Category Archives: About the Library

Celebrate International Open Access Week 2022 with the MSK Library

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International Open Access Week will be taking place October 24-30, 2022. Join us as we celebrate this year’s theme, “Open For Climate Justice” and seize the opportunity to help us raise awareness on how open access can support climate justice, as well as other areas of research interests.

The MSK Library promotes Open Access by adding relevant open access journals to our curated list of eJournals, managing the SKOAP fund which helps MSK authors who need financial support for article processing fees, and sharing information about this important topic to keep our interested library users in the know!

Synapse is another way we bring attention to open access publications. Visitors to the site are able to discover which open access journals MSK authors publish in by locating in the citation record the orange button (e.g., Synapse work record). Synapse is our public-facing and authoritative bibliographic database showcasing the intellectual output of all our researchers.

Throughout this week, the MSK Library will be featuring open access publications by MSK authors and will share one each day (Monday to Friday) as a Today’s Science Sparks on the Library Website. If you are curious about past Today’s Science Sparks, you can browse the Archives. In support of Open Access if you find a Today’s Science Sparks that has been marked as Open Access, feel free to click on the Tweet icon next to the highlighted paper to easily share this publication on Twitter.

Finally, another way to participate in the open access week experience, you can follow the conversation on Twitter, as well as share your thoughts. Don’t forget to include the official hashtag — #OAWeek.

If you have any questions about Open Access, don’t hesitate to contact me!

Donna Gibson
Director, Library Services

Three Questions: Sheridan Sayles, MSK Archivist

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For our next Three Questions interview, we’re speaking with Sheridan Sayles, MSK Archivist.

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What areas can you help MSK users with?My job is to manage and provide access to unpublished, historical records of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center and its earlier iterations, and I can help users find historical information about MSK.

What projects have you been working on recently?
When I started a few months ago, I learned that all descriptions of records held in the Archives are in hard copy. I’ve been refining the descriptions of collections in preparation to get an online access system and hope to have that up and running shortly.

If you could travel anywhere in the world, where would you go?
I’d love to explore more of Central Europe: Hungary, Romania, Croatia, and the like. I visited Poland and the Czech Republic this summer and all of it was gorgeous!

October is National Medical Librarians Month!

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Join us in celebration and to recognize the contributions of the Memorial Sloan Kettering Library team who continue to provide research and information to our physicians, nurses, pharmacists, students, and other healthcare professionals across the Center and all our MSK locations.

This year’s theme, Make Better Decisions Faster: Consult Your Health Information Professional, focuses on how we deliver value by providing evidence-based research and published literature in support of patients’ treatments and outcomes.

If you have a story to share where a Library staff member has had a positive impact on your work, feel free to let me know. In addition, you can review our Services webpage to learn more about what we do.

Donna Gibson
Director, Library Services