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Dr. Asombang: Esophageal squamous cell cancer in a highly endemic region (Open Access)

By Taira Meadowcroft   Posted in J. Otto Lottes Health Sciences Library Resources and Services
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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.

Asombang, A. W., Kayamba, V., Lisulo, M. M., Trinkaus, K., Mudenda, V., Sinkala, E., . . . Kelly, P. (2016). Esophageal squamous cell cancer in a highly endemic region. World J Gastroenterol, 22(9), 2811-2817. doi:10.3748/wjg.v22.i9.2811

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This week in Special Collections

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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

https://www.tumblr.com/muspeccoll/143533878072/today-we-have-a-tbt-to-the-west-stacks-in-1998

https://www.tumblr.com/muspeccoll/143483134509/have-you-ever-wondered-about-the-phrase-dont

https://www.tumblr.com/muspeccoll/143443410232

https://www.tumblr.com/muspeccoll/143381284804/manuscript-monday-people-write-all-sorts-of

https://www.tumblr.com/muspeccoll/143292521423/jugend-1896-no-14-katya-s-jugend-mu-nchen

https://www.tumblr.com/muspeccoll/143269552927/this-is-the-last-in-our-series-of-posts

https://www.tumblr.com/muspeccoll/143242428668/found-this-while-working-on-an-ill-a-cosplay-from

https://www.tumblr.com/muspeccoll/143218501452/following-on-from-yesterdays-post-today-marks

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

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Information Resources for VRSP

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Research Guide for the Veterinary Research Summer Program (VRSP) Foundations course: https://libraryguides.missouri.edu/vrsp

Enjoy!

home Resources and Services, Special Collections and Archives Weekend reading from Special Collections

Weekend reading from Special Collections

By Kelli Hansen   Posted in Resources and Services Special Collections and Archives
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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.

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Happenings in Special Collections…

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…

Stay tuned for more updates next week!

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

home Databases & Electronic Resources, Resources and Services Database Spotlight: Slavery, Abolition, and Social Justice

Database Spotlight: Slavery, Abolition, and Social Justice

By Rhonda K. Whithaus   Posted in Databases & Electronic Resources Resources and Services
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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!
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Dodging the Memory Hole conference receives funding from Institute of Museum and Library Services

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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.

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Extended Chat Hours

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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.

home J. Otto Lottes Health Sciences Library, Resources and Services, Zalk Veterinary Medical Library Dr. Booth: Rapid Alterations in Perirenal Adipose Tissue Transcriptomic Networks with Cessation of Voluntary Running (Open Access)

Dr. Booth: Rapid Alterations in Perirenal Adipose Tissue Transcriptomic Networks with Cessation of Voluntary Running (Open Access)

By Taira Meadowcroft   Posted in J. Otto Lottes Health Sciences Library Resources and Services Zalk Veterinary Medical Library
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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.

Ruegsegger GN, Company JM, Toedebusch RG, Roberts CK, Roberts MD, Booth FW. (2015) Rapid Alterations in Perirenal Adipose Tissue Transcriptomic Networks with Cessation of Voluntary Running. PLoS ONE 10(12): e0145229. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0145229

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Scanners on trial: test out two models

By Caryn Scoville   Posted in J. Otto Lottes Health Sciences Library Resources and Services
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We’d like your feedback about whether to use scarce funding to purchase a new scanner for the photocopy room of the Health Sciences Library. We have two models on trial. They are easy to use, and you can send to your cell phone, e-mail or a jump drive. Please feel free to stop by and give them a try.

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Ebscohost Search & Find Trial

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The MU Libraries are reviewing discovery tools as our subscription to Summon comes up for renewal, and we are considering the other commercial discovery tools available.

A discovery tool provides a single search box for ease of searching many library resources at one time.  It includes citations for books, e-books, scholarly journals, magazines, dissertations, DVDs and many more resources, with links to full-text for the materials for which we have access. 

EbscoHost has provided free trial access to EDS, their discovery tool.  This trial gives the libraries and our users an opportunity to test the tool and assess whether it would be a good tool to add to our collection.

Since this is a free trial, it has not been fully customized, as it would be if we were to subscribe.  It does not contain all records from our catalog of books, but instead only  has a subset so that we can see how book records are integrated with the other records in the results.  We have also not activated all of our subscriptions to display within it.

To conduct a comprehensive search, we recommend using the Summon Search & Find and the individual subject databases we provide.  However, for other searches the EbscoHost EDS will be sufficient to identify materials.

Please test it out and give us your feedback.  We would like to know what you think about the tool – if you found it easy to use, which features you like/did not like, etc.  Your feedback will help us as we consider the future of a discovery tool for the MU Libraries.

If you have any questions, please contact Rhonda Whithaus (whithausr@missouri.edu).