I got you there didn't I? What on earth do soups and inhalers have in the creation of ELearning courses? As it turned out it was quite a lot. In February Manasa from Mediknit and I had a meeting. We decided that we should plan to quickly add two more courses on our ELearning site, so that we had a better offering for all those who subscribed. Which means that those who were already enrolled instantly got access to three courses! And of course new registrants also did. We fixed the dates for recording the courses, for March 20th to…

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…