Re: Google Scholar WAS Re: cilantro mercury connection

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Daphne wrote:

Ok, dumb question but I was just messing around with Google Scholar (I

> typed in 'cholesterol myth'). More than half the results were from

> Pub Med, the name of which implies the articles are publicly

> available. But I only saw abstracts, and found no way to actually

> read the articles. Which makes the usefulness of Google Scholar very

> limited, if you can't actually READ most of the articles it finds. Or

> am I missing something.

>

> Daphne

>

> P.S. It really burns me that we taxpayers PAY for the research that

> isn't made freely accessible.

Hi, Daphne.

You can get most of these articles at a library, especially an academic

library, which would be considered free to the public.

There is typically a charge for online full text articles just as there is

for any other type of circulating paper journal.

PubMed is a search tool for content, not necessarily for the full article.