Access to e-journals and online resources for international members

Have Online International Medical Journals Made Local Journals Obsolete?

B ackground to the debate: All of the major international medical journals are now available both in print and online. Being online increases the potential for these journals to have a more global distribution. With the rise of these online international journals, what functions do local journals serve? Only a few journals in the developing world have a long history of survival. Many are strugg...

Online access to nephrology journals: the FUTON bias.

Online access to nephrology journals: the FUTON bias Sir, The editorial by Drueke et al. [1], on having NDT available online for developing countries, should receive the most enthusiastic support. It is widely appreciated that the presence of full-text articles on the Internet improves greatly the readers' chances of accessing information in a timely fashion and has improved the visibility of t...

Knowledge of Shahid Beheshti Dental School Faculty Members about Open Access Electronic Journals

Objectives Considering the gap of information about the perspectives of faculty members regarding the available online scientifc resources, this study aimed to assess the knowledge of Shahid Beheshti Dental School faculty members about open access (OA) electronic journals. Materials and Methods In this descriptive, cross-sectional study, a questionnaire was used to collect information of 68 f...

a contrastive study of rhetorical functions of citation in iranian and international elt scopus journals

writing an academic article requires the researchers to provide support for their works by learning how to cite the works of others. various studies regarding the analysis of citation in m.a theses have been done, while little work has been done on comparison of citations among elt scopus journal articles, and so the dearth of research in this area demands for further investigation into citatio...

Bibliography on Access to Plant Genetic Resources and Intellectual Property Rights International Plant Genetic Resources Institute