23 Things MSK Challenge: December Solutions

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For those of you participating in the 23 Things MSK Challenge, we hope you were able to successfully complete the tasks for the final month of the challenge. If you had any trouble, the solutions are posted below. The winner of the raffle prize will be announced shortly.

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Here are the instructions for the PubMed phrase searching task:

  1. First, go to the PubMed tab on the MSK Library website.
  2. Click on the yellow PubMed link beneath the search box.
  3. Click on the Advanced link below the search box in PubMed.
  4. Once in the Search Builder, select Text Word from the first drop down menu that says All Fields.
  5. Enter kidney allograft (or your selected phrase) in the search box next to Text Word.
  6. Before clicking on the Search button, click on Show index list (to the right of the phrase you just inputted) and look to see if your phrase appears in the list.
  7. If you find your phrase, click on it and then click the Search button to get your results.
  8. Compare the results returned to what happens when you just enter kidney allograft in the regular PubMed search box.

By using the Text Word index, the results will be targeted towards finding the exact phrase you are searching for as the terms entered will be forced to appear next to each other in the resulting citations.

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Here are the instructions for the EndNote Output Style task:

  1. First, go to http://Endnote.com.
  2. Then click on the Downloads link and scroll down to Output Styles.
  3. Click on the link to Add output styles.
  4. In the search box under “Style or Journal Name contains” enter the name of the journal you are planning to submit to (e.g. Journal of Immunology).
  5. Click the Apply button.
  6. You should now see the journal name listed in the search results table below the Apply button. Click on the Download link to the right of your journal style.
  7. When prompted, choose to Open the file. It should open the style within the EndNote program.
  8. Within EndNote, go to the File menu and select Save As to save this style.

Now, when you go to the Output Style drop down menu in EndNote and choose Select Another Style, you should be able to find this style listed among the available Output Style options.

For any questions you might have, don’t hesitate to email Reference at asklibrarian@mskcc.org, or call us at 212-639-7439.