Since February, I wrote four posts about the issues in India regarding literature searching and access to resources. February : Twenty years since of PubMed access and are our health professionals “information savvy” This was all about the lack of information literacy. March: Literature searching and the ideal researcher Covered what a literature searcher should know April: Country wide access to databases / journals: an urgent need About access to databases and journals that we badly need in the country. May: Online access to health information resources in India, what more should we be doing?  In other words, what should we be doing about this.…

My two recent posts - Literature searching and the ideal researcher, and Country wide access to databases / journals: an urgent need both brought in several comments and I thank every reader for these. We will be compiling the comments to see how we should move ahead. I am also happy to add that since my last posts, I have learned of one important development - that AIIMS Delhi and PGI Chandigarh are the first academic libraries in India to subscribe to EMBASE! I learned this at an event I attended at AIIMS Delhi last month. In fact this institution's library has access…

In 2013, I  had written a blog post - Can you get me this article please?  where I had mentioned about the struggle for getting full text articles, especially if one is not attached to a library that subscribes to several journals. Anyone who keeps up with published literature, carries out research or writes for publication, will obviously read articles. And rightly so. In five years, I believe that some libraries in India would have added more journals to their subscriptions. I am sure many have not added more. Some would have even cut down on their list. Irrespective of…