BrowZine

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…
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Sengupta’s Research Academy

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…
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Global Health Library

Global Health Library

Global Health Library is an initiative of WHO for global knowledge management. It is an index of scientific and technical literature produced in low- and middle- income countries. The purpose is to increase visibility of health literature that is produced across the globe and enhance sharing and transfer of knowledge. In 2015, the Global Health Library, adopted the name of Global Index Medicus. GIM is an central search platform for a) Five Regional indexes, b) Global indexes of databases like MEDLINE, SciELO and c) The WHO institutional repository.  BIREME,  a specialized center of WHO, maintains this resource in order to ensure its reliability. This index…
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