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May 19, 2025: Our Founder gives a talk about Library and Information Sciences as a Career

May 19, 2025: Our Founder gives a talk about Library and Information Sciences as a Career

A couple of weeks back I was invited by a friend  Dr Shubhada Nagarkar to participate in an event she planned for and deliver a short talk.  Dr Shubhada is a Prof of Library and Information Sciences in the Savitribai Phule University, Pune. She planned this event to attract more students to the profession and so the talk was for Undergrad students of any discipline. The event was online and held on May 15. There were around 37 participants. There were five speakers Dr Mehtab Alam is the Head of an LIS department of AMU. He talked about the profession and…
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May 30, 2024: Organization Story: Miles to go! Deep Diving! Spreading our wings! All for India’s research outputs

Systematic Reviews are publications arising from “Secondary Research”. Which means a team of authors identifies all research papers on a topic and then together analyze and synthesize the findings in each, in order to generate evidence of what is useful. In India, recently there has been an upward movement in this area. Healthcare faculty are encouraged to author systematic reviews. And recently the ICMR is not only funding such secondary studies, but is also calling out to medical colleges to offer training in this area. Just like the foundation of a building needs to be very strong, for the building…
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Sep 15, 2022: Online courses or Fundraising – the dilemma

Money or Mission? For many not for profit organizations, this is a struggle! We are still struggling to find an answer to the question – Do we focus on our online (E-learning courses) or on fundraising? How do we balance both? For QMed to be self-sufficient – the answer appears almost crazily simple! Our E-learning courses at www.qmedcourses.in – have had great reviews. We offer a full package to institutions at a very affordable cost. And to individuals for a reasonable donation. If all medical colleges in the country (approximately 500) pay for access, we do not need to do any fundraising. We may even be able to give…
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