Medical literature guide

amedo.com

AMEDEO has been created to serve the needs of healthcare professionals, including physicians, nurses, pharmacists, administrators, other members of the health professions, and patients and their friends. They can easily access timely, relevant information within their respective fields.

AMEDEO’s core components include weekly emails with bibliographic lists about new scientific publications, personal Web pages for one-time download of available abstracts (see example), and an overview of the medical literature published in relevant journals over the past 12 to 24 months. All these new information resources are free of charge.

To get the most from AMEDEO

1. Select a medical area, select your favourite medical journals and submit the request form to receive the weekly emails.
2. Consult the weekly literature overviews for additional medical areas, i.e. HIV Infection, Ischemic Heart Disease, Breast Cancer (for a complete overview, please refer to the AMEDEO homepage).
3. Consult the medical literature of the previous 12 to 24 months grouped by journals and topics.

A Cancer Journal for Clinicians

CA: A Cancer Journal for Clinicians is a peer-reviewed journal of the American Cancer Society providing cancer care professionals with up-to-date information on all aspects of cancer diagnosis, treatment, and prevention.

Published six times per year, CA is the most widely circulated oncology journal in the world, with a circulation of approximately 88,000, including primary care physicians; medical, surgical, and radiation oncologists; nurses; other health care and public health professionals; and students in various health care fields. Although CA is an oncology journal, it is not a journal only for oncologists. It reaches a very wide and diverse group of professionals, and provides an unparalleled opportunity to present information to these professionals about cancer prevention, early detection, treatment of all forms, palliation, advocacy issues, quality-of-life topics, and more.

Clinical Resource For Physicians UpToDate

UpToDate is one of the most respected medical information resources in the world, used by over 360,000 doctors and thousands of patients to find answers to medical questions.

• Content written by a faculty of over 4,000 physicians from leading medical institutions
• Unbiased: free of advertising or pharmaceutical funding
• Evidence-based treatment recommendations
• Continuously updated to incorporate new medical findings

UpToDate is an evidence based, peer reviewed information resource - available via the Web, desktop computer, and PDA.

With UpToDate, you can answer questions quickly, increase your clinical knowledge, and improve patient care. Independent studies confirm these benefits.

The UpToDate community includes our faculty of more than 4,000 leading physicians, peer reviewers, and editors and over 360,000 users. Our faculty writes topic reviews that include a synthesis of the literature, the latest evidence, and specific recommendations for patient care. Our users provide feedback to the editorial group. This community's combined efforts result in the most trusted, unbiased medical information available.

What's New Patient Information List of Authors Calculators Adult Primary Care Allergy and Immunology Cardiology Critical Care Drug Information

Emergency Medicine Endocrinology Family Medicine Gastroenterology Gynecology Hematology Hepatology Infectious Diseases Nephrology

Neurology Obstetrics Oncology Pediatrics Pulmonology Rheumatology Surgery Women's Health

Weekly US Medical Journal

The New England Journal of Medicine (N Engl J Med or NEJM) is an English-language peer-reviewed medical journal published by the Massachusetts Medical Society. It is one of the most popular and widely-read peer-reviewed general medical journals in the world. It is also the oldest continuously published medical journal in the world.

British Medical Journal

www.bmj.com
BMJ is a partially open access medical journal. It is among the most influential and widely read peer-reviewed general academic journals in the field of medicine in the world.

The journal is published by the BMJ Group, a wholly owned subsidiary of the British Medical Association that also publishes 24 other journals focusing on various medical specialties

Free CME Resource For Physicians

www.medscape.com
cme.medscape.com

Medscape offers specialists, primary care physicians, and other health professionals the Web's most robust and integrated medical information and educational tools. After a simple, 1-time, free registration, Medscape automatically delivers you the specialty site that best fits your profile. You can also change your Medscape homepage to any of our other specialty and profession sites at any time.

Some of Medscape's key features include:

• Original, professional medical content, including review articles, journal commentary, expert columns, patient education articles, book reviews, and more;
• More than 850 online CME activities;
• Conference Coverage: Thought leaders summarize key data and presentations from major medical meetings;
• The Internet's first primary-source medical journal, The Medscape Journal of Medicine;
• Selected daily professional medical news in your specialty from Reuters, Medscape Medical News, and medical news journal publishers;
• Physician Optimized MEDLINE;
• Free subscription to Medscape's MedPulse, a weekly email newsletter that highlights what's new in your specialty on Medscape;
• More than 125 medical journals and textbooks;
• Business, financial, managed care, and medical practice information;
• And more…

The result is a medical Web site rich in content, broad in appeal, and high in quality.

Digital Archive Of The World's Free Biomedical Literature

www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov

PubMed Central is a free digital archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature at the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH), developed and managed by NIH's National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) in the National Library of Medicine (NLM). With PubMed Central, NLM has taken the lead in preserving and maintaining access to the electronic literature, just as it has done for decades with the printed biomedical literature. PubMed Central aims to fill the role of a world class library in the digital age. It is not a journal publisher. NLM believes that giving all users free access to the material in PubMed Central is the best way to ensure the durability and utility of the archive as technology changes over time.



PubMed Central follows in the footsteps of other highly successful and useful services that NCBI has developed for the worldwide scientific community: GenBank, the genetic sequence data repository, and PubMed, the database of citations and abstracts to biomedical and other life science journal literature. GenBank, and the tools provided by NCBI for searching and manipulating its contents, have been a boon to molecular biologists and have helped advance developments in the field. PubMed (which encompasses Medline) is the database of choice, for researchers and clinicians alike, to locate relevant articles and, in many cases, link directly to a publisher's site for the full text.

Participation by publishers in PubMed Central (PMC) is voluntary, although participating journals must meet certain editorial standards. (See How to Join PMC.) Journals are encouraged to deposit all their content (and not just research papers or other selected material) in PMC so that the archive becomes a true digital counterpart to NLM's extensive collection of print journals. In line with this objective, NLM has digitized earlier print issues of many of the journals that are in PMC. Although immediate free access to all content is most desirable, a journal may delay release of its full text in PMC for some period of time after publication. See the Deposit and Access Policies for more information.

A journal is guaranteed access to a copy of its deposited data upon request, at no cost. PubMed Central does not claim copyright on any material deposited in the archive. Copyright remains with the journal publisher or with individual authors, whichever is applicable.

The value of PubMed Central, in addition to its role as an archive, lies in what can be done when data from diverse sources is stored in a common format in a single repository. GenBank has proven the advantages of collecting DNA sequences in a central repository with a common format. You get more rapid searching, manipulation, and cross-linking of the complete collection, and all the benefits that derive from that. Similarly, with PubMed Central, one can quickly search the entire body of full-text articles and locate relevant material regardless of its source. It also makes it possible to integrate the literature with a variety of other information resources such as sequence databases and other factual databases that are available to scientists, clinicians and everyone else interested in the life sciences. The intentional and serendipitous discoveries that such links might foster excite us and stimulate us to move forward.

Most journals now have online publishing operations and there is a growing tendency to publish material online only, to the exclusion of print. This literature must be preserved in a form that ensures unrestricted access to it over the longer term. This is what NLM has undertaken to do. We invite all journals to join those that have already committed to creating this resource for people all over the world.
www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov