Author Archives: Library Staff

April Showers

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In, Ukueles and Fishing Poles? A Living Library Helps You Do Patti Brennan, director of the National Library of Medicine (NLM), discusses how libraries empower their users by providing more than just books.

On MSK’s blog, read up on some of the findings presented at the 2017 American Association for Cancer Research Annual Meeting (AACR17). There are currently four posts labeled #AACR17 there.

The Simons Foundation’s Science Sandbox has created a fun video about tardigrades and scientific thinking which you can check out here.

Seeing the Latest Issue of a Journal in PubMed

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It’s easy to see the most recent articles published by a journal in PubMed. Follow the steps below for an example finding the latest JAMA papers:

  1. Access PubMed via the MSK Library website (important for accessing full text PDFs of articles). To access PubMed from the Library website, click on the PubMed link below the main search box.
  2. PubMed will launch in a new window. In the PubMed search box, type in: JAMA[journal]
  3. Your search results should be comprised of articles from JAMA in date order. The most recent articles will be first. Some of these articles may not be available in full text, as citations for future articles are deposited in PubMed before the issue goes to print (commonly known as epub ahead of print).
  4. To access the full text of an article, click on the title you want to read. A page showing the article abstract will appear (not all citations have abstracts). Click on the blue “Fulltext@MSK” button in the upper right hand side of the page.

PubMed sometimes uses journal abbreviations to index journals. To find out the proper way to enter the journal title that will not result in an error, click on “Advanced Search.” Choose “journal” in the box that says “All Fields.” Then start typing the title of the journal you would like to read. Choose the correct journal name from the suggested drop-down list and then search.

You can also save the search and setup an alert to receive new citations to your email. Ask us for help with recurring literature alerts and saving searches in PubMed!

Cancer Death Rates Continue to Decline

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In the latest Annual Report to the Nation on the Status of Cancer, 1975-2014, death rates from many of the most common types of cancer decreased for both men and women.  A special section of the report also reveals significant improvement in survival rates. The report is a collaborative effort by the American Cancer Society; the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the National Cancer Institute (NCI), both parts of the Department of Health and Human Services; and the North American Association of Central Cancer Registries (NAACCR).  Findings are published in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute.