JACOB JEHUDA FAINTUCH
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Instituto Central, Hospital das Clínicas, Faculdade de Medicina - Médico
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- Useful Online Resources and Guideline(2022) FAINTUCH, J.; FAINTUCH, J. J.The Internet has become such an omnipresent service, that in the view of many, it has already upgraded from slave to master, and quite a tyrannical one. Whatever the feelings, scientific information would not flow worldwide without the tool, in such unlimited amounts. It is currently estimated that 4.7 billion people use its electronic resources (60% of the planet population). Just the four big names in the field (Google, Amazon, Microsoft and Facebook) store a total of 1200 petabytes of files, each petabyte corresponding to 1015 bytes. If it corresponded to text, only that would represent over 670 billion pages. The MEDLINE database is a more pertinent paradigm as it deals with indexed scientific journals. Other publications such as books, theses, congress proceedings, nonindexed journals, court minutes and press reports are with few exceptions uncovered. It still contains close to 30 million articles or over 300 million pages. Given that a human being rarely reads more than 700 pages/week (a reasonably thick book), that would signal over 8000 millennia to peruse such files, if all of them were available online. These ruminations could look rather aimless and out of focus, yet they point towards the incontrovertible need for careful curation of the key Internet addresses, so that the interested researcher will minimize wasted time and likely find helpful material. That is the objective of the chapter listing a choice of useful sites as well as general Internet resources, nearly all of them costless. © The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022.