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Advancing Authorship Webinar: Preprints in the Time of COVID-19

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Join us for the next event in our Advancing Authorship MSK Library Series: Preprints in the Time of COVID-19. 

During the COVID-19 pandemic, research has accelerated at an unprecedented pace and it has become more critical than ever for scientists to rapidly share their research results. Increasingly, researchers are relying on preprints to quickly communicate and share findings. In this session, we will explore the benefits and challenges of preprints. You’ll hear from MSK researchers who have published preprints on COVID-19, plus the Co-founder of two popular preprint servers, bioRxiv and medRxiv. 

Date: Friday, September 25
Time: 12:30 PM – 2:00 PM
Location: Zoom Webinar – REGISTER NOW

Speakers:

John Inglis, PhD – Dr Inglis is the Co-founder of bioRxiv and medRxiv, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory’s preprint services for the life and health sciences.  He is also the founding Executive Director and Publisher of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press in New York, a not-for-profit publisher of journals, books, and online media in molecular and cellular biology. He graduated from the University of Edinburgh Medical School with a PhD in immunology and was previously Assistant Editor of The Lancet, founding editor of Trends in Immunology, and managing editor of other Trends journals.  Follow John on Twitter @JohnRInglis.

Elizabeth Robilotti, MD, MPH, Dept. of Medicine, Associate Chief Medical Epidemiologist/Assistant Attending Infectious Diseases. Dr. Robilotti’s clinical practice directly influences her research in infection prevention and hospital epidemiology. She is focused on advancing the prevention of healthcare-associated infections  in high risk cancer patients through the application of molecular epidemiology. Through collaborations with the Microbiology Laboratory, Dr. Robilotti also works to refine new techniques  for more accurate and thorough surveillance and outbreak investigation. 

Lior Braunstein, MD, Dept. of Radiation Oncology, MSK – Board-certified radiation oncologist and scientist who specializes in treating breast cancer, prostate cancer, and primary and metastatic brain tumors. Dr. Braunstein has expertise in using advanced radiation therapy techniques, such as intensity-modulated radiation therapy, image-guided radiation therapy, stereotactic body radiation therapy, and stereotactic radiosurgery. His research is focused on molecular and biomarker-driven clinical trials, cancer epidemiology and outcomes analyses, and translational studies. As part of his clinical and scientific work, Dr. Braunstein serves on several national and international committees including the American Society of Clinical Oncology, the American Society for Radiation Oncology, and NRG Oncology, among others.

Malin Hultcrantz, MD, PhD, Dept. of Medicine, MSK – Hematologist with Clinical Expertise in Multiple Myeloma; Smoldering Myeloma; Monoclonal Gammopathy of Undetermined Significance (MGUS); Related Plasma Cell Disorders

A Document Delivery Milestone: 400,000 ILLiad Requests

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We’re celebrating a milestone here on the library team; the counter has tipped from 399,999 to 400,000 requests in ILLiad. This means that since 2009, the ILL team at the MSK Medical Library has processed 400k requests for books, articles, standards, dissertations, meeting abstracts, conference papers, tables of contents, and more for researchers at MSK and on the flip side, for libraries all over the world who request items from our collection.

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We’ve learned some tricks here and there to fill these requests. One blog [now defunct] referred to our specialization as Forensic Bibliographic Reconstruction and I, for one, take that as a huge compliment. Most requests come to us replete with all the fields filled, others take more research. I’ve seen requests for “The Smith Article from last week” or “Not sure.” Sometimes it can be more of a scavenger hunt or a wild goose chase. We usually get the article in the user’s hands.

We provide this service at no cost to the user, anyone with an MSK email and ID number, and as long as it’s relevant to work done at MSK. We’ve processed requests for physics, psychology, nutrition, medicine, physical therapy, chemistry, administration, HR, etc. But sometimes there are things we just can’t get.

With libraries around the world currently shut down or in various stages of quarantine, getting articles to users has been trickier. We are learning just how many items are only available from the shelves of shuttered libraries. The partnerships and channels of interlibrary loan have become more important than ever.    

I’m happy to use this opportunity to announce that ILLiad will soon be getting a new look! The webpages are being redesigned to be easier to use, especially on mobile devices. We’re currently working to make ordering and receiving articles easier for our user community. More details will follow in the coming weeks.

If you’d like to know more about our service or place a request, visit us at https://illiad.mskcc.org/illiad/Logon.html. We’re happy to answer any questions at ill@mskcc.org.