Resources

In my student days I had easy access to journals because our college had a good library. But access was limited to those to which the library subscribed. I used to yearn for a few others and satisfy myself with the table of contents after a search in the world wide web. To day the problem is worse, I have no access to journals because the hospital library has limited ...rather no journals at all, and I cannot afford a subscription. If I look into the web I end up no better. Nice fancy sites proclaiming the superiority or authenticity of their articles but with access only upon paying a fee. So I did what I should have done a long time ago. I combed down the net for open-access journals and came up with a few sites. Here is my list. I am going to keep updating the list as time goes by!

Open- access Journal sites

Ortho related:

• Journal of Orthopaedic Surgery - Official publication of Asia Pacific Orthopaedic Association.
• The Iowa Orthopaedic journal - Official journal form the Dept. of Orthopaedics, University of Iowa, USA.
• Journal of Orthopaedics - Official journal published by the Dept of Orthopaedics, Calicut Medical College, Kerala, India.
• The Internet Journal of Orthopaedic Surgery - Peer reviewed journal from Internet Scientific Publications.
• BMC Muskuloskeletal Disorders - From Biomedcentral.
• Acta Orthopaedica - Articles from issues one year from the present month available online.
• Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery (Br) - British edition of the prestigious journal with articles appearing in issues 5 years agon are available online.

Other Repositories:

• PLOS MEdicine - Peer reviewed open access journal.
• Free Medical Journals - For promotion of free access to medical journals over the inernet.
• Directory of Open Access Journals - Extensive but not complete and up to date.
• Find Articles - Free article search available.
• Medbioworld - large medical and bioscience directory.