Open Source or Free Journals

Friends we all are aware that information is changing its form, from a very controlled print media, today we are into more dynamic online world.

Online media is helping all to get to information that they are seeking for, it can be subscribed or free but the users are getting closer to requirement.

The open sources and repositories have been a great source of information however they may or may not be peer reviewed, thus as a scientific community we offer lower rating to these material however Gold OA and Green OA have been proving very useful. Scientist who want their research to have higher impact prefer this model.

But I am very happy to see the increasing hits to these articles, some where somebody is using your information, scientific community had been honest in offering citation and I believe same will continue.

As a researcher you may find it difficult to decide which title should you really look forward to thus to make it simple I am compiling the list and shall put it on the blog soon.....

Just to bring few details how repositories are growing globally:



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Author: Harnad


Rajesh

Isabel & BMJ Best Practice a useful combination

Isabel along with BMJ Best Practice a combination to watch for:

Isabel Healthcare has been providing one of the renowned diagnosis decision support application, it provides a resource that integrates with the EMR. While Best Practice provides similar diagnosis support monographs it would be good to see how these products combine together to enhance the patient care.

Isabel Diagnosis Checklist System (IDCS) provides clinicians with checklist of likely diagnosis from its library of 11000 diagnoses and over 4000 drugs, it’s a good near patient or point of care tool.

While BMJ Best Practice would act as knowledge base, Isabel would work as a diagnostic tool which can be integrated with EMR giving a very refined approach to patient care.

Rajesh

NeuroSciences Databases Post | Free & Subscribed

These are useful neurosciences databases available:

Name and External Link	Description	Organism	Level (gene, neuron, macroscopic)	Data (MRI, fMRI, images, descriptive, numerical)
Allen Brain Atlas [1]	Atlas, stained sections from brains showing development and gene expression	Mouse, Human	Macroscopic, Gene	Images
Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative (ADNI) [2]	Structural MRI images	Human	Macroscopic	MRI datasets
Bipolar Disorder Neuroimaging Database [3]	Meta-analysis and database of MRI studies	Human	Macroscopic	Descriptive, numerical
Brain-Development.org [4]	Structural MRI images	Human	Macroscopic	MRI datasets
Braininfo [5]	Atlas, schematic atlas of Macaca fascicularis	Macaque	Macroscopic	Schematic images
Brain Machine Interface Platform [6]	Different types of data related to brain machine interface	Human, Monkey	Macroscopic, Neuron	Images, Numerical
BrainMap.org [7]	fMRI coordinate database	Human	Macroscopic	Descriptive
BrainMaps [8]	Atlas, high resolution stained sections from brains	Human, primate and non-primate (14 species in all)	Neuron and Macroscopic	Images
Brede Database [9]	fMRI and PET coordinate database	Human	Macroscopic	Descriptive
Brainmuseum.org / MSU Brain Biodiversity Bank [10] [11]	Atlas, stained sections from brains and MRI images	Human and 62 other species	Macroscopic	Images
Cerebellar Development Transcriptome Database [12]	Atlas, stained sections from mouse brains showing cerebellar development and gene expression	Mouse	Macroscopic, Gene	Images
The fMRI Data Center [13]	fMRI datasets from published studies	Human	Macroscopic	fMRI datasets
Invertebrate Brain Platform [14]	Photos of dissections of invertebrates nervous systems	Invertebrates (47 species in all)	Macroscopic	Photos
Major Depressive Disorder Neuroimaging Database [15]	Meta-analysis and database of MRI studies	Human	Macroscopic	Descriptive, numerical
Mouse Brain Library [16]	Atlas, stained sections from mouse brains	Mouse	Macroscopic	Images
Neuromorpho.org [17]	3D models of real neurons	Human, Rat, Mouse, Monkey, others	Neuron	Images and 3D data
NeuronDB [18]	Database of Neuron properties and classification	Human	Neuron	Descriptive
Open Access Series of Imaging Studies (OASIS) [19]	Structural MRI images	Human	Macroscopic	MRI datasets
Whole Brain Atlas [20]	Atlas, Structural MRI images and PET images	Human	Macroscopic	Images

Rajesh

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