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Journals on Line:

In this section you can find links to journal publishers. A lot of the medical journals after a period of time become available for free on line. 

Free Medical Journals : PubMed Search 

http://www.lib.uiowa.edu/hardin/md/ej.html   

This is a selected list of free full-text online electronic medical journals, with an emphasis on journals that are included in PubMed Medline and have current issues available.

Free Medical Journals on line

http://www.freemedicaljournals.com/ 

The Free Medical Journals Site is dedicated to the promotion of free access to medical journals over the Internet.

List in alphabetic order of various publications 

A 

AAAS - Signal Trunsduction Knowledge Environment - Journal

http://stke.sciencemag.org/ 

Signal transduction is the study of how cells control their own and each others' behaviors through chemical signals. Nineteen publishers have agreed to include full-text access to ST articles from their journals in the STKE Virtual Journal. Available free full texts and abstracts of various issues.

American Society for Microbiology - Journals 

http://www.journals.asm.org/ 

The Society's 11 journals cover the spectrum of microbiology, from molecular and cellular biology to biomedical research and technology. Available free full texts and abstracts of various issues.

B 

BioMedNet

http://www.bmn.com/ 

Databases, Books, Articles and Links. Available free full texts and abstracts.

BioTechniques

http://www.biotechniques.com/ 

Available free full texts and abstracts.

Blackwell Science

http://www.blackwell-science.com/products/journals/jnltitle.htm 

International Publishers in Science, Medicine and Technology. List of Journals by title.  (Magazines such as Cellular Microbiology, Ecological Entomology, International Journal of Experimental Pathology, etc). Free index. With registration free access to issue alerts, summaries, and payment per article.

British Journal of Pharmacology

http://www.brjpharmacol.org

Articles and Links. Free index. With registration free access to issue alerts, summaries, and payment per article.

C 

Cell.com

http://www.cell.com/  

Articles and Links. Free index. With registration free access to issue alerts, summaries, and payment per article.

 E 

European Molecular Biology Organization Journal On-line

http://emboj.oupjournals.org/ 

The EMBO Journal is published for the European Molecular Biology Organization by the Oxford University Press. Free articles.

ExPASy 

http://www.expasy.org/  

The ExPASy (Expert Protein Analysis System) proteomics server of the Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics (SIB) is dedicated to the analysis of protein sequences. Free Databases (images, proteins databank, etc.), documents.

H 

HIN - Health InterNetwork

http://www.healthinternetwork.net/ 

More than 2000 journals, databases, compendia and other publications. Free articles.

 J 

Journal of Biological Chemistry

http://www.jbc.org/

Free index. With registration free access to issue alerts, summaries, and payment per article.  

K 

Karolinska Institute Library

http://www.kib.ki.se/index_en.html  

Links to Journals, Databases, Electronic Books, etc.  

KIT - Koninklijk Instituut voor de Tropen/

Royal Institute for the Tropics (Netherlands)

http://www.kit.nl/frameset.asp?TargetURL=/biomedical_research/default.asp 

KIT Biomedical Research. Free abstracts.

L 

LinkOut

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/linkout/ 

LinkOut is a feature of Entrez that is designed to provide users with links from PubMed and other Entrez databases to a wide variety of relevant web-accessible online resources, including full-text publications, biological databases, consumer health information, research tools, and more.

M 

Malaria Research and Reference Reagent Resource Center

http://www.malaria.atcc.org/externalLinks.html  

Direct links between records in the MR4 database and external databases, such as GenBank, The Monoclonal Connection, PDB, etc 

Microbial Pathogenesis 

http://www.academicpress.com/micpath 

The journal covers infectious agents of bacterial, fungal, viral, and protozoal origin. Free abstracts, pay per article.

Molecular Biology of the Cell

http://www.molbiolcell.org/  

Free articles and abstracts.

N 

Nature

http://www.nature.com/  

Free articles and abstracts.

NACIONAL CENTER FOR BIOTECHNOLOGY INFORMATION

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/  

NCBI creates public databases, conducts research in computational biology, develops software tools for analyzing genome data, and disseminates biomedical information.

O 

OIE

http://www.oie.int/eng/publicat/en_publicat.htm  

The OIE collects and analyses the latest scientific information on animal disease control. Free articles.

P 

PNAS - Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of USA

http://www.pnas.org

Free articles and abstracts.

R 

Red Mesoamericana de Recursos Bióticos 

http://www.redmeso.uaem.mx/redmeso/otraredmeso/redmeso.html# 

Red Mesoamericana de Recursos Bióticos (needs registration for the library)

S 

Science Magazine 

http://www.sciencemag.org/

Free articles and abstracts. With registration free access to issue alerts.

T 

The Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics

http://library.ictp.trieste.it/  

The Journal of Infectious Diseases 

http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/JID/home.html  

Free articles and abstracts.

Tropical Diseases Bulletin

http://www.cabi-publishing.org/JOURNALS/index.asp  

Abstracts by registration.

Public Libraries

In this section you can find links to public libraries. Often they require subscription. Free subscriptions are also available for Institutions.

Health InterNetwork (HINARY library)

http://www.healthinternetwork.org/
The Health InterNetwork was created to bridge the "digital divide" in health, ensuring that relevant information - and the technologies to deliver it - are widely available and effectively used by health personnel: professionals, researchers and scientists, and policy makers.

Research Centers - Laboratories

In this section you can find links to Research Centers and Laboratories. By visiting them you will find out the area of expertise and the publications they have made. 

Instituto Clodomiro Picado - Costa Rica

http://www.icp.ucr.ac.cr 

Instituto Conmemorativo Gorgas, de Estudios de la Salud - Panama

http://www.gorgas.gob.pa 

Kolter Lab - The Microbial World of Biofilms - Harvard - USA

http://gasp.med.harvard.edu/  

Microbiology & Tumore Biology Center - MTC - Sweden

http://www.mtc.ki.se/groups/index.htm  

Karolinska Institute´s Research Groups

MOLECULAR BIOLOGY OF Echinococcus granulosus

http://www.ufrgs.br/depbiot/206/eng206.htm

Departament of Biotechnology and Center of Biotechnology of the State of Rio Grande do Sul, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, dedicated to studies of gene organization and control of gene expression in the Cestodes Echinococcus granulosus and Mesocestoides corti

http://www.usac.edu.gt/~lenap/overview.htm 

Tropical Diseases and Research Program. (PIET - Programa de Investigación en Enfermedades Tropicales) - Costa Rica

http://www.medvet.una.ac.cr/piet/piet.html 

Universidad de Costa Rica, Microbiology Faculty - Costa Rica

http://www.ucr.ac.cr/~ppmicr/index.html 

Free Software Downlads

In this section you can find links to usuful software to download for free in your computer.

netropica@netropica.org 

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