COVID-19 has had an impact on the way we work and interact with our colleagues and user communities. The MSK Library is taking time to re-examine our operations and current service offerings. To help develop our strategic plan and roadmap for the next three years, we are seeking feedback from MSK staff.
The survey will take about five minutes to complete and will close on Thursday, September 30, 2021. Click here to enter: Client Feedback Survey
As a token of our appreciation, MSK staff who complete the survey will be entered into a drawing to win one of three gifts (iPad Mini, or one of two $100 Amazon gift cards).
If you have any additional thoughts, feel free to reach out to me! Donna Gibson Director, Library Services
Handbook of Supportive and Palliative Radiation Oncology has been added to the Library’s collection. This text is a practical tool and reference to assist radiation oncology practitioners in direct patient care with common palliative care issues and symptoms. Content includes recent advances in translational palliative care research, site and disease-specific evaluation, intervention, and management methods, and major symptom burdens, suggested assessment, and various management options.
Information of symptoms and disease is presented in a way to be a rapid, practical guide for clinicians on the floor.
Embase, linked from the Library homepage under Top Databases, is a proprietary database, produced in Netherlands by Elsevier publishing company. It indexes journals in Medicine, Dentistry, Veterinary Science, Life Sciences, Public Health, Nursing, etc. While its coverage has significant overlap with PubMed (it actually indexes all of Medline), it also indexes a large number of international journals not found in PubMed. Embase also indexes supplements such as conference abstracts, clinical trials, and more.
Similar to PubMed’s MeSH terms, Embase also has the ability to map search terms to subject headings. Embase’s subject headings are called Emtree terms and their classification also has a hierarchical structure. One major difference between PubMed (MeSH) and Embase (Emtree) is that in PubMed narrower terms are automatically included, whereas in Embase, Emtree terms must be “exploded” to include all narrower terms found beneath a specific Emtree term.
Embase also includes some functions that are not found in PubMed, such as proximity searching, which besides AND, OR,and NOT, adds a layer to searches to make them more specific, using NEAR and NEXT.
Embase is typically one of the databases of choice used in searches when conducting a Systematic Review or a Meta-Analysis in biomedicine. It is recommended to specify the platform on which Embase was used. Embase is available on its native Elsevier platform (Embase.com) or on the OVID platform. MSKCC Library offers Embase on the Elsevier platform. The platform has an impact on the way the searches are conducted, so it is important to note when conducting systematic reviews.
Note: Starting July 1, 2021 Embase now requires signing into your Embase account to export citations to Endnote and other citation management tools. It is free to create an Embase/ Elsevier account and this login can be used for any Elsevier product (Embase, Scopus, etc.).
COVID-19 has had an impact on the way we work and interact with our colleagues and user communities. The MSK Library is taking time to re-examine our operations and current service offerings. To help develop our strategic plan and roadmap for the next three years, we are seeking feedback from MSK staff. 
