We are pleased to present our new and much-improved library website! https://www.rockefeller.edu/markus-library/ Our magnificent 2nd-floor reading room will welcome you to our online resources. New website features: Improved organization for easy navigation Primo search, one search to find all relevant information from all available library resources Quick access to the library news for updated information [...]
As of July 1st, 2019 The Rita & Frits Markus Library continues to offer access to Pharmaprojects, a drug development database that tracks the pre-clinical and clinical research and development pipeline from bench to bedside. How it benefits Assess to drug landscape from preclinical to market Identify new therapeutic strategies Identify drugs with similar chemical [...]
Important update for EndNote users with macOS systems As you may be aware, Apple will be releasing macOS 10.15 Catalina this fall. Apple has made the decision to drop all 32-bit application support with this release, which will impact EndNote. EndNote X9 for macOS will be extensively updated for compatibility prior to the launch of [...]
Thank you for participating in our Reference Manager Survey! We reviewed all the responses and comments, analyzed data, and made a couple of decisions. We are happy to tell you that the library will be offering EndNote X9 via institution license, and we are considering offering other reference managers via institutional licenses Along with EndNote X9, [...]
Due to scheduled maintenance, APA PsycNET and other APA platforms will be unavailable from Friday, July 26th at 7:00 pm, EDT until Saturday, July 27th at 1:00 am, EDT (UTC -4). Please instruct your users to complete and save any work before this time, as all services will be unavailable during this period. We apologize [...]
Visit Your Digital Commons Dashboard Monthly Readership Totals: Last month, Digital Commons @ RU had 1066 full-text downloads and 32 new submissions were posted, bringing the total works in the repository to 2210. Rockefeller University scholarship was read by 123 institutions across 60 countries. The most popular papers were: A Metal Dumbo Rocket Reactor [...]
As of July 1st, 2019 our Chemistry database will be switched From SciFinder to Reaxys. What is Reaxys? Reaxys is an online research solution designed to retrieve property, reaction and synthesis data from a rich collection of peer-reviewed literature, patents and substance databases. The tool can be used as a literature search solution for chemistry [...]
In another step forward for open science and open access, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Yale University, and The BMJ announced last week that medRxiv will debut on June 25th 2019. medRxiv, (pronounced "med archive"), is a preprint server for clinical medicine and public health that allows scientists to freely share their manuscripts and get feedback [...]
Please tell us which Reference Manager you use, or you would like to start using!! The Markus Library is conducting a survey to assess which reference management software is most used at the Rockefeller University and to determine the tool that would help researchers manage their references easily and facilitate collaborative scientific writing. Please fill [...]
Friday Lectures Friday, June 7, 2019 3:45 p.m Caspary Auditorium Paola Arlotta Ph.D. Professor Department of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology Harvard University Understanding Cortical Development and Disease: From Embryos to Brain Organoids Recommended Readings: Science News What you need to know about organoids. March 15, 2019. Journalist's Resource Empirical Articles Arlotta, Paola. [...]
