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The ONOS – ensuring permanency and maximum use

The ONOS – ensuring permanency and maximum use

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The ONOS - https://www.onos.gov.in/ is an initiative launched in January this year with support from the Govt of India. It is one through which all Government institutions can get access to articles from a large number of journals (more than 13000). This from more than 27 subject categories. From 2027 - Private institutions will also have this access, but with a fee. This has been one of the best thing that happened in India, in academics and research. However I have some worries about this. A major one being - that like the Cochrane Library, this should not go, thanks…
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Unity is strength

Unity is strength

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You must have read this story as a child. About an old man who lived with three sons - all hard workers but fought all the time. The old man tried a lot to unite them but he failed. And finally decided to teach them a lesson. He made them break single sticks from a bundle and they could do that easily. Then he gave them a full bundle and they could break them only when they worked together. I now address all those who are registered for our ELearning courses, and have not worked on them. Do you remember…
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A little known PubMed search feature

A little known PubMed search feature

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At the end of 2022 PubMed launched the "Proximity operator" feature. At the end of 2023, it would not be surprising to find that no one in India (or only a few) is aware of this. Proximity operators - available in most databases that we have to pay for, make searching much more relevant, when we search for terms like "Under developed countries". When we search these with the tags [ti] or [tiab], we are searching for the term as a phrase. When we search them with a proximity operator, then we are searching for the terms being near each…
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