Posted by metric on March 23, 2009, at 17:03:38
In reply to Re: ADD meds/motivation/concentration » desolationrower, posted by garnet71 on March 22, 2009, at 2:03:59
> So I have a million databases and libraries which makes it harder to find I think...so-I found 7 of them for you so far--so send me an email address where you want them sent. My wireless on my laptop keeps going out every few minutes, so I have to keep re-accessing the server each time that happens. I'll get more later/ tomorrow. BTW, Is there one good database you know of for finding the medically sciency stuff that you're interested in?Hi Garnet,
Though your message above was addressed to desolationrower, I thought I'd chime in:
If you use Firefox as your Web browser, I highly recommend the Zotero extension, which makes it a snap to download citations and grab associated full-text PDFs, take Web-page snapshots, and manage your bibliographic database. Check it out (and of course it's free):
Do you use Google Scholar? A handy feature of Google Scholar is that it provides direct links to the full-text in the search results if your institution's library is supported (the links just point to your library's proxy-based URL). To see if your library is supported, type your library's name in the "Library Links" text box and click "Find Library":
http://scholar.google.com/scholar_preferences?hl=en&lr=&safe=off&output=searchAlternatively, if your library proxy follows a consistent URL-scheme, you may be able to manually alter the URL of the regular link to the text. E.g., if you have a link so:
http://www.sciencedirect.com/path2paper?foo=bar
you might change it to:
http://myproxy.myinstitution.www.sciencedirect.com/path2paper?foo=barPubMed, ScienceDirect, Google Scholar, Scirus, Wiley Interscience, BIOSIS, are useful... I used to use many providers -- not so many in the past couple years. ScienceDirect (if you have access) was one of my favorites full-text search engines with broad coverage.
> I like math but I suck at it. My son want(s)(ed) to be an engineer, but doesn't have enough self confidence with the math, so he's now going for a 4 year degree in mechanical drafting, but looking into nanotechnology, but still, no confidence in that either. My Dad was a self-taught engineer--no college degree, and it was in such as specialized type he ended up traveling alot before he died. There's autism in my family, and the side of the family its on is very good mechanically and with math and computers.
It's worth mentioning that very few students are ever introduced to anything resembling *real* math, which is both fascinating and prerequisite to serious pursuit of any technical endeavor. Most of what is passed off as "math" is boring plug-and-chug computational stuff that can be done by -- and is best left to -- computers.
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