Bioethics and Medical Journals

Journals provide free access unless otherwise indicated.

Bioethics & Regulatory Affairs

• Applied Clinical Trials
• Bioethics Bulletin (UB Center for Clinical Ethics and Humanities in Health Care, The University of Buffalo)
• BioethicsNet (Bioethics news and selected content from the American Journal of Bioethics.)
• Biomedical Ethics Newsletter of the European Network for Biomedical Ethics (Archives; journal ceased publication in 2000.)
• British Medical Journal Topics Collection: Research and Publication Ethics
  • Nuremberg 50 Years On. British Medical Journal. 1996;313
• Canadian Bioethics Report
• Publications of the Canadian Bioethics Society
• eCMAJ Collected Resources: Research and Publication Ethics
• Dispatches Newsletter of the Centre of Medical Law and Ethics King's College London
• FDA Consumer Archives at FindArticles (1984-)
• Guinea Pig Zero A Journal for Human Research Subjects (By Bob Helm, professional research subject; Selected free content.)
• The Hastings Center Report (Selected free content with registration.)
• Indian Journal of Medical Ethics
• IRB: Ethics & Human Research (Selected free content with registration.)
  • IRB: Ethics & Human Research at BNET FindArticles: http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_6824/?tag=mantle_skin;content (2007- w/1 year delay of new articles)
• Inspection Monitor (Courtesy of Findarticles.com)
• JME Online Journal of Medical Ethics (Free access to archives with registration; selected current content.)
• Lahey Clinic Medical Ethics Newsletter
• eMJA Medical Journal of Australia Collected Articles on Ethics
• The Milbank Quarterly (Selected free content.)
• NCEHR Communique ( National Council on Ethics in Human Research - Canada)
• Orange County Regulatory Affairs (OCRA) Discussion Group eNewsletter
• PLoS Clinical Trials
• Newsletter of the Office of Research Integrity (U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.)
• PennBioethics Newsletter (The Center for Bioethics, The University of Pennsylvania.)
• Research Integrity Newsletter (The Office of Intellectual Integrity, The Center for Ethics and Humanities in the Life Sciences, The Graduate School of Michigan State University.)
• Trials (Formerly published as Controlled Clinical Trials.)
• Warning Letter Bulletin (Courtesy of Findarticles.com)

Medical Journals

• Journal of the American Medical Association (Content free after 6 months with registration)
• Annals of Internal Medicine (PDFs free after 6 months)
• British Medical Journal (Selected free content)
• Canadian Medical Association Journal
• Journal of Clinical Investigation
• GeneLetter
• The Lancet (Selected free content with registration)
• eMJA The Medical Journal of Australia
• MMWR Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report
• MedGenMed Medscape's General Medicine eJournal (Ceased publication in 2009)
• New England Journal of Medicine (Selected free content with registration)
• New Zealand Medical Journal (Content free after 6 months)
• PLoS Medicine
• The Scientist (Selected free content)

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Electronic Search Resources

• National Library of Medicine PubMed Search
• National Library of Medicine PubMed Central Search (A subset of journals indexed on PubMed with free online access to full text articles.)
• Google Scholar Search

Journal Gateways and Megasites

• Amadeo The Medical Literature Guide (Excellent collection of URLs for journal home pages with options to locate journal titles by speciality or alphabetically.)
• BioethicsWeb (Wellcome Trust guide to internet resources for biomedical ethics.)
• Directory of Open Access Journals (Database of open access (free) journals.)
• The Free Medical Journals Site (Portal with links to medical journals offering free access to some or all contents.)
• HighWire Press (Free access collection hosted by Stanford University)
• BioMedNet Central Journals A – Z (Open Access Journals.)
  • BioMedNet Abstracts (Database of conference abstracts from BioMedNet.)
  • BioMed Central Protocols (Embryonic collection of published clinical trial protocols published by BioMedNet.)
• FindArticles.com (Offers a surprising amount of free content from medical and health care journals; select the link for Health for a list of journal titles.)

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Last Updated: 2011-05-03

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