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MU Published 1,017 Open Access Articles in 2022

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International Open Access Week was October 24-30! This year’s theme, Open For Climate Justice, seeks to encourage connection and collaboration among the climate movement and the international open community. Sharing knowledge is a human right, and tackling the climate crisis requires the rapid exchange of knowledge across geographic, economic, and disciplinary boundaries.

So far this year, MU authors published 1,017 open-access articles. These articles have already been cited 826 times; sixteen of which have been listed as Web of Science highly cited papers.

Drs. Qureshi, Baskett, Huang, Lobanova, Navqu and Shyu recently published an open-access article in Clinical Infectious Disease looking at reinfection from SARS-CoV-2. The article has performed well in altmetrics and in Web of Science metrics. Read the article here.

Thank you to all of our MU authors who chose to publish open access.

Adnan I Qureshi, William I Baskett, Wei Huang, Iryna Lobanova, S Hasan Naqvi, Chi-Ren Shyu, Reinfection With Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) in Patients Undergoing Serial Laboratory Testing, Clinical Infectious Diseases, Volume 74, Issue 2, 15 January 2022, Pages 294–300, https://doi.org/10.1093/cid/ciab345

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New White House Office of Science and Technology Policy Guidelines Change Public Access Requirements

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New White House Office of Science and Technology Policy Guidelines Change Public Access Requirements

This summer, the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) published new guidelines requiring all federally funded research be made available to the public freely and immediately upon its publication. The new memo builds on a 2013 directive, which aimed to increase access to publicly funded research. When introducing the guideline change, Dr. Alondra Nelson, head of OTSP, said, “When research is widely available to other researchers and the public, it can save lives, provide policymakers with the tools to make critical decisions, and drive more equitable outcomes across every sector of society…”

The new OSTP memo contains three important updates:

  • Removing the 12-month delay before research publications funded by the largest federal agencies become publicly available;
  • Directing that both federally-funded research publications and their supporting data should be made publicly accessible at the time of publication; and
  • Bringing all federal agencies into alignment with this open-access publishing policy

Agencies have until the end of 2025 to fully implement their public access and data-sharing plans.

For more information, see this fact sheet from the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC).

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New Book Highlight: Clinical Practice to Academia- A Guide for New and Aspiring Health Professions Faculty

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Clinical Practice to Academia- A Guide for New and Aspiring Health Professions Faculty

We’ve recently added Clinical Practice to Academia: A Guide for New and Aspiring Health Professions Faculty to our online collection.

Designed to assist health professionals with the transition from a clinical role to a faculty role, Clinical Practice to Academia: A Guide for New and Aspiring Health Professions Faculty provides a comprehensive overview of higher education for new and aspiring faculty across health professions including occupational therapy, physical therapy, athletic training, nursing, speech-language pathology, clinical and diagnostic sciences, and pharmacy.

This practical guide explores the complexities of the faculty role and includes specific strategies related to teaching and learning in the health professions. Written by Dr. Crystal A. Gateley, Clinical Practice to Academia includes an overview of the issues most impacting academics today. Chapters are placed within the context of current health care and higher education settings. Conceptual foundations of teaching and learning are reviewed, and specific strategies for classroom instruction are provided. The text also includes suggestions for ongoing professional development through the first few years and beyond

You can access the book online.

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Taira Meadowcroft is the Public Health and Community Engagement Librarian at the Health Sciences Library at the University of Missouri.

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How Do You Benefit From Open Access?

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International Open Access Week is October 24-30! This year’s theme is Open For Climate Justice. This year’s theme seeks to encourage connection and collaboration among the climate movement and the international open community. Sharing knowledge is a human right, and tackling the climate crisis requires the rapid exchange of knowledge across geographic, economic, and disciplinary boundaries.

So, what is Open Access? The basic idea of open access is that it makes copyrightable works available without all of the access barriers associated with the “all rights reserved” model. These can take the form of price barriers and permission barriers (1). These barriers affect communities’ abilities to produce, disseminate, and use knowledge around the world. Openness can create pathways to more equitable knowledge sharing and serve as a means to address the inequities and our response to them.

But how does Open Access benefit you?

  • More exposure for your work; wider collaboration and interdisciplinary engagement: Open Access maximizes the research visibility of your article or journal and helps disseminate your articles more quickly and widely. It makes the content available to those who can’t access research behind a paywall. Research is immediately available without any barriers, and scholars and researchers can build upon this work without any restrictions. Open access enables scholars to work on their research collaboratively on a global scale and helps researchers connect more easily with each other, leading to greater recognition.
  • Increase research impact and citations: SPARC found that there was a citation advantage to articles available through open access.
  • Maintain control: Open Access helps researchers retain the copyright to their work and at the same time ensure people worldwide can access and reuse their research for free. Click here to learn more about retaining your rights.

You are interested in publishing Open Access, but how do you start?

  • Find the open access journals in your subject area by searching the Directory of Open Access Journals. You can also contact your Subject Specialist to help identify the best open access journals in your area to save you time.
  • You can look into MU’s institutional repository, MOSpace, as a place to share your work or explore subject-oriented repositories.
  • If you are a reviewer or editor, make sure to read the Open Access policies of those journals or publishers.
  • Visit our Open Access guide for a more in depth look into the different parts of open access.

(1) Understanding Open Access: When, Why, & How to Make Your Work Openly Accessible

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HathiTrust Research Center Fall Workshops

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Fall 2022, HathiTrust Research Center (HTRC) is offering 3 virtual workshops, aimed especially at people new to HathiTrust and text and data mining.The workshops will be held via Zoom and will include a mix of hands-on, discussion, and presentation. We will utilize breakout rooms to support hands-on activities. You will not be required to install any software to participate in the workshops.

Workshop 1: Introduction to HathiTrust and HTRC

Registration

Date: Thursday, November 3

Time: 1:00 pm ET/ 12:00 pm CT

Duration: 2 hours

This workshop will introduce attendees to the data and computational tools of HathiTrust. HathiTrust operates a repository of over 17.5 million items digitized at a network of partner libraries. This massive collection is available for computational analysis primarily through the tools and services of the HathiTrust Research Center (HTRC). Attendees of this workshop will be introduced to the HathiTrust and HathiTrust Digital Library as well as the HTRC and its data and analytical tools, including hands-on practice with HTRC Analytics.

No experience is required for this introductory workshop.

Workshop 2: HTRC Extracted Features

Registration

Date: Thursday, November 10

Time: 1:00 pm ET/ 12:00 pm CT

Duration: 2 hours

An introduction to the HTRC Extracted Features Dataset, including the motivation for its creation, the data model, and the kinds of research it enables. This session will include a hands-on activity using the dataset, Google Colaboratory notebooks and Python code.

No experience is required–your level of participation is up to you! However, familiarity with Python is helpful.

Workshop 3: Introduction to HathiTrust and HTRC (repeat)

Registration

Date: Thursday, December 1

Time: 1:00 pm ET/ 12:00 pm CT

Duration: 2 hours

This workshop will introduce attendees to the data and computational tools of HathiTrust. HathiTrust operates a repository of over 17.5 million items digitized at a network of partner libraries. This massive collection is available for computational analysis primarily through the tools and services of the HathiTrust Research Center (HTRC). Attendees of this workshop will be introduced to the HathiTrust and HathiTrust Digital Library as well as the HTRC and its data and analytical tools, including hands-on practice with HTRC Analytics.

No experience is required for this introductory workshop.

Please contact htrc-help@hathitrust.org with questions.

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Student Input Needed! Please Fill Out Our Survey About Ellis Library

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Please fill out survey linked below by October 25 to help us make Ellis Library work for students!

Ellis Library Student Survey

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New Book Highlight: Operative Techniques in Surgery

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Operative Techniques in Surgery

We’ve recently added Operative Techniques in Surgery to our online collection.

Operative Techniques in Surgery is a new comprehensive, 2-volume surgical atlas that helps you master a full range of general surgical procedures. Ideal for residents as well as experienced surgeons, it guides you step-by-step through each technique using concise, bulleted text, full-color illustrations, and intraoperative photographs to clarify exactly what to look for and how to proceed.

You can access the book online.

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Taira Meadowcroft

Taira Meadowcroft is the Public Health and Community Engagement Librarian at the Health Sciences Library at the University of Missouri.

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Resources for Disaster and Emergency Preparedness

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In the interest of disaster preparedness, the Health Sciences Library staff have prepared a Disaster and Response Planning guide highlighting a list of books, websites and mobile apps for the use of emergency personnel.

In the event of an actual emergency, we are willing to prepare and lend a mobile disaster bookshelf, along with any of our available mobile devices, for use by emergency personnel.

This guide contains overall one-shelf recommendations. These can be put on a cart and checked out if requested by emergency personnel.

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Taira Meadowcroft

Taira Meadowcroft is the Public Health and Community Engagement Librarian at the Health Sciences Library at the University of Missouri.

home J. Otto Lottes Health Sciences Library, Resources and Services Overview of Recent University of Missouri Publications in Medicine and Related Fields: September 2022

Overview of Recent University of Missouri Publications in Medicine and Related Fields: September 2022

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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, “An RNA aptamer that shifts the reduction potential of metabolic cofactors” was co-authored by Dr. Xiao Heng of the Department of Biochemistry and Dr. Donald Burke of the Department of Molecular Microbiology & Immunology. The article was published in Nature Chemical Biology (impact factor of 16.290 in 2021).

See the list of publications in medicine and related fields we retrieved for this month: https://library.muhealth.org/facpubmonthlyresult/?Month=September&Year=2022

*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.

College of Veterinary Medicine Monthly Publications List

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Twentieth-Century Political Pamphlet Collection now available online through JSTOR

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A Perspective on Nonviolence. Philadelphia, PA, 1957.

The Twentieth Century Political Pamphlet Collection in Special Collections is now available as an open-access digital collection in JSTOR. The collection consists of ephemeral political materials distributed by and for members of national organizations and political committees. The majority of the materials relate are concerned with civil rights, anti-war protest, feminism, and economic policy. The collection offers primary source material to researchers interested in the various social protest movements of the 1960s. Browse the Twentieth-Century Political Pamphlet Collection in JSTOR.

This collection was digitized as part of Reveal Digital’s Student Activism Collection. Overall, the Student Activism Collection will contain approximately 75,000 pages drawn from special collection libraries and archives around the country. The collection will capture the voices of students across the great range of protest, political actions, and equal-rights advocacy from the 20th and early 21st century United States. The primary sources intended for inclusion will be broad-based across time, geography, and political viewpoint — from the conservative to the anarchist. Explore the Student Activism Collection.

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Kelli Hansen

Kelli Hansen is head of the Special Collections and Rare Books department.