Hope123
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I'm rarely on PR anymore but I'd thought I bring this up if no one has.
People posting here often have interesting comments about studies. If you have ever had an article -- even a letter - published in a peer-reviewed journal that is indexed (i.e. listed) on Pubmed (the main US databased for finding research articles), you have the opportunity and privilege of joining PubMed Commons. How to find out whether you're on Pubmed already? Search for your name/ e-mail address on it.
Why is this important? The discussion surrounding weaknesses, strengths, limitations, findings, etc. of studies needs to get out beyond the ME/CFS community to ANYONE who reads these articles. The joy of Commons is
a) Posting is as easy as posting on any website
b) Your comment gets published immediately. A major stumbling block to commenting in journals via letters to the editor is the Editor can decide your comment is not valuable. There is no such moderation on PubMed as long as you do not attack people for personal traits, use profanity, etc.
c) ANYONE who ever searches for a topic or article and sees it on PubMed automatically sees your comment. This is even better than publishing in a journal in the sense that journal paywalls prohibit everyone from seeing your comment and people unfamiliar with a journal are unlikely to seek it our. However, millions of scientists and health professionals internationally use PubMed (which is free, supported by US taxes) to search out topics of interest.
Over the years, I find that WHO I say things to is as important as WHAT I say so these days, I try to target my messages to specific audiences. You can do similar --reach out to people unfamiliar with ME/CFS. You can even cut and paste comments from here to PubMed or vice versa.
CAVEAT: PubMed requires you use your REAL name.
Ready to sign up? See here:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmedcommons/get-started/
Example of Comments on the Recovery PACE article:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23363640
People posting here often have interesting comments about studies. If you have ever had an article -- even a letter - published in a peer-reviewed journal that is indexed (i.e. listed) on Pubmed (the main US databased for finding research articles), you have the opportunity and privilege of joining PubMed Commons. How to find out whether you're on Pubmed already? Search for your name/ e-mail address on it.
Why is this important? The discussion surrounding weaknesses, strengths, limitations, findings, etc. of studies needs to get out beyond the ME/CFS community to ANYONE who reads these articles. The joy of Commons is
a) Posting is as easy as posting on any website
b) Your comment gets published immediately. A major stumbling block to commenting in journals via letters to the editor is the Editor can decide your comment is not valuable. There is no such moderation on PubMed as long as you do not attack people for personal traits, use profanity, etc.
c) ANYONE who ever searches for a topic or article and sees it on PubMed automatically sees your comment. This is even better than publishing in a journal in the sense that journal paywalls prohibit everyone from seeing your comment and people unfamiliar with a journal are unlikely to seek it our. However, millions of scientists and health professionals internationally use PubMed (which is free, supported by US taxes) to search out topics of interest.
Over the years, I find that WHO I say things to is as important as WHAT I say so these days, I try to target my messages to specific audiences. You can do similar --reach out to people unfamiliar with ME/CFS. You can even cut and paste comments from here to PubMed or vice versa.
CAVEAT: PubMed requires you use your REAL name.
Ready to sign up? See here:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmedcommons/get-started/
Example of Comments on the Recovery PACE article:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23363640