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Old 06-01-2013, 11:43 AM   #41
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Originally Posted by Nancy1999 View Post
Yes, Pstinard sent you the abstract, and on that page, in the top right hand corner you can get the full article. It gives you two choices "ELSEVIER full text ariticle or "Free in PMC full text archive". Sometimes, ELSEVIER doesn't work and wants you to pay. All scientific articles have abstracts and it briefly tells you what they were trying to do in the study and very briefly their conclusions. Unfortunately, this is all some scientific writers read when they do a report on an experiment and as you can see the abstract doesn't always give the full picture. The abstract is used by those doing research to find other research that might be applicable to their own research.
I'm so used to following the Elsevier full text article link that that's what I did. They usually don't have the free article link, so we lucked out! Thanks for the heads up, Nancy!
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