https://wellcomeimages.org/Wellcome Images is one of the world's richest and most unique collections. While it covers several subjects, it definitely has images in medical history,contemporary healthcare, biomedical sciences and more. To be specific, the collection includes images of clinical conditions, medical equipment, diseases, light microscopy, Xrays, MRI - right up to the latest - 3D printing. To know more - first read the About Us section in the website and then search and find all that you need! Lots of images are free to use under the Creative Commons License. The terms of use overall are available in the Services section of…

In the last few years the Beall's list - a list of predatory journals and publishers - maintained by a librarian from Denver USA, was referred to heavily, to understand how several journals were mushrooming under the guise of being Open Access, but were actually just making money and publishing mainly pseudoscience. There were arguments about the list - some claiming that Beall was going too far in  his judgements, but majority found the list to be a major source to check out about journals. The list suddenly vanished from the blog!   

Available at www.understandinghealthresearch.org - this tool guides you to review and interpret a pulished research paper, through a series of questions. Funded by the Medical Research Council (MRC) UK, its evolution is well described in the website, and makes interesting reading. The aims of the tool are to:Allow lay and professional audiences to understand how to assess the quality of research evidenceRaise awareness of what evidence is and how it is generatedTeach or reaffirm critical health literacy skillsTake a research paper that you have with you. Go to the site, and answer questions they ask, as you read the paper. At the end,…

PubMed offers a new feature. Scroll down the home page and look for "Latest literature" on the left side of the page. Here you will find a small list of journals and an indication of new articles in them. Below you will find a link "PubMed Journals"; click this link. You can find and choose journals to follow. First login to your "My NCBI account" (it is the same as what you use in PubMed). Find journals of your choice and just click "Follow". You could regularly check the PubMed journals feature and stay current with your journals. As of…