Ask Us About Our Customized Library Workshops – A Recent Success Story

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Late last year we delivered a series of lectures on how to conduct and publish a systematic review to pre- and post-doctoral fellows at the MSKCC Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences.

 This opportunity would normally never have taken place, but it did, and it happened because someone asked us about the possibility of developing a workshop to support their interest on this topic.

Antonio DeRosa, Marisol Hernandez, Sarah Jewell, Isabel Sulimanoff, and Donna Gibson worked to develop four workshops that were given each Friday in October 2012. The sessions built on one another and included:

  • Overview: History, Structure, and Characteristics of a Systematic Review
  • Formulating the Question and Developing the Search Strategy
  • Conducting the Research
  • Investigator’s Analysis and Assessment of Literature

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MSKCC in the News: February 21 – March 6

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  • Initiated by Zanofi’s decision to cut in half the price of Zaltrap after MSKCC said it would not use the drug because it was too expensive, the Health Affairs Blog examines how the “buy and bill” pricing system works, and how it operates in the case of Zaltrap.
  • Medgadget reports that IBM’s work with WellPoint and MSKCC on the development of Watson has progressed beyond concept. Now, hospitals and other provider institutions who sign up can buy or rent Watson’s advice from the cloud or their own server.
  • The Digital Journal announced that physicians at MSKCC will begin the “first-in-man” drug therapy on mesothelioma patients.

Non-English Abstracts Added to PubMed

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PubMed will soon be accepting non-English abstracts into the database.  Users will be able to see the additional language abstracts on the Abstract display page.  When first viewing the abstract page for a record, the default will be to the English abstract.  When there is a non-English abstract as well, there will be a link to it immediately above the English abstract.  To view the non-English abstract, users can click on the link which is the name of the language, e.g. French.

Non-English abstracts will be available only in the Abstract display option and not in the Summary, MEDLINE or XML displays.   For articles which have only a non-English abstract, the default will not be to display the abstract, but users will be able to click the link to display it.  See an example from the NLM Technical Bulletin.