In this article open access is defined, and the resources and issues of greatest relevance to the medical librarian are discussed.The economics of open access publishing is examined from the point of view of the university library.Open access resources, both journals and articles in repositories, are already significant and growing rapidly.There ar
In this data article, 146 villagers (exposed group) were randomly selected from the workers who involved in the e-wastes recycling directly as a daily job in Tianjin.Control group, including 121 villagers, came from another town without e-waste disposal sites.Chromosomal aberrations (CA) and cytokinesis blocking micronucleus (CBMN) were performed t
It is not news to suggest that the law treated drugs like opium differently in the nineteenth century compared to today.These days, opium falls within the category of psychoactive drugs, for the purposes of the Psychoactive Substances Act 2016.This is because it ‘produces a psychoactive effect in a person … by stimulating or depressing the spi
Kuttanad region in Kerala, India, is a place that predominantly consists of soft soil formations with low shear strength and low water resistance rendering them problematic for construction purposes.Pavements constructed on such soft deposits have been subjected to structural rutting and the high erodibility of the in-situ soil necessitates the nee