The search engine Bing has added a new feature. Now, when you search for related questions, it maintains the context of the question to give you the best answer.

For example, try entering the question “Who is the president of the United States?” followed by the question “How old is he?” to retrieve accurate answers.

For more information about this feature, see Bing’s blog. For more search tips, contact Reference at 212-639-7439 or asklibrarian@mskcc.org.

Did you know the database Embase now allows for quick medical device searches? Follow these instructions to do a medical device search:

1. Go to the MSK Library website. Enter Embase in the MSKsearch box and click the Search button.
2. Click on EMBASE underneath Databases.
3. Click on the Search menu on the top left and choose Device.
4. Enter your device of interest (e.g. “insulin pump”) and click the Search button.
5. Notice at the left of your results, there are gray boxes with options to limit your search. At the bottom, notice Device Trade Names and Device Manufacturers. You can search for specific ones by checking off the options you want and clicking the Apply button.

For more information on searching Embase and other MSK Library databases, contact Reference at 212-639-7439 or asklibrarian@mskcc.org.

For those of you participating in the 23 Things MSK Challenge, we hope you were able to successfully complete the tasks for this month. If you had any trouble, the solutions are posted below.

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Here are the instructions for the Synapse/EndNote task:

1. First, create new EndNote library in which to place citations. If you have EndNote installed on your MSK computer, you will find it under All Programs > User Applications. If it’s not there, call the Help Desk at 646-227-3337 to have them install it.
2. Go to the MSK Library website and scroll down to Synapse and click on See all.
3. In the search box in Synapse, enter Hricak, click on her picture, and view the citations underneath.
4. Under one of the citations, click on the FullText@MSK button.
5. Click on the Export/Save link, and choose the option Directly to EndNote, ProCite, or Reference Manager and click Export.
6. The citation should now have been exported to your library.

To export all of Dr. Hricak’s citations from Synapse…

1. Follow steps 1-3 above.
2. Click on WORKS above Dr. Hricak’s photo.
3. Click ‘Export to EndNote’ link on far right of page.
4. Click EXPORT button to initiate the download process from Synapse to EndNote.
5. The citations should now have been exported to your library.

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Here are the instructions for the PubMed Author task:

1. Click on the PubMed tab on the MSK Library website.
2. Enter the article title: Assessing response of therapy for acute and chronic graft-versus-host disease.
3. Click the Search button.
4. The first result should be the article by Goldberg. Click on the title.
5. Click Author information for the affiliation of authors.

For any questions you might have, don’t hesitate to email Reference at asklibrarian@mskcc.org, or call us at 212-639-7439.