The MSK Library offers services and resources to assist you with all aspects of your scholarly activities, including beginning a new project, preparing and publishing a manuscript, and tracking the long-term contributions of your research.
Support for Authors
This guide provides a central location for all information and resources for authors, including writing support, journal selection, publishing models, funding, and research metrics.
Responsible Authorship: Conflict of Interest (COI)
This guide provides an overview of the top publishers MSK authors work with and the journals they most frequently submit their manuscripts to for publication. In addition, helpful resources have been provided along with MSK's policy on COI and guidance for COI statements to aid our authors in their scholarly communication activities.
Copyright
This guide contains general information, videos, and websites to assist in better understanding copyright. Topics covered including U.S. Copyright Law, fair use, public domain, author's rights, publisher contracts, and open access licenses. The content of this guide is not intended as legal advice.
This guide is aimed to help in the process of locating and properly citing images for publication, including government image libraries, stock photo archives, and copyright information.
NIH Access Policies
This guide provides information on the process and compliance with the NIH Public Access Policy, including the recent policy changes beginning July 1, 2025. It also includes information, tutorials, and resources submission methods, and specific MSK documentation.
NIH Data Management and Sharing Policy
Whether you have a new grant or renewal deadline, or are simply interested in understanding the ongoing developments in medical/scientific research data, we've gathered resources in this guide to help you navigate the changes from this policy, as well as connect you with individuals, departments, and organizations which can help answer questions you might have.
Open Access
This guide contains selected information resources to raise awareness of open access publishing options and offers guidance to authors of scholarly works who wish to disseminate their research without restrictions of the commercial/fee-based publishing model, including information on the different types of open access, preprints, and predatory publishing. It also includes information specific for MSK authors.This guide is not intended as legal advice.