The MSK Library’s “eJournals” collections include more than just scholarly journals. Popular news sources such as the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, Crain’s Health Pulse, and The Cancer Letter are also included amongst our periodical subscriptions.

There are multiple ways to explore and access the MSK Library’s subscription resources:

One way is by going to the MSK Library homepage  and searching the library’s online Tri-Cat catalog for the title of interest.  For example, searching for The Cancer Letter, will lead you to its record in the Tri-Cat catalog. Within the catalog record, you will find a link to “Access full-text from MSK” that you can click on to be taken into the full-text subscription.

Another way of getting to the full-text content is by going to the library homepage and clicking on the “eJournals” link (4th item along the blue menu bar). If you do a Title search here, you will be presented with some hyperlinked options that you can follow to get to the full-text source of interest. Please note that occasionally the hyperlinked title also includes instructions for registering for an account or signing in to the resource (possibly after clicking on “Password Lookup” to obtain the institution’s sign in username and password for that particular resources), whatever the case may be.

To learn more about accessing the MSK Library’s online news subscriptions or setting up weekly email alerts from news sources like The Cancer Letter, please ask us!

Many people are familiar with the systematic reviews produced by international organizations like the Cochrane Collaboration (responsible for the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews) and the Joanna Briggs Institute (responsible for the JBI Database of Systematic Reviews and Implementation Reports). Lesser known are the systematic review publications produced by governmental organizations like the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) in the United States (responsible for USPSTF Evidence Reviews) or the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) in the United Kingdom (responsible for the Health Technology Assessment or HTA journal). From their websites:

Health Technology Assessment (HTA):

“HTA publishes research information on the effectiveness, costs and broader impact of health technologies for those who use, manage and provide care in the NHS. The journal’s Technology Assessment Reports inform National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) guidance. HTA research is also an important source of evidence for National Screening Committee (NSC) policy decisions.”

USPSTF Evidence Syntheses:

“The USPSTF conducts rigorous, impartial assessments of the scientific evidence for the effectiveness of a broad range of clinical preventive services, including screening, counseling, and preventive medications. Its recommendations are considered the “gold standard” for clinical preventive services. The USPSTF is supported by an Evidence-based Practice Center (EPC). Under contract to AHRQ, the EPC conducts systematic reviews of the evidence on specific topics in clinical prevention. These Evidence Syntheses, formerly Systematic Evidence Reviews, serve as the scientific basis for USPSTF recommendations.”

Both publications, the USPSTF Evidence Syntheses and the HTA journal, are indexed in PubMed and link to their respective full-text from the PubMed record. The Health Technology Assessment Database is also included in the MSK Library’s Cochrane Library subscription.

Fell free to contact us at the MSK Library with any questions about these or other sources of systematic research evidence.

This October marked the 45^th anniversary of the MEDLINE (MEDLARS Online) database. While many users are aware of the freely-available PubMed interface to the MEDLINE database (which has been around for about twenty years), there are many other ways of searching MEDLINE’s content.

Here at MSK, the Medical Library provides access to MEDLINE via the OVID (Wolters Kluwer) interface, and through the Web of Science (Thomson Reuters) product. It is worth noting that other databases also contain MEDLINE content even if they do not offer an exclusive search of it. For example, EMBASE and SCOPUS (both Elsevier) simultaneously search MEDLINE records as well as other bibliographic content, and CINAHL (EBSCO) also includes MEDLINE records that can be excluded from the results using a search filter/limit.  There are other openly-available alternative search interfaces to PubMed that you can learn more about via the MSK Library’s PubMed Alternative Interfaces LibGuide. Continue reading →