It appears that publication quality is of utmost importance when choosing publication venues in general, while free access and visibility are specifically noted incentives for selection of OA journals. Therefore, free public availability and increased exp
Petition for Public Access to Publicly Funded Research. The Petition for "Public Access to Publicly Funded Research in the United States" is open to individuals and organizations of all types.
The conventional concept of tumor-host interactions is rooted in the realm of parasitology. A tumor invades an unsuspecting host, and in response to this assault, the host attempts to resist the advances of the tumor by calling on the armamentarium of the
...a doctor's main role would be to restore the physical, psychological and social capacity of the sick person to allow him or her to live life in their own self-determined manner. Medicine would not be about returning the body or mind to an idealized sta
TRITE is a pre-computed set of Medline similarity hits on topics of interest to medical researchers. TRITE uses the eTBLAST engine, operating on an edited set of topics selected from the Encyclopidia of Molecular Biology, Blackwell Science, Limited. The q
Peer review, originally to filter out unreasonable claims, now focuses on the marketable value of a manuscript. Open access journals should return the focus to academic, not commercial, criteria.
One of integrative medicine's foremost academic leaders, Brian M. Berman, MD, is the Director and Professor of the Complementary Medicine Program and the Founder and Director of the Center for Integrative Medicine, the first integrative medicine center at
TeSSI® (Terminology Supported Semantic Indexing) is a state-of-the-art tool that improves upon the existing search and retrieval tools by extracting the meaning out of medical free text and placing the resulting medical ‘concepts’ in the document...