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What order do you normally read it in?
The order it’s written? I don’t read the article, just the abstract I don’t read the article or the abstract,
just the title
Why should you read more than just the abstract?
While it gives the gist of the paper, it doesn’t cover details
It also doesn’t tell you why it’s important or relevant to you
It doesn’t tell you how they did what the did (unless it’s a methods paper)
It doesn’t explain the findings well, it just tells you what you found.
What happens if we read in a different order?
Introduction Why should you care about what is going to be talked about?
What is the context of the problem we are discussing?
Discussion What are the potential implications of what was discovered?
What is the context of what was discovered?
Results What specifically did we find?
Methods How did we find this out?
Why should you read the methods? (Even if it’s terrible torture)
Because sometimes people misrepresent (intentionally or unintentionally) what they did!
It is your job to catch it whether it be a bad measurement of exposure, poor experimental design, etc.
But just because it is questionable doesn’t necessarily mean it’s wrong, you just have to interpret the results more cautiously!
Open Access Journals
Directory of Open Access Journals
http://doaj.org/
Plos1
http://www.plosone.org/
Environmental Health Perspectives
http://ehp.niehs.nih.gov/
Toxicological Sciences
http://toxsci.oxfordjournals.org/ --Not everything
Nature and Science both have some open access articles (after 12 months?)