If you have used PubMed, and taken a wee bit of trouble to look at the left side of the search box, you may have noticed the PubMed logo followed by the words: US National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health. The NLM is where the whole PubMed database is compiled.  Let us learn a little more about the NLM and its history. Located in Bethesda, Maryland, the National Library of Medicine is the world’s largest biomedical library with a print and electronic collection used by millions of people around the world. NLM has been around since 1836,…

Established in 2011, BrowZine is an online journal browsing service that allows users to create a customized electronic journal library for themselves.  Users can select from approximately 14,500 academic journals from various fields e.g., arts and humanities, history, law, mathematics, biomedical and health sciences, religion and more.  BrowZine’s Library includes select Open Access journals, but libraries can include directly-subscribed serials by taking an institutional subscription. Currently it is subscribed by more than 500 libraries from 16 countries. Users can select only from Open Access journals and journals that their libraries subscribe to. In BrowZine, a journal search can be done in…

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…