medIND – Online full-text database of Indian biomedical journals
One point resource of peer reviewed Indian biomedical literature covering full text of IndMED journals. It has been designed to provide quick and easy access through searching or browsing.
This database covers full-text of articles of select journals covered in IndMED database. At present the database covers current issues of 26 such journals. Links to existing journals’ web sites have already been provided in IndMED. Journal articles are in PDF format and appear as they appear in the hard copy enabling users to take printouts of any article(s). This medIND database is available free of cost from http://medind.nic.in and can be searched either through the “browsing” or “searching” modes described below:
Browsing: Navigational aid allowing the user to browse from Alphabetical or Subject list of journals. Such hyper linked list leads to pages giving details of selected journals such as editors, instructions to authors, contact address, parent body etc. This in turn leads to listing of Issues of the Journal Years/Volume wise. Clicking on individual issue leads to Table of Contents of the selected Issue and further the Content Page has links to the individual articles.
Searching: The searching mode has been provided through the bibliographic database IndMED. Each record of the IndMED has a link to the actual article in the medIND site. These search boxes are provided on the medIND site enabling a cross database search. Thus the searching of the articles is possible from both the databases.
Links to e-journals' sites: Links are provided to existing e-journals' sites, which take the searcher directly to the journals' web pages.
Display:
Display options depending on the Internet speed have been made available. The
display options are: Icons Used Indicate Availability of Full Text of Articles
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LOADS FASTER AND HAS BETTER DISPLAY QUALITY: Full Text of the article has been converted to PDF format from the soft copy of the journal supplied by the publisher. |
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PREVIEW QUALITY: It is preview of the article. Full Text of the article has been converted to PDF format from the Hard Copy of the journal supplied by the publisher. The article has been scanned and converted into PDF automatically. The preview would be useful to decide if better quality (but bigger in file size) version should be viewed. |
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BETTER DISPLAY QUALITY: Full Text of the article has been converted to PDF format from the Hard Copy of the journal supplied by the publisher. The article has been scanned and OCRed. Suitable corrections have been made and then converted into PDF format. It may take more time to download than the preview quality version. |
