FILE THIS: Free Full-text Science Journals

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Hi All, & Janet,

 

RE FREE access to FULL-TEXT science journals online:

 

1. Most universities and large research organisations pay for integrated

library (and digital full-text) facilities. Private practitioners who have a

good friend/colleague in such organisations may be able to source full-

text articles free via such a friend.

 

2. Another option is to use HIGHWIRE PRESS. " HighWire Press is the

largest archive of free full-text science on Earth! As of 1/15/06, we are

assisting in the online publication of 1,149,154 free full-text articles and

2,978,244 total articles. There are 41 sites with free trial periods, and 31

completely free sites. 209 sites have free back issues, and 778 sites

have pay per view! "

 

The list of free full-text journals is at

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

 

HighWire Press is the cheapest option for private practitioners and free-

lance researchers. It offers access to FREE FULL-TEXT science

journals. Unfortunately, these comprise but a small percentage of all the

full-text science journals that are available.

 

3. PubMedCentral

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?CMD=search & DB=pmc

also gives access (in one single search panel) to free full-text journals in

the Life Sciences (including some veterinary journals with free full-text)

but the PMC free journal list may not be as extensive as the HighWire

list.

 

Janet Yelowchan wrote:

> Phil, do you know about this?

> http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/medicalnews.php?newsid=35884

 

The link reads:

> Infotrieve® Converts ArticleFinder® STM Search Engine To Free Access

> Model Category: Biology/Biochemistry News Article 09 Jan 2006 -

> 6am (UK)

 

> Infotrieve, Inc today announced that it had converted ArticleFinder,

> its online scientific, technical, and medical (STM) database with >26

> million citations and eight million abstracts from >54,000 journals, to

> a FREE ACCESS model.

 

> The move provides scientists and researchers, who work for

> corporations and are subject to different copyright regulations than

> their academic counterparts, with an end-to-end solution for

> conducting STM searches across literature from multiple providers. The

> solution seamlessly retrieves full-text scholarly journal articles

> that they need on a PAY-PER-VIEW basis.

 

Janet, many thanks for the alert.

 

Yes, INFOTRIEVE is a powerful engine to track down scientific articles.

However, although ABSTRACTS (if available) usually are free, the

FULL-TEXT is NOT FREE. Indeed, purchase of full-text articles via

InfoTrieve is VERY expensive and far beyond the budget of most

private practitioners and researchers outside of R & D organisations,

universities or corporations.

 

INFOTRIEVE is more likely to be used by commercial corporations who

may not have a subscrption to a fully integrated LIBRARY service (such

as ESCCO) for hardcopy and digital text. Subscription to the full range

of full-text science articles can cost several hundreds of thousands of

dollars annually! Also, not all science journals are in digital form yet.

Therefore, heir full-text must be scanned, as needed, and that costs a

lot.

 

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