We have created a Free tutorial on this topic and it is available at http://ls.qmedkf.org.in This tutorial covers foundational concepts which anyone who searches the net for medical literature should be familiar with. We will soon be bringing out a basic tutorial on medical writing too. We have also created a detailed PubMed tutorial accessible "only to Friends of QMed". We will be creating more tutorials for other resources as well. Appeared in Volume 4 Issue 08 of QMedConnect

The National Union Catalog of Scientific Serials in India -http://nucssi.niscair.res.in/ is a catalog of journals available in India's Science libraries. Created by NISCAIR, New Delhi, it allows us to search for the availability of a journal title in various libraries. One can search for the title and restrict it to a city of choice. Various other search options are available. This tool needs to be used extensively to find articles in libraries across the country and to enable resource sharing by libraries. Appeared in Volume 4 Issue 06-07  of QMedConnect

Have you written an article and wondered who else has cited it? There are two resources through which you can check. Google Scholar. Type in your name and for any article you have published (and is available somewhere on the net), just below the reference details, you will get a link - "Cited by 4" (the number will be actual number of citations). Click the link and you will see the references of the articles that have cited yours. A note of caution - you will find duplicates for various reasons, so you will have to manually remove those PubMed.…