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Open Access Week: Oct 18 – 24

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Join the MU Libraries for two events celebrating Open Access Week!

“Open Access University Repositories”

Paul Thirion from the University of Liege, Belgium
Co-sponsored by SISLT and the RJI Transatlantic Center
2 pm, Tuesday, October 19
Fred W. Smith Forum, Reynolds Journalism Institute (RJI)

Reception 3:30-5 in RJI 100

“Open Access Textbook Solutions”

Eric Frank from Flatworld Knowledge
Co-sponsored by the University Bookstore
Panel discussion to follow
2 pm,  Thursday, October 21
Jesse Wrench Auditorium (in the South wing of the Memorial Union)

Followed by refreshments
RSVP for both events to Mark Ellis at ellismw@missouri.edu or 573-882-4701.

Visitor parking information

For more information about Open Access, visit http://www.openaccess.org/

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SciVerse Launched

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The new SciVerse platform combines Scopus, ScienceDirect, and web content from Scirus. It also includes the new SciVerse Hub. For more information about SciVerse, please visit www.acceleratescience.com.

From Elsevier:

“Combining familiar resources with new efficiencies, SciVerse also enables interoperability among ScienceDirect, Scopus and the new SciVerse Hub beta. For example, ScienceDirect users who also subscribe to Scopus will now be able to access key author information without leaving the article, and link directly into comprehensive lists of all an author’s documents and citations in Scopus.

SciVerse Hub beta will include three search and discovery applications at launch:

  • Methods section search application – allows researchers to search only the methodology and protocol sections of full-text articles.
  • Matching Sentences application – returns search results with the query words highlighted in the full sentence where they appear.
  • Prolific Authors application – prominently displays the most prolific authors for each search result.

The initial applications offer an example of the possible solutions that can be built using content APIs and were developed by NextBio, a provider of a SaaS (Software as a Service) platform for life sciences researchers which includes ontology-based semantic tools. Elsevier began collaborating with NextBio in 2009.”

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Impact Factors Now Available Online

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The 2009 Journal Citation Report is now available online! Look up impact factors and rank in category to your heart’s content!

Previous years are available in hard copy in the Vet Library.

More on assessing journal quality

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NIH Public Access Compliance & My NCBI

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As of July 23, 2010, PD/PIs will be unable to enter citations manually into eRA Commons and must use My NCBI’s “My Bibliography” tool to manage their professional bibliographies.

In the interest of easing investigators’ bibliography management, improving data quality, and ensuring compliance with the NIH Public Access Policy, eRA Commons has partnered with the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) to link NCBI’s personal online tool, “My NCBI,” to Commons. My NCBI offers an online portal—“My Bibliography”—for users to maintain and manage a list of all types of their authored works, such as articles, presentations and books.

[See entire press release at http://nexus.od.nih.gov/nexus/nexus.aspx?ID=470&Month=06&Year=2010 ]

See our  NIH Public Access Policy page for more details about the NIH policy.

home Events and Exhibits Anatomical Illustrations: Online Exhibit

Anatomical Illustrations: Online Exhibit

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The “Anatomical Illustration: Art Informing Science” online exhibit highlights items from the Zalk Veterinary Medical Library special collections.

Check it out at: http://mulibraries.missouri.edu/specialcollections/exhibits/anatomy/about.htm

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Congratulations, Trenton!

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Trenton Boyd, Head of Zalk Veterinary Medical Library, has been named the 2010 recipient of the Medical Library Association’s Louise Darling Medal for Distinguished Achievement in Collection Development in the Health Sciences!

Read all about it.

Way to go, Trenton!!

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Poisonous Plant “Pet Safe” App

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The ASPCA has developed a Poisonous Plant “Pet Safe” App, available on iTunes.

Pet Safe includes:

  • a searchable database of plants reported to adversely affect the health of dogs, cats and horses;
  • detailed profiles of each plant, including common and scientific names, images and a list of potential symptoms if ingested
home Resources and Services Food Animal Veterinarian Recruitment Program Announced

Food Animal Veterinarian Recruitment Program Announced

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The Food Animal Veterinarian Recruitment and Retention Program, a joint effort of the AVMA and its charitable arm, the American Veterinary Medical Foundation, and funded by several industry partners, will provide financial incentives in the form of student loan debt forgiveness for veterinarians who commit to four years of employment in food animal veterinary medicine.

More information.

home Events and Exhibits From Art to Biology and Back Again

From Art to Biology and Back Again

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On March 4, MU Libraries’ Special Collections, Archives, and Rare Books (SCARaB) division will open an exhibition in the Ellis Library Colonnade entitled Anatomical Illustration: Art Informing Science: 1543 -1950.

The exhibition will run in conjunction with the 6th Annual Life Sciences & Society Symposium: From Art to Biology and Back Again.  A wide variety of materials—books, prints, artifacts—from the collections of Special Collections & Rare Books, University Archives, J. Otto Lottes Health Sciences Library Rare Book Room and the Zalk Veterinary Medical Library will be displayed.

Michael Holland, the Director of SCARAB division, is the curator of the exhibit. The display will run till March 26th 2010.

Opening lecture entitled: “Art and Human Nature” by Professor Carsten Strathausen
Chair, MU Department of German & Russian Studies

  • Thurs. March 4, 2:00pm
  • Ellis Library Colonnade
    • home Resources and Services New title in PMC: Journal of Veterinary Science

    New title in PMC: Journal of Veterinary Science

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    The Journal of Veterinary Science has been added to PubMed Central.

    Journal of Veterinary Science
    ISSN: 1229-845X (print) 1976-555X (electronic)
    URL: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/journals/1103/
    Archive includes September 2008 to present.
    Note: There is no embargo delay for this journal.