Can you get me this article please?

Can you get me this article please?

This is one of the most regular pleas from students, academicians and doctors who do any kind of writing or even reading articles. They search PubMed, find a set of references and then "get stuck" for the full text.  I mention this in the Indian context, though I suspect this is true for any developing nation that does not have  HINARI privileges. A couple of weeks back I got a request for two articles from a young doctor who was working on a research project with a team. I checked the NUCSSI Union Catalog and told him that the articles he needed…
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Newsletter- July 2013

Newsletter- July 2013

Dear Friends The July 2013 issue of our newsletter is up on our website.  Well this is really a March to July 2013 issue (reasons in the newsletter), and it summarizes the blog posts of all these months, (conveniently linking to the respective posts). We share our developments in these months, this blog being one of them.  Happy Reading! Vasumathi Sriganesh                        
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Documentation and Communication Workshop Organized by CAP – 25th July

Documentation and Communication Workshop Organized by CAP – 25th July

We (Lakshmi & Vasumathi) attended a Communication and Documentation Workshop organised by the Centre for Advancement of Philanthropy - CAP  at YMCA, Mumbai on the 25th of July, 2013. As for all the CAP workshops, the seats were already full, when we decided to register. This did not come as a surprise at all, we only cursed ourselves for not being the "early enough birds" to register.  But we were glad to receive a call from Martina just a few days before the workshop telling us that there was a room for two participants and we jumped at this proposition.…
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