Another workshop and different Nostalgia!

Another workshop and different Nostalgia!

On the 15th of July, I was invited to give a talk at the SNDT Women’s University. The occasion was a one day workshop for faculty from different departments – (mainly Home Science). And it was on Writing and publishing. I had to speak on the topic “Literature Review” – which is an important part of any research paper. I divided my talk into two areas – Literature Searching and the Literature Review components. I stressed – that it would be easier for them to learn the latter anywhere, but the former – is barely taught. And when I finished…
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A Workshop and some Nostalgia!

A Workshop and some Nostalgia!

End of June, I was invited to deliver a lecture on “Selection of studies” for doing a systematic review. This was at a three day workshop on systematic reviews at ACTREC – which is a centre of the well known Tata Memorial Hospital in my city. A friend of mine – Satish is the librarian there and he was delivering the lecture on the topic I normally take – which is – Literature searching. I enjoyed this change. More so because about ten years ago I had actually done the screening of studies for a major review. At that time…
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How to Peer Review Search Strategies

How to Peer Review Search Strategies

I recently did a short course on "How to Peer Review Search Strategies". This was offered by INSTATS - an organization that offers several excellent research related courses. What is Peer reviewing of search strategies? In India, we have a lacuna of knowledge about search strategies and the need for them to be structured. Most often very little thought is given to the strategy and it is done in an ad-hoc manner. Peer reviewing is something no one even thinks about.. The six hour session over two evenings - run by two expert Information Professionals - Carol Lefebvre - and…
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