ONLINE MEDICAL JOURNALS

ONLINE MEDICAL JOURNALS

ONLINE ACCESS TO FULL TEXT MEDICAL ARTICLES 

This section covers all the important links to E-Journals, E-Articles for National & International Edition

7.1 Free Medical Journals: -

http://www.freemedicaljournals.com/

The Free Medical Journals Site was created to promote the free availability of full text medical journals on the Internet. This site provides links to more than 1,300 medical journals available on the Internet for free. This collection of medical journals includes materials for the scholarly researcher and for the general public.

7.2 FreeFulltext: -

http://www.freefulltext.com/

 FreeFulltext.com provides over 7,000 publications with full or limited access to articles. Publications are listed alphabetically. Links may go directly to an article or to a journal where you will have to navigate the site to find the article or publication issue.

7.3 Priory Medical Journals: -

http://www.priory.com/

Priory Medical Journals and are the world's first web-based medical journals. This is an independent set of medical journals devoted to research papers, review papers and other original works.

The Best Features are:

·         Over 180,000 medically qualified professionals actually visit our sites every month.
·         80% are practising medically qualified professionals - 1000s of these on our email database

·         Cost-effective distribution of existing marketing software searchable pages

·         Peer reviewed scientific papers, with an archive of all published papers from past issues.

7.4 Directory of Open Access Journals:
http://www.doaj.org
 DOAJ offers over 2,060 peer reviewed or editorial quality research journals. Journals can be browsed alphabetically by title or by the subject area. The health sciences subject area provides 349 journals with focuses such as public health, nursing and general medicine. Searches can be conducted using the journal title, ISSN, dates, author, keyword, and words located within the abstracts or all fields. Access to certain journals may change based upon agreements with publishers.

7.5 BioMed Central: -

http://www.biomedcentral.com/

All original research articles published by BioMed Central are made freely and permanently accessible online immediately upon publication. BioMed Central views open access to research as essential in order to ensure the rapid and efficient communication of research findings.

·         BioMed Central is an STM (Science, Technology and Medicine) publisher which has pioneered the open access publishing model

·         BioMed Central is committed to maintaining high standards through full and stringent peer review

7.6 MEDLARS Databases:-

http://www.nlm.nih.gov/databases/

Medical Literature Analysis and Retrieval System (MEDLARS) of the National Library of Medicine (NLM), US has over 40 databases. The subjects range from clinical medicine, oncology, population, dentistry, toxicology to nursing. These databases are accessible through the Internet, free of cost. Important amongst these are MEDLINE, AIDSLINE, AIDSDRUGS, AIDSTRIALS, TOXLINE, CANCERLIT, POPLINE, BIOETHICS and Clinical Alerts. MEDLINE, with over 9 million citations from 1966 onwards, can be accessed through NLM's PubMED or NLM Gateway.

7.7 Public Library of Science (PLoS):-

http://www.plos.org/journals/index.html

PLoS provides full text, peer reviewed, and scientific or medical research articles in various subject areas. Articles are current and PLoS has created several journals to group similar content together. Searching can be conducted by keyword or by advanced searching. Information chaining is utilized in articles so you can click on an author’s name to retrieve other articles written by them. Also identified within PLoS articles are links to articles not provided by PLoS that are available for free from other sources.

7.8 Find Articles: -

http://www.findarticles.com

Search for over 1 million articles from journals, magazines, newspapers and other publications. Publications can be located alphabetically or by subject guides. Searching can be done by keyword or by an advanced search; a help guide is provided for searching. Searching can be limited by free publications or publications available for purchase.

7.9 PubMed Central:-

http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/

PubMed Central (PMC) is free digital archive of biomedical and life sciences journal of National Institutes of Health (NIH) of the US. Full-text databases of biomedical and life sciences are available through the US National Library of Medicine.

7.10 Medscape: -

http://www.medscape.com/

Medscape offers over 130 full text medical journal articles. The content available from each journal ranges from a few articles, a single issue, or several years of full journal access. You must register, which is free, to search the journal holdings. Journals are listed in alphabetical order and searching can only be performed with keywords, no advanced searching is available. Articles are presented over numerous pages, and some citations do not lead directly to the article.

7.11 Highwire Press Stanford University: -

http://highwire.stanford.edu/lists/freeart.dtl

Offers over 1.5 million free full text journal articles related to science and medicine. Journals are listed alphabetically and show the range date for content available. Searching can be performed by keyword, with a citation or advanced methods. The site is regularly updated and contains information about future releases.

7.12 IndMED: -

http://indmed.nic.in/

The purpose of IndMED is to index selected peer reviewed medical journals published from India. It supplements international indexing services like PubMed. It covers about 77 journals indexed from 1985 onwards.

IndMED has been produced under an ICMR funded project - "National Databases of Indian Medical Journals". Another resource produced under this project is a portal of full text articles (medIND) of select Indian medical journals indexed in IndMED or PubMed.

7.13 QMed: -

http://www.qmedin.com/medsites/journals.htm

This site is a portal to other sites which in combination offer 93 medical research journals. Most were created in India, but published in English. This site redirects you to the journals, some of which you need to register with the site to access. Searching is done through the journal site not through QMed.

7.14 OpenMD:-

http://openmed.nic.in/

OpenMED@NIC is an open access archive for Medical and Allied Sciences. Here authors / owners can self-archive their scientific and technical documents. For this they need to register once in order to obtain a user id in OpenMED@NIC system. However no registration is required for searching the archive or viewing the documents.

7.15Pharmacy Journals: -

http://www.coreynahman.com/pharmacyjournals.html

Directory of online pharmacy journals handpicked pharmacist experts. There are many printed pharmacy journals available.  All of the top pharmacy journals are available on the internet for free. 

7.16 Biomedical e-Journals: -

http://www.aib.it/aib/commiss/cnur/peb/pebs.htm3

This site provides links to a variety of medical journals worldwide. The level of access varies between each journal, but it is indicated for each journal listing. The journals are listed alphabetically and come in a variety of languages. Searching is available at each journal site, there is not a centralized search for this site.

7.17 Journal of Medical Internet Research (JMIR):-

http://www.jmir.org/

JMIR is a peer reviewed, open access journal which focuses on health consumer informatics and the usage of the Internet in health care for research and communication. Searching can be done by keyword, author, title, abstract and index terms and publication date.

The "Journal of Medical Internet Research" founded in 1999, is a leading health informatics and health services/health policy journal (ranked first by impact factor in these disciplines) focusing on emerging technologies in health, medicine, and biomedical research. 

7.18 Medknow Publications: -

http://www.medknow.com/journals.asp

Medknow Publications is the largest publisher in India for academic and scientific biomedical journals. Medknow Publications is a publisher for peer-reviewed, online/print + online journals in the area of STM. Medknow is the largest open access publisher publishing on behalf of learned societies and associations. 

7.19 Cochrane Journal Club: -

http://www.cochranejournalclub.com/

Finally – no more searching for relevant and interesting papers to discuss at your next journal club meeting! We provide everything you need to present the paper at your Journal Club .Cochrane Journal Club is a free, monthly publication that introduces a recent Cochrane review, together with relevant background information, a podcast explaining the key points of the review, discussion questions to help you to explore the review methods and findings in more detail, and downloadable PowerPoint slides containing key figures and tables.  You can even contact the review authors with your questions. 

7.20 Bioline International: -

http://www.bioline.org.br/

Bioline International (BI) is a not-for-profit electronic publishing service committed to providing OA to quality research journals published in developing countries. It covers Journals of health on (tropical medicine, infectious diseases, epidemiology, emerging new diseases). 

7.21 World health organization: -

http://www.who.int/

World Health Organization is the directing and coordinating authority for health within the United Nations system. It is responsible for providing leadership on global health matters, shaping the health research agenda, setting norms and standards, articulating evidence-based policy options, providing technical support to countries and monitoring and assessing health trends.

Now, doctors have to write prescription in capital letters

Govt to issue a gazette notification, doctors will also be asked to mention the generic names of drugs they prescribe

New Delhi : Illegible handwritings of doctors may soon become a thing of the past. The Union Health Ministry will soon be issuing a gazette notification asking doctors to prescribe medicines in capital letters to make them ‘legible’.

The doctors will also be asked to mention the generic names of drugs they prescribe to help people buy them cheap.

“The prescription should be legible and preferably written in capital letters along with the names of the generic drug prescribed”, a senior Union Health Ministry official said.

Sources said that the notification is likely to be issued by the Ministry within a week’s time. The official, however, said there would be no penalties or punishment for the doctors not following the notification. “Like all other MCI regulations, this too will govern the doctors”, he said.

Health Minister J P Nadda had shared the concern voiced by some MPs in Parliament last year that illegible prescriptions may have serious implications for patients and could lead even to death in some cases.

“The central government has approved to amend Indian Medical Council Regulations, 2002, providing therein that every physician should prescribe drugs with generic names in legible and capital letters and he/she shall ensure that there is a rational prescription and use of drugs”, Nadda had said.

K K Aggarwal of Indian Medical Association (IMA) said writing in capital letters will help decrease prescription errors and will be a cheaper alternative to electronic health records. “Prescription errors will decrease. It will become uniform. One drug has 10 odd brands. The patients will be now able to know whether the drug is generic or not”, Aggarwal said.

“In US alone, 1,00,000 prescription errors occur every year. India does not have any data on this. This is a cheaper alternative to electronic health records. It will take some time for doctors to get used to it”, he said.

Medical Forum

         Medline

 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/PubMed/ 

Medlineplus Health Information

 http://www.medlineplus.gov

Medscape

 http://www.medscape.com 

Merck Manual of Diagnosis and Therapy

 http://www.merck.com/pubs/mmanual/  

Moody Medical Library Links

 http://libux.utmb.edu/links/ 

National Guideline Clearinghouse

 http://www.guideline.gov/ 

PubMed

 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/PubMed/    

PubMed

 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

Search the Studies: Clinical Research Database

 http://clinicalstudies.info.nih.gov/

E-Books for Health Care professionals

Free E-Books section 

1 NCBI Bookshelf: -

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?db=Books

These electronic books can be accessed from specific chapters or sections, it is more like an electronic journal in the ability to search it and go to a specific area rather than scrolling through the whole book to reach the part that is needed.Links within PubMed articles are linked to the NCBI books so you can use information chaining, and the books are also linked to PubMed articles. Books and new features will be added as they become available as this service is evolving.

 2 Free Books 4 Doctors: -

www.freebooks4doctors.com

Created and maintained by the same organization as Free Medical Journals. Like FMJ, the web site has the same interface and searching is not provided. The books are listed in alphabetical order and by subject specialty. This site offers books in several languages other than English.

3 Medical eBooks: -

http://medical-ebooks.blogspot.com/

Medical eBooks provides links to over 1,400 free ebooks. A description of books, ISBN, and publisher information is provided. Searching is done by a keyword and subject areas are provided for specific health/medical area. This site sends you to other sites to download the material.

4 Project Gutenberg: -

http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Category:Health_Bookshelf

Project Gutenberg is the first and largest single collection of free electronic books, or eBooks. Michael Hart, founder of Project Gutenberg, invented eBooks in 1971 and continues to inspire the creation of eBooks and related technologies today.

5 Feed Books: -

http://www.feedbooks.com/original

A description of books, ISBN, and publisher information is provided. Searching is done by a keyword and subject areas are provided for specific health/medical area. This site sends you to other sites to download the material.

6 Book Wire: -

http://www.bookwire.com/

Bookwire makes it easier for people to discover, evaluate, order, and experience books. Powered by Bowker's Books in Print® database, Bookwire makes it easy to search and discover over 20 million book titles, including print, e-books, audio books and more.

Bookwire features popular category pages that readers can access to get information about bestsellers and new releases, and find titles that match their discovery interests. Bookwire™ Author Pages and the Bookwire Author Index features author biographies and links to all titles available on Bookwire.com. Bookwire and Bowker’s SEO Title Cards make it easy for readers to share titles with their friends on major social networks.

  

Some Others are 

1. Book Spot

http://www.bookspot.com/
 

2. Books2Read.com Bookstore

http://www.books2read.com/servlet/ssitest
 

3. BookWire (Bowker)

http://www.bookwire.com/

4. The eBook Directory

http://www.ebookdirectory.com 

Medical Search Engines on the Web

1 Medical Search Engines:-

To search the millions of documents available on the web, a number of tools for search are available. Each search engine has its strengths and weaknesses. Selection of the most powerful search engines which has more powerful search strategies can certainly help the user in getting what is actually wanted. Some of best search engines are.-

2 Search-22:- http://www.search-22.com/:- Search-22 is a very special directory of search engines. There are thousands of great search engines online that you may have never heard of. Search-22 provides direct access to some of these search destinations, making it easy for you to write your query one time and get the results from different resources by clicking the different search buttons. Search-22 is aimed to help you become an expert in Web searching in no time by providing you with links to some of the best search tools available online. 3 IMedsearch:- http://www.imedisearch.com/ IMedisearch is a customized Google engine specifically built to search medical-related resources. Hence, it enjoys the same advantages of a normal Google search engine - fast speed, deep search and highly relevant results. The difference between iMedisearch and normal Google search is that iMedisearch overcomes Google's weaknesses; thereby its results are from reputables sources and more fitting for the searchers. 4 SearchMedica:- http://www.searchmedica.com/ SearchMedica is to improve the practice of medicine by allowing physicians and medical practitioners to discover the most relevant, authoritative, and timely clinical information on the Internet and to find it quickly and easily. Specifically, we aim to: ·         answer your clinical question ·         offer additional medically-relevant information and ·         satisfy your curiosity 5 Modern Medicine:- http://www.modernmedicine.com/ ModernMedicine brings together best-in-class content and tools from credible and trusted information sources and from a leading group of advisors, consultants, and key opinion leaders to create a web community for health professionals. ModernMedicine is an editorially neutral information resource; a diverse group of content affiliates provide the tools and information which populate over 65 resource centers on ModernMedicine—covering medical and surgical specialties, the business of medicine, and education/learning programs. 6 Health Line:- http://www.healthline.com Healthline is a medical information search engine. Healthline is solely dedicated to finding medical information online, and it offers medically filtered results developed by trained medical personnel. It's really an excellent tool for finding all kinds of medical information. Healthline's search results are powered by a combination of open source and proprietary algorithms. Results are filtered in that we crawl and index about 62,000 websites that we have identified, by virtue of their organizational, governmental or educational affiliation, accreditation, and other means, as the excellent sources for relevant consumer health information.

Medical encyclopedias on the Internet

Encyclopedias:- Medical encyclopedias on the Internet include: 

1 Medscape:-  

http://www.medscape.com

Medscape offers specialists, primary care physicians, and other health professionals the Web's most robust and integrated multi-specialty medical information and education tool. After a simple, one time, free registration, Medscape automatically delivers the users to the site specified or that best fits the profile if no specification is made. Other Medsacpe resources include treatment updates, practice guidelines, conference summaries, library services, patient resources and multispeciality links.

2 Healthfinder: -

http://www.healthfinder.gov/search.htm

Healthfinder is a free gateway to reliable consumer health and human services information developed by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Healthfinder can lead to selected online publications, clearinghouses, databases, web sites, and support and self-help groups, as well as the government agencies and not-for-profit organizations that produce reliable information for the public.

3 Dictionaries:-

Internet provides a number of sites for dictionaries, encyclopaedia and other guides. Because of the highly specialized language of medical questions, it is important to use reputable dictionaries and guides to affirm the spelling and nature of a medical query. There are a number of good dictionaries and guides that are available for this purpose. Some of the online dictionaries available on net in the field of medicine are as follows:

4 Infomedical:- 

http://home.ipoline.com/~guoli/med/dict0.htm

Infomedical is a dictionary of On-Line Medical Resources. It contains about 1400 entries of medical terms with explanations and hypertext links to resources on the Internet. Terms are arranged alphabetically. Users can click on to the particular word they want to know and get more information.

5 Kaiser Permanente's Medical Glossary:-

http://www.scl.ncal.kaiperm.org/glossary/

Kaiser Permanente is a nonprofit, group practice prepayment health plan that seeks to improve and maintain the health of its members through affordable and quality healthcare. Activities include Online health care and offers hundreds of health education classes. Links to various directories and phone numbers are also given as part of the service. The medical glossary contains new terms and medical conditions.

Exercise and Physical Activity Ideas

Aerobic activity raises your heart rate and keeps it up for a while. This increases the amount of oxygen delivered to your heart and muscles. Over time, this kind of activity benefits your heart, your muscles, your mood and self-esteem, and your amount of energy. It can lower your blood pressure, cholesterol, blood sugar, body fat, anxiety and depression, and fatigue.

Finding the right activity

Experts say to do regular moderate activity and/or vigorous-intensity activity.
Here are some ideas for both types of activities. You can boost many of the moderate activities in the left column to a vigorous level by doing them faster or harder.¹

Moderate intensity	Vigorous intensity
General exercise: Brisk walking Light to moderate calisthenics (for example, home exercises, back exercises, getting up and down from the floor) Low-impact aerobic dancing Jogging on a small trampoline Weight lifting, body building, using a lot of effort Light to moderate workouts on gym equipment like Nautilus or Universal machines or a rowing machine	General exercise: Walking uphill, jogging or running Heavy calisthenics (push-ups, sit-ups, jumping jacks, etc.) High impact aerobic dancing Jumping rope Using a stair-climber or skiing machine Stationary bicycling, with vigorous effort
Water exercises: Treading water with moderate effort Water aerobics or water calisthenics Kayaking, canoeing, white-water rafting Springboard or platform diving Paddle boating	Water exercises: Swimming laps with fast, vigorous effort Treading water with fast, vigorous effort Water jogging Rowing a canoe in competition Skin diving and scuba diving
Outdoor activities: Fishing and hunting Playing with a Frisbee Children's games, like hopscotch, 4-square, and dodge ball Playing on playground equipment Downhill skiing Shoveling snow	Outdoor activities: Horseback riding—trotting or galloping Competitive sports like rugby, field hockey, and soccer Hiking with a backpack Mountain biking Ice skating quickly (more than 9 mph) Snowshoeing and cross-country skiing
House and yard work: Sweeping, vacuuming, and mopping floors Washing the car with vigorous effort Sweeping the garage, sidewalk, or patio Washing the dog Mowing or raking the lawn Digging in the garden	House and yard work: Carrying groceries upstairs Carrying boxes or furniture Baling hay or cleaning the barn with vigorous effort

Adding variety to a fitness program is a good way to keep motivated.

• Vary the activity. If you are getting bored with walking, try swimming or an aerobics class.
• Vary the place. Try a new route for walking or biking or even a different room for your exercises or stretching. By having several options, you can pick one that suits your mood or schedule.
• Vary the time. Do your exercises at different times and for different amounts of time. If you become bored with your noon walk, try exercising in the early morning or after work or school. Instead of doing one 45-minute session, do three 15-minute sessions.

Activity at the office

If your job includes lots of sitting, try adding these short bursts of activity to your day:

• Use your commute to do some extra walking. Park several blocks away, or get off the bus a few stops early.
• Use the stairs instead of the elevator, at least for a few floors.
• Suggest holding meetings with colleagues during a walk inside or outside the building.
• Go the extra distance when possible: Get your coffee on another floor (use the stairs) or use the restroom that's the farthest from your office.
• If you need to speak to a coworker, walk to that person's office or station rather than using e-mail or the phone.
• Use your morning and afternoon breaks to take quick 15-minute walks.

Coaching and teaching

If you are bored with a sport or activity you once enjoyed, coaching or giving instruction can renew your interest.

• Youth leagues for organized sports are often seeking good coaches.
• If you ski, offer instructions at a ski resort.
• If you cycle, offer to lead a group of schoolchildren on a bike ride to teach bicycle safety.
• Offer to lead an informal fitness class at your workplace during lunch or after work.

Competition

Competition can be a good motivator because:

• It gives you a specific and measurable goal to work toward.
• Learning the details of a new course or event and then preparing for it can restore the excitement and challenge that's gone from more familiar competitions.

Helping to plan or organize a competitive event instead of entering it can provide friendship and fun with others interested in the same activity.

Cross-training

Cross-training is the combination of various activities to spread the work among various muscle groups. Cross-training has some important advantages:

• It prevents boredom by providing variety. It can help you break out of a slump.
• It helps you maintain balance among your various muscle groups. For instance, runners who have developed powerful leg muscles might cross-train to strengthen the upper body, which does not get a good workout from running.
• It reduces the risk of injuries because the same muscles are not being stressed in the same way during every workout.

Some exercise machines, such as elliptical cross-trainers, can help you cross-train. Or you can use exercise machines that give variety to your program by working muscle groups that aren't heavily used in your primary activity.