research
• Budapest Open Access Initiative
  Sponsored by the Open Society Institute
• SPARC
  Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition
• The Washington DC Principles for Free Access to Science
  Not-for-profit medical and scientific societies

Open Access to Electronic Journals

From the National Library of Medicine

• PubMed: Identifying Free Full Text and Limiting to Free Full Text
• PubMed Central
• Free Biomedical Literature Resources
• Biomedical Literature Resources for Libraries Outside the U.S.

Other Sources of Open Access Content

• BioMed Central
  Publisher of peer-reviewed, open access biomedical research
• Directory of Open Access Journals
  List from Lund University, Sweden
• FreeMedicalJournals.com
  List from Steinhauser-Verlag
• Free Online Full-text Journals
  Published by Highwire Press
• Medknow Publications
  Open-access, peer-reviewed, indexed, scholarly journals
• Public Library of Science
  Nonprofit organization of scientists and physicians

Bridges Across the Digital Divide

• HINARI: Health InterNetwork Access to Research Initiative
  Free or low cost online access for developing countries to major biomedical journals
• International Network for the Availability of Scientific Publications
  Supporting health information in developing countries
• Free Biomedical Literature Resources
• Biomedical Literature Resources for Libraries Outside the U.S.

Managing Electronic Journals in Libraries

• Electronic Journals: A Selected Resource Guide
  A representative group of publications covering production, management and use
• LibLicense
  Licensing Digital Information: A Resource for Librarians from Yale University Library
• Library LinkOut Survival Guide
  Providing links from PubMed to full-text articles in electronic journals
• NLM Policy on Acquiring Copyrighted Material in Electronic Format
  National Library of Medicine
• WWISH List
  World Wide Information on Serials in Health
  (Gardiner Library Service)

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