It’s the holiday season and a time for reflection, sharing good cheer, spending time with family and friends, and perhaps delighting someone with a special gift.

With this in mind, we are excited to share and hopefully delight our library community by announcing that the Synapse Research Activity Dashboard (RAD) is now available. The RAD can be viewed at the group level, as well as the individual (author) level.

Synapse is the authoritative resource for MSK publications and currently includes content (works) dating back to 1991.

What does the RAD include? When viewing a group, you’ll be presented with team members and counts for all their MSK publications, or you can select by current year-to- date, or the past year. In addition, the research works have been broken down to showcase first author and last author positions on their papers.  There are also links to other metrics, as well as the author’s RAD.  The individual’s RAD includes a chart illustrating publication formats (Book, Meeting Abstract, Journal Article, etc.) by year.  Please note the individual’s RAD only includes the author’s MSK-affiliated publications.

If you’re curious, you can learn more about the metrics we display and feel free to let us know what you think! Feedback is most welcome as we plan to continue to work with Synapse users to further enhance the Research Activity Dashboard.

Donna Gibson
Director of Library Services

Now in its sixth year, the 2019 Highly Cited Researchers report from Clarivate Analytics (the company behind Web of Science) is now available.  Curious on who made this global list of influential scientific researchers? Read on to find out!

This year the report includes 6,216 highly cited researchers (last year’s report included 6,000). The key findings have been summarized and to learn how a researcher makes this list, take a moment to review their methodology.

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This year, I am delighted to share that 56 researchers associated with Memorial Sloan Kettering made the list (double the number compared to last year).

On behalf of the library staff, congratulations to these researchers and to all of our distinguished authors, who through their work contribute daily to the ever-growing body of published medical and scientific literature.

Donna Gibson
Director of Library Services

 In honor of International Open Access Week, we will be featuring five open access publications by MSK authors and will showcase one each day (Monday to Friday) as a Today’s Science Sparks on the library website. You can also browse the Today’s Science Sparks’ archives to find other open access articles.

International Open Access Week provides us with an opportunity to pause and take a moment to reflect on what open access really means for authors, readers, librarians, and others interested in pursuing knowledge. This year’s theme will be “Open for Whom? Equity in Open Knowledge” and you can read more here on why this theme was selected by the 2019 Open Access Week Advisory Committee.

If you are curious about other open access resources, please feel free to check out the recently revised Open Access LibGuide.  This subject-specific guide contains information about Predatory Publishing, Preprints, and Info for MSK Authors.

Finally, if you wish to further embrace the open access week experience, you can participate by following the conversation on Twitter during open access week — #OAWeek.

Donna Gibson
Director of Library Services