Monthly Archives: August 2022

What is OpenAthens and How Does it Affect Your Research

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OpenAthens is an identity and IP-based authentication system that provides access to the Library’s licensed online resources via single sign-on (SSO) technology. It is replacing our previous system, EZproxy. 

Now when you are remote, you will be able to use your MSK credentials (username and password) to sign on with the MSK secure single sign-on, regardless if you are on or off of VPN. There should be no change to access when on-campus.

MSK Secure Login

We still strongly recommend navigating to the Library’s Remote Access (top right corner of the library’s website) first to access library resources and subscription content.

In some cases, you may be prompted by Open Athens to select your institution; simply go to Find your institution and select “Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center”.

Please refer to this LibGuide on Open Athens for further information. For questions regarding Open Athens or access issues, please reach out to resources@mkscc.org.

Authoring Published Meeting Abstracts – Searching for Upcoming Conferences for Submitting Your Work

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There are a few approaches that you can take for identifying upcoming conferences that may be appropriate venues for sharing your preliminary research results (as a peer-reviewed paper or poster presentation).

  • One way is to search a database that contains information about the conferences/congresses themselves. Another way is to identify professional associations/organizations related to your discipline/field that would likely be responsible for organizing professional meetings, and then search the website of these organizations to look for announcements of their upcoming events and professional development opportunities.

For example, you can use a database like PubsHub that indexes Congresses and Associations:

PubsHub: https://libguides.mskcc.org/pubshub

Many people are familiar with PubsHub as they may have used it when trying to identify good journal contenders for manuscript submission. It’s a great tool to use for that purpose – it even has functionality that lets you easily compare the features of two different journal titles – but there are also parts of this database dedicated to Congresses and Associations.

  • Another effective way to find this information is to search on your favorite topic in a scholarly literature database that indexes conference proceedings, limit your search results to the Meeting Abstracts/Conference Proceedings publication type, and then note the names of the conferences where these meeting abstracts were submitted and accepted.

For example, you can search a database that indexes conference proceedings of interest and then look up the conference names included in the citations that are returned (from the citation record/published meeting abstracts records that were presented on topics related to yours) using another search tool (like Google) to investigate if those conferences/associations will soon be accepting abstract submissions for their next conference.

Resources available via the MSK Library that index conference proceedings/meeting abstracts include:

  1. Web of Science – https://libguides.mskcc.org/webofscience

  2. Northern Light Life Sciences Conference Abstracts – https://libguides.mskcc.org/northernlight

  3. Synapse – https://synapse.mskcc.org/synapse/works

Questions? Ask Us at the MSK Library.

The 2021 Synapse Publications Report is Now Available!

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Are you curious about research conducted at Memorial Sloan Kettering in 2021?  Well, we have the resource to answer this question! Check out the 2021 Synapse Publications Report and explore the content.

For 2021, 5,301 works were ingested, and we created 578 new Synapse author profiles. Breaking down the 5,301 works, we noted that 269 works were COVID-related, and the majority of the works fell under four different publication formats: Journal Articles (2,508), Meeting Abstracts (1,445), Reviews (581) and Editorials (350).  This report also contains visuals that showcase our authors’ research collaborations within the United States and Internationally.

Synapse is a public-facing resource and the authoritative bibliographic database of MSK publications, maintained by a dedicated team of information professionals. While this report reflects the year in review, the Synapse database provides a record of the intellectual output written by our authors.

Feel free to send me an email and let me know what you think about this year’s report.

Donna Gibson
Director, Library Services