August 2021

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The truncation confusion

“Search using keywords”.

This is what most guides / teachers tell students when they want them to do a literature search. Keywords are usually the important words from one’s research question, that one uses to perform a search. For a research topic like: - “Long-term risk of pneumothorax in asthmatic patients”, the keywords used to search for literature would be - pneumothorax and asthma.

In databases like PubMed, one could search these as thesaurus terms (Mesh terms) to get the most relevant results. The search strategy would be :

Asthma AND pneumothorax

But, when one is doing an exhaustive search – in contexts like authoring a systematic review, one needs to also search for these keywords – as terms that appear in the title and abstract. Different authors may use different forms of these words. For asthma, an author may use asthmas, asthmatic, asthmatics or asthmaticus.

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SocArXiv is a social science open archive. It offers a free, non-profit open access platform for social scientists to upload working papers, preprints, and published papers. Before they appear on SocArXiv, articles are moderated using a six-point checklist to ensure that they are scholarly, in study fields that they support, reasonably classified, properly referenced, in acceptable languages, and in text-searchable formats (such as PDF or docx). They also want that writers have the main right to distribute the articles they submit.
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NLM Digital Collections. Because of the ease of access, digital collections of information have grown increasingly essential in today's world. The National Library of Medicine's Digital Collections is a free online collection of biological materials such as books, manuscripts, still pictures, films, and maps. Unless otherwise stated, the material in Digital Collections is freely accessible globally and in the public domain. Still pictures from the Images from the History of Medicine collection are also available in Digital Collections, including fine art, photos, engravings, and posters that depict the social and historical elements of medicine from the 15th to 21st centuries. Read more at https://collections.nlm.nih.gov/about  Our FB Post

Open Texts. Thousands of books are digitized each year by libraries across the globe. Open Texts brings some of those resources together, enabling you to search across a broad range of libraries. They currently hold items from HathiTrust, University of Oxford, The Wellcome Collection, Cambridge University Library, and more. They  offer both basic and advanced search options. Titles may be found by utilizing parameters such as title, author, date, or topic. Read more at https://opentexts.world/  Our FB Post 

The Census Library. This is a research library (of the United States) with the specific responsibility of collecting, conserving, and making available to Census Bureau workers, government agencies, and the general public information resources generated by the Census Bureau. Statistics, Survey Methodology and Sampling, Population Studies, Demography, Geography, Computer Technology, Census Histories, and International Census Data are the primary topics of the Census Bureau Library. The Library gathers more selectively info on other disciplines including Public Health, especially when this connects with the U.S. Census. Read more at https://www.census.gov/library.html   Our FB Post

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Lectures & Webinars this month

Webinars this month:

For QMedCourses registered users: Updates about the QMedCourses site offering & discussions on topics:

– 13th Aug – RMRC Bhubaneswar
– 18th Aug - AIIMS Guwahati
– 19th Aug - Sri Manakula Vinayagar Medical College and Hospital
- 28th Aug - The Lancet Citizens' Commission

Others:

– 7th Aug – PHARMATECH – by KEM Hospital. Lecture on Literature searching & Reference management - 165 participants
– 11th Aug –  Rotaract Club of the Caduceus – a UG student group on Literature searching - 150 participants
– 14th Aug – Nair Hospital – UG workshop -Lecture on Literature searching & Reference management - 50 participants
– 20th Aug – MUHS workshop - 50 participants
– 28th Aug –  Student body of the Cardiff University, UK

QMedCourses News

New Institution:

We are pleased to announce that The Lancet Citizens' Commission, CMC Vellore has joined us for the institutional access to our courses

RMRC Bhubaneswar renews their access for a second year. They are the second institution to renew, AIIMS Bhubaneswar being the first.  

We present some current statistics about the overall progress of our courses.

Testimonials for QMedCourses

Course: Information Resources & Literature Searching 
Great Course. Faculty explains everything clearly and cut to the point. Finding myself more confident to head towards my research journey. Thank you QMed. Janvi Bokoliya, UG Student, Maulana Azad Medical College

Course : Introduction to Referencing
Heartfelt thanks for a wonderful and informative course!! Meera M, Sri Manakula Vinayagar Medical College and Hospital

Course : Mastering PubMed
As a 71 year old semi retired Neurosurgeon and Telemedicine specialist, I found the course very very useful! Keep up the excellent work . Prof K. Ganapathy, Director Apollo Telemedicine Networking Foundation & Hon Distinguished Professor Tamilnadu Dr MGR Medical University 

Course : Reference Management with Mendeley
Very useful specially as it is a hands on training of Mendeley. Chandan Kumar Nath, AIIMS Guwahati

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