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Scientific authors increasingly are depositing their articles into repositories prior to publication.  These preprints sometimes are cited even prior to the journal publishing the article either in print or online.  Publishing in preprint archives are allowed by a majority of publishers including The American Society for Cell Biology, IEEE, and BMJ Publishing Group. 

To see a list of publishers that have no restrictions for allowing authors to deposit articles in repositories - http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo/PDFandIR.html.

It is easy to find these preprint articles if you use the web search feature in the SCOPUS database.  To access SCOPUS, select if from the list of Core Databases from the Research Medical Library - http://www3.mdanderson.org/library/databases/databases.html.  Once a list of results is generated in the SCOPUS web search, you can limit by Preprints:

There are major benefits to making preprints available, including:

• research is available more quickly to the scientific community
• data or supporting materials can be published alongside the article
• peer review open to a larger community of peers, usually prior to the official peer review of a journal

A comprehensive list of preprint servers is available here:  
http://www.lib.umd.edu/ETC/preprints.html

To learn more about open access and preprints, visit the Los Alamos National Library Preprints and eprints information page:http://library.lanl.gov/libinfo/preprints.htm

Any questions about preprints, open access, or alternative publishing venues, please contact Librarian Clara Fowler at cfowler@mdanderson.org or 713-745-1538.

EndNote X2, the latest version available from the Preferred Software Program, now has integrated full text linking.  To link to full text, follow these steps:

1. In the EndNote Library, select the item or items for full text linking (e.g. Bianco 2000)
2. Pull down the References menu, choose Find Full Text
3. References that have full text will display with a paperclip icon

If full text is not available for an article, you can configure EndNote to check the Research Medical Library holdings by enabling the OpenURL feature.  Follow these directions to set up OpenURL:

1. Open a Library in EndNote, then pull down the Edit menu and select Preferences
2. In EndNote Preferences, select URL & Links
3. Check the box for Enable OpenURL and paste in (or enter) the Web address for the library’s linking application:

        http://ga6zr9ch7u.search.serialssolutions.com

1. Click Apply.  When you are done is should look like this:

If you have questions about EndNote, please contact the Research Medical Library at RML-Help@mdanderson.org.

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