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Can you get me this article please?

Can you get me this article please?

1 - VS Shares
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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Training & Teaching – the Time Involved

Training & Teaching – the Time Involved

1 - VS Shares
Tomorrow (23-03-2013) marks the completion of 21 years of my having entered medical librarianship. And tomorrow, I conduct with my colleague Lakshmi,  the 105th literature searching workshop, after the setting up of QMed Foundation. Lakshmi and I spent a better part of today, planning the program which will be held at Jaslok Hospital, primarily for the DNB residents. Very often people ask me - "Can't you do this workshop in  your sleep"?  My answer - "Of course I can". Then what made us spend so much time today?  The answer: - We go on trying to see how we can…
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