F1000Prime Is Now Faculty Opinions

F1000Prime has re-branded itself as Faculty Opinions, with a streamlined focus of building on their foundations to create a real alternative to the Journal Impact Factor and a better way of assessing the quality of researchers’ contributions. The product itself isn’t changing, meaning you won’t lose any of your filters, searches or selections made with your F1000Prime account. You still can discover research, collaborate, and publish based on 8,000 experts selecting and recommending new research. Continue reading

Search PubMed’s Covid-19 Hub: LitCovid

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) in conjunction with the National Library of Medicine (NLM) developed an open-resource literature hub called LitCovid. This curated resource provides daily updated literature on Covid-19 across the globe. Each of the 3,200+ (as of today) articles are categorized by topic, geographic location (if one is mentioned in the abstract), and publication date (by weeks), to quickly focus results.

Literature is categorized as one (or more) of the following topics:

  • General Info – general information and news related to Covid-19
  • Mechanism – symptoms, clinical characteristics, and findings from sequence and image analysis
  • Transmission – characteristics and modes of Covid-19 transmission, such as human-to-human
  • Treatment – treatment strategies, therapeutic procedures, and vaccine development
  • Case Report – descriptions of specific patient cases
  • Epidemic Forecasting – modelling and estimating the trend of Covid-19 spread
  • Diagnosis – Methods to detect Covid-19
  • Prevention – Prevention, control, and management strategies

Within each set of results there are filters for the top 10 journals and the top 10 countries. There is also the ability to quickly identify all literature coming from a specific country, such as the United States.

The search bar at the top allows for more granular and specific searches broadly across  LitCovid as well as within any of the topics or filters.

Other features of LitCovid are the ability to export results as an RIS file to import into citation management tools (eg. EndNote), create and subscribe to an RSS feed. One feature that unfortunately has not been added yet are search alert capabilities outside of RSS feeds.

Check out the MSK Library’s frequently updated list of Covid-19 resources.

If you need more detailed assistance in finding Covid-19 literature or information, please reach out to the library.

NEW Journal Added! Mucosal Immunology

The Library now has access going back to 2008 to Mucosal Immunology. Mucosal Immunology is the official publication of the Society for Mucosal Immunology and is published by Nature Publishing Group. It aims to provide a forum for both basic and clinical scientists to discuss all aspects of immunity and inflammation involving mucosal tissues.

The Mucosal Immunology journal reflects the interests of scientists studying gastrointestinal, pulmonary, nasopharyngeal, oral, ocular and genitourinary immunology through the publication of original research articles, scholarly reviews and timely commentaries, editorials and letters. The content features basic, translational and clinical studies. Mucosal Immunology also aims to provide a primary method of communication for the SMI governing board and its members through the publication of society news and meeting and conference announcements.