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Choosing a journal to publish your paper? Try “Think Check Submit”

Choosing a journal to publish your paper? Try “Think Check Submit”

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Which journal should I submit my paper to? That is a question that very often appears in the minds of those who attempt writing. First time writers often know very little about choosing a journal. It is not easy either. Some points to ponder are: - Who is your article really useful for? Research on a tropical disease is less likely to be useful for an American audience. A journal that has a larger circulation in tropical countries makes more sense as a choice. Is the journal open access or free? If yes that is a great choice - as…
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Trip Database

Trip Database

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Trip is a clinical search engine designed to allow users to quickly and easily find and use high-quality research evidence to support their practice and/or care. Trip has been online since 1997 and an important source of evidence-based content. The motto of the Founders of TRIP is - ‘Find evidence fast’ and this is something they aim to deliver for all searches done on the database The subscribed version of TRIP promises lots more. As well as research evidence the engine allows clinicians to search across other content types like lots more systematic reviews and guidelines and also images, videos,…
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How do we know what journals want? Learn about “Instructions to Authors”

How do we know what journals want? Learn about “Instructions to Authors”

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So you have done research on a topic and want to publish it. One has ever so many questions about the entire process. Which journal should I choose? What referencing style do I need to use? What is the editorial process followed? How long should my article be? One great resource for learning more is the "Instructions to Authors page" of any journal. Try out the "Indian Journal of Cancer's Instructions to Authors page" Got it? There are so many details here. Now here is a "super link" - for the instructions to authors of a huge number of journals.…
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Paperity- A multidisciplinary aggregator of Open Access journals and papers.

Paperity- A multidisciplinary aggregator of Open Access journals and papers.

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Paperity is an aggregator of journals and papers from different disciplines. Coverage: It includes subjects like Sciences, Technology, Medicine, Social Sciences, Humanities and Arts. All articles indexed here are Open Access.  Paperity makes sure to index only genuine scholarly literature. It does not include student assignments, business presentations or cooking recipes classified as scholarly papers. The plus point of Paperity is, it assigns permanent URLs to article pages which never changes so that everyone can safely link to them without the risk of it becoming invalid. How to use: The search is user friendly and easy to use. You can…
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Single Citation Matcher & the New PubMed

Single Citation Matcher & the New PubMed

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The New PubMed was launched late last year (2019). It became the default in May 2020. The old PubMed (now called the legacy PubMed) is still available at https://pmlegacy.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/ and is likely to be available till at least end Sep 2020. Many people want to know how the new PubMed is different - apart from the look and feel, of course. Here we demonstrate one important change in the way technology works: The Single Citation Matcher: The job of this tool is to help you find an item in PubMed, in case you do not have the full bibliographic details,…
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