Here’s what the Library’s Main Search Box (Summon) Searches

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The main search box on the MSK Library website searches our web-scale discovery tool known as Summon. Summon pulls from many different resources and content types such as book chapters, whole books/eBooks, journal articles, databases, PMIDs, DOIs, and newspapers, along with other digital collections that we subscribe to. Take a look at the Venn diagram below for a visual representation of what Summon contains and check out our What am I Searching? page for more detailed information and screen shots on how Summon works.

Ask us if you have any specific questions or would like assistance with leveraging Summon for your research – we are happy to help!

New @RittenhouseBKS #Nursing Titles!

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Several new nursing titles have been added to the Library’s R2 Digital Library Collection:

Diseases and Disorders: Everything you need to know about caring for patients—in one portable handbook. Clear, comprehensive discussions of pathophysiology, with rationales in the medications and laboratory sections, explain the scientific basis for the nursing care. Thoroughly revised and updated throughout, the 5th Edition incorporates the latest scientific advances and the practice of nursing today.

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Buzz for Friday July 8

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From The Lab Bench has a post explaining some of the findings in their research surveying Science Blog readers. The post features delightful infographics exploring their findings which may surprise you! A paper on this work will be presented at the Association of Education in Journalism and Mass Communication conference this August. Take a look here and see “Who’s Reading Science Blogs?”.

Some summertime humor from Easternblot.net: Beach Bodies, as Rated by Marine Biologists.

Gilead criticized for price hikes on older HIV drugs, from STATnews.