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Gray literature: An important resource in systematic reviews

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Paez A. Gray literature: An important resource in systematic reviews. J Evid Based Med. 2017 Aug; 10(3):233-2 Systematic reviews are publications that provide a state-of-art synthesis of evidence on any given research question. While clinical trials and large studies are analysed to synthesize evidence, you cannot afford to ignore gray literature. The concept of Gray literature is described in this article as “that which is produced on all levels of government, academics, business and industry in print and electronic formats, but which is not controlled by commercial publishers”. Simply put, gray literature comprises the whole collection of research works that have…
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Country wide access to databases / journals: an urgent need

Country wide access to databases / journals: an urgent need

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In 2013, I  had written a blog post - Can you get me this article please?  where I had mentioned about the struggle for getting full text articles, especially if one is not attached to a library that subscribes to several journals. Anyone who keeps up with published literature, carries out research or writes for publication, will obviously read articles. And rightly so. In five years, I believe that some libraries in India would have added more journals to their subscriptions. I am sure many have not added more. Some would have even cut down on their list. Irrespective of…
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BrowZine

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Established in 2011, BrowZine is an online journal browsing service that allows users to create a customized electronic journal library for themselves.  Users can select from approximately 14,500 academic journals from various fields e.g., arts and humanities, history, law, mathematics, biomedical and health sciences, religion and more.  BrowZine’s Library includes select Open Access journals, but libraries can include directly-subscribed serials by taking an institutional subscription. Currently it is subscribed by more than 500 libraries from 16 countries. Users can select only from Open Access journals and journals that their libraries subscribe to. In BrowZine, a journal search can be done in…
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