Introduction

Do you want to read updated research on a particular subject of ozone therapy? Are you interested in a particular paper published on ozonetherapy some years ago in Germany? Are you looking for papers on ozonetherapy in Russian? Is your attention focused on getting bibliography to write a paper on ozonetherapy? ¿Do you need to know research on ozone therapy conducted in Spain, or in United States, or in Brazil, or in India or any other country?

The best first step should be to surf the public and free access ISCO3 Online Ozone Therapy International Library that has been set up by ISCO3 (International Scientific Committee of Ozonetherapy).

One of the 2011 objectives of ISCO3 was to develop and maintain an online digital Ozone therapy library of all published and presented papers on ozone therapy. This task was approved on June 26th, 2011. The work of setting such online library was assigned by ISCO3 to its member Professor Gregorio Martinez Sánchez (Ph.D. Pharm. Dr). The result is now at your disposal.

ISCO3 Ozone Therapy International Library

The online library is now a reality. It contains more than 2000 records: indexed and not indexed papers, books, thesis, historical papers and other documents. The data base will grow-up day by day. Professor Gregorio Martinez Sánchez has the responsibility to up-date the online library. In that way, papers about ozone therapy that are not indexed in the most used data banks will be accessible for the scientific community in the area of ozonetherapy. Interesting researches about this topic conducted in China, Cuba, Egypt, Germany, Italy, Russia, Spain, and many other countries will be available in this electronic library.

Useful instrument for researchers and practitioners

ISCO3 Online Ozone Therapy International Library is a potent research tool and is essential to support the wide group of scientific evidences with the purpose of introducing step by step the ozone therapy as a regular medical practice. ISCO strongly recommends all scientists involved in ozone research and practitioners to consult and use the data base as a daily tool.

Organization of the ISCO3 Ozone Therapy International Library

ISCO3 Online Ozone Therapy International Library is a potent research tool and is essential to support the wide group of scientific evidences with the purpose of introducing step by step the ozone therapy as a regular medical practice. ISCO strongly recommends all scientists involved in ozone research and practitioners to consult and use the data base as a daily tool.

Access to the data base

It has two different levels of access: for regular users without advanced computer skills; and for advanced users.

a) Regular users without computer skills: After getting access to the web site you can see an organized list of all records of the data base. For instance, clicking in the right column files and sub-files, you will see the published books deals with ozone therapy. Also you may get access to the URL link of free manuscripts, to PubMed, and in some cases to the authors’ e-mails. For legal and ethical reasons manuscripts under copyright are not hangings on line.

b) Advanced users: You must install the Zotero free software, study the instructions of the software provider and use full possibilities offered by Zotero.

Some benefits of Zotero for advanced users

• Uses Citation Style Language (CSL) to properly format citations in many different bibliographic styles. Zotero supports all the major styles (Chicago, MLA, APA, Vancouver, etc.) as well as a great many journal-specific styles.
• Zotero’s Word and OpenOffice plugins allow users to insert citations directly from their word processing software. This makes citing multiple pages, sources, or otherwise customizing citations a breeze. In-text citations, footnotes and endnotes are all supported.
• Shared group libraries ISCO3 Ozone make possible to collaboratively manage research sources and materials permanent up-dates.

An example of the possibilities of the data base

An advanced user needs a list of a group of clinical evidences supporting the use of ozone in hepatitis for a research project. Just clicking Zotero icon in the Firefox web- browser, he can go directly to the file: Ozone Therapy / Clinical / Hepatic Billiary. Using the right-click button and selecting the option “create a library from a collection” after selecting the style (such as Vancouver style) is possible to save a .rtf document with a list of references about this topic.