Profiling the 21st Century Science Informationist

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This month’s reflection touches on the changing role of librarians.  A correspondence in a recent issue (October 18) of Nature spotlights one of ten challenges identified during an international meeting “Envisioning the Future of Science Libraries at Academic Research Institutions” held at The Banbury Center on April 1 – 3, 2012 in Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, New York.

Working with my co-meeting organizers and authors we wanted to highlight an emerging role that was discussed during this meeting – the Science Informationist and describe a collaborator/partner who truly goes beyond managing published literature. Continue reading →

SpringerLink Migrates to a New Platform

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SpringerLink is moving to a new platform on November 26, 2012. The new SpringerLink is expected to be faster and optimized for most mobile devices.

Springer will redirect all users to the new SpringerLink upon migration. So if you try to access any Springer content within MSK network, you will be redirected to link.springer.com.

Individual accounts from the old SpringerLink will unfortunately not be migrated. You will need to go to link.springer.com and set up a new profile/account. Make sure to do this while within MSK’s IP range as you will then be automatically associated to the institution’s access rights.

Check out the webinar training sessions to learn more about the features and functionalities of link.springer.com. An extensive FAQ and future training dates can be found here.

Searching for Books and Book Chapters in PubMed

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The PubMed database may be searched for online books, book chapters and documents from the NCBI (National Center for Biotechnology Information) Bookshelf Collection.  This collection provides free access to publications in life sciences and healthcare.  To retrieve book titles, book chapters and documents related to disasters, for example, use the following strategy: (disaster OR disasters) AND (pmcbook OR pmcbooktitle OR pmcbookchapter).