Make some New Friends… of Cancer Research

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The Friends of Cancer Research-simply called the Friends-is a national group advocating for policies and solutions to get cancer treatments to patients in the safest and quickest way possible. Friends works closely with government agencies to improve health outcomes and cancer care through educational, policy, and scientific approaches.

The Friends website is full of helpful information for both patients as well as health professionals. There are also very detailed pages on the FDA and Regulatory Policy, clinical trials, and cancer centers in the country with an interactive map.

Friends can also be used as a news source and current awareness tool as the website contains many news items on breaking cancer research as well as conferences and other events in the field. Take a look at their newsfeed to sign up for their newsletter and follow them on Twitter @CancerResrch.

23 Things MSK Challenge: February Solutions

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

Thing 1

Here are instructions for the Mendeley task:

  1. Install Mendeley Desktop on your machine (this can only be done if you are the administrator of a non-clinical machine).
  2. Open Mendeley Desktop. Drag and drop a PDF into Mendeley Desktop to add it to your library.
  3. Double click on the citation information of your article to open the PDF.
  4. Use the Select, Highlight, and Note buttons at the top to add annotations to your document.

Don’t forget that the Library offers a workshop on Mendeley.

Here are instructions for the RefWorks task:

  1. First, create an account with RefWorks and login.
  2. Go to the PubMed tab on the MSK Library website and do a search.
  3. Check off the articles you wish to send to RefWorks.
  4. Click on Send To in the upper right and choose File.
  5. Choose the MEDLINE format and click Create File. Save the text file.
  6. Go to RefWorks and from the References menu select Import.
  7. Choose NLM PubMed as the import filter and click Browse to choose the text file.
  8. Click New Folder and name the folder you want to import into, then click Import.
  9. The references should now be in your folder.
  10. To share the references, click on the Organize and Share Folder Tab and click on the folder icon with an arrow to the right of your folder. Click Share and email the person you want to share the references with.

The Library offers a workshop on RefWorks as well.

Thing 2

If you would like to add the MSK Library website to your iPad/iPhone’s homescreen, see the detailed instructions on our blog.

For instructions on how to login to the Library website from off-campus, view the Off Site Access Tutorial.

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