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Access to Biological Abstracts will end on December 31st, 2013. Due to cost considerations, the MERLIN Library system (comprised of MU, UMSL, UMKC, and MS&T) has canceled the subscription to Biological Abstracts effective December 31, 2013.
Looking for alternatives? Try Scopus or these other biology databases.
Contact Kate Anderson if you have any questions or need help transitioning to another database.
Distinguish yourself with an ORCID iD. The Open Researcher and Contributor ID lets you claim all of your work as yours (and not that other Jane Doe).
Find out more about Open Access: https://libraryguides.missouri.edu/openaccess
MU Libraries recently added over 400 ebooks from Springer's Biomedical and Life Sciences collection. Some titles of interest include:
The Centre for Evidence-based Veterinary Medicince (University of Nottingham) has launched VetSRev and BestBETs for Vets!
Information on the new resources from Douglas Grindlay, Veterinary Information Specialist, CEVM:
"VetSRev
Firstly, there is VetSRev (www.nottingham.ac.uk/cevm/vetsrev).
VetSRev is a freely-accessible online database of citations for systematic reviews of relevance to veterinary medicine and science. At present VetSRev contains around 330 systematic reviews, but more and more are being published each year.
To find out more about VetSRev and our inclusion and exclusion criteria, please see our document About VetSRev. We have also written a guide to using the database called Getting Started with VetSRev.
BestBETs for Vets
Our database BestBETs for Vets (http://bestbetsforvets.org) is also now available online.
“BET” stands for Best Evidence Topic. The BestBETs concept was first developed for doctors working in emergency medicine (http://www.bestbets.org/). In collaboration with our medical colleagues, we have developed a freely accessible database of BestBETs for vets, BestBETs for Vets.
BETs are simple reviews of the current best evidence available to answer simple, common and specific clinical questions. They are designed to be a quick and achievable method of enabling the incorporation of evidence into clinical practice.
BETs start with a very specific clinical question. A systematic literature search is then done to find available evidence. The relevant literature is critically appraised for quality and a “bottom line” (the answer to the question) is reached based on this evidence. BETs do not tell you what to do, they tell you about the evidence on a certain topic—we aim to give an unbiased view of the evidence found.
BETs can be used to help vets stay up to date on what the current evidence suggests on a specific topic. They can also be used as a discussion point for practice meetings, journal clubs and teaching.
If there is a particular topic or question which we have not yet covered, you could submit the question to us via the BestBETs for Vets website.
New CEVM website
Finally, we have a completely new CEVM website, with details of all our different projects:
Want to email yourself that journal article…in color? Now you can! Check out our super-cool multifunction machine! It scans, it copies, it makes coffee! (Okay, not that last one.)
Scanning is free: you can scan to email or to USB.
*TIP*: If you are scanning multiple pages from the document glass, you’ll need to “build a job” so that you don’t email yourself one page at a time. Instructions on how to do this are by the scanner.
CVM Affiliates: Need to make an actual print copy of something? Contact a staff member for copy codes.
Friendly reminder: materials may be protected by copyright law.
Welcome and welcome back! Check out the VM-1 and VM-2 Resource Guide for essential information on library and information resources.
You can now request that a bound journal from the Health Sciences Library (or Ellis or Engineering…) be sent to the Vet Library!
Request a bound volume via MERLIN:
Faculty, staff, graduate and professional students can borrow bound journals for 3 days; undergraduates can borrow them overnight.
We recently purchased the “backfiles” of several Wiley journals. You now have electronic access to all years of:
Equine Veterinary Journal (1968 – present)
Journal of Small Animal Practice (1960 – present)
Journal of Veterinary Emergency and Critical Care (1991 – present)
Journal of Veterinary Internal Medicine (1987 – present)
Veterinary Clinical Pathology (1972 – present)
Veterinary Radiology & Ultrasound (1960 – present)
Veterinary Surgery (1971 – present)
Previously, these titles were available online from 1997 to present.
Enjoy!
The Journal of Veterinary Medical Education is now online back to 2001!
http://proxy.mul.missouri.edu/login?url=http://jvmeonline.metapress.com/content/122153
Enjoy!