Changing the model to more affordable-access medical education. | theNursePath

abernard102@gmail.com 2015-10-05

Summary:

"I recently sent a tweet to the Journal of Advanced Nursing (JAN) questioning the motive behind their twitter feed which often provides links to their latest journal articles. Unfortunately many of the links are not open access, meaning that the only information available to many nurses is the abstract page. @jadvnursing Im not sure if your tweets are more education or more advertising? Full disclosure here, I do have full access to all these articles via my hospitals subscription service. I can even access them remotely from home. I am lucky. The JAN is one journal that often has some really fantastic work on offer, so I get a little frustrated when I see a good research paper or update that might change our clinical practice locked away behind a paywall. The full evidence hidden away from many nurses. Now, I am in no way singling out the JAN here. Most of the nursing and medical journals I read do not provide open access for the majority of their articles ..."

Link:

http://thenursepath.com/2015/10/04/changing-the-model-to-more-affordable-access-medical-education/

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Open Access Tracking Project (OATP) ยป abernard102@gmail.com

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oa.new oa.comment oa.nursing oa.publishers oa.business_models oa.prices oa.economics_of

Date tagged:

10/05/2015, 10:36

Date published:

10/05/2015, 06:36