Join us for “Separating What We Think from What We Know: A New Journal’s Approach”

Join us as we explore the clinical research environment and cover such topics as clinical trial design, evaluating clinical evidence, and contextualizing information into clinical practice.

Learn how NEJM Group editors are taking a novel approach in publishing research in support of the medical community via their new journal NEJM Evidence.Come listen to presentations from the following speakers and participate in an interactive panel discussion.

Date: Wednesday, December 8, 2021
Time: 12:00 PM – 1:30 PM
Location: Zoom Webinar – Register Now 

Speakers:

Jeffrey M. Drazen, MD, Editor-in-Chief
Jeff joined the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) as Editor-in-Chief in 2000 and was appointed Editor-in-Chief, NEJM Group, in 2012, serving in both roles until 2019. He is now NEJM Group Editor and Editor-in-Chief of NEJM Evidence.

Chana A. Sacks, MD, MPH, Executive Editor
Chana joined NEJM as a 2014-2015 NEJM Editorial Fellow and has served as Editor of Images in Clinical Medicine since 2016. She is Co-Director of the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) Center for Gun Violence Prevention and a Clinician-Investigator in the MGH’s Division of General Internal Medicine and Mongan Institute, where she is also a Health Policy Researcher.

C. Corey Hardin, MD, PhD, Deputy Editor
Corey joined NEJM as Reviews Editor in 2021. He is an Assistant Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and a member of the joint Harvard-MIT Program in Health Sciences and Technology faculty.

Sharon-Lise T. Normand, MSc, PhD, Statistical Editor
Sharon-Lise joined NEJM as a Statistical Editor in 2017.  She is the S. James Adelstein Professor of Health Care Policy in the Department of Health Care Policy at Harvard Medical School and a Professor in the Department of Biostatistics at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.

Announcing the Recipients of the MSK Library Survey’s Appreciation Gifts

Many thanks to the 994 survey respondents who completed our client feedback survey and shared their thoughts about the Library’s resources and services.  Their answers to our questions and comments will provide helpful information as we develop our three-year Library Strategic Plan for 2022 – 2024. 

On behalf of the library team, I am delighted to announce the following individuals were selected using a random number generator to receive one of our three appreciation gifts for completing the survey.

Congrats to the MSK Library users below for being picked!

  • iPad Mini: Snehal Patel, Surgery, Head and Neck Service
  • Amazon gift card: Paulina Antosik, The Cell Marker Lab, Pathology  
  • Amazon gift card: Adana-Christine Campbell, SKI, Surgery  

We plan to publish a series of blog posts sharing the Library’s Strategic Plan via the MSK Library Blog starting Q1 2022

Donna Gibson
Director, Library Services

Mark Your Calendar: International Open Access Week, October 25-31, 2021!

Join the Memorial Sloan Kettering (MSK) Library staff in recognizing International Open Access Week being held October 25-31, 2021. This year’s theme, “It Matters How We Open Knowledge: Building Structural Equity,” partners well with the release of UNESCO Recommendation on Open Science.

International Open Access Week, a global event is an opportunity for librarians and information professionals to engage with their communities about the benefits of open access and to increase awareness of the role open access plays in the scholarly communication landscape.

In support of Open Access, we will be featuring five 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. You can also browse the Today’s Science Sparks’ archives to find other open access articles.

I would like to highlight Plan S, supported by cOAlition S, an international consortium of research funders with a tagline that states “Making full & immediate Open Access a reality.” The plan requires that scientific publications resulting from research funded by public grants be published in compliant open access journals or platforms. To better understand this movement, check out the Plan S Principles.

You can also discover which open access journal titles MSK authors publish in by looking for the orange open access button in a Synapse work record. If you see the button in a record, this confirms the journal is open access. Synapse is our public-facing and authoritative bibliographic database showcasing the intellectual output of all our researchers.

If you want 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 ASK US.

Donna Gibson
Director, Library Services