MSKCC Library Blog

Blog Buzz: January 20 – January 25

Christine — Fri, 25 Jan 2013 16:50:14 +0000

Catching my eye this week…

Alison Aldrich has written an in-depth review of Docphin over at Krafty Librarian.

NPR’s Shots blog has a piece about loopholes in GINA (the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act), which allow some companies to discriminate based on people’s genes.

A piece on a realistic long-term care solution now that the ACA provisions have been overturned.

MSKCC in the News: January 10 – January 23

Mark — Fri, 25 Jan 2013 15:38:16 +0000

Xconomy.com recently chronicled MSKCC’s expanding efforts in developing medical device technologies.
An article on the development of the PapGene test for cervical, endometrial and ovarian cancer – by researchers at Johns Hopkins University, MSKCC, and the University of Sao Paolo in Brazil – was published in the journal Science Translational Medicine.

Training, Tools, and Tips for Writing Your Grant Proposal

Amy — Fri, 25 Jan 2013 14:52:37 +0000

Need to apply for a grant and want support with writing your proposal? Try starting here.

The National Network of Libraries of Medicine (NN/LM) has a Proposal Writing Support page with links to several training resources, including in-classroom courses and online video tutorials, such as “NIH Peer Review Process Revealed“. The NIH Center for Scientific Review site also provides tools and guides for those tasked with reviewing the applications.

Resource Highlights: ReadCube

Antonio — Wed, 23 Jan 2013 17:37:50 +0000

Looking for alternate ways of organizing your references and PDFs? Want to be able to automatically export citations from Google Scholar and PubMed? ReadCube, one of the newest bibliographic management tools to hit the scene offers enhanced PDF viewing, editing, sharing, and importing/exporting.

ReadCube features an easy PDF viewing interface where users can highlight and take notes on articles within the application. Adding articles as Favorites is another useful function of ReadCube that other citation management tools lack. Searching PubMed and Google Scholar from inside ReadCube allows users to easily view reference abstracts, download PDFs instantly, and export citations to EndNote and RefWorks. ReadCube is setup with the MSK proxy URL meaning it recognizes what the Library subscribes to electronically for quick and easy access to full text content.

Give ReadCube a try by downloading the resource and viewing the different video tutorials containing helpful tips, tricks, and useful features. For more information on ReadCube and other bibliographic management tools, our Reference Librarians are knowledgeable on current and upcoming resources that may help to better manage your lists of article references.

Wondering Where to Submit Your Manuscript? Meet JANE

Isabel — Tue, 22 Jan 2013 16:08:42 +0000

If you are completing a manuscript and are thinking about where to submit it for publication, you may find the tool, JANE: Journal/Author Name Estimator, to be very helpful. JANE is a free website which can help identify journals for publication based on the subject about which you have written. In addition, JANE can find relevant articles that you can cite in your paper. If you enter the title and/or abstract in the search box, you have the option to click on “Find journals,” “Find authors,” or “Find articles.” Your document will be compared to millions of articles in MEDLINE to extract the most relevant matching journals, authors or articles.

Blog Buzz: January 7 – January 18

Christine — Fri, 18 Jan 2013 19:30:39 +0000

Pew released their Health Online 2013 report on Tuesday, exploring the use of the internet for health information by Americans. Nikki Dettmar over at EagleDawg has written a response to the report from the medical librarian perspective and highlights the findings that “One in four people seeking health information online have hit a paywall” and “Respondents living in lower-income households were significantly more likely than their wealthier counterparts to say that they gave up at that point.” These are clearly areas of concern for medical librarians, and as Dettmar points out, there remains “much to be done to raise public awareness that librarians are there to help you access the information the internet is trying to charge you for… or locate an information resource that is an even better match for your question in the first place.” Amen!

Kent Anderson, in PubMed and F1000 Research — Unclear Standards Applied Unevenly, makes points about F1000 that which may be valid, but something in the underlying point about confusion between Medline and PubMed (and the roles of PubMed and PubMed Central) reminded me of a post he had back in October… Something’s Rotten in Bethesda… to which Michelle Kraft of the Krafty Librarian offered this response. Perhaps these issues are growing pains that are to be expected (and resolved over time) as the publishing landscape changes with the emergence of new open access models.

A new open access publishing project called Frontiers is offering a radically reconfigured peer review system and publishing platform for the life sciences. This new approach has reviewers and authors collaborate to improve and work toward published articles! Check out this interview with Frontier’s president on the Chronicle of Higher Education’s blog, ProfHacker, for more on this innovative approach.

With Dr. James D. Watson in the news last week following publication of a paper criticizing the war on cancer (this piece – including quotes from several MSKCC doctors – covers the hubbub), who better than the archivist at Cold Spring Harbor to remind us in this blog post (featuring collection materials) that generating this type of debate “is really old hat” for Dr. Watson.

Tech Zone: DrawMD

Marisol — Fri, 18 Jan 2013 14:55:02 +0000

DrawMD is a collection of mobile apps intended to improve communication between patients and their surgeons. Using illustrations of medical procedures, physicians can create interactive visual guides to explain medical conditions and treatments.

Features:

Edit preloaded anatomy images
Upload and create new images
Sketch, stamp and type on images
Undo actions and erase sketches
Print, save and email images

Specialties include: Pediatrics, Vascular, Sampler (Urology, Orthopedics, Anesthesia & Critical Care, Cardiology, General Surgery), Orthopedics, OB/GYN, General Surgery, Otolaryngology, Cardiology, Anesthesia & Critical Care.

To download one or all of these apps, visit the MSKCC Library’s Mobile Resources LibGuide.

Cancer Research News: December 21 – January 17

Sarah — Thu, 17 Jan 2013 16:29:05 +0000

Overall cancer death rates are declining in America, according to The Annual Report to the Nation on the Status of Cancer, 1975–2009.
The incidence of some cancers associated with HPV has increased.
Last year was the 20th anniversary of the discovery of the Janus kinase (JAK)–signal transducer and activator of transcription (STAT) pathway, both of which have roles in hematologic cancers.
Massachusetts researchers have developed a high-tech camera you can swallow that may be an alternative to endoscopy for cancer diagnosis.

Pathology International is Now Available

Teresa — Tue, 15 Jan 2013 17:46:34 +0000

The Library has recently purchased a license for Pathology International. Pathology International is the official English journal of the Japanese Society of Pathology, publishing articles of excellence in human and experimental pathology. The journal focuses on the morphological study of the disease process and/or mechanisms.

For human pathology, morphological investigation receives priority but manuscripts describing the result of any ancillary methods (cellular, chemical, immunological and molecular biological) that complement the morphology are accepted. Manuscript on experimental pathology that approach pathologenesis or mechanisms of disease processes are expected to report on the data obtained from models using cellular, biochemical, molecular biological, animal, immunological or other methods in conjunction with morphology.

You can access this journal from the link above, or through the Title Search (eJournals and eBooks) tab located on the Library’s Website.

Happy New Year to our Library User Community!

Donna — Mon, 14 Jan 2013 22:50:05 +0000

Welcome to a New Year, and in a few days, to a New website which we will be launching on January 31, 2013. (Note: As of the date of this post, you can still view the old Library website before the site is retired!)

This is a very exciting time for staff and it doesn’t stop here. One of our 2013 goals focuses attention on our web presence and in the first quarter of this year we will be redesigning our other web resources to include our Library Blog, Twitter homepage, Document Delivery Services, and LibGuides.

In addition, our other 2013 goals revolve around expanding our services and exploring ways in which our users can increase their opportunities to collaborate internally (Synapse) as well as externally (VIVO, ORCID). If you are interested in tracking our progress, you can subscribe to our Library Blog to learn more about what we have accomplished.

The only objective (goal) that doesn’t change from year to year is our constant drive to improve our users’ experiences with the resources and services we offer. We are here to support and enhance your gateway to credible scientific and medical literature, resources, and apps. So don’t be shy, ask us!

Happy New Year to our user community as well as our Library Blog readers! We are delighted that you have made us a part of your research process.

Donna Gibson
Director of Library Services