In March 2016, the MSK Library staff launched ORCID@MSK.

Well before launching this service, the Library joined the ORCID community as an institutional member in support of connecting research and researchers. Along with other research organizations, publishers, funders, professional associations, medical and research libraries, and various stakeholders in the research environment, we all agreed that an ORCID identifier (16-digit number expressed as a URL) could help to eliminate author name ambiguity and improve the discoverability to authors’ research and scholarly works. Continue reading →

Happy New Year to our User Community and our Library Blog Readers.  As 2018 fades into the background, I do want to spend a few moments recapping what I know was a great year for the library staff and share a few of our goals for this year.

At the end of January 2018, we launched a new discovery layer on our Website with the goal of improving the library user experience when accessing paid and vetted resources. The content management team, with support from other library staff, marketed this research tool that we named ONESEARCH.  Mid-year, we sent out a client satisfaction survey to determine what our users liked and/or didn’t like about ONESEARCH, and in Fall 2018, we conducted usability testing to further explore our clients’ satisfaction with this tool.  Feedback from testing formed the basis for one of our 2019 goals — to work with the vendor to implement suggested staff and client changes, wherever possible.  We also published a series of blog posts to explain ONESEARCH functionality. Continue reading →

This is the number of works published in 2017 that were added to the MSK publications database, Synapse.  This number (4,383) also represent an increase of 8% from the number of works added in 2016.  Welcome to the 2017 Synapse Publications Report! And feel free to check out our Archive Report page.

Our report highlights subject breadth and depth of works by our many authors. This year we have added a new section to illustrate MSK’s research collaboration by exploring 2017 research papers and all authors’ affiliations.
Synapse is a public facing resource and the authoritative bibliographic database developed and maintained by a skilled team of information professionals. Their ultimate goal is to track the wealth of knowledge attributed to Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center.

I hope that browsing the 2017 Synapse Publications Report you’ll gain a sense of the contributions of our authors to the ever-growing body of scholarly literature. Your thoughts about this report would be welcomed — feel free to send me an email and let me know what you think!

Donna Gibson
Director of Library Services