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Paperity- A multidisciplinary aggregator of Open Access journals and papers.

Paperity- A multidisciplinary aggregator of Open Access journals and papers.

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Paperity is an aggregator of journals and papers from different disciplines. Coverage: It includes subjects like Sciences, Technology, Medicine, Social Sciences, Humanities and Arts. All articles indexed here are Open Access.  Paperity makes sure to index only genuine scholarly literature. It does not include student assignments, business presentations or cooking recipes classified as scholarly papers. The plus point of Paperity is, it assigns permanent URLs to article pages which never changes so that everyone can safely link to them without the risk of it becoming invalid. How to use: The search is user friendly and easy to use. You can…
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Webinar Sagas – Coping with technological and pandemic challenges in 2020!

Webinar Sagas – Coping with technological and pandemic challenges in 2020!

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With the advent of the lockdown, between May 2020 and today I have been invited to do a number of webinars. Six to be exact, till date. In the earlier days I had done about two or three over some years. They were sponsored by the industry and done with the involvement of professional camera people and settings. However in the pandemic times, the organizers in five out of six cases did not involve people who were adept in this area. I must commend the way institutions have taken to arranging webinars and that some of them have opened the…
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Literature searching – this article gave us a sense of deja vu!

Literature searching – this article gave us a sense of deja vu!

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Measures of Self-Efficacy Among Doctors in Conducting an Online Search for Clinical Decision Making Salman Bin Naeem, Rubina Bhatti Health Info Libr J. 2020Link: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/hir.12289 Recently we came across an article written in Pakistan, about the ability and level of confidence among doctors in conducting an online search. Reading it gave us a sense of deja vu! The authors conducted a survey in 36 District Headquarter Hospitals (DHQs), 89 Tehsil Headquarter Hospitals (THQs), 293 Rural Health Centers (RHCs) and 2455 Basic Health Units (BHUs) in Punjab, Pakistan. The doctors perceived themselves able to perform different tasks involved in conducting an online…
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