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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 backgroundsee 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)