The keynote talk of MEDNET 2005 was a presentation of Gunther Eysenbach, Associate Professor Department of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, University of Toronto; and Senior Scientist, Division of Medical Decision Making and Health Care Research.
He conducted a decent research to find out if articles published in Open Access are more likely to be cited (more often and earlier) then non-OA articles.
In a very clear way, although with a little basic statistics, he explained his research method and the results. Taking into account every possible factor that can be significantly important, the results show that there is a difference in favour of the OA articles.
The talk was explenatory about the difference between the GOLD way and the GREEN way.
In his opinion the research conducted by the OPCIT Project is mainly focussed on the GREEN way (the so-called "back-door") and he wanted to show independantly that the GOLD way is the " better" one.
The research wil be published shortly in "his" OA Journal of Medical Internet Research (JMIR), but perhaps the presentation will be available also shortly.
OK, I think Toolbars are great for quick easy access to search databases, free or licensed databases. Users can use this jumpstart search to get to their preferred search engines direct from their browser window. But not everybody is allowed to install browser plugins or add-ons. To distribute the Toolbar functionality like the search & news options, I create derived widgets that can be used as a whole in many social networks , websites and intranet sites, everywhere where it is allowed to put up html. The PubMed Search & News Widget is the latest one. I just got confirmation from Widgetbox that they approved it. "Derived" in this case, means, the widget is using the PubMed Toolbar installed custom searches and the installed rss-feed of PubMed New & Noteworthy . (re-published from NLM Toolbars Blog ) Tags: pubmed , nlm , search , widget , toolbar , socialnetworks Related articles by Zemanta PubMed Toolbar in the Spotlight (digicmb.blogspot.com) ...
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