Can you get me this article please?

Can you get me this article please?

This is one of the most regular pleas from students, academicians and doctors who do any kind of writing or even reading articles. They search PubMed, find a set of references and then "get stuck" for the full text.  I mention this in the Indian context, though I suspect this is true for any developing nation that does not have  HINARI privileges. A couple of weeks back I got a request for two articles from a young doctor who was working on a research project with a team. I checked the NUCSSI Union Catalog and told him that the articles he needed…
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Training & Teaching – the Time Involved

Training & Teaching – the Time Involved

Tomorrow (23-03-2013) marks the completion of 21 years of my having entered medical librarianship. And tomorrow, I conduct with my colleague Lakshmi,  the 105th literature searching workshop, after the setting up of QMed Foundation. Lakshmi and I spent a better part of today, planning the program which will be held at Jaslok Hospital, primarily for the DNB residents. Very often people ask me - "Can't you do this workshop in  your sleep"?  My answer - "Of course I can". Then what made us spend so much time today?  The answer: - We go on trying to see how we can…
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