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Conflict of Interest Statement Field in PubMed

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In 2017, the National Library of Medicine (NLM) introduced a new field, Conflict of Interest Statement [COIS], into the PubMed record to accommodate the conflict of interest statement from the published article (i.e., as provided by the publisher) being indexed.

The information generally appears in this format (example from NLM):

COIS – [The author] has been paid for developing and delivering educational presentations for [foundation].

COIS – The author acknowledges the donation of [devices] from [company] for the pilot study.

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To retrieve all citations that contain conflict of interest statements, you can use the PubMed query hascois, for example:

(hascois) AND sloan kettering[Affiliation]

The PubMed search can also be restricted to looking only at the content in this field (i.e., field searching in COIS) via the Advanced Search option, for example:

Novartis[Conflict of Interest Statements]

To learn more, be sure to check out the MSK Library’s LibGuide focused on Conflict of Interest (COI) or Ask Us!

Check for Updates with CrossMark

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You may have noticed that many journal publishers now include a CrossMark icon near the journal title of online articles and their PDF versions. For an example, see:

Paraskevaidi M, Martin-Hirsch PL, Martin FL. Need for early, minimally invasive cancer diagnosis. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2019 Mar 12;116(11):4752.
doi: 10.1073/pnas.1817551116. Epub 2019 Feb 19. PubMed PMID: 30782793; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC6421421, in HTML and PDF.

By clicking on the CrossMark icon, readers can immediately determine whether or not they are viewing the most up-to-date version of the article, whether updates exist, whether this article has had supplementary data added, has been corrected or retracted, etc. It basically “provides a standard way for readers to locate the authoritative version of a document”, as per one of the participating publishers.

CrossMark is an initiative of CrossRef, a not-for-profit membership organization that creates meta-data in order to make “research outputs easy to find, cite, link, and assess”. Participating member publishers pay a fee to incorporate CrossMark into their journals.

To learn more about CrossMark, please see this CrossRef-produced handout and short video (1:41).

New eRA Website Coming on April 30

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The newly redesigned eRA (electronic Research Administration) website is set to be launched by the NIH’s Office of Extramural Research on Tuesday, April 30, 2019.

Check out the New eRA Website preview video (4:32 min):


Notes from the eRA:

* The launch will require downtime of about 2 hours. As a result, the existing eRA website will not be available between 6:30 a.m. ET and 8:30 a.m. ET on Tuesday, April 30.

* The eRA modules will continue to be operational during the downtime and can be accessed through the following URLs:

eRA Commons: https://public.era.nih.gov/commons
ASSIST: https://public.era.nih.gov/ASSIST
IAR: https://public.era.nih.gov/IAR