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Our Founder gives a talk about Library and Information Sciences as a Career

Our Founder gives a talk about Library and Information Sciences as a Career

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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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Miles to go! Deep Diving! Spreading our wings! All for India’s research outputs

Miles to go! Deep Diving! Spreading our wings! All for India’s research outputs

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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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Origins of QMed Foundation – “The CD Story”

Origins of QMed Foundation – “The CD Story”

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People often ask me what made me start QMed. The answer is – several things, but a big trigger was the QMed’s “General Medicine CD” What was this CD about? When QMed was first only a private limited company, one of the activities we often did was to carry out PubMed searches for students, and doctors who asked for them. Every topic was different and obviously, the search steps were different. Rajeev Surana, who used to work with us then kept saying “You should not have to re-do searches every time. Every effort needs to be re-usable”. My standard response…
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