PubMed - a dynamic tool for publicly available medical research

In 2021, the NCBI Education Team provided this workshop to provide a guided experience for novice searchers as well as provide some tips on how to use an NCBI account to more effectively use PubMed. Training materials from this event are available on this page.

This short video from Springer Nature describes what open access means to any research article user.

In the US, your taxes fund academic research at public universities. Why then do you need to pay expensive, for-profit journals for the results of that research? Erica Stone advocates for a new, open-access relationship between the public and scholars, making the case that academics should publish in more accessible media. "A functioning democracy requires that the public be well-educated and well-informed," Stone says.

Paywall: The Business of Scholarship is a documentary which focuses on the need for open access to research and science. The film questions the rationale behind the $25.2 billion a year that flows into for-profit academic publishers, examines the 35-40% profit margin associated with the top academic publisher, Elsevier, and looks at how that profit margin is often greater than some of the most profitable tech companies such as Apple, Facebook, and Google.