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Medical Library Services in India: Are We Not Asking Right?

Medical Library Services in India: Are We Not Asking Right?

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The National Medical Library in New Delhi has its website at www.nml.nic.in. On its home page it mentions: Our Philosophy : Excellence. At NML, we are driven by a singular focus on medicine. And our dedication to the medical community follows suit. Which is why we have earned the distinction of being one of the leading resource of medical information in Asia. In the about us page it mentions:  The National Medical Library aims to provide wide and efficient library and information services to the health science (HS) professionals in India. It functions under the administrative control of the Directorate General…
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Can you get me this article please?

Can you get me this article please?

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This is one of the most regular pleas from students, academicians and doctors who do any kind of writing or even reading articles. They search PubMed, find a set of references and then "get stuck" for the full text.  I mention this in the Indian context, though I suspect this is true for any developing nation that does not have  HINARI privileges. A couple of weeks back I got a request for two articles from a young doctor who was working on a research project with a team. I checked the NUCSSI Union Catalog and told him that the articles he needed…
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Newsletter- July 2013

Newsletter- July 2013

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Dear Friends The July 2013 issue of our newsletter is up on our website.  Well this is really a March to July 2013 issue (reasons in the newsletter), and it summarizes the blog posts of all these months, (conveniently linking to the respective posts). We share our developments in these months, this blog being one of them.  Happy Reading! Vasumathi Sriganesh                        
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