Ulrichsweb – a useful addition to your “evaluating journal quality” toolbox

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The MSK Library recently added a new resource called Ulrichsweb to its roster of databases. Although mostly known as a resource used by collection development librarians for making journal-related purchasing decisions, access to Ulrichsweb can potentially benefit many others in the MSK research community.

Here’s how: Ulrichsweb is one of the only resources available today that you can use to confirm which “Abstracting & Indexing Databases” are indexing a particular journal.

Why might this matter to you? Because the degree of access and visibility of an individual article is largely determined by where it is indexed.

From an author’s perspective: If you publish an article in a journal that is not indexed in any bibliographic databases, chances are very slim that anyone will come across it to read it unless you have specifically directed them to the article. Conversely, if your journal is indexed by multiple databases, it increases the chances that more people will come across it when conducting a search on a topic.

From a research perspective: If you are trying to find an electronic citation record for an article of interest (say to add to your Endnote library so that you can later cite the reference in your manuscript), identifying which database(s) a particular journal is indexed in can save you search time by helping you to target the right place to go looking for it.

To learn more about Ulrichsweb or other information research tools, feel free to contact us at the MSK Library.

Grants and Grant Programs to Help Build a National Culture of Health

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The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) funds a wide variety of program and policy initiatives in order to address four focus areas: Health Leadership, Health Systems, Healthy Communities, and Healthy Kids, Healthy Weight. Take a look at a few of the funding opportunities currently being offered:

  • Clinical Scholars – 3-yr fellowship for clinically active health care providers to build and develop unique skills
  • Interdisciplinary Research Leaders – 3-yr fellowship for mid-career researchers to become leaders in population health and health equity research
  • New Connections: Increasing Diversity of RWJF Programming – 12-month program for early-career scholars from backgrounds that are historically disadvantaged or underrepresented in research disciplines

Funding is awarded through open and targeted calls for proposals. For more information and to access recorded web conferences about the programs, see the RWJF’s Funding Opportunities.

Finding Published Works Associated with a Grant in #PubMed

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Tracking papers published under a grant is common practice for those looking to be compliant under NIH Public Access Policy/internal organization policy, for tenure review and promotion purposes, or simply for the sake of transparency and reporting on the progress of a grant. Whatever the reason PubMed can help. The following example demonstrates how to find publications where MSK’s Cancer Center Support Grant (P30 CA008748) has been acknowledged. [Note: be sure to search the grant number with and without the space… it’s the best way to ensure a comprehensive list of pubs is retrieved].

  1. Launch PubMed via the Library website
  2. Click on Advanced below the main search box
  3. Under the search builder, choose Grant Number from the drop-down list of options
  4. Key in the grant number: P30 CA008748
  5. Click Search and see your results!

Another way of viewing a list of grant-specific publications is by first finding an article where the grant number is displayed, such as PMID: 24761985 -> scrolling down to the Grant Support section of the record -> choosing the grant number you desire -> and clicking on the Search in PubMed action. This will display a list of publications associated with the grant number.