The latest version of Quertle’s search engine, called Qinsight™,  is worth discovering for the first time or having another look at if it has been a while since you used it. (Please be aware that although MSK has a paid subscription, you are still required to register individually in order to access MSK’s account.)

Developed by biomedical informatics researchers, Dr. Jeff Saffer and Dr. Vicki Burnett, the Qinsight™ search engine uses Quertle’s proprietary technology to identify the most relevant information from biomedical literature. Most of the content sources that Qinsight™ searches are otherwise freely-available ones that can also be searched via their “native” interfaces. These content sources include MEDLINE/PubMed (licensed from the US National Library of Medicine), NIH RePORTER, TOXLINE, US Patent Applications, AHRQ Treatment Guidelines and more.

Of note is the ever-expanding pool of openly-available full-text articles that it searches in addition to the abstracted information. The biggest value-add of searching this content via the Qinsight™ search engine, however – as opposed to using a tool like Google – is that it uses advanced linguistic and statistical technology, as well as other AI methods, to identify relevant documents, enabling high-efficiency discovery and insight from the biomedical literature. Continue reading →

[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 →

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.

2. 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 →