If you’re a regular JSTOR user, or if you’re new to the database, the Institution Finder is an easy way to access content available to MSK users. Skip to 00:53 in the tutorial above to hear about the Institution Finder feature.
Blog Buzz: May 6 – May 11
Mobile patient portals, organ donation on Facebook, what those stats were really saying, open access news and baby sea otters…in the brave new fuzzy world of blog buzz.
Kaiser Permanente rolled out a patient EMR app for Androids (with over 99,000 downloads!!) last week and has now introduced an iOS app, reports MobiHealthNews.
What did the stats behind news reports of infections causing 16% of cancers really mean? A great explanation of population attributable fractions from Ed Yong at Not Exactly Rocket Science.
Dr. Bertalan Meskó over at Science Roll was underwhelmed by the response to the Facebook organ donor drive, but one might wonder if Facebook profiles are the place for any medical or legal information.
The publisher of PLoS One is leaving to work on a new Open Access project, PeerJ, launching in Fall 2012.
And some very cute videos are waiting for you in Joanne Manaster’s review of Otter 501 at Scientific American’s blogs.
Library Submits Winning MSK Green Team Idea!
Librarians Christine Beardsley and Sylvie Larsen recently won the Earth Day “Green Ideas Contest” with their idea to convert the MSKCC shuttles to bio-diesel or hybrid. Congratulations, Christine and Sylvie!
They are part of an eco-conscious team in the Library that attempts to implement environmentally friendly practices wherever possible. If you are an MSKCC Library patron with a suggestion for how we can improve current practices, please let us know!
You can also read more about sustainability activities at Memorial Sloan-Kettering, where an organization-wide “Green Team” committee was established in 2009.