Our Social Media posts this month
4th Jan - World Braille Day:
Chosen on a day that marks the birth of it's maker Louis Braille, the World Braille Day is celebrated on the 4th of January every year. Braille is a writing system used by people with visual impairments. Celebrating a day dedicated to it marks the awareness and realization of the full rights of visually impaired people.
For people in the Vision Sciences - Some recent braille literature
And here's a web resource that may help people understand different professionals who help the visually impaired
5th Jan - Ganga Dakshinamurti: A true researcher has to be information literate:
Ganga Dakshinamurti, an avid practitioner of innovative services in Canadian academic libraries, is of the correct opinion that there is no end to information explosion.
Therefore, the only logical way out of the confusion created by unlimited access is to train the people and educate them to sift through the dense fog of resources, to find material that is pertinent, reliable, and useful.
Read on about this interview by Santosh C Hulagabali - who heads the Central University of Haryana - to know more about what she has to say on this subject.
Educate, raise awareness, be an aware user.
8th Jan - Changes in NCBI accounts in PubMed:
Do you have an NCBI account in PubMed? Well most people do, so if you say yes, we are not surprised. But here is a change in the near future. If your NCBI account is via your institution (not very common in India) or with your Google account (pretty common) - then relax - there is no change.
But if you have created a User Name because you had your email via hotmail, yahoo etc, then you will need to create another email id and link your current settings there.
How do you do that? Just follow the steps in this link
12th Jan - National Youth Day:
Today marks the birthday of Swami Vivekananda. Let us celebrate today in a unique way.
Take a minute from your day, and make a mental note of a young health professional who has changed your life or the life of someone you know and love, for the better. It may have happened in the course of the pandemic, or even before.
It may be a doctor, an intern, a nurse, a physiotherapist or someone who drew blood for a test. Actually any young frontline worker too. Remember the person, thank them directly or just in your mind, and experience the gratitude!
20th Jan - Interesting Articles:
Two interesting articles on approach to research in India.
Three articles on predatory journals - we need to be so careful about these! Read them here
22nd Jan - Virtual Method Symposium:
For those interested in the domain of Systematic Reviews:
Methods Symposium: Advanced Methods and Innovative Technologies for Evidence Synthesis (Online and FREE) -
Dates - Feb 16, 23 and Mar 8 Read More