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QMed started its blog in 2012. Over the years we went through different evolutions. We noticed that often the matter which we wish to share with our learning audience and our donors had lots in common. We tried merging our stories in our regular communications. But, we still felt that we needed our blogs section and now we start them all over again! We will start with one post every month - in the third week. Happy reading

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How to Peer Review Search Strategies

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I recently did a short course on "How to Peer Review Search Strategies". This was offered by INSTATS - an organization that offers several excellent research related courses. What is Peer reviewing of search strategies? In India, we have a lacuna of knowledge about search strategies and the need for them to be structured. Most often very little thought is given to the strategy and it is done in an ad-hoc manner. Peer reviewing is something no one even thinks about.. The six hour session over two evenings - run by two expert Information Professionals - Carol Lefebvre - and…

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The ONOS – ensuring permanency and maximum use

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The ONOS - https://www.onos.gov.in/ is an initiative launched in January this year with support from the Govt of India. It is one through which all Government institutions can get access to articles from a large number of journals (more than 13000). This from more than 27 subject categories. From 2027 - Private institutions will also have this access, but with a fee. This has been one of the best thing that happened in India, in academics and research. However I have some worries about this. A major one being - that like the Cochrane Library, this should not go, thanks…

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Decision making / taking responsibility

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The years 1990 - 1992. I was an Assistant Librarian of the Indian Institute of Geomagmetism. Fresh out of Library School. However I was not in my twenties like most of my batchmates were. I was married and had two school going children. But having got married immediately after graduation, I was still carrying the mindset of - Listen to your elders / Do not break any rules and all the generally good/ethical stuff that one is taught. However, as a "professional", one is not often taught to make decisions that may not fall under the above We had a…

Mrs. Vasumathi Sriganesh is the recipient of the Dr S.R. Ranganathan Lifetime Achievement Award (2024)

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