For those of you participating in the 23 Things MSK Challenge, we hope you were able to successfully complete the tasks for this month. If you had any trouble, the solutions are posted below.

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Here are the instructions for the Synapse/EndNote task:

1. First, create new EndNote library in which to place citations. If you have EndNote installed on your MSK computer, you will find it under All Programs > User Applications. If it’s not there, call the Help Desk at 646-227-3337 to have them install it.
2. Go to the MSK Library website and scroll down to Synapse and click on See all.
3. In the search box in Synapse, enter Hricak, click on her picture, and view the citations underneath.
4. Under one of the citations, click on the FullText@MSK button.
5. Click on the Export/Save link, and choose the option Directly to EndNote, ProCite, or Reference Manager and click Export.
6. The citation should now have been exported to your library.

To export all of Dr. Hricak’s citations from Synapse…

1. Follow steps 1-3 above.
2. Click on WORKS above Dr. Hricak’s photo.
3. Click ‘Export to EndNote’ link on far right of page.
4. Click EXPORT button to initiate the download process from Synapse to EndNote.
5. The citations should now have been exported to your library.

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Here are the instructions for the PubMed Author task:

1. Click on the PubMed tab on the MSK Library website.
2. Enter the article title: Assessing response of therapy for acute and chronic graft-versus-host disease.
3. Click the Search button.
4. The first result should be the article by Goldberg. Click on the title.
5. Click Author information for the affiliation of authors.

For any questions you might have, don’t hesitate to email Reference at asklibrarian@mskcc.org, or call us at 212-639-7439.