Ever wanted to access your favorite journal’s content from home or search one of our subscription databases from an outside meeting? Well, this is possible by logging in to the Library website using the REMOTE ACCESS link in the upper right corner of the homepage!
Citation Analysis Tools – Great for Looking Back, Moving Forward, and Evaluating Impact
The MSK Library subscribes to a subset of bibliographic databases called Citation Analysis Tools, including Web of Science (Thomson Reuters) and Scopus (Elsevier). When you conduct literature searches in these databases, along with the standard citation and abstract information for the article, you also get to see each article’s bibliography, as well as, which publications have cited that article since its publication.
Here’s why these databases are considered to be “powerhouse” research tools by librarians:
- Great for electronically harvesting relevant citations from the bibliographies of relevant articles. These are very useful tools for identifying more articles that are similar in topic to the one where you begin your search (potentially leading to both older articles and more current ones). Continue reading
A New Year With New Goals!
Happy New Year to our User Community, and our Library Blog readers! The start of a new year is often a time to reflect on past achievements, make resolutions, and definitely establish new goals. Last year was extremely productive for the library staff. We accomplished our objectives while still delivering on research and information requests in a timely manner, ensuring our clients had a positive experience – one that they wanted to repeat (and did).
As always, our 2016 goals focus on our user community, support the mission of our institution, and ensure that the resources and services we offer enhance and contribute to work productivity. Among them, I would like to highlight the following three: Continue reading