Accessing scientific information

Practising evidence based medicine is recognised as essential to ensure that patients receive the best possible treatment. For health professionals to be able to practice evidence based medicine, they need to be able to access scientific information. Unfortunately, many important scientific articles...

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Main Authors: Escobedo, Ángel, de Armas, Yaxsier, Castelló González, Mauro, Choonara, Imti
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Published: Editorial Ciencias Medicas 2017
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Online Access:https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/50727/
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author Escobedo, Ángel
de Armas, Yaxsier
Castelló González, Mauro
Choonara, Imti
author_facet Escobedo, Ángel
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Castelló González, Mauro
Choonara, Imti
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description Practising evidence based medicine is recognised as essential to ensure that patients receive the best possible treatment. For health professionals to be able to practice evidence based medicine, they need to be able to access scientific information. Unfortunately, many important scientific articles are not freely available. Scientific articles are published in journals owned by large publishers, who for financial reasons, ensure that access is restricted to institutions or individuals that have paid for the right to read the scientific evidence. This article show the limitations of researcher in developing countries to be able to access scientific information.
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spelling nottingham-507272020-05-04T19:15:16Z https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/50727/ Accessing scientific information Escobedo, Ángel de Armas, Yaxsier Castelló González, Mauro Choonara, Imti Practising evidence based medicine is recognised as essential to ensure that patients receive the best possible treatment. For health professionals to be able to practice evidence based medicine, they need to be able to access scientific information. Unfortunately, many important scientific articles are not freely available. Scientific articles are published in journals owned by large publishers, who for financial reasons, ensure that access is restricted to institutions or individuals that have paid for the right to read the scientific evidence. This article show the limitations of researcher in developing countries to be able to access scientific information. Editorial Ciencias Medicas 2017-11-02 Article PeerReviewed Escobedo, Ángel, de Armas, Yaxsier, Castelló González, Mauro and Choonara, Imti (2017) Accessing scientific information. Revista Cubana de Medicina Tropical, 69 (2). ISSN 1561-3054 open access scientific evidence research http://www.revmedtropical.sld.cu/index.php/medtropical/issue/view/12
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scientific evidence
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Escobedo, Ángel
de Armas, Yaxsier
Castelló González, Mauro
Choonara, Imti
Accessing scientific information
title Accessing scientific information
title_full Accessing scientific information
title_fullStr Accessing scientific information
title_full_unstemmed Accessing scientific information
title_short Accessing scientific information
title_sort accessing scientific information
topic open access
scientific evidence
research
url https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/50727/
https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/50727/