Page MJ, Shamseer L, Altman DG, Tetzlaff J, Sampson M, Tricco AC, Catalá-López F, Li L, Reid EK, Sarkis-Onofre R, Moher D.Epidemiology and Reporting Characteristics of Systematic Reviews of Biomedical Research: A Cross-Sectional Study. PLoS Med. 2016 May 24;13(5):e1002028 Systematic reviews can help decision makers interpret research findings in the overload of published…

Haddaway NR, Collins AM, Coughlin D, Kirk S.The Role of Google Scholar in Evidence Reviews and Its Applicability to Grey Literature Searching.PLoS One. 2015 Sep 17;10(9):e0138237A very interesting article that touches upon GS in several contexts, including tracing its improvements over the years. The authors also discuss the debates about…

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…

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…

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…