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Collections Review Update
We’re completing the collections review project of the fall.
- We’ll stop receiving many journals in January. You may review lists of the journals cancelled, posted as we complete negotiations with our vendors.
- The budget for one-time purchases (books, videos, recordings) has also been curtailed. We stop ordering on April 1 and resume after July 1. Please let your subject librarian know of materials you will need for the summer and early fall as soon as you can.
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Please be aware especially of how these budget cuts may impact your students as they must rely more on interlibrary loan and MOBIUS for materials:
- waiting for delivery of articles and books from other libraries
- shorter loan periods and stricter overdue fines from other libraries.
- Although it’s tempting to use informal methods (I can haz pdf, SciHub, etc.) to obtain articles, be aware that these often involve violations of copyright and license agreements, can pose online security issues, and prevent us from knowing what you need. We will deliver materials via interlibrary loan as quickly as possible—and use request data to make future budget decisions.
- Help us be more aware of what materials are used: please link to articles and other online materials rather than reposting pdfs.
- Please do not reshelve materials used in the libraries. Just leave them on a table or reshelving area so we can register that they’ve been used.
We’re here to support your teaching and research
Faculty, as you start the semester, remember that librarians are here to help.
We’re here to support your teaching:
- Librarians can provide instruction sessions, create web guides, provide support via Blackboard or Canvas, meet individually with students, and work with them to publish and promote student research.
- You may assign our mobile scavenger hunt, draw on other online videos and tutorials, use e-reserves or on-site reserves to ease access for your students.
- We support the development of Open Educational Resources, easing the burden of expensive textbooks on our students. You can help us by completing a brief survey on OER.
- Information skills go beyond the mechanics of accessing information. We help your students develop critical thinking and evaluative skills.
- See our events calendar to see what’s going on when.
We’re here to support your research:
See our new Research Support page for information on…
- citation management and impact tracking tools
- data management and preservation
- publishing, copyright, and Open Access issues
- digital preservation and promotion
Our Friday workshops, both on site and online, provide more information.
Featured Article from Medicine and Related Fields: January 2017
Each month we feature one article from the School of Medicine with the highest journal impact factor.
The article, titled Statin use for the primary prevention of cardiovascular disease in adults: US preventive services task force recommendation statement, was co-authored by Dr. Michael LeFevre, Professor of Family & Community Medicine, and published in JAMA (impact factor: 37.684 in 2015).
For the list of University of Missouri publications in medicine and related fields published this month, view results here (in Firefox or Chrome).
Recent University of Missouri Publications in Medicine and Related Fields: January 2017
See below for University of Missouri authored articles added to Scopus in the last 30 days from medicine and related fields. Click here for an explanation on how these searches are run monthly to identify articles and how the lists are compiled.
View the list in Scopus, or view recent MU authored articles from other disciplines (in Firefox or Chrome).
Recent University of Missouri Publications- Medicine and Related Fields
- Robinette, C., Saffran, L., Ruple, A., Deem, S.L.Zoos and public health: A partnership on the One Health frontier
- Kruse, S.G., Bridges, G.A., Funnell, B.J., Bird, S.L., Lake, S.L., Arias, R.P., Amundson, O.L., Larimore, E.L., Keisler, D.H., Perry, G.A.Influence of post-insemination nutrition on embryonic development in beef heifers
- Crim, J.Medial-sided Ankle Pain: Deltoid Ligament and Beyond
- Sun, X., Qian, M.-D., Guan, S.-S., Shan, Y.-M., Dong, Y., Zhang, H., Wang, S., Han, W.-W., Bush, C.Investigation of an “alternate water supply system” in enzymatic hydrolysis in the processive endocellulase Cel7A from Rasamsonia emersonii by molecular dynamics simulation
- Popescu, L., Gaudreault, N.N., Whitworth, K.M., Murgia, M.V., Nietfeld, J.C., Mileham, A., Samuel, M., Wells, K.D., Prather, R.S., Rowland, R.R.R.Genetically edited pigs lacking CD163 show no resistance following infection with the African swine fever virus isolate, Georgia 2007/1
- Gajaraj, S., Huang, Y., Zheng, P., Hu, Z.Methane production improvement and associated methanogenic assemblages in bioelectrochemically assisted anaerobic digestion
- Xiong, J., JiJi, R.D.Insights into the aggregation mechanism of Aβ(25–40)
- Curtis, A.K., Scharf, B., Eichen, P.A., Spiers, D.E.Relationships between ambient conditions, thermal status, and feed intake of cattle during summer heat stress with access to shade
- Cabandugama, P.K., Gardner, M.J., Sowers, J.R.The Renin Angiotensin Aldosterone System in Obesity and Hypertension: Roles in the Cardiorenal Metabolic Syndrome
- Michelin, E.C., Massocco, M.M., Godoy, S.H.S., Baldin, J.C., Yasui, G.S., Lima, C.G., Rottinghaus, G.E., Sousa, R.L.M., Fernandes, A.M.Carryover of aflatoxins from feed to lambari fish (Astyanax altiparanae) tissues. Article in Press.
- Segal, S.S.Enhanced functional sympatholysis through endothelial signalling in healthy young men and women
- Sanchez, N.Suitability of the National Health Care Surveys to Examine Behavioral Health Services Associated with Polycystic Ovary Syndrome. Article in Press.
- Adhikari, B., Nowotny, J., Bhattacharya, D., Hou, J., Cheng, J.ConEVA: A toolbox for comprehensive assessment of protein contacts
- Cao, R., Bhattacharya, D., Hou, J., Cheng, J.DeepQA: Improving the estimation of single protein model quality with deep belief networks
- Zheng, Y., Hivrale, V., Zhang, X., Valliyodan, B., Lelandais-Brière, C., Farmer, A.D., May, G.D., Crespi, M., Nguyen, H.T., Sunkar, R.Small RNA profiles in soybean primary root tips under water deficit
- Williams, A., Howenstine, D.Case report: Worsening of longstanding headaches, dizziness, visual symptoms · Dx
- Vuong, T.D., Walker, D.R., Nguyen, B.T., Nguyen, T.T., Dinh, H.X., Hyten, D.L., Cregan, P.B., Sleper, D.A., Lee, J.D., Shannon, J.G., Nguyen, H.T.Molecular characterization of resistance to soybean rust (Phakopsora pachyrhizi Syd. & Syd.) in soybean cultivar DT 2000 (PI 635999)
- Jia, G., Sowers, J.R.Targeting CITED2 for angiogenesis in obesity and insulin resistance
- Kwong, E., Burns, M.K.Preliminary study of the effect of Incremental Rehearsal with a morphological component for teaching Chinese character recognition
- Stiers, K.M., Lee, C.B., Nix, J.C., Tanner, J.J., Beamer, L.J.Synchrotron-based macromolecular crystallography module for an undergraduate biochemistry laboratory cours
View the rest of the list in Scopus, or view recent MU authored articles from other disciplines (in Firefox or Chrome).
Top ten journals by impact factor are:
| JAMA Journal Of The American Medical Association | 37.684 |
| Science Translational Medicine | 16.264 |
| Annual Review Of Genetics | 12.235 |
| Diabetes | 8.784 |
| Frontiers In Immunology | 5.695 |
| JAMA Surgery | 5.661 |
| Advances In Nutrition | 5.201 |
| Annals Of Emergency Medicine | 5.008 |
| Journal Of Physiology | 4.731 |
| Journal Of Molecular Biology | 4.517 |
Changes to journal packages from Wiley, Springer, Sage and Elsevier – impact on the Health Sciences
Negotiations have been completed with Wiley, Springer, Sage and Elsevier on the journal packages that we license with these publishers, reducing our total spend by $550,000, which will be applied to the $1.2 shortfall in the MU Libraries collections budget. The cancellation decisions were informed by usage, cost, and user feedback.
As previously noted, these cuts are in addition to the $150,000 cuts already made from the Health Sciences Library resource budget.
Delayed access
As a result of these cuts, instant article access will not be available for these health sciences titles from Wiley, Springer and Sage. While we will retain online access to back issues for the cancelled titles, articles from 2017 forward will need to be requested via Interlibrary loan. Most articles arrive within two business days.
Alternate online access
Despite being removed from their respective packages, we will maintain complete online access to current issues for the following titles through alternate routes:
Clinical Rehabilitation (Sage)
Journal of Law, Medicine and Ethics (Wiley)
Pay more, keep less
Instant access will be maintained to all of the Elsevier titles. However, in order to balance the budget, 90 titles, amounting to about $300,000 in subscriptions, are being converted from purchase to rental access. Seven of these titles are health sciences journals.
Despite the loss of permanent archival access to articles in these 90 journals from 2017 forward, the total cost of the Elsevier package is still over $1 million dollars a year, and will continue to increase by $50,000+ per year for each of the next 3 years under the terms of the new contract.
We will be reviewing our Oxford University and University of Chicago journal packages during the spring semester of 2017 as steps towards preparing for an anticipated cancellation process in FY2018.
These cuts are especially difficult for us in the Health Sciences realm, since prior to this reduction our collections spending lagged a half of a million dollars below our peer health sciences libraries, and was only about one half the amount our aspirational peer health sciences libraries have available to spend on their collections.
Cuts this deep will undoubtedly be felt. We will continue to monitor usage and impact, and to address collection needs to the extent that our budget allows.
Endnote X8 is now available at MU
Endnote X8 is now available at the Division of IT site
- EndNote X8 is free for MU students. Log in with your pawprint to MyServices and find EndNote under "software."
- EndNote X8 costs $30 per year for MU faculty and staff. Order EndNote here.
Endnote X8 has the following upgrades:
- X8 will allow library sharing with up to 100 other users.
- Versions X8 and X7 will be cross compatible so X7 users can share with X8, and vice versa.
- An activity log has been added so users can easily track changes that others are making to a shared library.
- Icons across Mac & Windows have been updated to better represent their action.
Additional product details are available at the Endnote site along with a “What’s New in Endnote X8” video. To decide whether or not to upgrade to X8, check out a chart comparing the features of X6, X7 and X8
Self-Checkout at Ellis Library
We're happy to announce that Ellis Library has a fully functioning self-checkout machine!
It's a quick-and-easy way to check out books and other items.
How does it work? Simply swipe your student ID and scan your item. The screen shows the due date and gives you the options to print or email yourself a receipt.
Where is it? Right across from the Circulation Desk by the North Door on the main level of Ellis Library.
Downs and Dalabih: The risk of shorter fasting time for pediatric deep sedation (Open Access Article)
This week's Open Access article features two University of Missouri Faculty.
- Dr. Craig Downs, DO., is an Assistant Professor of Clinical Child Health. Dr. Downs primary interest is pediatric critical care.
- Dr. Abdallah Dalabih, MD., MBA, is an Assistant Professor of Clinical Child Health. He is involved in clinical research in pediatric critical care and sedatio, with one other study accepted for publication and four others that are in the process of submission. Those four projects will be published by two medical students and two pediatric residents all as first authors. Click here for Dr. Dalabih's faculty profile.
Dr. Downs, Dr. Dalabih, and their research team published in Anesthesia: Essays and Researches, an open access peer-reviewed international journal by the Pan Arab Federation of Societies of Anesthesiologists. The journal covers technical and clinical studies related to Anesthesia, pain management, intensive care and related topics including ethical and social issues.
Their research in The risk of shorter fasting time for pediatric deep sedation, investigates that safety of a shorter fasting time compared to a longer fasting time before pediatric procedural sedation and analgesia. The current guideline, adopted by the American Academy of Pediatrics, calls for prolonged fasting times. This prospective observational study tries to identify the association between fasting times and complications related to sedation.
Dr. Dalabih took the time to answer some questions we had about open access:
Why did you choose to publish in an Open Access journal?
We selected a journal that is indexed at PubMed so it would be easy to find and that can be accessed all over the world. The journal of Anesthesia: Essays and Researches is an open access journal and is indexed at PubMed with no publication fees, so we elected that journal to showcase our research project.
Would you publish in an Open Access journal again? If so, why?
Yes, with the increased prices of subscriptions, libraries and physicians are having some difficulty accessing articles they need. This is especially true at countries with poor economies. Open access journals allows those physicians to benefit from the study and will increase the distribution.