Medical Library Services in India: Are We Not Asking Right?

Medical Library Services in India: Are We Not Asking Right?

The National Medical Library in New Delhi has its website at www.nml.nic.in. On its home page it mentions: Our Philosophy : Excellence. At NML, we are driven by a singular focus on medicine. And our dedication to the medical community follows suit. Which is why we have earned the distinction of being one of the leading resource of medical information in Asia. In the about us page it mentions:  The National Medical Library aims to provide wide and efficient library and information services to the health science (HS) professionals in India. It functions under the administrative control of the Directorate General…
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Cases Database – a Database of Case Reports

Cases Database – a Database of Case Reports

Cases Database Available at www.casedatabase.com, Cases Database, is database of thousands of medical case reports from multiple publishers, including Springer, BMJ and PubMed Central. Freely accessible and  continuously-updated, this is an initiative of  the Open Access Publisher - Biomed Central.  (As of 6 Aug 2013 - 27784 peer-reviewed medical case reports from 250 journals) The About US section of the Cases Database mentions "Documenting a patient's case history to inform physicians how the patient has been evaluated and the subsequent progression of his or her disease is arguably the oldest method of communicating medical evidence. And in the 21st century case reports play an equally important…
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Tata Memorial Hospital. Event – 7th Clinical Research Workshop. Aug 3, 2013

Tata Memorial Hospital. Event – 7th Clinical Research Workshop. Aug 3, 2013

On Saturday Aug 3, I was invited to deliver a lecture on Literature Searching at the Tata Memorial Hospital, Mumbai. This was at the 7th Annual Short Course in Clinical Research Methodology conducted on the 3rd and 4th of August. This is the first time I could be there early enough to attend from the inaugural talk onwards There were a little over 140 participants and we were told that the registration is increasing annually. This seems like a great sign - many people getting interested in learning about research methods. The program began sharp on time at 9 AM…
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