Information & Tools for MSK Authors
Grants and Funding Opportunities
Search for grants, sign up for alerts, and apply for grants using these resources:
Request a Literature search or assistance in your funding search from an expert librarian.
The Grants & Contracts unit of MSKCC's Finance department tracks funding opportunities for all kinds of research and can assist you in finding and applying for financial support.
Community of Science Funding Opportunties -- brief webinar tutorial -- Community of Science Provides access to a comprehensive database of available funding with more than 22,000 records. Sponsors include private foundations, public agencies, national and local governments, corporations, and more.
Sponsored Programs Information Network (SPIN) -- Sign up for customized alerts about funding opportunties in your research area. This database can be difficult to search; ask a librarian to help you set up an alert. You will receive monthly email updates about available funding opportunities in your research field.
NIH Funding Opportunties and Notices -- Search or browse for NIH funding opportunities, subscribe to newsletters on NIH funding, and download applications forms.
NIH Public Access Policy -- Instructions and tools for ensuring compliance with the NIH public access policy.
The Foundation Center -- Authoritative, up-to-date information on private philanthropy. Additional links include the Foundation Finder, a free lookup tool that provides basic facts on more than 70,000 private and community foundations in the U.S. Find Funders searches for a foundation's tax return (form 990 PF). Hint: Use the Foundation center's Diagram of Form 990-PF to learn where some of the most important information can be found on a 990-PF.
Grantsnet -- Grantsnet provides list of funding opportunities from Science magazine, including a searchable database of grants and other funding sources.
ScanGrants -- A resource designed to facilitate the search for funding sources to enhance individual and community health. This site may be of interest to virtually anyone associated with the health field – medical researchers, social workers, nurses, students, community-based health educators, academics and others. Funding sources most frequently listed here include those of private foundations, corporations, businesses, and not-for profit organizations. Finding and listing less traditional funding opportunities is also a priority. Created and maintained by Samaritan Health Services.
NIH Roadmap -- A list of funding opportunities for high-risk, innovative and translational medicine research.
NIH RePORTER -- search for previously awarded grants.
Research.gov -- search for previously awarded grants.
Finding Articles for Your Literature Search
Request a literature search by library reference staff.
PubMed -- PubMed FAQs-- PubMed classes at the library
The PubMed interface has been redesigned! Ask a librarian to learn how to search the new PubMed.
Scopus -- brief tutorial on how to search Scopus. Scopus is the largest abstract and citation database of biomedical literature in the world. Scopus covers over 18,000 journal titles, 350 book series, trade publications, and conference proceedings. Highly recommended.
Citation searching with ISI Web of Science -- brief tutorial on how to search Web of Science. Citation index that covers over 10,000 high-impact journals and conference proceedings. Cited reference searching allows users to quicky identify highly-cited and important papers in their fields.
The Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature (CINAHL) -- A comprehensive index database of nursing literature not covered by other major databases. Covers many kinds of nursing, occupational therapy, chiropractic and other allied health disciplines.
Ovid Databases (Medline, PsycInfo, EMBASE) -- flash tutorials on how to search in the Ovid interface. Ovid offers a powerful means of searching biomedical literature through a wide array of field codes and boolean operators.
Synapse -- Synapse is MSKCC Library's database of publications affiliated with MSKCC. Included references back to 1990.
Google Scholar -- Scholarly database of academic papers in all disciplines, including medicine and life sciences. A good place to find relevant papers; be aware that citation counts are not set in stone and Google is not open about which journals are indexed.
Browse eJournals -- Contains an A-Z listing of all journals MSKCC Library subscribes to, a link to the journal website, and holdings information.
Browse All Library Databases -- Lists all databases available to MSKCC researchers.
Browse eBooks -- A complete title list of eBooks immediately available for reading and download.
Managing Your Research
Intro to Reference management software
EndNote -- brief tutorial -- sign up for a library class on Endnote. EndNote is a reference manager that allows users to collect, manage and format bibliographies in many difffernt journal styles. Contact the helpdesk (x3337) to have EndNote installed on your workstation or laptop.
RefWorks -- brief tutorial -- sign up for a library class on RefWorks. RefWorks is a web-based reference manager that allows uers to collect, manage, format and share bibliographies in a many different journal styles. To access RefWorks, type "RefWorks" into the main MSKCC library search box and then create an individual account on the RefWorks site.
CiteULike -- A social bookmarking site for academic papers. Keep track of interesting papers and share what you've been reading online.
Connotea -- A social bookmarking site for academic papers. Similar to CiteULike.
Mendeley -- A bibliographic management application with social features. Manage papers, share libraries and collaborate online.
Zotero -- A bibliographic management application similar to EndNote and Refworks with social features. Only available as a Firefox plugin.
Choosing a Journal for Manuscript Submission
Open Access options The Directory of Open Access Journals (DoAJ) is a listing of open access scholarly journals in all academic subjects, including health sciences and medicine.
Journal Citation Report -- Calculated and published annually by Thomson Reuters, Journal Citation Reports is a searchable and browsable database of journal impact factors. Here is an overview on using various metrics for assessing the prestige and impact of a given journal.
Eigenfactor analysis -- Eigenfactor analysis is journal ranking system similar to the impact factor system.
SCImago Journal and Country Rankings -- SCImago Journal and Country rankings measure journal rank as well as rank total scholarly output of world nations.
NIH Public Access Mandate
Any research funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) must be made publically available in the BioMed Central Repository. Here are several important MSK-specific documents about complying with the NIH Public Access policy:
Please note these important dates for complying with the NIH Public Access policy:
As of April 7, 2008, all articles arising from NIH funds must be submitted to PubMed Central upon acceptance for publication.
As of May 25, 2008, NIH applications, proposals, and progress reports must include the PubMed Central reference number (PMCID) when citing an article that falls under the policy and is authored or co-authored by the investigator, or arose from the investigator's NIH award. This policy includes applications submitted to the NIH for May 25, 2008 due date and subsequent due dates.
As of August 21, 2009, the NIHMSID may be used to demonstrate compliance on NIH applications, proposals or reports, for up to three months after a paper is published. Three or more months after publication, a PubMed Central reference number (PMCID) must be provided. Only the PMCID signifies that all steps of the NIH Public Access submission process are complete and that the paper is ready for posting at PubMed Central.
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Information & Tools for MSK Authors
