The Library has recently added BIOSIS Citation Index from Thomson Reuters to the collection. This database focuses on life sciences and biomedical research covering pre-clinical and experimental research, methods and instrumentation, animal studies, and more. This resource includes content not only from journals, but also from relevant meetings, patents, and books.

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Thomson Reuters has recently released the 2012 Journal Citation Reports (JCR).  JCR is an annual publication analyzing one year of citation data. It provides a variety of impact and influence metrics, including the Journal Impact Factor and Eigenfactor from the Thomson Reuters citation indexes.

The 2012 JCR includes:

• More than 10,800 of the world’s most highly cited, peer reviewed journals in 232 disciplines
• Nearly 2,500 publishers and 83 countries represented
• 379 journals receiving their first Journal Impact Factor

You can access the 2012 Journal Citation Reports from here, or through the MSKsearch search box from the Library’s Website. For more information on Journal Citation Reports, please visit here.

The Library has recently added NIH Data Sharing Repositories to its database collections. The page stores a list of data repositories supported by the National Institutes of Health (NIH). It also includes resources that aggregate information about biomedical data and information sharing systems. Examples of repositories includes Cancer Imaging Archive (TCIA) and The Zebrafish Model Organism Databases (ZFIN). Continue reading →