Check out the guide for Dr. Amos-Landgraf's VPB 5579 course on Veterinary Genomics: https://libraryguides.missouri.edu/vpb5579
Resources for Veterinary Genomics
Resources and Services
Database Spotlight: Ovid Featured Resources for Nursing
Check out the free database and journal trials that Ovid is offering in May for nurses! The featured resources this month are:
- Joanna Briggs Institute EBP Database: "This comprehensive database covers a wide range of medical, nursing, and health science specialties and includes a unique suite of information that’s been analyzed, appraised, and prepared by expert reviewers at JBI so you and your team can integrate the world’s best evidence into your practice"
- Maternity and Infant Care: "Maternity and Infant Care is a bibliographic database covering over 400 English-language journals and other sources. It is a key information resource used by maternity health care professionals and student midwives worldwide to support their research, practice and study requirements."
- AJN: American Journal of Nursing: "The American Journal of Nursing is the oldest and most honored broad-based nursing journal in the world."
- Journal of Patient Safety: "The Journal of Patient Safety is dedicated to presenting research advances and field applications in every area of patient safety."
Access for these resources lasts until the end of May, so check them out while you can.
Access here: http://www.ovid.com/site/index.jsp
Tips and Tricks:
Each resource has to be registered for separately.
Cross searching databases is not allowed with the trials.
Dr. Asombang: Esophageal squamous cell cancer in a highly endemic region (Open Access)
This week’s open access blog post features Dr. Akwi Asombang. Dr. Asombang is an Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine in the Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology at the School of Medicine. Her research and clinical interests include gastroenterology, endoscopy, colonoscopy, and global health, specifically raising awareness and improving GI knowledge and patient care in resource limited settings.
Dr. Asombang recently published in World Journal of Gastroenterology, a weekly peer reviewed open access medical journal that covers reserach in gastroenterology.
This week in Special Collections
It's been a busy week in Special Collections. Alla hosted classes from the Honors College and nearby Stephens College, and we all started preparation for collaborating with E-Learning Librarian Nav Khanal to produce some videos on medieval manuscripts for an online class. We also had a special visit from preschoolers attending the University of Missouri's Child Development Lab. At ages 3-5, they're our youngest instruction session attendees yet!
Scroll through for this week's Tumblr Posts
Information Resources for VRSP
Research Guide for the Veterinary Research Summer Program (VRSP) Foundations course: https://libraryguides.missouri.edu/vrsp
Enjoy!
Weekend reading from Special Collections
Here’s a roundup of our posts on Tumblr and our favorite articles, blogs, and posts from around the web this week for your reading pleasure over the weekend.
Happenings in Special Collections…
- Charlotte Bronte turned 200 on April 21, and we celebrated with a look at her manuscript in Special Collections.
- This week's Library Centennial Throwback Thursday post took us to 1984. Did the library really have a dungeon?
- We took a look at an interesting Spanish binding from 1839.
- We don't know much about this beautiful Chinese book. Can you help us?
- We identified this previously mis-identified fragment as a fifteenth-century piece of Guy de Chauliac's Chirugia magna.
In the reading room, Tim installed a new exhibit on this year's literary anniversaries (look for Tumblr posts on it soon!) and Alla hosted visits from the University of Missouri Russian Club and Camdenton High School.
Around the web…
- University of Iowa Special Collections is hosting their annual Shakespeare Live Stream today!
- Read this inspiring interview with Carla Hayden, the nominee for Librarian of Congress
- Lin-Manuel Miranda won a Pulitzer Prize for Hamilton the musical. Even more reason to stop by the reading room and see our Hamilton exhibit.
- Harriet Tubman is replacing Andrew Jackson on the $20 bill. Smithsonian Libraries has a roundup of books about her in this tweet.
Stay tuned for more updates next week!
Database Spotlight: Slavery, Abolition, and Social Justice
Slavery, Abolition, and Social Justice is a database that provides primary source documents related to the slave trade and to subsequent abolition efforts. The database covers a period from 1490 all the way up to 2007. Rather than just focusing on the slavery of the past, this database looks at the ramifications of that slavery as well as on modern-day slavery. They have 16 areas of study within the database and all of them can be thoroughly explored in their “Themes” section of the database. This is a great place to start your research because you can look at important documents related to each particular theme while also placing them in context through explanation as well as through the “Essays” section of the database. In the “Essays” section of the database several essays written using the sources in the database are gathered; they are all written by leading authorities in their areas and can be a great resource to get a better understanding of the complex issues that this database deals with.
Another great place to get a general understanding of the depth and breadth of the slave trade is the interactive chronology. This timeline looks at the slave trade all over the world from 1492 up to 2007. Though the timeline isn’t as interactive as I’d like it to be, it’s still a great way to get an idea as to the span of slavery, both in terms of its continuation and its effects.
Let’s say that you’re looking for something a bit more specific in your research though. This database is still great for that with its amazing Advanced Search. This Advanced Search is one of the most comprehensive that I’ve seen with the ability to filter your search by Region, by Theme, and even by the Library that provided the document. Given how prevalent slavery has been throughout history, it is extremely useful to be able to narrow your search by region and time period so that you aren’t searching through 500+ years of documents.
Basically, if you are looking into the slave trade and its effects on society, then Slavery, Abolition, and Social Justice is the database for you.
Searching Tips and Tricks:
- Not sure what to search for? Use the Popular Search tab!
- Use phrase searching if you’re looking for a specific phrase, this means typing “Harriet Tubman” instead of Harriet Tubman. This ensures your search will only pull up results where those two words are next to each other.
- Wildcard: ?
- Truncation: *
- The search engine won’t automatically find plurals, so make sure you use that truncation!
Dodging the Memory Hole conference receives funding from Institute of Museum and Library Services
Among the Laura Bush 21st Century Librarian Program grants is funding for the Journalism Digital News Archive’s Dodging the Memory Hole 2016: Saving Online News conference.
Read more at the Reynolds Journalism Institute Blog.
Extended Chat Hours
Need research help? You can ask a librarian for help using our chat service–now available almost 24 hours a day.
During the day you can chat with MU librarians and library staff. At night, we offer access to a chat reference service called ChatStaff. They will be able to answer most research questions, except for some that are Mizzou-specific.
To access the chat service and see what hours chat reference is available, visit libraryanswers.missouri.edu.
Dr. Booth: Rapid Alterations in Perirenal Adipose Tissue Transcriptomic Networks with Cessation of Voluntary Running (Open Access)
Dr. Frank W. Booth, PhD. is a Professor in the Department of Physiology & Pharmacology at the School of Medicine, the department of Nutrition & Exercise Physiology, and is a Research Investigator at the Dalton Cardiovascular Research Center. His research interests currently include elucidating mechanisms underlying the decreases in physical activity and gaining a better understanding of why cardiorespiratory fitness, or VO2max declines as an organism ages. Dr. Booth has published over 220 publications and has numerous national and international honor awards from exercise biology organizations. To learn more about Dr. Booth, click here.
Dr. Booth published, along with several University of Missouri doctoral students, in Public Library of Science (PLoS One), an open access journal for science and medicine.