New eBook: Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging

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Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging is a new 4-volume set that offers complete coverage of the science behind nuclear medicine with the clinical aspects of diagnostic imaging. Beginning with sections on the physics related to nuclear medicine, radiation biology/safety, and instrumentation/quality control, it then covers radiochemistry and the development of new radionuclide therapy/tracers, and basic techniques such as positron emission tomography (PET) and single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT). 

Content also includes clinical aspects, with sections on clinical/preclinical nuclear imaging, as well as other in vivo molecular imaging techniques such as optical imaging, digital image analysis (radiomics), as well as the increasing use of artificial intelligence (AI) in diagnostics.

Covidence Full-Text PDF Enhancements

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Covidence, the systematic review (SR) project management tool that is available for use by everyone in the MSK community via a site license, has recently introduced some noteworthy improvements related to importing the PDF attachments for the full-text screening stage.

  • You can now export only the records of citations missing the Full-Text PDFs.

Being able to easily extract a list of citations of studies missing full text PDFs does not sound like a game-changing enhancement. However, for SR team members who regularly dedicate hours of work harvesting the full-text PDFs for the Full-Text Screening stage of a project, this functionality will be a huge time-saver.

  • You can now export citations as an RIS file for import into reference manager programs beyond Endnote, including:

    1. Endnote
    2. Cochrane Registry of Studies
    3. Zotero
    4. Mendeley
    5. RefWorks

With an increasing number of citation manager program options available to users, including here at MSK – see Citation Management LibGuide for more details – it is nice to see that Covidence is becoming inter-operable with more tools to better match user preferences.

  • You can now bring in Open Access articles using Unpaywall and automatically upload them when studies move to to the Full Text screening or Data Extraction stages.

With the amount of available Open Access journal content continuously increasing, having the ability to automatically bring in the needed full-text that is openly-available on the web will become even more useful as time goes on. Furthermore, individual PDFs that users have already downloaded can now be brought into Covidence using a convenient drag and drop option, making adding these PDFs to their corresponding citation records on the screening list easier than ever.

  • You can now use the Bulk PDF Upload Tool in conjunction with either Endnote or Zotero.

The Bulk PDF Upload Tool involves a two step process that includes saving a list of citation records as an Endnote XML file after all of the needed PDFs have been harvested into a citation manager. Zotero now also accommodates the “Endnote XML” filetype, helping Covidence once again become more versatile for users who choose to use the Zotero citation manager instead of Endnote.

To learn more about Covidence, be sure to check out these training options or Ask Us at the MSK Library.

Celebrate International Open Access Week 2022 with the MSK Library

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International Open Access Week will be taking place October 24-30, 2022. Join us as we celebrate this year’s theme, “Open For Climate Justice” and seize the opportunity to help us raise awareness on how open access can support climate justice, as well as other areas of research interests.

The MSK Library promotes Open Access by adding relevant open access journals to our curated list of eJournals, managing the SKOAP fund which helps MSK authors who need financial support for article processing fees, and sharing information about this important topic to keep our interested library users in the know!

Synapse is another way we bring attention to open access publications. Visitors to the site are able to discover which open access journals MSK authors publish in by locating in the citation record the orange button (e.g., Synapse work record). Synapse is our public-facing and authoritative bibliographic database showcasing the intellectual output of all our researchers.

Throughout this week, the MSK Library will be featuring open access publications by MSK authors and will share one each day (Monday to Friday) as a Today’s Science Sparks on the Library Website. If you are curious about past Today’s Science Sparks, you can browse the Archives. In support of Open Access if you find a Today’s Science Sparks that has been marked as Open Access, feel free to click on the Tweet icon next to the highlighted paper to easily share this publication on Twitter.

Finally, another way to participate in the open access week experience, you can follow the conversation on Twitter, as well as share your thoughts. Don’t forget to include the official hashtag — #OAWeek.

If you have any questions about Open Access, don’t hesitate to contact me!

Donna Gibson
Director, Library Services