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Finding Journals in your specialty in PubMed:

2 - Do you know
 Wish to find out what journals are available in your specialty? Start your search at the US National Library of Medicine's web page - Broad Subject Terms for Indexed Journals. Click on any specialty to see the list of journals that are included in the NCBI databases. If you wish to limit your search to those that are indexed for Medline, then click the link on the right side - "Currently indexed in Medline"If you wish to run a PubMed search for one or more journal titles, then select them, and click Add to Search builder, and then Search PubMed. 
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The Role of Google Scholar in Evidence Reviews and Its Applicability to Grey Literature Searching

3 - Interesting Articles
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 how GS works and then also about how  useful it is in finding grey literature for conducting evidence reviews. The article concludes that GS is indeed a useful supplement in searches for evidence, particularly grey literature so long as its limitations are recognised. The authors recommend that the assessment of results from Google…
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Guest post: UG student – Seth GS Medical college and KEM Hospital

Guest post: UG student – Seth GS Medical college and KEM Hospital

4 - Guest posts
How many of us have wanted to simply know the statistics of a certain disease? Or know some causative factors of an oft-seen condition in our OPDs? You might have tried a Wiki search, fully knowing that it’s not going to yield any fruitful data. You might have spent a few hours at the library, still not able to discover the elusive knowledge you seek.Cue – QMed’s Literature Search Workshop, organised by the Academic Committee of Seth GS Medical College and KEM Hospital- the one stop guide on the know-how to access the most prolific database available on the World…
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