accessing scholarly articles

[Guest guest]

Emmanuel,

 

We haven't spoken for a while directly, but you have whet my palate with your

scholarship,

thoughfulness and humor. For all the above, I thank you. Please educate me

on how to access and use med pub and med pub central. Often when I try to

access articles from Google Scholar I am denied access to the complete text of

the article, without subscribing to the given journal. I must be missing

something.

 

All the best

 

 

Yehuda

 

Emmanuel Segmen <mrsegmen wrote:

Artemis,

 

Thank you! Between you and me, I'm glad there's at least one other biologist on

this list. In recent years I've taken the position that I absolutely will not

take questions from students or fellow list members who cite Dr. Mercola and

information from similar lists. We have Pub Med and Pub Med Central (fully open

access) now in the 21st Century. I hope a fair percentage of any list can step

up to the integrity of both Western and Oriental sciences.

 

Regarding the autoimmune madness, we all have cellular inclusions bodies from

our entertaining Western diets preserved with tonnage of nitrites and the wide

world of preservatives. Consider the " normal " childhood of Cocoa Puffs,

MacDonald's milkshakes, the infinite variety of snack foods, processed meats and

super sized Cokes. That and the self-enforced immobility of TV and computers. No

sky and lots of intracellular inclusion bodies by way of preservatives. I'll be

waiting for the Pub Med Central review papers in support of the Western science,

or someone's conspiracy theory. But I'll pass on Mercola.

 

Respectfully and gratefully,

Emmanuel Segmen

 

 

[Guest guest]

Hi Yehuda,

 

Here is Pubmed Central:

http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/

 

This is different from the regular Medline or PubMed sites in that all of the

journal articles are " open access " . They are intended to be copied and

distributed (in their complete format). Read this page to get an idea of how it

works:

http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/about/intro.html I feel it's truly

brillilant.

 

Regarding regular Medline or PubMed, you need to gather articles with abstracts

in order to understand a given subject matter. The first several pages of any

Medline search functions as a bibliography of authors and titles. You can take

the knowledge you gain from a Medline search of abstracts and go to Pubmed

Central and find review papers. These are truly brilliant summaries of the

literature that invite both more research as well as provide us college

professors with addenda to our textbooks. Also the footnotes and bibliography

citations are all hyperlinked (!!!).

 

On the CMN list I've offered you a review paper called " The Matrix Preloaded "

that reviews metabolic syndrome, diabetes type II and so on. I love this paper.

See:

http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?tool=pmcentrez & artid=1175853

or

http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/picrender.fcgi?tool=pmcentrez & artid=1175853 & blo\

btype=pdf

 

Bon Appetit

Emmanuel Segmen

-----------------

Chinese Medicine , yehuda frischman

< wrote:

>

> Emmanuel,

>

> We haven't spoken for a while directly, but you have whet my palate with

your scholarship,

> thoughfulness and humor. For all the above, I thank you. Please educate me

on how to access and use med pub and med pub central. Often when I try to

access articles from Google Scholar I am denied access to the complete text of

the article, without subscribing to the given journal. I must be missing

something.

>

> All the best

>

>

> Yehuda

 

 

[Guest guest]

Hi Yehuda,

 

Here's a paper and a website that makes The Matrix Preloaded paper easier to

understand and access. It is the very first review paper at the open access

(!!) Cardiovascular Diabetology website that looks at the aging process in both

type I and type II diabetic patients.

 

http://www.cardiab.com/content/1/1/1 - How Hyperglycemia Promotes

Atherosclerosis: Molecular Mechanisms.

 

This paper notes what results from weeks to months of unresolved hyperglycemia -

production of " advanced glycosylated end products " , also called AGEs (a little

molecular biology humor there.) It also indicts anyone with a little roll of

fat over their belt to consider the issue that they might be at least a little

insulin resistant (prone to eat to fullness) due to refined carbs in the diet.

This article also makes some of the intriguing metabolic syndrome figures in The

Matrix Preloaded paper more accessible. BTW, glycosylated just means that

glucose will bind reversibly to receptors in the arteries. After weeks to

months of hyperglycemia, the binding is permanent.

 

I consider the content of both of these papers absolutely basic biology

knowledge for my students in human anatomy and physiology. Long live cooked

vegetables and fresh fruits = complex carbohydrates.

 

Respectfully,

Emmanuel Segmen

 

 

Hi Yehuda,

 

Here is Pubmed Central:

http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/

 

This is different from the regular Medline or PubMed sites in that all of the

journal articles are " open access " . They are intended to be copied and

distributed (in their complete format). Read this page to get an idea of how it

works:

http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/about/intro.html I feel it's truly

brillilant.

 

Regarding regular Medline or PubMed, you need to gather articles with

abstracts in order to understand a given subject matter. The first several

pages of any Medline search functions as a bibliography of authors and titles.

You can take the knowledge you gain from a Medline search of abstracts and go to

Pubmed Central and find review papers. These are truly brilliant summaries of

the literature that invite both more research as well as provide us college

professors with addenda to our textbooks. Also the footnotes and bibliography

citations are all hyperlinked (!!!).

 

On the CMN list I've offered you a review paper called " The Matrix Preloaded "

that reviews metabolic syndrome, diabetes type II and so on. I love this paper.

See:

http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?tool=pmcentrez & artid=1175853

or

http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/picrender.fcgi?tool=pmcentrez & artid=1175853 & blo\

btype=pdf

 

Bon Appetit

Emmanuel Segmen

-----------------

Chinese Medicine , yehuda frischman

< wrote:

>

> Emmanuel,

>

> We haven't spoken for a while directly, but you have whet my palate with

your scholarship,

> thoughfulness and humor. For all the above, I thank you. Please educate

me on how to access and use med pub and med pub central. Often when I try to

access articles from Google Scholar I am denied access to the complete text of

the article, without subscribing to the given journal. I must be missing

something.

>

> All the best

>

>

> Yehuda

 

 

[Guest guest]

As some resources and citations must surely be considered and questioned in

context, perhaps so at times must the enterprise of science itself.

 

I respectfully submit this link to a 2006 article by Jonathan Treasure, who

raises interesting historical points and some analysis of MEDLINE.

 

http://www.herbological.com/images/downloads/HH2.pdf

 

 

Regards,

Jamey Kowalski

 

 

 

-

Emmanuel Segmen

Chinese Medicine

Monday, May 05, 2008 7:15 PM

Re: accessing scholarly articles

 

 

Hi Yehuda,

 

Here's a paper and a website that makes The Matrix Preloaded paper easier to

understand and access. It is the very first review paper at the open access (!!)

Cardiovascular Diabetology website that looks at the aging process in both type

I and type II diabetic patients.

 

http://www.cardiab.com/content/1/1/1 - How Hyperglycemia Promotes

Atherosclerosis: Molecular Mechanisms.

 

This paper notes what results from weeks to months of unresolved hyperglycemia

- production of " advanced glycosylated end products " , also called AGEs (a little

molecular biology humor there.) It also indicts anyone with a little roll of fat

over their belt to consider the issue that they might be at least a little

insulin resistant (prone to eat to fullness) due to refined carbs in the diet.

This article also makes some of the intriguing metabolic syndrome figures in The

Matrix Preloaded paper more accessible. BTW, glycosylated just means that

glucose will bind reversibly to receptors in the arteries. After weeks to months

of hyperglycemia, the binding is permanent.

 

I consider the content of both of these papers absolutely basic biology

knowledge for my students in human anatomy and physiology. Long live cooked

vegetables and fresh fruits = complex carbohydrates.

 

Respectfully,

Emmanuel Segmen

 

Hi Yehuda,

 

Here is Pubmed Central:

http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/

 

This is different from the regular Medline or PubMed sites in that all of the

journal articles are " open access " . They are intended to be copied and

distributed (in their complete format). Read this page to get an idea of how it

works:

http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/about/intro.html I feel it's truly

brillilant.

 

Regarding regular Medline or PubMed, you need to gather articles with

abstracts in order to understand a given subject matter. The first several pages

of any Medline search functions as a bibliography of authors and titles. You can

take the knowledge you gain from a Medline search of abstracts and go to Pubmed

Central and find review papers. These are truly brilliant summaries of the

literature that invite both more research as well as provide us college

professors with addenda to our textbooks. Also the footnotes and bibliography

citations are all hyperlinked (!!!).

 

On the CMN list I've offered you a review paper called " The Matrix Preloaded "

that reviews metabolic syndrome, diabetes type II and so on. I love this paper.

See:

http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?tool=pmcentrez & artid=1175853

or

http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/picrender.fcgi?tool=pmcentrez & artid=1175853 & blo\

btype=pdf

 

Bon Appetit

Emmanuel Segmen

-----------------

Chinese Medicine , yehuda frischman

< wrote:

>

> Emmanuel,

>

> We haven't spoken for a while directly, but you have whet my palate with

your scholarship,

> thoughfulness and humor. For all the above, I thank you. Please educate me

on how to access and use med pub and med pub central. Often when I try to access

articles from Google Scholar I am denied access to the complete text of the

article, without subscribing to the given journal. I must be missing something.

>

> All the best

>

>

> Yehuda

 

[Guest guest]

Yup. " Scientism " is often how the Chinese administration in China embraces our

Western science. When my boss at Min Tong Herbs used to go from Taiwan to China

in the early 1990s representing Chinese herbs, he felt at great personal risk.

And he was also greatly disrespected by the Chinese scientists who couldn't

believe his naivety in " believing " in Chinese medicine. The Chinese haven't

softened much in recent years.

 

Nice article. I, too, was a student of Kuhn's Structures of Scientific

Revolution back in the 1960s. My thesis here is that Chinese medicine would do

well to do Chinese medicine rather than WM conspiracy theories. CM is a huge

and wonderful enterprise. WM would do well to do WM. When people seek

authentication from another paradigm, they basically give up their own paradigm.

Attempting to prove CM with WM techniques will only get you WM. Disproving WM

with conspiracy theories is neither WM nor CM. I personally think that CM is

the larger enterprise. WM is a relative newcomer. However, using Thomas Kuhn's

text to bludgeon PubMed and PubMed Central in the name of scientism is pretty

funny. I was a philosophy student before I was a science student, and I agree

strongly with Kuhn's insights. I can say the same for Jonathan Treasure.

 

Likewise people educated in CM looking for conspiracy theories in WM will

probably do themselves more harm than good. Goodness know that PubMed Central

is perhaps worse than Medline. Duhhhh! It's the government. No wonder it's

open access. Those tricky CIA agents.

 

Oh, well, if I'm going to get cyber-stoned here, I may as well select the really

best stones on your behalf. Here's one that has got some nice heft to it. It's

looking at T-cell vaccination as a therapy to treat MS. Wasn't that the topic

of discussion? Aaaand it's a dot gov site. Possibly something from DARPA.

 

Colloquium Paper: Therapeutic Vaccines: Realities of Today and Hopes for

Tomorrow: Autoimmune concepts of multiple sclerosis as a basis for selective

immunotherapy: From pipe dreams to (therapeutic) pipelines

Reinhard Hohlfeld and Hartmut Wekerle

Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 October 5; 101(Suppl 2): 14599-14606. doi:

10.1073/pnas.0404874101.

PMCID: PMC521993

http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?tool=pmcentrez & artid=521993

 

Respectfully,

Emmanuel Segmen

---------

Re: Re: accessing scholarly articles

 

 

As some resources and citations must surely be considered and questioned in

context, perhaps so at times must the enterprise of science itself.

 

I respectfully submit this link to a 2006 article by Jonathan Treasure, who

raises interesting historical points and some analysis of MEDLINE.

 

http://www.herbological.com/images/downloads/HH2.pdf

 

 

Regards,

Jamey Kowalski