Scholarly Publishing and Visualization Hub: Home

Welcome to Levy Library's Scholarly Publishing and Visualization Hub!  Our vision is to be your equitable and inclusive partner in learning and a knowledge center connecting students, faculty, and staff with resources and services to enable innovation and dissemination of Mount Sinai scholarly activity within and beyond our community.  Please share your feedback and ideas on the Hub site and our services.  We would like to link to other Mount Sinai areas that support scholarly activity!

Mount Sinai is an amazing place to create new knowledge.  The Scholarly Publishing & Visualization Hub brings together services and resources that inspire and facilitate scholarly activities.   

Scholarly visuals include medical and scientific illustrations, infographics, and animations. These visuals are created by our two in-house medical illustrators. For more information, you can contact visualization@mssm.edu

“Visuals created by the SPV Hub really make a difference in the peer review process. We were able to get our HIV/AIDS papers accepted in general audience journals because the visuals made them simple to understand. This can also explain why our research was featured on journal cover pages multiple times in the last few years.” 

Inga Peter, PhD 
Professor and Vice Chair 
Department of Genetics and Genomic Sciences  
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

This illustration accompanies the article Diagnostic Difficulties of Plunging Ranula: A Review of 18 Cases by Jun Yun, et al, from Mount Sinai's Department of Otolaryngology. This paper reviews the difficulties in diagnosing a plunging ranula. The figure distinguishes the origin of a plunging ranula from other submandibular cysts, with two views in (B) to demonstrate the relationship of the ranula to the mylohyoid, sublingual gland, and surrounding anatomy. Because of its origin within the oral cavity, the authors recommend a transoral approach, rather than the transcervical approach used for other types of submandibular cysts which are separated from the oral cavity by the mylohyoid and geniohyoid.

Interested in learning more about Levy Library’s support and resources for Scholarly Publishing?
Email refdesk@mssm.edu

Interested in collaborating with one of our medical illustrators?
Email visualization@mssm.edu