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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 →

Library Sponsored Classes at IT EXPO 2017

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MSK’S IT EXPO 2017 will be October 30 and 31. Among this year’s training options for staff, the MSK Library will be offering the following four classes:

  1. Analyzing and Visualizing Research Impact
    (Tuesday, October 31 from 1:00 pm to 2:00 pm, RRL-102)

Instructor:  Antonio DeRosa

Course Description: Learn which resources to leverage for analyzing and visualizing the impact of a researcher’s work, specifically focusing on published papers indexed in major databases (Scopus, Web of Science, Google Scholar, Synapse). Also become familiar with why you might want to think about visualizing and understanding published data for the purposes of promotion, presentation, publishing, and general understanding of a researcher’s impact on academia or society and the scientific community.

  1. Searching PubMed Effectively
    (Monday, October 30 from 11:00 am to Noon, RRL-102)

Instructor: Marisol Hernandez

Course Description: This workshop will help you gain knowledge to effectively search PubMed utilizing keywords and the Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). Also covered are the built-in filter options, as well as, accessing full-text articles from the MSK Library’s ejournal collection. Continue reading →