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This blog is created to raise awareness about the importance and value of libraries among the people of our country, special importance is given to exhibit contribution of health science librarians in health and social care within institutions and in nation building.
The health science librarians provide information resources to support health care. They encourage widespread use of health information among doctors, medical students, nurses, physiotherapists, dietitians, social workers and researchers.
The technological advancement has enabled libraries to move beyond the four walls of a building, as a result, we, the librarians strive to meet the health information needs of a larger community and try to amend health information delivery at every region, so that people live better, healthier, happier and more productive lives.

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About Predatory Journals: 

“Predatory journals and publishers are entities that prioritize self-interest at the expense of scholarship and are characterized by false or misleading information, deviation from best editorial and publication practices, a lack of transparency, and/or the use of aggressive and indiscriminate solicitation practices.”-Nature 576, 210-212 (2019) Read More HERE

Friday, December 6, 2019

Practicing Data visualization tools to find authors and authorship patterns from the published research articles available in PubMed on ''Malaria in India''



Article in Nature Journal:

Building a better malaria vaccine

Here are more tools to add to my learning:

Dimensions

The Lens

iCite

MeSH on Demand

Some of the  Information Science resources and tools to withstand agile information environment that I came across today are :





Courtesy: Scholarly Kitchen

Interesting reads:

Should we use AI to make us quicker and more efficient researchers?