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How to access medical papers

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KingIrving · 24/01/2019 02:58

I was diagnosed in my 40's with a genetic syndrome and like everyone else I hit pubmed and quickly got frustrated when I could only read the abstract.

The big difference between me and parents of children with undiagnosed genetic condition is that I have a name, whereas many are hitting the internet to search for one.

Pubmed allows you to search with keywords, very often it is a domino, one paper leads you to another that leads you to another and so on.

I just finished reading cracking the code, a book which tells the story of a family with a genetic condition and how the parents played a huge role in the diagnosis and discovery of the gene responsible for Leukodystrophy.

I recommend you watch the video below to learn how to access the full medical papers. Before watching it, I would sometimes write some very intense email to the researchers listed on an article, asking questions, and never has anyone replied to me.

So, if you are browsing the net in desperation, I hope this will help you. You might not get the answers you are looking for, but hopefully it will make your research a little easier.

Make sure to read the further explanations you can fin under the video as the domain has now changed. But I am using the one reported, and it works perfectly well.

nutritionfacts.org/video/how-to-access-research-articles-for-free/

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Scareypoppins1 · 24/06/2019 13:59

Hi,
Also try Google scholar, which is a goldmine and will give you several options for each paper.
Another very good resource is researchgate. I use this a lot. You can contact authors of papers to ask for access. More often than not they are happy to do so. I have also emailed authors myself if they are easy to track down.
The only thing to be wary of is that with both these options, the quality of the paper isn't guaranteed, you'll need to check whether it's peer reviewed and the actual quality of the research. Don't believe everything you read, even papers which look sound can have serious problems which bring the validity of the findings into question.

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