At today's MLA webcast on Scholarly Publishing & Open Access, there was a good case study example of UNC's PubMed search to look for free full-text access articles published by their faculty.
I just did the same thing for us, here's what the search looks like in PubMed:
minnesota[ad] AND "loattrfree full text"[sb] NOT mayo[ad]
I used the NOT command to eliminate studies done from Mayo.
There are over 7300 articles that are freely available from (mostly) U of M authors. There could be some false-drops here of local research organizations too.
Some of these are from open access publications such as the PLoS titles or from publishers that make their content available online immediately for an important article, or after a 2, 4, or 6 month embargo period.
Here's my favorite article: PMID 17710172
Lisa
Posted by biomedref at November 20, 2007 03:54 PM