For quite long I had assumed that since PubMed Central (PMC for short) was included in PubMed, one did not have to search the PMC database - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/ - separately. PMC is an "archive" of free biomedical and life sciences journal articles. Journal articles are added and archived in PMC from three sources Journal publishers / Publishing societiesAuthor manuscripts deposited by authors - as mandated by fundersDigitization projects - where NLM has collaborated with publishers to archive historical literature - scanning articles and preserving them From June 2020, PMC has also started including preprints that report NIH funded results So…

In my last post I had mentioned that when we worked with researchers engaged with research projects for the Lancet Citizens' Commission, we observed that if they had approached us earlier we may have saved them lots more time. After my last post, one of them mentioned - "If we had started working with you earlier, we may have made lots more progress by now!"  That was a really precious, reaffirming comment. It just confirms to us that the earlier these skills are picked up, medical research gets better, with lots of time saved. And we are really happy that more…

QMed recently started training and helping health professionals who have volunteered their time for research projects for the Lancet Citizens' Commission. This research project is being coordinated from CMC Vellore. They have subscribed to QMedCourses. The group is divided into small teams working on various research projects concerning healthcare in India - specially on achieving universal healthcare coverage for people in India in the coming years. The whole group has been signed up for QMedCourses and we are also working with each team, helping them with their search strategies - for them to search various databases, find all available literature…