Did you know that you can access the full-text of MSKCC Library subscriptions from home, or anywhere else off-campus? Without VPN? All you have to do is Login! Click on the gold “Login” button in the upper right-hand corner of the main library web page.

Then enter your MSKCC username and your employee ID number (with four trailing zeros).

That’s it! You’ll be taken to the full-text of any of our eJournals, eBooks and other electronic content.

If you are constructing a strategy for a PubMed search and you want to carry the search back to previous years, the MeSH Browser can help you find the previous terminology for a current MeSH heading. Continue reading →

If you want to search for a phrase in PubMed, it is best to first try to search without quotation marks.  Then scroll down the results page on the right-hand side and look at Search details where you will see how PubMed’s Automatic Term Mapping (ATM) translated the search.  Here you will be able to find out if what you entered was indeed searched for as a phrase, meaning the words are found immediately next to each other.

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