Tool for health professionals, researchers and persons interested in ozonetherapy

The ISCO3 Online Ozone Therapy International Library needs you to keep updating the database; your contribution is essential. Any information concerning publications, papers, books, etc., that you consider may help to update the database is most welcome. Please provide your contributions directly to: info@isco3.org

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, the United States, Brazil, 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 the subject. This task was approved on June 26th, 2011, and the result is now at your disposal.

ISCO3 Ozone Therapy International Library

The online library is now a reality. It contains more than 2,000 records: indexed and non-indexed papers, books, theses, historical papers, and other documents. The database grows day by day and is continuously updated. In this way, papers about ozone therapy that are not indexed in the most used data banks will remain accessible to the scientific community. Interesting research about this topic conducted in China, Cuba, Egypt, Germany, Italy, Russia, Spain, and many other countries is available in this electronic library.

Useful instrument for researchers and practitioners

The 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, ozone therapy as a regular medical practice. ISCO3 strongly recommends all scientists involved in ozone research and practitioners to consult and use the database as a daily tool.

Access to the data base

The platform has two different levels of access: for regular users without advanced computer skills, and for advanced users.

a) Regular users without advanced computer skills: After getting access to the website, you can see an organized list of all records in the database. For instance, clicking in the right column files and sub-files, you will see the published books dealing with ozone therapy. You may also get access to the URL links of free manuscripts, PubMed, and in some cases, the authors’ e-mails. For legal and ethical reasons, manuscripts under copyright are not hosted directly online.

b) Advanced users: You must install the free Zotero software, study the instructions provided by the software provider, and utilize the 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 make it possible to collaboratively manage research sources and maintain material updates permanently.

An example of the possibilities of the data base

If an advanced user needs a list of clinical evidence supporting the use of ozone in hepatitis for a research project, they can simply click the Zotero icon in their web browser to go directly to the file: Ozone Therapy / Clinical / Hepatic Billiary. By using the right-click button, selecting the option “create a bibliography from collection,” and choosing a style (such as Vancouver), it is possible to quickly save an .rtf document with a formatted list of references on this topic.