Make sure you get credit for all your scholarly work. When researchers look for your publications in databases, such as Scopus, they could run into a problem called name ambiguity. Continue reading →

If you’re interested in clinical trials for AIDS-related cancers, you’ll want to look at the work of the AIDS Malignancy Clinical Trials Consortium (AMC). AMC areas of research include Kaposi’s sarcoma, lymphoma, and HPV- related cancers. They also conduct research in the area of non-AIDS defining cancers (lung, head and neck, and liver), which now surpass HIV-associated cancers in long-term survivors of HIV. Continue reading →

After a medical librarian completes your literature search in support of a Systematic Review, the next step is Critical Appraisal. Critical appraisal involves the thorough evaluation of search results to identify the best articles on your topic. There are tools—Critical Appraisal Tools (CATs)—that can help. In this blog post, CASP will be described. CASP stands for Critical Appraisal Skills Programme, which, as you’ve probably deduced from the spelling, is a product of the UK, specifically a non-profit of the The National Health Service. Continue reading →