Good Things from the Internet

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In the spirit of fresh beginnings, this edition of blog buzz is dedicated to good things that have come up recently in a fairly grim month of news;

  • Twitter has added the ability to include descriptions of images (up to 420 characters!) to enrich content for the visually impaired. More here from Gary Price on InfoDocket.
  • From Science Magazine, a brief item on a study indicating a particular species of woodpecker may have a symbiotic relationship with wood decaying fungi which help them hollow out shelter from living trees.
  • A children’s book from the 17th century (an educational primer of sorts) was recently found in a University Archive in Britain. More on this story here.
  • A nice April Fool’s gag from the Indiana University Lilly Library’s Twiter Feed, here.

Thomson Reuters 2015 World’s Most Influential Scientific Minds Includes Fourteen MSK Researchers

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Thomson Reuters announced their 2015 list of the World’s Most Influential Scientific Minds. How they create this list is based on several factors summarized below:

“The some 3,000 highly cited researchers listed in this report were selected by analyzing citation data over a recent 11-year period (2003-2013) and identifying those who published the greatest number of highly cited papers. We also identified hot researchers, authors of papers published in a recent two-year period (2013-2014) that were cited immediately after publication at extraordinarily high levels. Highly cited papers rank in the top 1% and hot papers rank in the top 0.1% of the citation distributions of comparable papers, those matched for field and age.”

Thomson Reuters’ list includes the following fourteen MSK researchers:

  • Jose Baselga, MD, PhD – Medical Oncologist, Physician-in-Chief and Chief Medical Officer, Memorial Hospital
  • Frederic Geissmann, MD, PhD – Researcher, William E. Snee Chair of Immunology, Sloan Kettering Institute
  • Clifford A Hudis, MD – Medical Oncologist, Vice President for Government Relations and Chief Advocacy Officer; Chief, Breast Medicine Service
  • Mark G Kris, MD – Medical Oncologist, William and Joy Ruane Chair in Thoracic Oncology
  • Marc Ladanyi, MD – Molecular Geneticist, Chief, Molecular Diagnostics Service; William J. Ruane Chair in Molecular Oncology
  • Joan Massagué, PhD – Researcher, Director, Sloan Kettering Institute
  • Gregory J Riely, MD, PhD – Medical Oncologist, Vice Chair, Clinical Trials Office, Department of Medicine
  • Alexander Y Rudensky, PhD – Chair, Immunology Program, Sloan Kettering Institute; Director, Ludwig Center for Cancer Immunotherapy, Memorial Sloan Kettering
  • Chris Sander, PhD – Program Chairman and Director, Computational Biology Center, Sloan Kettering Institute
  • Charles L Sawyers, MD – Internist and Hematologic Oncologist, Chair, Human Oncology and Pathogenesis Program; Marie-Josee and Henry R. Kravis Chair
  • Howard I Scher, MD – Medical Oncologist, Chief, Genitourinary Oncology Service; D. Wayne Calloway Chair in Urologic Oncology
  • Martin S Tallman, MD – Hematologic Oncologist, Chief, Leukemia Service
  • Craig B Thompson, MD – President and CEO, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
  • William D Travis, MD – Pathologist, Director, Thoracic Pathology

New Database Resource: #Ulrichsweb !

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The Library has recently added Ulrichsweb to its database resources.  Ulrichsweb is an easy to search resource of detailed information on more than 300,000 periodicals of all types: academic and scholarly journals, e-journals, peer-reviewed titles, popular magazines, newspapers, newsletters, and more. Ulrich’s records, which cover more than 900 subject areas, provide data points such as

  • ISSN
  • publisher
  • language
  • subject
  • abstracting & indexing coverage
  • full-text database coverage
  • tables of contents, and
  • reviews written by librarians.

Ulrichsweb may found in our Database A-Z listing.