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This page links to library searches, online databases, and other venues where you can locate a journal article by title, journal, or identifier (such as DOI or PMID). It's a good idea to start with a search engine, as it will have the most comprehensive coverage. Besides, many of the online databases listed below include free full text.
The West of Scotland Coronary Prevention Study (also known as WOSCOPS) was a landmark [1] randomized controlled trial, published in 1995, that investigated the effects of pravastatin, a cholesterol-lowering drug, on primary prevention of coronary heart disease (CHD) in men with hypercholesterolemia.
The embargo period before an article is made available for free can vary from a few months to two or more years. In a 2013 study, 77.8% of delayed open access journals analyzed had an embargo of 12 months or less. 85.4% had an embargo period of 24 months or less.
FREE Resources: 3 articles every 2 weeks (Register and Read Program, archived journals). Also, early journals (prior to 1923 in US, 1870 elsewhere) free, no registry necessary. Free and Subscription JSTOR [89] Jurn: Multidisciplinary Jurn is a free-to-use online search tool for finding and downloading free full-text scholarly works.
Google Scholar is a freely accessible web search engine that indexes the full text or metadata of scholarly literature across an array of publishing formats and disciplines. . Released in beta in November 2004, the Google Scholar index includes peer-reviewed online academic journals and books, conference papers, theses and dissertations, preprints, abstracts, technical reports, and other ...
A digital object identifier (DOI) is a unique persistent identifier to a published work, similar in concept to an ISBN. Wikipedia supports the use of DOI to link to published content. Where a journal source has a DOI, it is good practice to use it, in the same way as it is good practice to use ISBN references for book sources.
PubMed is a openly-accessible free database which includes primarily the MEDLINE database of references and abstracts on life sciences and biomedical topics. The United States National Library of Medicine (NLM) at the National Institutes of Health maintains the database as part of the Entrez system of information retrieval.
This is a list of publishers of academic journals by their submission policies regarding the use of preprints prior to publication (example list). Publishers' policies on self-archiving (including of preprint versions) can also be found at SHERPA/RoMEO .