“Gearing up to tackle mental health issues in the post-COVID-19 world” by Nikhil Nayar, Shijo John Joseph, Samrat Singh Bhandari, Sanjiba Dutta, and Sheikh Shoib, from the forthcoming issue (January-June 2021, Volume 12 Issue 1) of the Open Journal of Psychiatry & Allied Sciences (OJPAS®) is in PubMed (PMID: 33123628).

Titled “Psychology and religion”, this fortnight’s Mind Matters column of the Editor-in-Chief of the Open Journal of Psychiatry & Allied Sciences (OJPAS®), Shyamanta Das in Horizon, the Friday supplement with The Assam Tribune, discusses the editorial, “Psychology of religion” by Hemendra Ram Phookun, published in the January-June 2020, Volume 11 Issue 1 of OJPAS®.

Titled, “Manassariyaam”, this fortnight’s Mind Matters column of Shyamanta Das, the Editor-in-Chief of the Open Journal of Psychiatry & Allied Sciences (OJPAS®) in Horizon, the Friday supplement with The Assam Tribune, highlights the letter to editor, “‘Manassariyaam’ counters to screen for depression: an IMHANS experience” by G Ragesh, Seema P Uthaman, Abdul Salam, and Minu Williams, published in the July-December 2019, Volume 10 Issue 2 of OJPAS®.

“His Master Voice” by Himabrata Das is the new Advance Online Publication of the Open Journal of Psychiatry & Allied Sciences (OJPAS®).

The forthcoming issue (January-June 2021, Volume 12 Issue 1) of the Open Journal of Psychiatry & Allied Sciences (OJPAS®) with DOIs from IndianJournals.com is now available.

The Open Journal of Psychiatry & Allied Sciences (OJPAS®) has passed the evaluation process positively and is indexed in the ICI Journals Master List database for 2019. Based on the information submitted in the evaluation and the analysis of the issues of the journal from 2019, Index Copernicus Experts calculated the Index Copernicus Value (ICV) for 2019.

ICV 2019 = 98.96

The ICV for 2019 is visible in Journal`s Passport https://journals.indexcopernicus.com/search/details?id=31417&lang=pl

Shyamanta Das, the Editor-in-Chief of the Open Journal of Psychiatry & Allied Sciences (OJPAS®), in the fortnightly Mind Matters column, titled “Emotion and cognition” of Horizon, the Friday supplement with The Assam Tribune, discusses the case study, “Comorbidity of bipolar disorder and dementia: the diagnostic dilemma” by Sucharita Mandal, Spoorthy Sai Mamidipalli, Narendra K Bodhey, and Saroj Kumar Pati, published in the July-December 2019, Volume 10 Issue 2 of OJPAS®.

The articles of the current issue (July-December 2020, Volume 11 Issue 2) of the Open Journal of Psychiatry & Allied Sciences (OJPAS®) is now in Index Copernicus.

The articles of the current issue (July-December 2020, Volume 11 Issue 2) of the Open Journal of Psychiatry & Allied Sciences (OJPAS®) is now in the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ).

In the fourth event of the webinar series, ‘Global Psychiatry: A LAMIC Perspective”, Unaiza Niaz will be speaking on “COVID-10 handing in Pakistan: sustained efforts to contain crises and improve economy” at 6 pm IST on Saturday, 10 October 2020. It is an initiative of SoMHiL, as part of MONON: Assam Cares (https://www.ojpas.com/ojpas-2020-07-27-fulltext.html), in collaboration with ECHO India. Editorial Board Member of the Open Journal of Psychiatry & Allied Sciences (OJPAS®), Unaiza Niaz’s session will be moderated by Samrat Singh Bhandari, the Associate Editor of OJPAS®. Spark link for participants – https://spark.echoindia.in/jr/sess_aqt9KomN_Q/