Saturday, February 21, 2009

Saxe's Resources

Since only a single publication Saxe has been published in offers Open Access I also wanted to check on the resources Saxe utilizes.

Current Biology has a great website at: http://www.cell.com/current-biology/home with videos and full text documents with all the pertinent graphs, charts, and diagrams.

Behavioral and Brain Sciences do ask for membership, but does offer free online access to articles published since 1993. ( http://www.bbsonline.org/ )

Science had links to the current issue –which actually had an article about weiner dogs which is funny because just today I saw one walking down my street. Anyway, in addition to the current issue, http://www.sciencemag.org/index.dtl also had links to previous issues which are published weekly with the opportunity to subscribe as well.

Nature Neuroscience not only had full text articles from current and previous editions, but also had advance web access to upcoming issues! (http://www.nature.com/neuro/index.html )


At first Animal Behavior seems to offer free full-text downloadable documents of their journal, but then the link sends you to Science Direct where articles can be purchased. NeuroReport also asks for registration and pay-per-view for articles. (http://www.neuroreport.com/pt/re/neuroreport/home.htm;jsessionid=JhQTH21GnxnF2Qk40GK1r5r6Y3vphQQhR617ccQ1yTSJ3ZhVCWLF!1204955331!181195628!8091!-1

Brain required a subscription to “Brain Online” although it is possible to search the holdings without a subscription (http://brain.oxfordjournals.org/ ) Very tricky how these things are labeled

Most of the other journals I looked at required purchase or at least subscription. Very interesting to see that the majority of resources Saxe uses offer public access compared to the inaccessibility of the publications in which she has been published.

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