2.16 Self-teaching question (3)

You can search PubMed, [ http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?DB=pubmed ] produced by the U.S. National Library of Medicine, with, for example, a topic or the name of a place and/or person, to reveal relevant research publications. The result will provide the names, addresses, and some email addresses for the scientists involved, as well as relevant publications by other authors.

QUESTION 3:
a) Search PubMed [ http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?DB=pubmed ], produced by the U.S. National Library of Medicine for climate change and Africa and rainfall and drainage. This will produce a list of articles, including one titled, "Changes in surface water supply across Africa with predicted climate change," with the first author M de Wit from the Africa Earth Observatory Network (AEON) and Department of Geological Sciences, University of Cape Town, South Africa.

Clicking on the name of this author will bring up other publications by the same author, and links on the right-hand side to "related articles" by different research groups. This is one way to track down the names of different research teams working on a similar topic, providing you with a range of options if you are looking for experts to comment on this area of research.

b) With regard to clinical trials for new drugs or vaccines, try consulting an international clinical trials database, such as that provided by the U.S. National Institutes of Health [ http://www.clinicaltrials.gov/ ] or one listed in the free access electronic journal PloS Clinical Trials [ http://journals.plos.org/plosclinicaltrials/resources.php ]


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