Monthly Archives: October 2013

Cited Reference Searching in PubMed

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The PubMed database offers a limited version of cited reference searching.  PubMed records which are cited by articles in the PubMed Central database, can be found on the abstract page for a record.   You can look for them on the right-hand side of the page, below the “Related citations in PubMed” section.  The cited references link to the PubMed records, which in turn link to the full text articles since PubMed Central is an open access database.

Here is an example:
GNAS-activating mutations define a rare subgroup of inflammatory liver tumors characterized by STAT3 activation.
Nault JC, Fabre M, Couchy G, Pilati C, Jeannot E, Tran Van Nhieu J, Saint-Paul MC, De Muret A, Redon MJ, Buffet C, Salenave S, Balabaud C, Prevot S, Labrune P, Bioulac-Sage P, Scoazec JY, Chanson P, Zucman-Rossi J.
J Hepatol. 2012 Jan;56(1):184-91. doi: 10.1016/j.jhep.2011.07.018. Epub 2011 Aug 9.

Cited by 5 PubMed Central articles:

Resource Highlights: Citing a Tweet

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As Twitter grows in popularity, more and more researchers and scientists are using the social network to communicate and discuss their research. This rise has created a demand for official formats to cite Tweets in scholarly papers. Tweet2Cite generates a citation from the URL of a tweet in either MLA (Modern Language Association) or APA (American Psychological Association) formats.

Just paste the URL of a tweet into the box provided and watch as your citation is spit back in the appropriate style to be used in your paper. Hopefully there will be more resources like Tweet2Cite to come that supply citations in formats other than MLA and APA.

Don’t forget to follow the MSK Library Twitter stream @MSKCC_Library to keep abreast of cancer research news, training workshops, Center news, useful updates for keeping current, and to tweet with us about your scholarly work!

Blog Buzz: October 1 – October 25

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A government shutdown and Open Access week, lots of excitement for this edition of Blog Buzz!

There is/was no shortage of posts on how the government shutdown impacted science and made it harder to find certain types of information. Thankfully, the shutdown itself is behind us, but here are a few of those posts:

And here are a few in honor of Open Access week:

  • Science magazine had a special issue Communication in Science: Pressures and Predators with free news and reviews on the lack of scrutiny at open-access journals, the rarity of published negative studies, and publishing sensitive data. Do you agree?
  • Curt Rice takes issue with one of the pieces in Science Who’s afraid of peer review?, over on the Guardian, saying the peer review system has broken down and that is the real issue. Peter Suber weighs in to dispel six myths about OA also at the Guardian.
  • Sally Gore writes on this year’s OA week theme of altmetrics, and the altmetrics she is waiting for…the ones to help measure and communicate the value of librarians.

And some more about scholarly communication…

  • Nature News reports that on October 22nd, the NCBI launched the pilot phase of PubMed Commons, a platform being designed to let researchers comment on published works under their real names. Will there be enough participation for it be a successful new arena for discussion? Perhaps if it does it can help address the problems below…
  • From the Economist, a brief item about fraudulent academic publishing in China, fueled in part by a distorted ranking system that prizes quantity over quality.