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Quertle’s Search Engine (Qinsight™) Keeps Evolving and Improving

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The latest version of Quertle’s search engine, called Qinsight™,  is worth discovering for the first time or having another look at if it has been a while since you used it. (Please be aware that although MSK has a paid subscription, you are still required to register individually in order to access MSK’s account.)

Developed by biomedical informatics researchers, Dr. Jeff Saffer and Dr. Vicki Burnett, the Qinsight™ search engine uses Quertle’s proprietary technology to identify the most relevant information from biomedical literature. Most of the content sources that Qinsight™ searches are otherwise freely-available ones that can also be searched via their “native” interfaces. These content sources include MEDLINE/PubMed (licensed from the US National Library of Medicine), NIH RePORTER, TOXLINE, US Patent Applications, AHRQ Treatment Guidelines and more.

Of note is the ever-expanding pool of openly-available full-text articles that it searches in addition to the abstracted information. The biggest value-add of searching this content via the Qinsight™ search engine, however – as opposed to using a tool like Google – is that it uses advanced linguistic and statistical technology, as well as other AI methods, to identify relevant documents, enabling high-efficiency discovery and insight from the biomedical literature. Continue reading →

Annual IS Holiday Food, Coat and Toy Drive

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Food, coat, and toy collection boxes are now available at the MSK Library (RRL), until Friday, December 15th.

There are five other MSK collection locations:

  • 633 3rd Avenue 2nd and 5th floors
  • telecom area in Memorial (MB38)
  • data centers at Lyndhurst and Monmouth

Please participate in any way that you can. All collected items will be distributed to organizations in Queens, Long Island and New Jersey.

If you prefer to make a financial donation, please see Cynthia Hutchinson (633/5th), Lisa Vreeland (MB38), Donna Gibson (RRL), Mercedes Vila (LDC/MDC) or Karmen Katz (633/2nd)—all funds will be used to buy food for the drive.

All non-perishable food is welcome—please check the dates to make sure that all food is healthy and usable. Coats should be new, or used but in good, wearable condition. And finally, toys should be new and unwrapped.

Alternatively, please consider giving to a charity of your choice.

Thanks in advance for your thoughtful participation and a very Happy Thanksgiving and Happy Holidays to all!

Import a Plain Text Bibliography into Endnote with this Tool

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[Note: 12/10/2020 – The URL for this resource has changed to: https://citation-finder.now.sh/.]

There are a number of useful alternatives to PubMed that incorporate external functionality to augment the database’s already-impressive capabilities. For a comprehensive list (and descriptions) of these tools, check out MSK Library’s LibGuide on PubMed Alternative Interfaces.

One such alternative, HubMed, has a particularly remarkable ability that makes it enormously useful:

It can search for an entire plain text bibliography (ie. a reference list with multiple citations that does not include PMID or DOI numbers) and find the equivalent PubMed records (if available) within minutes. It then gives you the option to download the citations in either RIS or BibTeX formats.

A few things to keep in mind when using the HubMed Citation Finder:

Fig 1. Pasting citations into HubMed from your list

-When you paste in a bibliography, there does appear to be a limit to how many citations can be searched at one. (I easily did just over 60 without any issues.)

-Each citation needs to be on a separate line. (My double-spaced test bibliography worked fine.) Continue reading →