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Great, Great, Great resource. And truly shows how medical is becoming mobile.
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Academic Medicine also has an app for the iPad: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/academic-medicine/id500770599?mt=8
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My pet peeve with many of these apps is that they aren’t available with institutional subscriptions. Why should my employer pay multiple times for the same content? Would be nice to expand the list to include those that allow institutional subscribers.
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Agree, definitely frustrating when journals only allow individual subscribers to access the content even though the institution has a subscription. I do have some sympathy (just a little) as the development for an iPhone/iPad app is a significant cost to them (initial cost and ongoing developmental costs), and most importantly, you can still get the content for using your institutional subscription and the safari app.
Do some of the apps mentioned here offer institutional subscriptions?
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Annals of Internal Medicine will be moving to the Silverchair platform later this week. Although I’m not aware of specific apps at this point, Silverchair does provide a nice mobile interface for their journals such as the APA journals that moved to Silverchair recently. The nice thing about the Silverchair mobile platform is that users from institutions can create a personal account within their institution’s subscription and then use this login for mobile access. I hope Annals of Internal Medicine offers this as well. JAMA and The Archives are moving to Silverchair later this month.
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Would you mind explaining the Silverchair platform a bit more?
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Silvershair is an online journal hosting service. Recently some big names in STM journals have migrated to this new platform, I suspect because it offers better site-searching capabilities, and because mobile access is much improved. Mobile journal access has been a problem for institutions because most of our subscription access is authenticated through IP address. Problem is, most institutional wifi does not go through IP authentication, therefore access to subscribed content on a mobile device is not recognized. Silverchair allows users to register a personal account under their institution’s account (from a desktop computer) and then they can login to the journal mobile site and gain access no matter where their Internet connection is coming from. More info on Silverchair mobile can be found here http://tinyurl.com/d42r97o. This works great for libraries and our patrons, hopefully it will continue to remain built-in to the regular subscription cost.
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Any journals having Android apps?
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HealthAdvance Journals has an android version. This includes over 400 journals by elsevier.
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Why are these journals showing this much favoritism towards apple’s iOS and an utter disregard towards android? After all android is the most common mobile OS used worldwide.
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its the most common for everyone, but not for the physicians, who do most of the journal reading…
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also, the iPad dominates the tablet interface. Way more Apple tablets than Android. Android’s OS is more popular on mobile phones. It’s a common misperception that there are more Android tablets than Apple.
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It really would have been helpful to list which ones are free and the cost of the others & whether or not they offer 1 free issue to check ‘em out.
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yep, we’re working on updating the list w/ pricing and other info. this is just the starting point. thanks!
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also, these journals all tend to change their pricing often. Often they do offer an edition for free though.
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Hi Allyson,
I can confirm that all the apps listed above are certainly free to download (which is why I didn’t put a column in for price). Further investigation needs to be done to find out which ones come with an institutional subscription.Hope that helps,
Tom
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Thanx Tom, but I realize this might be nit picky, but it’s one thing to download the app, but if I can’t read any content, it’s kinda wasted my time (and killed innocent electrons).
Knowing which apps are not only free but have free content would be amazingly helpful!
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I would venture to say that almost none of the journals are providing their journal for free. Rather, you need a subscription to their service, or a subscription to the online journal to access it.
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If your institution subscribes to ScienceDirect journals, SciVerse ScienceDirect provides a free journal app, however it one of the rare exceptions where it is only for users that are part of an institutional subscription – http://www.info.sciverse.com/sciverse-mobile-applications/overview. It’s available for iOS, Android, and Blackberry. Great in theory since SD has great titles, but I ran into some technical issues with authentication. I’m curious to know if anyone else has got it to work smoothly.
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This is an excellent attempt to bring medical knowledge accessible . I wish more journals are made available and classified speciality wise.
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classifying them by specialty is a fantastic idea! We’ll definitely work on that at some point. Thanks for the suggestion!
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Annals of Internal Medicine launched an iPad app in August that is free and available via the iTunes store.
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This is a Great resource list. Is this kept up to date on a regular basis. Is there also similar list for andorid or smaller mobile devices such as phones?
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This is a great article, However it is missing some o fthe top journal iPad apps published by Elsevier.
Here is a complete list of all, Journals iPad app by elsevier. I would also consider them to be innovative as many of these journals include videos of actual procedures. The Journal of Hand Surgery for instance has articles dedicated to specific surgeries that surgeons view study and share with their team prior to a surgery. Some complex surgeries and documented and shared via this app, when published as a new article.
All the current apps are listed at the below link:
http://www.healthadvance.com/periodicals/ipadappsI’m also listing out all the journals and their iTunes links:
• African Journal of Emergency Medicine https://itunes.apple.com/hk/app/african-journal-emergency/id571300394?mt=8
• The American Journal of Medicine http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/american-journal-medicine/id466756140?mt=8
• The American Journal of Ophthalmology http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/american-journal-ophthalmology/id467173909?mt=8
• AJOG, American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/american-journal-obstetrics/id466843230?mt=8
• American Journal of Preventive Medicine https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/american-journal-preventive/id567817496?mt=8
• The American Journal of Surgery® http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/american-journal-surgery/id467176075?mt=8
• Annals of Emergency Medicine http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/annals-of-emergency-medicine/id534298766?mt=8
• Arthroscopy: The Journal of Arthroscopic and Related Surgery https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/arthroscopy-journal-arthroscopic/id575275700?mt=8
• Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/clinical-gastroenterology/id532561607?mt=8
• Clinical Therapeutics http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/clinical-therapeutics/id467181634?mt=8
• European Journal of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/european-journal-vascular/id542433373?mt=8
• European Urology https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/european-urology/id577418602?mt=8
• Fertility and Sterility https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/fertility-and-sterility/id548644315?mt=8
• Gastroenterology http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/gastroenterology-official/id534536512?mt=8
• Gastrointestinal Endoscopy http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/gastrointestinal-endoscopy/id534350573?mt=8
• Gynecologic Oncology https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/gynecologic-oncology/id507159984?mt=8
• Heart Rhythm http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/heartrhythm/id532559618?mt=8
• Journal of Hand Surgery http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/journal-of-hand-surgery/id536193279?mt=8
• Journal of Cataract and Refractive Surgery https://itunes.apple.com/ru/app/journal-cataract-refractive/id553925726?l=en&mt=8&ign-mpt=uo%3D2
• Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/journal-american-academy-dermatology/id534524326?mt=8
• Journal of the American College of Surgeons http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/jacs-official-scientific-journal/id491332618?mt=8
• The Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/journal-american-society-echocardiography/id548724127?mt=8
• Journal of the Saudi Heart Association http://itunes.apple.com/qa/app/saudi-heart-journal/id495943032?mt=8
• Journal of Shoulder and Elbow Surgery https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/journal-shoulder-elbow-surgery/id548681008?mt=8
• The Journal of Urology® http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/journal-urology-official-journal/id529090029?mt=8
• Journal of Vascular Surgery https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/journal-of-vascular-surgery/id553924249?mt=8
• JVIR http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/jvir-journal-vascular-interventional/id547978114?mt=8
• Mayo Clinic Proceedings http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/mayo-clinic-proceedings/id548737613?mt=8
• Medicine https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/medicine-journal/id589555796?mt=8
• Ophthalmology https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/ophthalmology-official-journal/id469489678?mt=8
• Sleep Medicine Reviews http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/sleep-medicine-reviews/id467180059?mt=8
• Sleep Medicine https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/id585623339?mt=8
A complete list of all academic medical journals available for the iPad
iMedicalApps has keenly reported on the growth of digital publishing as a result of the increased availability of eReaders and digital tablets. As the number of physicians using an iPad increases, so the demand for medical journals on this platform increases.
We have recently seen a number of major international medical journals recognise this demand and release iPad versions. This includes the New England Journal of Medicine, The Lancet and the British Medical Journal amongst others.
The first quarter of 2012 has seen significant growth in the number of medical journals available in electronic form which has prompted iMedicalApps to compile a complete list of all the academic medical journals currently available on the iTunes store into one spreadsheet which is shown below.
The advantages of a digital version includes:
Medical Journal apps are nearly always free and allow current subscribers to log in which will usually allow access to the complete range of content. Some journals covered below are very basic and only offer the equivalent of a digital PDF version whilst others are far more interactive and allow users to really engage with the content.
Notable absences include: Nature, Cell, Annals of Internal Medicine, Annals of Surgery and more.
**If you have difficulty with scrolling in the below Google Attachment we have copy and pasted the list further below.