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I t p a y s t o b e A B M P C e r t i f i e d : w w w. a b m p . c o m / g o / c e r t i f i e d c e n t r a l 55 More free full-text journals can be found in the Directory of Open Access Journals (www.doaj.org). This website allows you to search on topics such as oncology and pediatrics so you can find journals that interest you. On each journal's site you can sign up for free email alerts for new research articles. TABLES OF CONTENTS Another easy way to stay up to date is to have the tables of contents from your favorite journals emailed to you when they are released. At the very least, this will let you know the titles of new articles. You can usually view an abstract of each article, too. This gives you access to basic information even if you choose not to pay for the entire document. One journal for which you might want to get the table of contents is the Journal of Bodywork and Movement Therapies (www.bodyworkmovementtherapies.com). This journal is subscription-based, but you can receive the table of contents and view abstracts at no cost. If you are not sure which journals are relevant to your work, check the index of subscription journals at www.journaltocs.ac.uk/index.php. This list does not include all journals in publication, but it is a good place to search for journals that cover topics of interest. You can then have a table of contents sent to you and decide if that journal is for you. If not, you can cancel future emails from that journal. OTHER SITES There are many other health-care websites that will send you automatic emails when new information is posted. Some of the major sites include Medscape (www.medscape.com), MedPageToday (www.medpagetoday.com), WebMD (www.webmd.com), and Science Daily (www.sciencedaily.com). Note that these sites are specific to medical care, not massage therapy. PUBMED One of the best websites for new research information is PubMed (www.pubmed.gov), an online database of research articles supported by the US National Library of Medicine. Thousands of scientific journals are included in PubMed, covering a wide range of topics. You can search PubMed by entering keywords, similar to doing a Google search—for example, searching for "massage therapy" results in more than 11,000 research article citations. Typically, a few new articles on massage therapy are published each week. You can sign up to receive email notifications whenever PubMed adds new research on topics you are interested in. First, create a free My NCBI account in PubMed. Second, use the PubMed feature "Save search" to have articles emailed to you automatically. You can customize the number of articles you want to receive, when they are sent, and the types of articles —for example, you might want to see only studies with human subjects or a particular study design. Setting up an email notification is much easier than trying to remember to do searches on a regular basis. OPEN-ACCESS JOURNALS Some journals are open access (providing the full text of their articles free to the public) and, like PubMed, will email you when new articles are published. One such journal that focuses on massage and bodywork research, practice, and education is the International Journal of Therapeutic Massage and Bodywork (www.IJTMB.org), published quarterly. IJTMB is in its seventh year of publication. Another resource for open-access journal articles is BioMed Central (BMC), an online publishing site with more than 250 open-access journals. Sign up for article alerts to receive an email when new articles are published. One journal of interest might be BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine (www.biomedcentral.com/ bmccomplementalternmed). A list of other BMC journals can be found at www.biomedcentral.com/journals. Receiving email notifications for new articles is much easier than trying to remember to do searches on a regular basis.