Wednesday, August 13, 2008

New Advanced Search on PubMed







In the new search interface you will find a search box on the top and new sections beneath it, which you probably already are familiar with:

> PubMed Search History - It displays your five last searches
> Search by Author, Journal, Publication Date, and more. These field searching screens allow you to choose specific fields to search in (including MeSH or subheadings) and to combine these fields (AND, OR). Author and Journal fields have the auto-complete feature for entering terms; for other fields you can use the helpful index feature
> Limit by Topics, Languages, and Journal Groups

Try it

Paul

Friday, August 8, 2008

Science Foundation Ireland are developing an Open Access policy

The Open Repository movement is taking off in research centres worldwide and SFI are developing a policy to encourage SFI funded researchers to deposit their publications in Open Access Repositories. More from SFI here.

The National Institutes of Health Policy on Public Access to publically funded research may be viewed here.