Medical library facilities in the Madras State; a historical note, with a reference to the All-India Medical Institute Library.

Medical library facilities in the Madras State; a historical note, with a reference to the All-India Medical Institute Library.

Neelameghan A. Medical library facilities in the Madras State; a historical note, with a reference to the All-India Medical Institute Library. Bull Med Libr Assoc. 1954 Jul;42(3):341-56. This article is historical. And I would urge every reader to ask - "how much has changed since then"? Are we in India not doing enough for developing our medical libraries? Can we wake up and ensure some rapid changes? I am hoping some readers will at least write in. Appeared in QMedCONNECT Vol 3, Issue 11, Nov 2010
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Training in clinical research in India.

Training in clinical research in India.

Aggarwal S, Singh H, Bansal P, Goyal A, Saminder Singh K. Training in clinical research in India.  Indian J Community Med. 2010 Jul;35(3):446. This is a "Letter to the Editor" commenting on an earlier article in the same journal on Clinical Research Institutes and the lack of training in clinical research in the regular medical curriculum. The letter is written by four medical students (who would probably be voicing the views of the majority of the student community), who make an earnest plea for the introduction of a research based medical education curriculum. They mention the admission criteria for the…
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Utopia documents: linking scholarly literature with research data.

Utopia documents: linking scholarly literature with research data.

Attwood TK. et al. Utopia documents: linking scholarly literature with research data. Bioinformatics. 2010 Sep 15;26(18):i568-74. The authors have worked on the gap that exists between the mass of accumulating research data and the voluminous literature that describes and analyses this data. They have developed "Utopia Documents" a tool which is a pdf reader which integrates data analysis tools and visualization with published research articles. The reason for developing this novel pdf reader is that most people tend to read pdfs of articles and not the html versions. Utopia documents enables a shift from the static appearance in pdfs to…
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