When are medical journals considered outdated?

I'm trying to organize dh's study, otherwise it won't get done. He has a ton of medical publications, some of this crap is 12 years old! What's considered current in the medical world? (Urology)

Help me plead my case, some of this stuff has GOT to go.

[SuzySunshine]

Re: When are medical journals considered outdated?

Good luck! My DH doesn't have anything that old but once he's decided he's keeping it - he's not throwing it out! :huh:

[planet]

Re: When are medical journals considered outdated?

I boxed up dh's and put them in the basement. If he doesn't notice I figure it is fair game to get rid of. Also, aren't the journals and archives mostly available online now too. Periodically there is a drive by the med school to collect old journals and send them out to other countries.

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Thanks!

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I have no idea...I just put them in big stack in DH's closet. I figure if he can't get to his underwear drawer, that is his problem. He always says he plans on reading them eventually, so we can't get rid of any of them. :huh: It feels like new ones come in the mail every day!

[Meenah]

Re: When are medical journals considered outdated?

Trust me, every time a new one comes in, depending on the topic, the others are obsolete.

Re: When are medical journals considered outdated?

Trust me, every time a new one comes in, depending on the topic, the others are obsolete.

Not to mention that the info is now also available online via subscription to the journal's website. When we moved, I recycled (probably literally) TONS of journals. Even though our move was paid for, I was not going to move those things.

[DCJenn]

Re: When are medical journals considered outdated?

Unless the journal has something specific to a patient or an article of some use, they get recycled. I did find a site a while back that takes old science books and journals and sends them to other countries. Sometimes the Peace Corps will take them, too.

Nikolai's school has a paper recycling site (of course it does...) and that's where we've been taking the journals as he's going through the ones that arrived when he was gone. The AAN publishes WEEKLY it seems.

Jenn

[Meenah]

Re: When are medical journals considered outdated?

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