Finding items to free full text: A small guide on how to start looking for medical information:

To begin with I want to say that there is no perfect search on the Internet. Your you must learn to know and master a minimum number of databases and with practice you
acquire the necessary experience so that you become a skilled and efficient search engine. I hope this page will help you :-).

Medical Internet search is a process that requires a minimum of knowledge of the terms used in Internet search and of course lots and lots of practice. Since we do not want to do very heavy this page I decided to include e "key".

First I usually start my medical searched Medline via PubMed: http://www.pubmed.gov. Searches are in English and many of the summaries showing has the link to the publisher if you're lucky you can find this article free of charge. My suggestion is that whenever you find the icon of the publishing of the magazine by clicking Test. Now if you do not find the full text article you can place it in one of the following links that you mention below ...

An excellent site that includes free medical journals mushísimas full text is: Free Medical Journals in the http://www.freemedicaljournals.com address. Updated almost weekly. Consider that you should assess the quality of each.

If the item you are looking for belongs to the GUT, Archives of Disease Childhood, Evidence-based Medicine and you come from a developing country (such as Peru) you can have the full text article. In this way you can access the BMJ Publishing magazines available: www.bmjjournals.com

Health InterNetwork Access to Research Initiative (HINARI) in: http://www.who.int/hinari/en/ allows free access to a large collection of magazines. Pre-registration required, however, it is likely that your university or institution subscribes. Ask the librarian at your institution. It is worth noting that access to journals through this initiative has declined over the last anhos. Javier Villafuerte we wrote the following note in PLoS Medicine alerting this situation in 2007. Read note.
Not everything is Medline, another base not as large as Medline data but many Latin American cotiene information and you should include in your search if you want to experience Latin American countries. The base is called LILACS and are at: http://www.bireme.br/bvs/E/ebd.htm and is sponsored by PAHO. Here you can make free searches and you can access summaries of many of the items free of charge.

The SciELO project includes the link to free full text of many articles in LILACS. The portal SciELO Peru find it in: http://www.scielo.org.pe/ .With Isaias Arriola and Maria Julia Cruz published a search strategy in the medical journal SciELO Chile. Read note in PDF.
Another direction with free medical journals full text DOAJ (Directory of Open Access Journals) in the direction http://www.doaj.org/

Many magazines like the New England Journal of Medicine offer free access if all editing is accessed from developing countries like Peru.
Regarding medical journals PERUVIAN please consult the Virtual Library of the University of San Marcos where you'll find a list of free peruans most full-text journals. In: http://sisbib.unmsm.edu.pe/BibVirtual/Publicaciones/publica.asp

 The Virtual Library provides access to UPCH http://www.upch.edu.pe/duiict/ magazines Scientific Production clicking UPCH. There you will get access to complete free magazines like Herediana Medical Journal. If you are a registered user also UPCH can access other databases.
Consensus practice guidelines? If you are looking for consensus they are an excellent resource is the National Guideline Clearinghouse where you find evidence-based guidelines from major medical societies of USA and Canada. You can access through: http://www.guideline.gov

A very useful resource is Google Scholar: http://scholar.google.com Alli can find academic literature and also includes gray literature.

Another resource that you can use are the general search engines (Google is by far the best yet, you are in: http://www.google.com) but remember you have to be very suspicious every time you find an article here because the evidence often comes from dubious sources.

Finally if you find the full text article, you may have received the email the author. Try writing and requesting the item you want. Personally it is a strategy that positive results given me many times.