Free Biomedical Literature, Databases and Software

Public Discussion

Read weekly articles on open access literature published by Nature [1]
Another article in “Nature” that deals with open access. Unfortunately, the article itself seems not to be open access… [2]
NIH Head stands firm over plans for open access [3]
Research tools and technologies to be made freely available, published by “Nature” [4]
An article published by “Nature” on an alternative licensing scheme for scientists being established by Science Commons. [5] and [6]
Junior scientists are denied access to data, says survey [7]

Online Journals

International

PLOS (Public Library of Science)

• PLoS - News
  • start announced in nature science update: Free science journal hits press
  • [8] this link does not work - did you mean [9] - well, now, the first works, the second doesn´t… :-(
    • ? link works fine for me but it may require a subscription to nature, it is a different article than link 2. Lukas Jeker
• PLOS Biology
• Recent announcement: PLOS Medicine, Launch in Fall 2004
  • See also this Editorial [10].
    

• The Journal of Clinical Investigation also offers free online access.
  • See also this Correspondence in Nature: [11].

Swiss

• EMH Schweizerischer Ärzteverlag AG
• Schweizerische Ärztezeitung
• Swiss Medical Forum
• Swiss Medical Weekly
• Primary Care

We are trying to get access to non-free Online Journals for all Swiss universities.

Online Books

• Clinical Futures: online book by BMJ. Very interesting! (see more online books by BMJ)
• http://www.freebooks4doctors.com/
• Gray's Anatomy (20th ed., 1918)
• NCBI Bookshelf - not completely free

Databases

• PubMed medline (learn to use it with the pubmed tutorial)
• NCBI homepage
• http://www.protocol-online.org
• Andras Nagy's homepage: Good info on conditional mouse mutagenesis
• Biomed mouse knockout database
• http://www.facultyof1000.com/about
• http://biocyc.org/ - collection of Pathway/Genome Databases

Software

• A list of open source EMR projects
• http://bioinformatics.org/
• http://bioconductor.org/
• http://www.openemr.net/ - Open Source EMR - Electronic Medical Records
• http://www.medicalsoftwareforpdas.com/
• http://www.pdamd.com/

see also Open Med Portal