The new PubMed is here! Learn something about it

The new PubMed is here! Learn something about it

In mid November 2019, the National Library of Medicine, USA announced the launch of the new PubMed. They mentioned that the new one will become the "default" from Spring 2020 - which will be around the 19th of March, 2020. It is time for us to start getting used to the new PubMed - both the good and the not so good, about the new PubMed. Here are some points of learning: The site address The new PubMed is available at https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/ . If you have bookmarked the old, one, you will get a message asking you to try the…
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Cancer Guidelines Database

Cancer Guidelines Database

https://www.partnershipagainstcancer.ca/tools/cancer-guidelines-database/ This database has approximately 1000 English language Cancer guidelines. Useful for clinicians, policy makers, and researchers, it has three types of records. These are based on the "Agree Score" (details about this score are available on the website). The first is high quality guidelines that have a score higher than 60%, the second is moderate quality guidelines that have a score of less than 60%, but still meet basic inclusion criteria, and the third - is a set of guidelines from other Canadian organizations that do not provide clear recommendations linked to evidence. These do not have an Agree…
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Another resource for free articles

Another resource for free articles

Everyone loves getting articles for free! Let us introduce a unique tool to find free articles Unpaywall - https://unpaywall.org/ - is a database of more than 24 million legally free articles! Unpaywall harvests these articles from open access repositories (like PubMed Central) and from over 50000 journals. However it is not a database that can be searched in itself. It has to be integrated in any other collection - example - a library's collection or into a collection like PubMed This is best used when you install the Chrome Browser Extension available at https://unpaywall.org/products/extension Once you install this, then when…
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