Journal of Clinical Nursing is Now Available

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The Library has recently purchased a license for Journal of Clinical Nursing. The Journal of Clinical Nursing (JCN) is an international, peer reviewed, scientific journal that seeks to promote the development and exchange of knowledge that is directly relevant to all spheres of nursing and midwifery practice.JCN publishes papers on issues related to clinical nursing, regardless of where care is provided. This includes – but is not limited to – ambulatory care, community care, family care, home, hospital, practice, primary and secondary, and public health.

CN is divided into two categories outlined below. Each category publishes 12 issues per year (one issue from each category is distributed jointly each month).JCN: Clinical nursing knowledge & interventions publishes scholarly papers relating to a range of themes within the context of clinical nursing, across all care sectors, care settings and countries. JCN: Professional roles, patients’ experiences & family participation publishes scholarly papers relating to a range of themes within the context of clinical nursing, across all care sectors, care settings and countries.

You can access Journal of Clinical Nursing from the link above, or through the MSKsearch search box located on the Library’s Website.

MSKCC in the News: January 24 – February 13

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  • IBM Corp., the health insurer WellPoint Inc. and MSKCC announced two Watson-based applications – one to help diagnose and treat lung cancer and one to help manage health insurance decisions and claims.
  • A press release announced that researchers at MSKCC have treated the first patient with a new experimental vaccinia virus-based cancer therapy designed for patients with malignant pleural mesothelioma or non-small cell lung cancer.
  • Peter Bach of MSKCC is quoted in a Nature News article about the impact of the economic downturn on US academic medical campuses like the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF).

Blog Buzz: January 26 – February 7

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Over the past few weeks…

This past Friday, news began circulating that the Obama administration was considering supporting publishers in their appeal of the Georgia State University e-reserves case which had found that electronic reserves were a form of fair use, here is a post from TechDirt. About the news in the case Nancy Simms, Copyright Librarian at the University of Minnesota Libraries, wrote What is the government’s interest in copyright? Not that of the public. Kevin Smith, Duke University Scholarly Communications officer also wrote about the case, outlining what he feels the library community needs to know in Law and Politics in the GSU Case.

Cool Tools U blogged about ImpactStory, a new open source tool that allows researchers to track and share data about their output and impact across various  media from  journal articles and data sets to blog posts and YouTube videos.

GSK has joined All Trials pledging to support the campaign and open the information from their drug trails. Here is Ben Goldacher’s post.

Deborah Blum has a post called A Takedown at Retraction Watch on the Knight Science Journalism Tracker explaining the strange case of posts being removed from Retraction Watch by WordPress administrators following claims of plagiarism.

Wondering about tools for evaluating and assessing the quality of published resources? Check out the Grade Project.