| ashu |
Posted
on 20-Nov-00 01:30 PM
Those interested in doing research in Nepal will be happy
to note that The American Center in Gyaneswor (formerly
the American Library of New Road) offers excellent
services/assistance re:
access to Lexis-Nexis, and many other online databases related
to law, medicine, business, humanities, the arts and the
sciences. There is a small fee, which may be waived too.
The two reference librarians there -- Navin Rayamajhi and
Prakash Thapa -- have degrees in library science and are
unfailingly always helpful to researchers up dig needed stuff
from the databases. Their only gripe is that NOT many researchers use their services ad their databases.
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On another note, though I have long heard Nepal-based academics' often saying that they cannot do great research because of "resource ko constraints and nothing but resource ko
constraints", I am beginning to wonder whether it's question
of few resources or the issue of lack of imagination, drive
and initiative to do research in the first place.
After all, despite there being so-called "brilliant" Nepali students everywhere, why is it that Nepal has failed to produce a crop of world-class thinkers/writers/academics?
oohi
ashu
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