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The MSKCC Library provides access to two citation databases, Science Citation Index and Social Sciences Index, through our Web of Science subscription.
The Search Tips for Web of Science tutorial which is under 10 minutes long, demonstrates useful details for searching the databases. Included is discussion of truncation and proximity operators and specific examples are offered.
MSKCC’s Public Affairs department has launched a new blog, On Cancer: News and Insights from Memorial Sloan-Kettering. The blog posts news and announcements about cancer research, profiles of MSKCC doctors and staff, as well as events and resources at the Center. There are a number of ways readers can stay up-to-date on the latest posts (RSS, newsletter, twitter) and connect (comments and facebook). Be sure to check it out!
In an interesting post that touches on the challenges to data storage and sharing in the sciences, PLoS Biology has announced a partnership with Dryad (a repository of data sets behind peer-reviewed articles in basic and applied biosciences). According to their post, through a “partnership with Dryad, PLoS Biology can offer authors a seamless tying together of an article with its underlying data; we can also provide confidential access for editors and reviewers to data associated with articles under review (see Depositing data to Dryad guidelines).” Exciting news for open science and there is certainly more to come!
There is a related post over on the e-Science Community Blog, Dryad for Science Librarians.
From the just-for-fun-bureau comes the wonderfully illustrated Brief History of the iPad: Prologue.
There’s a new journal in town and it’s called PeerJ with a subject focus on biological and medical sciences. What makes this open access journal and its companion, PeerJ PrePrints so different is their membership model – this one’s for life! There are three pricing plans which include Basic, Enhanced, and Investigator, and each one offers a different level targeted to a specific audience – Graduate Students, Post-Docs, and Lab Heads or High-Volume Authors. Having a membership will not guarantee publication; all articles must go through peer review and meet a basic standard of scientific quality. Continue reading