Sengupta’s Research Academy

Writing a research project, may be a thesis or an article is something each health professional has to do throughout their medical career (or at least once during one's working life!).  However, many professionals find it difficult due to absence of proper understanding of research writing.  With years of research experience Dr. Sabhyasachi Sengupta felt that, lack of adequate training at in “research techniques” during undergraduate and postgraduate education creates big hurdle in research publication. Sensing this lacuna, he come up with the solution "Sengupta’s Research Academy" . "Sengupta’s Research Academy" is a web based portal dedicated to different aspects of medical…
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Global Health Library

Global Health Library

Global Health Library is an initiative of WHO for global knowledge management. It is an index of scientific and technical literature produced in low- and middle- income countries. The purpose is to increase visibility of health literature that is produced across the globe and enhance sharing and transfer of knowledge. In 2015, the Global Health Library, adopted the name of Global Index Medicus. GIM is an central search platform for a) Five Regional indexes, b) Global indexes of databases like MEDLINE, SciELO and c) The WHO institutional repository.  BIREME,  a specialized center of WHO, maintains this resource in order to ensure its reliability. This index…
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“Smart” Search Service for Journal Articles

“Smart” Search Service for Journal Articles

The Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence (AI2) has come up with a solution for managing information overload. Many such efforts have been around and more will happen. The AI2's solution is - "Semantic Scholar."  It is a free, nonprofit, academic search engine for research papers in computer science and biomedical fields. It utilizes AI (Artificial Intelligence) methods for data mining, natural-language processing, and computer vision to create the search and browsing experiences. When we do a search, we can first view some added terms that the engine suggests for our term. Next, we are provided with filters (very similar to PubMed)…
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