Evidence-based medicine matters
LDA aims to improve Lyme disease diagnosis and treatment for UK patients. This can only be done through assessing quality evidence. Be aware that AI may seem to provide an answer, but you need to check with a reliable resource as AI does sometimes get it wrong.
Everyone needs to be careful about what they read in newspapers, magazines and on the internet. Check what you read against reputable sources. Read more from Sense About Science.
Finding Technical Lyme Articles
Google Scholar – This is the simplest tool to use. Search specifically for scholarly literature, including peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, preprints, abstracts and technical reports from all broad areas of research. This tool will give you links to full text of articles where available.
Researchgate is a European commercial social networking site for scientists and researchers to share papers. It is free to join and many researchers post their papers.
PubMed Central – A digital archive of life sciences journal literature. PMC provides free and unrestricted access to the full text of over 160 life sciences journals.
PubMed – A service of the National Library of Medicine, includes over 15 million citations from MEDLINE and additional life science journals for biomedical articles back to the 1950’s. PubMed includes links to full text articles and other related resources. Help on how to use PubMed
Trip Database – a clinical search tool designed to allow health professionals to rapidly identify the highest quality clinical evidence for clinical practice
PLoS Medicine – Public Library of Science Medicine believes that medical research is an international public resource. The journal publishes articles of general interest on biomedical, environmental, social and political determinants of health.
Directory of Open Access Journals – “Open Access” means that you can read the whole paper, not just the abstract or summary. The Directory aims to be comprehensive and cover all open access scientific and scholarly journals that use a quality control system to guarantee the content. The journal must exercise peer-review or editorial quality control to be included.
Saving your articles
Having read some papers, do you want to store them for easier searching? There are a lot of Reference Management Systems out there, so find something that suits your computer operating system, your needs and your pocket.
Many are free. Try one out.
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