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ecancer, the leading oncology channel, is going from strength to strength, and continues to provide a free service to oncologists, including expert videos, news, education and an open access journal. Each month over 40,000 people visit ecancer to read and watch the latest content. The journal of the IEO, ecancermedicalscience, is fully indexed in PubMed and other leading databases, including Embase, Scopus, EBSCO and Google Scholar, so any article published will be highly accessible to other researchers in the field. The journal is now receiving a steady flow of submissions with a rejection rate of approximately 60%. ecancer continues to develop its video platform, reporting and filming from all the major oncology conferences around the globe. ecancer.tv now features more than 2200 videos of interviews with eminent oncologists, roundtables and press conferences, which have been watched over 1.5 million times. This is the only site of its kind with such a rich resource for oncology professionals. ecancer is actively involved in the management of three European Commission funded FP7 projects in partnership with the IEO. P(ersonalized)Medicine is aimed at developing internet tools to assist clinical research, especially clinical trials in the era of genomic led therapies. IEO is responsible for the clinical trials work package while ecancer leads on Patient Empowerment and Education in collaboration with Prof Gabriella Pravettoni (Department of Cognitive Psychology, University of Milan). EurocanPlatform is a project linking 23 leading cancer institutes; ecancer is responsible for communication and dissemination of results. EURECA (Enabling information re-Use by linking clinical Research and Care) is looking at semantic ontologies of health IT systems. ecancer’s Education platform continues to grow with new elearning modules being released in the coming months. These include smoking cessation modules (to be launched April 2013); ecancer is working in partnership with the
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BMS Foundation and the International Society of Nurses in Cancer Care to produce 4 educational modules on smoking cessation for nurses. These modules are accredited by the European Oncology Nursing Society (EONS) and are available in English, Czech, Polish, Romanian, Russian and Hungarian. There will also be Palliative Care modules (to be launched November 2013) thanks to a grant from the IAEA. ecancer is working in partnership with Cardiff University to develop 13 elearning modules on palliative care for the African oncology community. ecancer.org was recently redesigned to enable visitors to experience a more professional yet user-friendly platform with improved functionality and visibility. As a result the website now has an increased profile on search engines and is compatible for mobile devices. ecancer is also releasing new versions of the ecancer app on iPhone, Android and iPad. ecancerpatient.org was launched in November 2012. It provides information for patients to use while discussing treatment options with their doctor. The videos of cancer specialists talking about the most recent advances in care are designed to empower patients to become more involved in vital treatment decisions. ecancer continues to place the European Institute of Oncology at the forefront of multi-media communications, looking at innovative solutions to promote equal access to oncology research and learning. The Founding Editors are Professors Veronesi and McVie and Dr. Linda Cairns is the Science Editor. ecancer is supported by the European Institute of Oncology, The Foundation of the IEO, The Umberto Veronesi Foundation, The European CanCer Organisation and Swiss Bridge.
The Library is based in the Mirror Tower, and offers an area for study and consultation of the literature both online and in print. It is part of Bibliosan – the national network of 59 IRCCS libraries, working within the framework of NILDE, the Network for Inter-Library Document Exchange. BiblioSan also offers remote access, so IEO staff can connect from home. The Italian National Collective Catalogue of Periodicals (ACNP) links it to over 110,000 journals and 2300 Libraries throughout Italy. The Biomedical Library System of Lombardy (SBBL) consortium links it to the regional health libraries.
Scientific Director’s Office
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Data on “impact factors” (whereby a numerical value represents the yearly “impact” of a journal) and the h-index (a measure of quantifying a person’s scientific research output and impact) is provided by the Journal Citation Reports and the ISI Web of Science respectively. Personal bibliographic management is available whereby the user may store bibliographic citations in a system called RefWorks. This will repeatedly generate bibliographies to suit the different formats required by publishers of scientific journals. Literature searches and assistance are provided to facilitate use of the ever-burgeoning bibliographic and full-text resources available.
The Library is also a member of GIDIF-RBM, a consortium of major biomedical and pharmaceutical libraries in Italy, and DOCLINE (via the Italian National Institute of Health and the National Library of Medicine in the USA). Via these consortium agreements, 8000-plus journals are accessible 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Through SBBL over 1000 e-books are available via Springer Publishers. All can be accessed via the Library “AtoZ catalogue”. In 2012 this catalogue had a total of 7511 accesses. The average session time was 4 minutes, and a total of 26,647 pages were viewed. The Library offers the key medical literature database Medline, the more pharmaceutically-focused Embase, CINAHL (Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature), along with bibliographic full-text databases specialising in psychology, health administration, science and technology, food science, and systematic reviews (the Cochrane Library).
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