Kirtley, S.Impactful librarians: identifying opportunities to increase your impactJournal of EAHIL 2015; Vol. 11 (4): 23-28Shona Kirtley suggests how librarians can be highly responsive to research needs of their library users. She specially stresses on creating more awareness of and training people to use the EQUATOR guidelines for reporting various forms of research. Very simply put, if people push up their knowledge about these guidelines, their writing skills and their article appraisal skills become very strong. The article has emerged from the comments in the Lancet Series on Research, where there is a discussion on increasing value and reducing waste in…

Kumar AM, Chinnakali P, Shewade H, Gupta V, Nagpal P, Harries AD.Short EpiData course: do participants use the data entry tool two years post-training?Public Health Action. 2015 Dec 21;5(4):261-5. PMID: 26767181 Dr Ajay Kumar, the first author of this article, shared this study with us, since lots of it was relevant to the scenarios we faced with training. The study describes how the authors conducted workshops on the use of the tool EpiData for data entry of research data, and then studied the impact two years later. They discuss how accuracy in data entry is vital for research, but making students  aware…

Aggarwal R et.al.The Revised Guidelines of the Medical Council of India for Academic Promotions: Need for a Rethink. Indian association of medical journal editors.2016 Jan 8;53(1);23-26Indian Pediatr. 2016 Jan 8;53(1):23-26 This article is simultaneously published in about 22 journals, but since we came across it first in the Indian Pediatrics, we have chosen this citation to share this article. The article covers five areas where the MCI has issued guidelines and made practical suggestions for each area - a) Where should the journals be indexed, b) Types of articles that would be considered, c) Better understanding of the terms -  National…