Webinar Sagas – Coping with technological and pandemic challenges in 2020!

Webinar Sagas – Coping with technological and pandemic challenges in 2020!

With the advent of the lockdown, between May 2020 and today I have been invited to do a number of webinars. Six to be exact, till date. In the earlier days I had done about two or three over some years. They were sponsored by the industry and done with the involvement of professional camera people and settings. However in the pandemic times, the organizers in five out of six cases did not involve people who were adept in this area. I must commend the way institutions have taken to arranging webinars and that some of them have opened the…
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Single Citation Matcher & the New PubMed

Single Citation Matcher & the New PubMed

The New PubMed was launched late last year (2019). It became the default in May 2020. The old PubMed (now called the legacy PubMed) is still available at https://pmlegacy.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/ and is likely to be available till at least end Sep 2020. Many people want to know how the new PubMed is different - apart from the look and feel, of course. Here we demonstrate one important change in the way technology works: The Single Citation Matcher: The job of this tool is to help you find an item in PubMed, in case you do not have the full bibliographic details,…
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A New PubMed calls for New Online Courses

A New PubMed calls for New Online Courses

We once again needed a break - as we finalized our new online courses. But YES - here they are! Our brand new site for our courses - www.qmedcourses.in has been up for about three weeks. We have three courses: Introduction to Resources and Literature Searching:This one is targetted at students and new residents, but it is turning out to be useful to many more!. It helps one understand different types of information resources and the very basics of literature searching Mastering PubMedMost importantly - this one is based on the New PubMed - which has replaced the old as…
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