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Easily Update Your Publications for Reports and CV’s with Synapse

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Synapse is curated by a team of librarians that check monthly for new publications by our MSK authors. The team goes through each publication, verifying and enhancing the bibliographic details, and assigning the papers to the appropriate MSK author profiles. With Synapse, the work of searching for an author’s publications is done for you and makes updating this information for reports and CV’s quick and easy. 

Here is how:

  1. Locate your Synapse profile. Each profile has a distinct URL that will not change, so you can bookmark the link for future use.
  2. Select the “Works” tab of the profile.
  3. Limit to the year you would like. You can also limit to just “journal articles” if you would like to exclude meeting abstracts and conference proceedings from the results.
  4. Select the style in which you would like the bibliography formatted. A popular one to choose is “NLM” style.
  5. Copy and paste the bibliography into your document—the formatting will be preserved.

 

For help with this process, or any other questions about Synapse, reach out to us.

 

NLM’s Pillbox and DailyMed Web Databases

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The U.S. National Library Medicine is responsible for two free web drug-related databases that are intended to be used by both consumers and healthcare professionals. Provided as a public service, these databases do not include any pharmaceutical company advertisements and are not marketing tools. Both resources also provide application development support, making the content easily available to computer programers/developers.

1. Pillbox

“The Pillbox website was developed to aid in the identification of unknown pills (oral solid dosage form medications). It combines images of pills with appearance and other information to enable users to visually search for and identify oral solid dosage form medications.” Among other identifiers, Pillbox can even be searched by pill imprint, shape, and color.

Pillbox is one of the largest free databases of prescription and over-the-counter drug information and images, combining data from pharmaceutical companies, Food and Drug Administration (FDA), National Institutes of Health (NIH), and Department of Veterans Affairs (VA). As of 10/01/19, it includes 8,781 pill images, 33,255 products, and 67,365 records.

2. DailyMed

DailyMed provides high quality information about marketed drugs, both human and animal drugs, via their FDA labels (package inserts). It provides health information providers and the public with a standard, comprehensive, and up-to-date resource of medication content and labeling as found in medication package inserts.

This website contains 112,954 drug listings as submitted to the FDA. (Note: This is not a complete listing of labels for approved prescription drugs.) The website also includes a label archives search where previous versions of labels can be found.

To learn more about these tools or other drug-related databases (like Micromedex or LexiComp Online) provided via the MSK Library, feel free to Ask Us!

NEW! IEEE Transactions in Medical Imaging

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You want(ed) it, we got it!

The Library now has access going back to 2010 for IEEE Transactions in Medical Imaging!  The focus of the journal is on unifying the sciences of medicine, biology, and imaging. The journal is indexed in both Pubmed® and Medline®.

The journal publishes original contributions on medical imaging achieved by modalities including ultrasound, X-rays, magnetic resonance, radionuclides, microwaves, and optical methods. More detailed submissions guidelines may be found at the IEEE Author Center.

You can access IEEE Transactions in Medical Imaging via OneSearch.