A New MSK Author Title Added to the Library’s Collection!

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Recent Advances and Applications in Dosimetry is comprehensive collection of the emerging treatments and techniques in dosimetry, including calorimetry, radiochromic film, real-time portal dosimetry, thermal imaging dosimetry, 3D dosimetry, 5D planning and delivery, 3D printing, high intensity ultrasound treatment, photodynamic therapy, MR-guided treatment machines, nanoparticle-enhanced radiotherapy, and proton beam therapy. The latest advancements in dosimetry techniques are covered by expert authors in this new text edited by MSKCC’s Maria F. Chan, and may be found in OneSearch.

Using Advanced Search in PubMed

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Use Builder in PubMed Advanced Search to create complex searches for the best results.

1. Search by keyword in a specific field of a PubMed record (e.g. Affiliation, Author, Title, Title/Abstract) or in All Fields

You can search in particular fields for precision and build your search strategy step by step in Builder and combine steps using Boolean Operators (AND, OR, NOT).

2.  Combine search sets (or different search strategies) from your search History.

Use search sets/strategies as “building blocks” by adding them from the History to Builder and then combine them using Boolean Operators (AND, OR, NOT). This  allows you to create complex search strategies easily, coming up with a final, duplicates free, results set.

3. Grow and save your search

Left click the order number from the search History to display a menu for that search. Save in My NCBI to create saved search strategies and email alerts.

BMJ Best Practice

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BMJ Best Practice, a tool that “supports decision making at the point of care” and can be accessed via the MSK Library’s A-Z list of Databases, has replaced BMJ Clinical Evidence.

BMJ Clinical Evidence is now discontinued, however, starting in June 2018, the complete archive of the BMJ Clinical Evidence content can be searched via the PubMed database and is available in free full-text via PubMed Central (PMC). The PDF articles available via PMC are exactly the same as those that could be obtained previously from BMJ Clinical Evidence. For an example, see:

Pay A. Malignant melanoma (non-metastatic): sentinel lymph node biopsy. BMJ Clin Evid. 2016 Jan 19;2016. pii: 1705. Review. PubMed PMID: 26788739; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC4720216.

On the BMJ Best Practice website, the publisher explains the change: Continue reading →