The European Commission recently announced a new pilot program that allows for unrestricted access to EU-funded research results after an embargo period between six to 12 months. From the press release:
“The Commission’s open access pilot, to run until the end of FP7, aims to ensure that the results from EU-funded research are progressively made available to [...]

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Check out Web inSuggest, a tool that provides related websites, images or bookmarks based on a website URL, image or del.icio.us user name that you enter.  According to the inSuggest blog, “inSuggest makes online life easier with advanced recommendation technology for bookmarks, images and web pages.”

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The PMID : PMCID Converter is a new  tool on PubMed that allows for entry of a PubMed Indentifier number (PMID) for a work that is in PubMed Central in oder to find the associated PubMed Central Identifier number (PMCID), or vice versa.  The PMID : PMCID Converter also allows for entry of mulitple numbers as [...]

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What is a comprehensive literature search? How to know when you’ve exhausted the literature?
Questions to ask . . .
· Do your research results provide a clear chain of evidence in demonstrating the accumulation of knowledge on a particular topic?
· Did you find the first description or research of a particular topic?
· Do scholarly books or [...]

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