| Come help us celebrate! This month is National Medical Librarians Month (NMLM) and a wonderful opportunity to highlight the fact that medical librarians can be your best resource when searching for health or medical information. This year’s theme is “Medical Librarians: Your Ultimate Search Engine.”
If you’d like to share a story of how one of the MSKCC Library staff helped you to find needed medical or scientific information, please drop me an email. Donna Gibson |
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Category Archives: In the News
Blog Buzz: September 24 – September 30
Out in the wide sea of blogs this week…
- The new Amazon Kindle Fire tablet is available for pre-sale. Search Engine Land says Amazon is thumbing their nose at Google, over at ScienceBlogs Greg Laden thinks he may want one, and Jeffrey Young at Wired Campus gives some reactions from around the higher-ed web.
- Faculty at Princeton have unanimously adopted an open access policy – here is Wired Campus’ take
- NLM has released a Technical Bulletin about PubMed Health. Alisha764 had recently blogged about changes on the site (including a “Behind the Headlines” section); she sees it as a consumer tool and imagines it as a good tool for students and teachers.
- PLoS Computational Biology has this editorial about getting help from online scientific communities.
Cancer Research News: September 14 – September 27
- Purdue technology was used in the first fluorescence-guided cancer surgery.
- PSCA, a gene strongly associated with bladder and prostate cancer, appears to have been selected in populations of African ancestry, along with three other genes that are known to improve resistance to malaria.
- Kathy L. Hudson, NIH deputy director, writes about Genomics, Health Care, and Society in the New England Journal of Medicine.
- AACR releases a landmark Cancer Progress Report of 2011.