Developments Of Pharmaceutical Sciences Open Access Resources (PSOAR)

VIKAS PSOAR (Pharmaceutical Sciences Open Access Resources Custom Search Engine; http://www.google.com/coop/cse?cx=004661586693649773900%3A_2x3q90pcba&hl...) at Seth G. L. Bihani S. D. College of Technical Education, Sri Ganganagar (Raj.) was inaugurated by Dr. P. P. S. Mathur, Vice Chancellor, Rajasthan University of Health Sciences, Jaipur on 27th October, 2007. Currently, PSOAR searches more than 300 websites of magazines, journals, online thesis, and drug information websites which disseminate their scholarly articles or other contents freely on their websites or other repositories. The search engine was hosted on our blogsite http://vikaspsoar.blogspot.com. The information for the search engine and blogsite was provided to various pharmaceutical journals and newsletters. Indian Pharmacist (http://vikaspsoar.blogspot.com/2008/01/news-of-vikas-psoar-from-indian.h...) and InPharm Newsletter (http://vikaspsoar.blogspot.com/2008/01/inauguration-news-in-inpharm-news...) published this information in their institutional news sections.

VIKAS PGIAR (Pharmaceutical Guidelines for Industry, Academia and Research; http://www.google.com/coop/cse?cx=004661586693649773900%3A4n0tm5iih-8&hl...) searches more than 20 websites of regulatory agencies governing the industry, academia and research in drugs and pharmaceutical sciences. This search engine is helpful in retrieving latest guidelines, notifications and other information from the selected websites. VIKAS PGIAR was also hosted on our blogsite http://vikaspsoar.blogspot.com.

The blogsite http://vikaspsoar.blogspot.com was accredited for one year with periodic site evaluations by Health On Net Foundation (www.hon.ch) on Feb. 18, 2008. A certificate for the same has been issued by HON (https://www.hon.ch/HONcode/Conduct.html?HONConduct617213). The second evaluation was completed on March 20, 2008 and the results are in full compliance with the HON principles. The blogsite has been listed in MEDHUNT which is medical search tool of Health On Net Foundation (https://www.hon.ch/HONcode/Conduct.html?HONConduct617213).

The blogsite http://vikaspsoar.blogspot.com further provides options of subscribing the blog by e-mail. Performance poll options have been provided for both of these search engines. Blogsite also provides discipline-wise list of open access journals and magazines in various disciplines of pharmacy.