We've updated our look!

What's new about the site?

• Responsive web design so that the site looks good on tablets and mobile devices
• New New Books format
• Fresh, clean look
• Some (major) behind the scenes improvements to the scripting language (thank you, Mike, Mathew, Caryn, and Ernest!!)

Please let us know if you have any trouble with the new site.

Looking for veterinary toxicology resources? Check out our new guide: https://libraryguides.missouri.edu/vettox

Need a journal article from our print collection? Use the "Request a Copy" link on a FindIt@MU page, and we'll scan it for you — at no charge.

More information: https://libraryguides.missouri.edu/findit

Scanning on-campus articles at no charge is a new service (we think we have all the kinks worked out…), please let Kate Anderson know if you run into any problems!

Access to Biological Abstracts will end on December 31st, 2013. Due to cost considerations, the MERLIN Library system (comprised of MU, UMSL, UMKC, and MS&T) has canceled the subscription to Biological Abstracts effective December 31, 2013.

Looking for alternatives? Try Scopus or these other biology databases.

Contact Kate Anderson if you have any questions or need help transitioning to another database.

Distinguish yourself with an ORCID iD. The Open Researcher and Contributor ID lets you claim all of your work as yours (and not that other Jane Doe).

More info

MU Libraries recently added over 400 ebooks from Springer's Biomedical and Life Sciences collection. Some titles of interest include:

• Boar Reproduction
• DNA Repair of Cancer Stem Cells
• Epigentic Approaches to Allergy Research
• Farm Animal Proteomics
• Improving Farm Animal Welfare
• Long Acting Animal Health Drug Products
• Principles of Statistical Genomics
• And, many, many, many more!

The Centre for Evidence-based Veterinary Medicince (University of Nottingham) has launched VetSRev and BestBETs for Vets!

Information on the new resources from Douglas Grindlay, Veterinary Information Specialist, CEVM:

"VetSRev

Firstly, there is VetSRev (www.nottingham.ac.uk/cevm/vetsrev).

VetSRev is a freely-accessible online database of citations for systematic reviews of relevance to veterinary medicine and science. At present VetSRev contains around 330 systematic reviews, but more and more are being published each year.

To find out more about VetSRev and our inclusion and exclusion criteria, please see our document About VetSRev. We have also written a guide to using the database called Getting Started with VetSRev.

BestBETs for Vets

Our database BestBETs for Vets (http://bestbetsforvets.org) is also now available online.

“BET” stands for Best Evidence Topic. The BestBETs concept was first developed for doctors working in emergency medicine (http://www.bestbets.org/). In collaboration with our medical colleagues, we have developed a freely accessible database of BestBETs for vets, BestBETs for Vets.

BETs are simple reviews of the current best evidence available to answer simple, common and specific clinical questions. They are designed to be a quick and achievable method of enabling the incorporation of evidence into clinical practice.

BETs start with a very specific clinical question. A systematic literature search is then done to find available evidence. The relevant literature is critically appraised for quality and a “bottom line” (the answer to the question) is reached based on this evidence. BETs do not tell you what to do, they tell you about the evidence on a certain topic—we aim to give an unbiased view of the evidence found.

BETs can be used to help vets stay up to date on what the current evidence suggests on a specific topic. They can also be used as a discussion point for practice meetings, journal clubs and teaching.

If there is a particular topic or question which we have not yet covered, you could submit the question to us via the BestBETs for Vets website.

New CEVM website

Finally, we have a completely new CEVM website, with details of all our different projects:

http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/cevm"