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Finding and Using Health Statistics

Finding and Using Health Statistics

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Statistics? Oh no! If you just said that - you are one of a large number of medicos :) There is a joke that most medicos became medicos in order to run away from Maths and then end up being forced to learn Statistics! Setting jokes aside, guess what we found? This is a simple tutorial on the US National Library of Medicine's website. While it is (obviously) related to the US resources and more, we could still learn a lot from here and then find our own data sources. Maybe we could push for creating some! So learn about…
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JURN: A search tool for open access content

JURN: A search tool for open access content

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JURN is a free online search engine for finding and downloading of free full-text scholarly works. It is powered by a Google Custom Search Engine (CSE) and is run without any advertisements. It has an effective way to find open access content from a variety of sources. It is a hand-crafted and curated index. JURN Coverage: JURN doesn’t index journal home pages but article URLs. It covers subjects like Arts, Humanities, Business, Law, Nature, Science and Medicine.The plus point of JURN is that it serves to remove unwanted results unlike what we get with generic search engines How to use it:…
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ChemRxiv – a Preprint Archive

ChemRxiv – a Preprint Archive

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ChemRxiv (pronounced 'chem-archive') is a free archive. One can search this archive to retrieve research on various categories of Chemistry research - including the areas of interest to health professionals. It also serves as a repository where one can submit,unpublished preprints in chemistry and related areas. https://chemrxiv.org/ Any preprint archive allows researchers to share results with colleagues in the same field, for the purpose of discussion and receiving comments. This not only helps he research move on in better directions, but also helps researchers get comments before they submit the paper for publication in a journal. Most importantly it establishes…
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