ORCID@MSK – New Library Service Supporting Researchers’ Scholarly Workflow

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UPDATE: The MSK Library is pleased to announce that effective today (03/01/2016) our authors can register at ORCID@MSK.  Authors who already have a Synapse‘s profile will soon receive email notification from the Library about next steps. 

ORCID@MSK is about to bloom….I mean … launch.  The MSK Library staff is very excited to be rolling out this new service in support of our authors.  Our timing coincides with a recent open letter released by a group of publishers (to include eLife, EMBO, PLoS, and Science) announcing their support and commitment in requiring ORCID iDs in their publishing process for their journals, and inviting other publishers to do the same.  Through manuscript submission systems, publishers are in an exclusive position to encourage widespread adoption of ORCID. Nature Publishing Group (NPG), Wiley, and Elsevier have been accepting ORCID iDs for several years, although they have yet to make this a requirement.

Why is this service so important and what are the benefits for our authors?  An ORCID iD from the Open Researcher and Contributor ID registry is a unique, permanent, and universal digital identifier for authors. This 16-digit number (expressed as a URL) serves a valuable purpose – to eliminate author name ambiguity and improve discoverability to one’s research and scholarly works.

Memorial Sloan Kettering is an institutional member of ORCID.org and once ORCID@MSK is launched, we will be encouraging all our authors to register as this identifier over time will become a requirement in the scholarly publishing landscape.

ORCID iDs will create greater efficiencies for authors, publishers, funders, and others involved in scholarly communication activities. This identifier is being included as a searchable field in bibliographic and abstracting databases (e.g. PubMed, Scopus, Web of Science), will ensure that all scientific and research contributions are associated with the “right” researcher, and will aid in automatically populating an NIH biographical sketch. This translates to no more re-typing the same data!

We will be launching ORCID@MSK before end of February.  Below is a sneak peek of what MSK authors can look forward to seeing and the benefits of registering through ORCID@MSK.  Continue reading →

EMBASE Adds New PICO Search Form

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When searching the medical literature to identify the studies that can serve as the “best evidence” for answering a focused clinical question, the PICO (Population, Intervention, Comparison, Outcome) model is a useful way to use to ensure that you have considered all the component parts of the question.

To make this process easier on the database searcher, EMBASE has now created a new PICO search form that can be used to easily develop this type of multi-component search strategy. Continue reading →

Awards, Collaborations, and MSK Authors in the News

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Surfing the Web uncovered these news items worth sharing:

  • A group of scientists from the University of Washington’s Department of Mechanical Engineering, MSK, Barrow Neurological Institute at St. Joseph’s Hospital and Medical Center, and Stanford University’s School of Medicine have come together to devise a microscope that can see cell detail without having to extract it from a patient’s body. Details can be found in their study.