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Mesh on demand!

2 - Do you know
The MeSH on demand Tool is an easy way to identify relevant MeSH Terms - either for single terms, or for entire paragraphs. You just enter your terms or a paragraph in a box and click "Find MeSH Terms".  Why or when should you use this? If you are submitting an article for publication, you could paste text here and figure out which terms show up for each paragraph, and then choose the ones coming up most, as keywords. If you are looking for MeSH Terms to do a search, and do not find them in the MeSH Database, you…
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Impactful Librarians:identifying opportunities to increase your impact

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Kirtley, S.Impactful librarians: identifying opportunities to increase your impactJournal of EAHIL 2015; Vol. 11 (4): 23-28Shona Kirtley suggests how librarians can be highly responsive to research needs of their library users. She specially stresses on creating more awareness of and training people to use the EQUATOR guidelines for reporting various forms of research. Very simply put, if people push up their knowledge about these guidelines, their writing skills and their article appraisal skills become very strong. The article has emerged from the comments in the Lancet Series on Research, where there is a discussion on increasing value and reducing waste in…
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KRM 2016: Digital Contents, Copyrights and Libraries

KRM 2016: Digital Contents, Copyrights and Libraries

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In Jan 2016, I attended the event – KRM (Knowledge Resources Management) – organized by the Tata Memorial Centre’s Digital Library, with the Health Science Library Association of India.  There were interesting talks on these issues by librarians, users and lawyers. I shared my experiences with the participating librarians, telling them what they could apply in their libraries (apart from the declarations that they take while providing copies):Providing copies to users for academic / research purposes:Explain to users why you ask them to sign a declaration when they ask for copies. Tell them that once they have signed, they cannot make…
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