[HSF] Paper Journals in an Internet age.

Mon Jan 1 19:46:26 EST 2007

I am trying to do some but have to get the time and teh Mood !! If some 
one can send me some of these important ones like Gibbon's original 
paper which was impossible for me to get hands on we could make one 
large collection of the "Most Important papers in Cardiac surgery".
If we could agree to a list of 50 most important papers we could try to 
collect them and make them into one large PDF with a brief write up of 
them and why they were so important.
For starters
Alexis Carrel's vascular suture paper.
Jay Macleans paper on Heparin
Gibbons' original paper
Bigelow's work on hypothermia with ennis first clinical attempt.
Andreas and Watson's controlled cross circulation (Paper I never got to see)
Lillehei's controlled cross circulation.
Kirklin's initial series.
Bharati and Lev's paper on the conduction system in relation to VSD's
Jatenes original paper on the arterial switch
Fontan's original paper
Zuhdi et al  paper on hemodilution with the paper by Cooley added to it.
Castaneda's paper on neonatal correction.
Horiuchi's paper of circulatory arrest with the subsequent paper by 
Barret Boyes.
Debakey and Cooley's paper on aortic arch aneurysm's
Laks stitch for controllable ASD
Kantrowitz's paper on IABP.

That is an initial list off hand.

Prasanna

Michael Firstenberg wrote:
> Ahhh, those where the days - I remember using some online reference 
> systems and thinking wow, this is great.
>
> Prasanna - what would it take to get some copies of some of those 
> early papers?  (ie scanned PDFs?)
>
> -michael
>
>
> On Jan 1, 2007, at 12:00 AM, prasannasimha wrote:
>
>> For me it is very plain and simple. If I were to subscribe to ATS, 
>> JTCVS and EJTCVS, I would have to spend nearly Rs 10,000/= approx per 
>> month and that is impossible for me. So I rely on the Hospital 
>> Library which gets journals at its own time depending on 
>> subscriptions and vagaries of airmail. We have a thing called 
>> Helinet.This is a system where our hospital subscribes via our Health 
>> university (we have a single university for all medical colleges in 
>> Karnataka state) to an Internet based service called HELINET through 
>> which we can access certain journals via things like science direct , 
>> Ovid etc but unfortunately the only cardiac surgery journal is ATS 
>> and that too its payment (and hence access) is a bit erratic. I 
>> usually get articles of interest via many kind souls who send them 
>> over to me when I ask via email and I acknowledge their altruism in 
>> helping me out. There are many journals that are free after varying 
>> amounts of time. I can get access say after 6 months or a year and 
>> some are free access for India (for Eg Lancet / NEJM etc). 
>> Unfortunately the free access system (after a period of time) does 
>> not exist for cardiac surgical journals except a couple.
>> The whole process of journal writing etc are to allow dissemination 
>> of Knowledge and I cannot see why it has to be locked down after say 
>> 6 months or a year. I appreciate that journal publishing companies 
>> have to make profits but they should allow free access at least after 
>> some time. The contributors and editors have done it for gratis and 
>> they should allow access after some time. This would increase the 
>> journal's prestige and impact factor anyway.
>> All I have is a few old dusty copies of some earth shaking articles 
>> for eg Lillehei's original cross circulation paper and Hillel Laks 
>> "Laks suture" (fenestrated ASD for Fontan's) etc. I hold on to these.
>> Then there is a thing called Amedeo which sends interesting articles 
>> (the titles and links to PUBMED) weekly which I find useful and 
>> PUBMED is great for doing literature searches.
>>
>> I remember taking around 50 disks of Silver Platter and searching 
>> Index Medicus or worse the huge bound Journals of Index Medicus that 
>> I had to wade through when I did my MS(Gen surg) and MCh(Thoracic) 
>> degrees. I had to wear a mask and cap while I rummaged through all 
>> those books. My MS thesis was on gall stones and since I read every 
>> reference that I quoted, I was searching in the really old archived 
>> section of Grant Medical College (which is around 170 years old and 
>> so had most of the really old journals). Since photocopying was not 
>> very prevalent and expensive , most of these used to be read and the 
>> article summarized in a note book.I used to have a carbon paper copy 
>> of each page while writing. Writing a thesis was actually involving 
>> cut and paste (we used to write it in sections and then actually cut 
>> out portions and paste them on sheets) -I still remember Jimmy Carter 
>> getting one of the original word processors (basically what we could 
>> call as an electronic typewriter) and when I saw my first one. I said 
>> Wow it can justify edges and we can correct the lines prior to typing 
>> using a preview option. My first thesis was written when I was doing 
>> my MBBS  - (I had got a research grant as a first year medical 
>> student - a rare thing in India those days) and typing on a manual 
>> typewriter was such a pain and getting some one to type who could 
>> understand medical terminology was a bigger pain !! At that time 
>> photocopying was such a laborious process (I am sure many would 
>> remember the old manual photocopiers involving a frame with toner 
>> that used to be shaked and the margins of the photocopier surface had 
>> to be wiped etc) Writing it down was easier !!
>> The final indexing was a tremendous pain invovling flash cards and 
>> indexing cards !!
>> Today we can do it all in a click of a button !!!
>> Dr Frater could probably tell about his tribulations  in his time !!
>> Prasanna
>> Michael Firstenberg wrote:
>>> I used to like the idea of entire bookselves filled with Journals - 
>>> now they just take up tons of space.  Since, for the most part the 
>>> internet and PDF access (at least to recent stuff) is easy - does 
>>> anyone keep this stuff anymore?  if so why?
>>>
>>> Am I just being sentimental for the old days?
>>>
>>>
>>> -michael
>>>
>>>
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