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Make note of the Health Sciences Library holiday hours for Labor Day weekend:
Friday, August 30: 7:00 am – 6:00 pm
Saturday, September 1: 2:00 pm – 11:00 pm
Sunday, September 2: 2:00 pm – 11:00 pm
Monday, September 3: Closed-Labor Day
Tuesday, September 5: 7:00 am – 12:00 am (normal hours)
Have a safe and happy Labor Day!
Get your blood flowing to get your brain working at the new bike desks at the Health Sciences Library.
Over the summer, the library installed two bike desks to help promote healthy studying habits. Due to the positive reception for our standing desks, the library chose bike desks as the next step in continuing to providing a healthy and stimulating environment.
“The bikes are a great way to unwind while still studying,” says accelerated nursing program student Natalie Cundiff. “I’m able to get moving if I don’t have time for the gym that day.”
Many studies have shown that the use of bike desks results in increased energy and motivation as well as students feeling more successful in studying. While bike desks aren’t a replacement for exercise, they are a simple way to be active.
Alli Burke, accelerated nursing program student, also enjoys the new additions to the library. “It’s a way to stay active and get my blood flowing so I’m not constantly sitting for long hours at a time.”
The bike desks are currently located in the copy room and are first come, first serve.
Scopus includes citations from three major databases: MEDLINE (biomedical), Embase (biomedical), and Compendex (engineering). It gives you a broader global and disciplinary pool to search in.
Scopus allows for cited reference searching; i.e. look at a paper’s references and also articles where the paper itself is a reference. An excellent way to find newer articles and trace the research conversation.
Author searching allows you to find papers by author and to check the author’s h-index, times cited.
Use Quotation marks around phrases – for the best results, when searching phrases, enclose them with quotation marks. Scopus will search the terms adjacent to each other and in either order.
Use Scrolled brackets to search exact phrase – if you need the terms to appear in that order.
Truncation – Use an asterisk (*) at the end of a word to retrieve all the various endings.
CINAHL focuses on nursing and allied health making it easier to find topics of interest to nurses & nursing students, such as nursing theories and models, nursing interventions, etc.
CINAHL includes dissertations, books, book chapters which PubMed (MEDLINE) does not.
You can exclude MEDLINE records by Editing your search: select Edit from the search history, then check Exclude MEDLINE records, followed by Save.
Truncation – Use an asterisk (*) at the end of a word to retrieve all the various endings.
Spell out abbreviations – searching only by abbreviations misses useful & relevant results.
Find words in a title – for a quick way to find relevant articles.
Subject headings – use CINAHL Subject headings to…
Remember AND/OR/NOT to combine your searches –
Over the summer, you might have noticed the Health Sciences Library moved to a single service desk. This means that we can free up more study and research space for you!
In a student survey, our students asked for soft seating areas to make for comfortable studying and research. It has always been our library’s goal to serve our users; and, we work toward providing the best service we can give. This includes both research help and study space.
With more and more questions being answered virtually through chat and email, consolidating to one desk was the natural step toward the library of the future. It’s very early in the planning stages and we will keep you updated.
If you find yourself visiting the library, please add your ideas to our idea board. We want to hear your ideas, big or small!
Join us September 6th at 5pm in Ellis Auditorium for a screening of 13th by filmmaker Ava DuVernay.
This 2016 documentary explores the history of racial inequality in the United States, focusing on the fact that the nation’s prisons are disproportionately filled with African-Americans. After the screening, stay for a guided discussion.
Michelle Alexander is prominently featured in the documentary, discussing how mass incarceration has and hasn’t changed since her book was first published.
After the screening, please stay for a guided discussion.
For some reason, computer problems always feel more frustrating than other issues. You need to access an article for your research project, and you’re getting an error message. You have an assignment due, and the link to your article isn’t working. Thankfully, our electronic resources assistants are here to help.
Behind the computer glitches and improper technical set-ups that lead to blank pages, are Dave Walsh and Stara Herron. From 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. every week day, the two work quickly and competently after they receive a request to resolve issues with electronic materials. The biggest part of their job is to ensure that patrons have access to e-resources and e-serials and that they are discoverable in the search services on the library’s website.
Below you will see just a few of the thank you notes that our electronic resource assistants have received from library users they have helped.
Found an article online, but aren’t sure how to get the entire article? Did the website ask you to sign in or pay a fee? Want an easy way to request an article while searching on your phone? Need to ILL an article? Request your article via Twitter using #MizzouPDF.
In your tweet, be sure to use an identifier like a DOI, PMID, article title, or any information you have about the article. Including your MU pawprint will make the process faster, but we can private message you back if you don’t want to include your pawprint. With the information you’ve given us, we will send the article through your university email.
It’s simple to do! Here is a good example of how to tweet your article request:
This service is open to current MU faculty, students, and staff.
Remember, you can still request articles while in databases like PubMed, Scopus, EbscoHost, etc., by clicking on 
and selecting “Request a copy”.
Join us September 12 at 1 pm in Hulston Hall, Room 109 for The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness book discussion. Haven’t had a chance to read this year’s One Read selection? We welcome those who are interested in discussing the book, but need to finish, or even start. Wraps and chips will be provided for the first 25 participants. Bring your own beverage.
The One Read Program, which promotes conversations regarding diversity, inclusion, and social justice through students, faculty, and staff reading a particular book together, is sponsored by Mizzou Law and Univerisity Libraries.
For more information on the book, events, additional resources, and information on the One Read Program, see this guide. Copies of the book are available for checkout in Ellis Library, the Health Sciences Library, the Journalism Library, and the Law Library.
The following events and exhibitions have been scheduled to facilitate conversation regarding this year’s One Read Program selection: The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander. In this incisive critique, former litigator-turned-legal-scholar Michelle Alexander provocatively argues that we have not ended racial caste in America: we have simply redesigned it. The New Jim Crow challenges the civil rights community–and all of us–to place mass incarceration at the forefront of a new movement for racial justice in America.
A Brief Moment in the Sun Art Contest
Submissions beginning September 1st- October 18th
We want to feature your work based on The New Jim Crow. Submit a poem, mixed media, a sculpture, a painting, a photo; whichever medium speaks to you. Please contact Michelle Baggett for more information.
September 6th @ 5 pm: 13th Documentary
Filmmaker Ava DuVernay explores the history of racial inequality in the United States, focusing on the fact that the nation’s prisons are disproportionately filled with African-Americans. After the screening, stick around for a guided discussion.
Ellis Auditorium
One Read Discussion…Without the Reading
August 22, 1:00-1:50pm
Didn’t get a chance to read the 2018 One Read book but still want a chance to hear about it and discuss the topic? This is the event for you. Wraps and chips will be provided for the first 25 participants. Bring your own beverage!
Hulston Hall Room 4
2018 One Read Keynote Speaker: Dr. Demetria Frank
October 19th, 12:30-2:30pm
Dr. Demetria Frank, Assistant Professor of Law at the Cecil C. Humphreys School of Law, will be discussing mass incarceration and The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Color Blindness By Michelle Alexander, this year’s One Read selection.
July-October: The New Jim Crow – One Read Program Exhibit
An exhibit in the Ellis Library Colonnade features a timeline showing the increasing numbers of incarcerated Missourians over the past four decades. Key moments in law, the privatization of prisons, and stories of anonymous Mizzou Tigers impacted by incarceration are highlighted.
Ellis Library Exhibit Case
The One Read Program, which promotes conversations regarding diversity, inclusion, and social justice through students, faculty, and staff reading a particular book together, is sponsored by Mizzou Law and Univerisity Libraries.
For more information on the book, events, additional resources, and information on the One Read Program, see this guide. Copies of the book are available for checkout in Ellis Library, the Health Sciences Library, the Journalism Library, and the Law Library.