Several Mizzou accounts showed us some library love this week!
Mizzou Alumni
Scroll through our National Library Week highlight to see what Mizzou posted about us this year: https://www.instagram.com/stories/highlights/18052200346048565/
Taira Meadowcroft
Taira Meadowcroft is the Public Health and Community Engagement Librarian at the Health Sciences Library at the University of Missouri.
Marketing Highlight: Instagram Reels
We had another reel created by a peer navigator on our instagram this week! Thanks again to all their hard work!
And thanks to Amanda May for her work on the other reel we posted this week!
New MU Authored Trending Article in PubMed
A recently trending article in PubMed was Detection of antibodies against influenza A viruses in cattle co-authored by Yuekan Yang, Lei Shi, Sawrab Roy, Dipali Gupta, Chao Dai, Muhamma Afnan Khalid, Xiu- Feng Wan, and Wenjun Ma from the Department of Molecular Microbiology & Immunology at the School of Medicine.
What is a PubMed trending article?
Trending articles is a marker of increased interest in a PubMed abstract. Trending articles are those with a significant increase in daily PubMed views in the past two days as compared to the previous baseline period, which is approximately a week.
You can see the full list of trending articles here.
Interested in tracking the impact of your articles after they are published? Email asklibrary@health.missouri.edu to learn how we can help.
New Books at the Health Sciences Library
Below are a few of the books we’ve recently added to our online collection. Find the list of this month’s new books here.
Have a purchase recommendation? You can request a book for your teaching or research using this form.
AMA guides to the evaluation of permanent impairment / medical editor, Robert D. Rondinelli 6th edition
The AMA guide is a widely recognized, standardized system for evaluating and reporting medical impairments, used by physicians and healthcare professionals to determine the extent of permanent impairment in various body systems
A video atlas of neuromuscular disorders / edited by Aziz Shaibani.
This online title is the first real cases video atlas of neuromuscular disorders. It contains close to 300 video cases taken directly from a real neuromuscular clinic, illustrating a myriad of disorders and shedding light on their diagnosis and treatment, as well as providing updates about many of them. Some rare diseases are also described, giving an opportunity for future diagnosis of these conditions in patients, despite the rarity of the condition and its infrequent presentation in clinic.
Marketing Highlight: Instagram Reels
This week we had reels for peer navigators and one starring Chelsae Cordia, who filmed along with Megan Ballengee and Amanda May.
Marketing Highlight: Instagram Reels
Here are the latest instagrm reels. Thanks to our peer navigators for creating these!
Data Analysis Tools Available at Mizzou
There are a few data analysis tools available to you at the university. As well as courses to learn how to use those tools.
R: A statistical programming language that is useful for data cleaning, visualization, and other purposes related to statistical computing and data analysis.
- R Courses: R Programming
Python: A programming language that is commonly used for creating data visualizations, data analysis, and performing statistical calculations.
- Python Courses: Practical Python: Learn Python Basics Step by Step, Introduction to Python
SQL (Structured Query Language): A programming language used for storing, processing, and retrieving data in relational databases.
- SQL Courses: Learning SQL, SQL for Data Analysis,
REDcap: A secure application for data collection and survey management.
- REDcap Courses: REDCap Training Videos
Marketing Highlight
You may have noticed some new faces on our instagram. Those new faces are our peer navigators who’ve added social media content to their peer navigator projects. We have two up do far with many more to come.
Thank you to our peer navigators for taking on this new project and showing the libraries in a new way!
Overview of Recent University of Missouri Publications in Medicine and Related Fields: February 2025
Each month we provide an overview of University of Missouri School of Medicine faculty-authored articles in medicine and related fields as well as a featured article with the highest journal impact factor.
This month’s featured article, “Transport and Immune Functions of the Lymphatic System” was co-authored by Dr. Michael J. Davis and Dr. Scott Zawieja of the Department of Medical Pharmacology and Physiology. The article was published in Annual Review of Physiology (journal impact factor of 15.8 in 2023).
Note that Dr. James Stevermer also had a publication in JAMA as a member of the USPSTF: “Screening for Osteoporosis to Prevent Fractures: US Preventive Services Task Force Recommendation Statement”
See the list of publications in medicine and related fields we retrieved for this month: https://library.muhealth.org/facpubmonthlyresult/?Month=February&Year=2025
Marketing Highlight
Thanks to Amanda May and Megan Ballenge for taking footage and their idea for one of our latest instagram reels promoting the cast gallery: https://www.instagram.com/p/DGwQkTgxvOt/