Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSKCC) started subscribing to the JoVE Video Journal in 2010. We visited MSKCC to learn how their students, doctors, lab members and researchers use JoVE in their day-to-day work.
Research scientists there published their first article in the Biology section of the Journal in 2011. That article, Visualization of the Interstitial Cells of Cajal (ICC) Network in Mice, has been viewed more than 24,000 times since publication. As of July 2017, the institution’s researchers have co-authored 19 other articles across nine different Journal sections.
In March 2017, we visited MSKCC to learn how their students, doctors, lab members and researchers use JoVE in their day-to-day work.
MSKCC uses JoVE as an educational video platform. By watching and reading the articles on JoVE Video Journal, lab members keep up-to-date with research across different fields to learn essential new techniques to help them with their own experiments.
JoVE helps onboard new lab members joining MSKCC. The cancer center uses JoVE as a library of standard operating procedures for frequently-used techniques that’s available anytime, anywhere. The videos improve the reproducibility of the experiments, so the lab saves time, operates more efficiently and reduces costs by getting new members up to speed much faster.
Scientists at MSKCC use JoVE as a method to disseminate their research with peers around the globe. Before JoVE, interested scientists from other labs and research centers had to fly to New York to learn a technique at MSKCC. Now MSKCC researchers send a link to their JoVE Video Journal article, and their peers are able to learn the technique in their own labs, saving them travel time and money.
“I’d say JoVE is a resource unlike any other resource we have here at the library, and I would recommend it to other librarians, especially those working with medical students or any kind of researchers that could really take advantage of a unique visual platform.” – Whitney Bates-Gomez, the Electronic Resource Librarian at MSKCC.
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