PubGet…Ligercat…PubNet…what are all these things?

Here’s a handy comparison of biomedical literature search tools from NCBI.

You can even specify what kind of tool you’re interesting in: for example, visualizing search results using networks.

Check out the VOX feature on Tim and Terry!

The Hidden Lives of Mules

Celebrate Open Access Week! Check out the MU Libraries home page for the Price That Journal contest…

Check out the guide for VMS 6420: Equine Medicine and Surgery.

Join the J. Otto Lottes Health Sciences Library in celebrating 25 years! The HSL Anniversary Symposium will be held on Wednesday, September 28th, from 9am to noon. National Library of Medicine Director Don Lindberg will be the honored guest.

MU Libraries is conducting a trial of the Natural Standard Alternative Medicine database.   Nature Standard summarizes and synthesizes research evidence on effectiveness of herbal and alternative therapies. Trial ends September 30, 2011.

If you have comments about this resource, send them to wordens@health.missouri.edu.

Laboratory Animal Research and Irish Veterinary Journal have been added to PubMed Central, NCBI’s online archive.

Laboratory Animal Research
URL: http://www.pubmedcentral.gov/tocrender.fcgi?journal=1572
Archive includes v.27:1 (2011) to present
Note: There is no embargo delay for this journal

Irish Veterinary Journal
URL: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/journals/1537
Archive includes 64(2011) to the present
Note: There is no embargo delay for this journal

The 2010 Journal Citation Reports (JCR) is now available. Find Impact Factors, rank in category, and other journal metrics. New to the Veterinary Sciences category is BMC Veterinary Research.

What’s New in the 2010 JCR

More information on ranking journals