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Important bulletins about the library, access and service changes, and library resources

ORCID@MSK – New Library Service Supporting Researchers’ Scholarly Workflow

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UPDATE: The MSK Library is pleased to announce that effective today (03/01/2016) our authors can register at ORCID@MSK.  Authors who already have a Synapse‘s profile will soon receive email notification from the Library about next steps. 

ORCID@MSK is about to bloom….I mean … launch.  The MSK Library staff is very excited to be rolling out this new service in support of our authors.  Our timing coincides with a recent open letter released by a group of publishers (to include eLife, EMBO, PLoS, and Science) announcing their support and commitment in requiring ORCID iDs in their publishing process for their journals, and inviting other publishers to do the same.  Through manuscript submission systems, publishers are in an exclusive position to encourage widespread adoption of ORCID. Nature Publishing Group (NPG), Wiley, and Elsevier have been accepting ORCID iDs for several years, although they have yet to make this a requirement.

Why is this service so important and what are the benefits for our authors?  An ORCID iD from the Open Researcher and Contributor ID registry is a unique, permanent, and universal digital identifier for authors. This 16-digit number (expressed as a URL) serves a valuable purpose – to eliminate author name ambiguity and improve discoverability to one’s research and scholarly works.

Memorial Sloan Kettering is an institutional member of ORCID.org and once ORCID@MSK is launched, we will be encouraging all our authors to register as this identifier over time will become a requirement in the scholarly publishing landscape.

ORCID iDs will create greater efficiencies for authors, publishers, funders, and others involved in scholarly communication activities. This identifier is being included as a searchable field in bibliographic and abstracting databases (e.g. PubMed, Scopus, Web of Science), will ensure that all scientific and research contributions are associated with the “right” researcher, and will aid in automatically populating an NIH biographical sketch. This translates to no more re-typing the same data!

We will be launching ORCID@MSK before end of February.  Below is a sneak peek of what MSK authors can look forward to seeing and the benefits of registering through ORCID@MSK.  Continue reading →

New Printing Workflow at the MSK Library

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In lieu of this week’s Blog Buzz, I am pleased to announce that new printing procedures are up and running at the Main Library in the Rockefeller Labs Building! If you have been away from campus lately you may have missed the transition, so here is a general overview:

  • ALL print jobs must now be released at the Copy Print Area Release Station by the user before they will print.
  • After clicking to print your work, wait 10 – 15 seconds for the pop-up to appear on your workstation screen.
  • Follow the pop-up prompts to create a unique name and password (that you will remember) for your print job, and send it to the release station.
  • Select your file from the release station in the Copy Print Area and enter your password to print.