Masks are now available in the Ellis Library vending machine, located on the first floor, by the north entrance.
Masks Available in Ellis Library Vending Machine
Taira Meadowcroft
Taira Meadowcroft is the Public Health and Community Engagement Librarian at the Health Sciences Library at the University of Missouri.
Health Sciences Library Labor Day Hours
Make note of the Health Sciences Library holiday hours for Labor Day weekend:
Friday, September 4: 10:00 am – 6:00 pm
Saturday, September 5: Closed
Sunday, September 6: 2:00 pm – 8:00 pm
Monday, September 7: Closed-Labor Day
Normal hours resume on Tuesday, September 8.
Have a safe and happy Labor Day!
University Libraries hours
Escape Mizzou Libraries: Virtual Escape Room
Do you have what it takes to make it through Elmer Ellis’ library quest? Try out the Mizzou Libraries Virtual Escape room.
Visit each library on campus and test your Mizzou Libraries knowledge through puzzles and trivia. If students finish the library quest, you can enter to win a prize pack.
Originally created for new students during Welcome Week, we are opening it up to everyone. Have fun!
H5P: An Easy Way to Make Interactive Content
H5P is an easy (and free!) way to make interactive content in a variety of formats – which can also be embedded in Canvas. A few examples of this platform include:
- Interactive videos with a variety of questions, additional resources, and more that can be added directly into videos.
- Course presentations with interaction added into slide decks that students participate in before advancing.
- Branching scenarios for adaptive learning, guiding users through scenarios.
- Dialog cards (and flash cards) allow instructors to add audio to a flash card deck – perfect for teaching languages or for audio learners. Similarly, Speak the Word Sets create assignments that can be answered by the student’s voice.
Perusall: Social Learning Platform for Online Instruction
In Perusall, students can annotate readings within the text itself, and asynchronously respond to each other’s comments and questions in context. Rather than jumping between an assigned reading and multiple discussion board threads, questions and conversations happen in a living document.
As an instructor, you can assign interactions (required number of questions asked in the text/number of comments and answers to other students questions), and grades sync automatically with Canvas. You also can see which areas where your students have questions, or don’t quite grasp concepts, and tailor class time as needed.
This tool works with articles, OER sources, materials you’ve created, and even published textbooks (although students do need to purchase textbooks through the platform, which can work with the campus bookstore). Check out this demo, or one of the free webinars offered by Perusall to learn more.
Delivering Your Lectures with Panopto
Video can be a powerful component for the online learning experience. Panopto is a tool already integrated into Canvas that makes working with video easy!
With Panopto, you can:
- Record and edit short clips or lectures from where ever you are, using your computer or mobile device
- Create quizzes and interactive questions at strategic points in the middle of videos, that students must complete before continuing
- Embed Panopto videos directly into Canvas modules
- Easily add captions
- Include PDFs, webpages, and slides in videos
This quick run down doesn’t cover even half of what Panopto can do. Visit the Panopto community to get started.
Easily Create Reading Lists in Canvas
Reading List Maker is designed for instructors to search the Libraries collection and add materials to course reading lists, all while within their course page on Canvas.
Rather than going through eReserves, or uploading PDFs into your course page, this tool allows you to simply search for either the title of an article in Canvas, or for materials in general ,the same way you would on the Libraries page. In addition to ease of use, when you use Reading List Maker, copyright is completely covered – and the Libraries get accurate data regarding use.
To use this tool once in your Canvas course page, navigate to the Modules tab.
Once there, follow the written steps or watch this video tutorial.
Thank You Dr. Robert Logan
Dr. Robert Logan, PhD. gifted a digital copy of Deep Learning Techniques for Biomedical and Health Informatics in memory of Dr. Donald Lindberg.
Dr. Lindberg was a pioneer in using computer technology to improve health care. Beginning his career in 1960 at the University of Missouri as a professor of information science and pathology, he was named Director of the National Library of Medicine (NLM) in 1984 and served until 2015.
The University Libraries Honor with Books program lets patrons honor someone special with a book purchase.
Overview of Recent University of Missouri Publications in Medicine and Related Fields: May 2020
Each month we provide an overview of University of Missouri authored articles in medicine and related fields as well as a featured article from a School of Medicine author with the highest journal impact factor.
May’s featured article:
“Bioinspired One Cell Culture Isolates Highly Tumorigenic and Metastatic Cancer Stem Cells Capable of Multilineage Differentiation” was co-authored by Dr. Zhenguo Liu and Dr. Xuanyou Liu of the Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Center for Precision Medicine. The article was published in Advanced Science (impact factor of 15.840 in 2018), and is an open access article.
See the list of publications in medicine and related fields we retrieved for this month: https://library.muhealth.org/code/facultypubmonthly/faculty_publications.php?Month=May&Year=2020
*This list is not intended to be comprehensive.
Did we miss something? Email asklibrary@health.missouri.edu and we will add your publication to the list.
Track Your Research Impact with Scopus Author Profiles
Defining and managing your online professional identity is often as important as defining and managing your in-person professional identity. One of the ways you can help define an manage your online professional identity is keeping track of your author profiles.
Scopus Author Profiles are a good place to start. Scopus automatically creates a profile for you, based on their database algorithms, and curates a list of your publications, complete with citations and h-index.
Even though the profiles are already created, you should double check your profile every so often to make sure the information (name, affiliation, and publications) is up to date.
Below is what you will see in your Scopus Author Profile.
The Health Sciences Library librarians recently engaged in projects to look up all author profiles in Scopus for the School of Medicine and School of Health Professions and has shared that information with administration. If you need help with your Scopus author profile, whether that’s updating your profile or providing a citation report, you can email the Health Sciences Library for assistance.