Clinicaltrials.gov has a new and improved interface with added features. For detailed expanations of the enhancements, take a look at the NLM Technical Bulletin on the makeover. 

ClinicalTrials.gov is the authoritative source on demographic, PI contact, and trial type information pertaining to registered clinical trials worldwide. The revamped interface offers a more organized homepage and an intuitive results screen. In addition, there is an easily accessible help section on how to use the search results list. This added information allows users to feel comfortable manipulating and filtering their results without blindly doing so.

The view of each study record has also been altered to include more space and tabs for more specific information about trial itself. Again, there is a help page on how to read a study record. Users of ClinicalTrials.gov can feel more comfortable getting information from the resource with these added informational sections.

Give the new ClinicalTrials.gov interface a try the next time you’re looking for RCT information on a specific treatment or intervention. The resource can be accessed from the Library homepage by searching within the DATABASES tab or from the catalog (Tri-Cat) by searching for ‘clinicaltrials.gov’ as a keyword.

Ever wish you had a personalized table of contents from your top journals in one place? Or if you’re a big dreamer, maybe you’ve wished you had this customized literature list at your fingertips on-the-go? Introducing Docphin, your portal to personalized research that organizes literature and news media and can help these dreams come true!

The beauty of Docphin is its integration with the MSK Library electronic collection. When registering with Docphin, you will be prompted to choose an institution from a designated list (Memorial Sloan Kettering is one of them). After choosing MSK and creating a free registration, you are now able to customize your Docphin interface. Choose the journals and news sources that interest you. You can view all of them with the My Page tab, or you can compartmentalize your journal table of contents into different categories. These include: General Medicine, Hospital Medicine, Cardiology, Endocrinology, GI, Hem/Onc, Infectious Diseases, Pulmonary, Renal, and Rheumatology. The News tab is meant for creating a personalized list of headlines from your favorite newspapers and other media sources. Continue reading →

PubMed Central (PMC) has cleaned up nicely with its most recent redesign to conform to the National Center for Biotechnology Information‘s (NCBI) new Web page design standards. Continue reading →