OA Week, A Global Event, October 19-25, 2015

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This year marks Open Access (OA) Week’s eighth year and events have been scheduled around the world to bring attention to what open access means for research, researchers, and publishers.

OA Week continues to be an important event designed to raise awareness of the benefits of supporting an open access environment, as well as, the value and impact open access content delivers to the reader. For our part, the MSK Library is committed to the principles of open access to scholarly peer-reviewed literature as a means to accelerate scientific discovery and improve patient care.

Again this year during OA Week, the Library website will feature OA publications by MSK authors in our Today’s Science Sparks section. You can also look for the open access button located next to OA citations found in the Today’s Science Sparks archives. Continue reading →

Breast Cancer, Immunotherapy, and Cancer Care Outcomes

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Surfing the web retrieved these selected informational items:

  • A series of comments regarding an essay entitled “The Breast Cancer Gene and Me” (NY Times Sunday Review, Sep 27) included one by Dr. Kenneth Offit, Chief, Clinical Genetics Service from MSK.

Apple’s ResearchKit Put Into Practice

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Mount Sinai Hospital, one of the first hospitals to utilize Apple’s ResearchKit platform for its Asthma Health app, has recently announced the initial results of a 6-month study that included over 8,600 participants. The app enabled individuals with asthma to participate in a large-scale medical research study by simply using their Apple iPhones. One of the advantages of app-enabled research is the potential broad reach to recruit a population beyond the hospital itself – for this study, 87% of participants lived outside of New York and New Jersey. And what of the data that’s been collected from asthma patients? According to the press release, a newly added function can now link the data into electronic health records at Mount Sinai and certain other facilities, and “may be of great value to the pulmonologists and other clinicians providing care.”