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How can I read pubmed articles without having to pay?
Never mind. Apparently it's supposed to be free. Why is it that I can only read the abstracts of articles?
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__________________ You will do me the justice to remember, that I have always strenuously supported the Right of every Man to his own opinion, however different that opinion might be to mine. He who denies to another this right, makes a slave of himself to his present opinion, because he precludes himself the right of changing it.
Never mind. Apparently it's supposed to be free. Why is it that I can only read the abstracts of articles?
Pubmed is a search engine for scholarly literature that can be used freely. That is what the free part means. There are other, similar search engines like Medline that you have to pay for to use. You will almost always find a free abstract with the results, but the entire article as something you usually have to pay for (unfortunately).
Some articles on it are free though. You have to look at the icons. If you have performed a search you see a list of results, with icons in front of it. These signify whether the search results have an abstract, whether the articles can be obtained freely and what the source of the articles is. An explanation of the icons can be found here.
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`Contrariwise,' continued Tweedledee, `if it was so, it might be; and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic.'
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Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
Never mind. Apparently it's supposed to be free. Why is it that I can only read the abstracts of articles?
If there are articles you're particularly interested in, you can also write to the corresponding author for the paper (footnoted in the author list with something like "to whom correspondence should be addressed" and an email address) and ask for a pdf copy of the paper. Authors will generally send a copy.
university libraries have normally accounts with the most frequently used science papers. You could log in on library computers if they dont even have the "hardcopies". At least its that way in germany.
To get a subscription as a private man is very expensive, about $2000 a year for the bigger magazines and there are several hundred for each subject. Its only affordable for universities and big companies. Most of the papers have too few people interested in the subject so there is only small limited editions. Thats why they are that expensive.
university libraries have normally accounts with the most frequently used science papers. You could log in on library computers if they dont even have the "hardcopies". At least its that way in germany.
To get a subscription as a private man is very expensive, about $2000 a year for the bigger magazines and there are several hundred for each subject. Its only affordable for universities and big companies. Most of the papers have too few people interested in the subject so there is only small limited editions. Thats why they are that expensive.
I just graduated and my college library had the same thing, try a university library if you have access to one.
__________________ "Nothing in Biology Makes Sense Except in the Light of Evolution" - Theodosius Dobzhansky
Never mind. Apparently it's supposed to be free. Why is it that I can only read the abstracts of articles?
When you do a pubmed search look at the icon to the left of the reference. Free articles will have the following icon:
while the articles that require payment have the following icon:
When I start researching a new topic I start with the free ones to figure out which ones I want to order.
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university libraries have normally accounts with the most frequently used science papers. You could log in on library computers if they dont even have the "hardcopies". At least its that way in germany.
My university library has a system where you can log on to the library site and access all the papers they have access to from any computer with an internet connection anywhere in the world. They don't delete the accounts after you graduate either so you pretty much have access to most journals for free for life. Great stuff.
To get a subscription as a private man is very expensive, about $2000 a year for the bigger magazines and there are several hundred for each subject. Its only affordable for universities and big companies. Most of the papers have too few people interested in the subject so there is only small limited editions. Thats why they are that expensive.
You could also buy individual papers, but I think they are about €50.
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