Posted on April 10, 2008 by annietv600
I started to look for open access repositories and was getting absolutely overwhelmed until I discovered ROAR and DOAR.
See also eScholarship Respository (California Digital Library)
Directory of Open Access Repositories - OpenDOAR
OpenDOAR is an authoritative directory of academic open access repositories. Each OpenDOAR repository has been visited by project staff to check the information that is [...]
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Posted on April 7, 2008 by annietv600
Here is an Open Access resource I just discovered, from the California Digital Library (CDL).
The repository is a service of the eScholarship initiative of the California Digital Library, and is an open-access publishing platform that offers UC [Universiy of California] departments, centers, and research units direct control over the creation and dissemination of the [...]
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Posted on March 14, 2008 by annietv600
Here are the articles most downloaded from Medical Education in 2007. For now, free full text is available.
Learning styles: do they really exist? [letter] Kieran Walsh Volume 41, Issue 6, Pages 618-620.
Experience-based learning: a model linking the processes and outcomes of medical students’ workplace learning [by] Tim Dornan, Henny Boshuizen, Nigel King, Albert Scherpbier [...]
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Posted on February 2, 2008 by annietv600
Here are some of the latest reports from PEW/Internet under the topic Online Activities & Pursuits: PEW/Internet:
Increased Use of Video-sharing Sites
48% of internet users have been to video-sharing sites such as YouTube and the daily traffic to such sites on a typical day has doubled in the past year.
Information Searches That Solve Problems
There are [...]
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Posted on December 11, 2007 by annietv600
For many years, the editors of the Medical Journal of Australia have held a Christmas Competition, and published the winning entries in the December issue.
See also: Holiday Review from the CMAJ; BMJ Christmas issues (I wonder why the Canadians are reluctant to use the word Christmas.)
This is from the December 2007 issue of eMJA: [read the [...]
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Posted on December 4, 2007 by annietv600
For years we have all enjoyed the BMJ Christmas issues. The CMAJ publishes a similar December issue, and today the 2007 Holiday Review section appeared online. This year’s review consists of several categories: Research of a holiday kind; Unsubstantiated opinion; and Auscultations. I especially enjoyed Julie Curwin’s The Goo Tolerance Index. And check out Table 1 (Interpretation [...]
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Posted on November 5, 2007 by annietv600
A new series of AMEE guides (Association for Medical Education in Europe) launches with the current issue of Medical Teacher:
Gibbs T. Advancing Medical Education: the new series of AMEE guides in medical education. Medical Teacher 2007; 29(6):525-526. See also AMEE Medical Education Guides, 1-29
Excerpt: To capture an ever increasing body of interested parties, from [...]
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Posted on October 16, 2007 by annietv600
The five short articles in this series are based on discussions held in this UK author’s surgical unit. He writes, While our unit dealt with these issues from a surgical perspective, the obligations of clinical practice apply to all practitioners and the series could be easily modified for other clinical specialties. Even though these articles [...]
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Posted on September 12, 2007 by annietv600
From Philip E. Bourne, Editor-in-Chief of PLoS Computational Biology, here is a collection of editorials intended to provide a quick, concentrated guide for mastering some of the professional challenges research scientists face in their careers. All PLoS (Public Library of Science) journals are Open Access journals. This page updated December 10, 2007.
Erren TC, Cullen P, [...]
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Posted on September 4, 2007 by annietv600
Every September the first issue of JAMA is a theme issue devoted to medical education. Here are the tables of contents of these issues for the past few years.
2007; 2006; 2005; 2004; 2003; 2002; 2001; 2000
See also the JAMA Collections; Series or Collections: An Index
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