PubMed: how to find articles that are free online

Posted by Celia Walter | 4 Feb, 2010

* Jim Till showed how to use the PubMed Advanced Search option to estimate the number of papers based on research by a given funder are free online.  (His immediate purpose was to estimate how many CIHR-funded papers, which ought to be OA, are actually OA.)
http://tillje.wordpress.com/2010/01/08/preliminary-data-about-cihr-supported-publications-cited-in-pubmed/

* Heather Morrison showed how to use the PubMed Advanced Search option to estimate the number of papers published in a given journal are free online.  In a separate post she showed how TA medical journals with green policies (allowing authors to self-archive) can measure or estimate the number of their articles on deposit in OA repositories.
http://poeticeconomics.blogspot.com/2010/01/calculating-compliance-with-nih-public.html
http://poeticeconomics.blogspot.com/2010/01/for-subscription-journals-calculating.html

 

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