We now have online access to the Journal of Veterinary Diagnostic Investigation! Online access goes back to the Jan 1999 issue and includes article in press.
Enjoy!
Zalk Veterinary Medical Library
A chance to win $50 gift card!
The MU Libraries needs your help organizing its website.
Please take 10 to 20 minutes of your time to complete this fun activity: http://bit.ly/WG8rLl
Upon completion, your name will be entered in a drawing to win a $50 gift card to the MU Bookstore.
Thank you for taking the time to participate!
For further questions please contact:
Neeley Current
IE Lab Project Manager
University of Missouri
573-884-2986
currentn@missouri.edu
New hours for Spring 2013
Spring 2013 hours start Monday, January 7th. Please note that, due to low usage, we will be closed on Saturdays.
What might that mean for you? If you check out a reserve book after 3pm on Friday, it won’t be due until Sunday afternoon!
Spring 2013 Hours
Mon – Thurs: 7:30 am – 9:00 pm
Fri: 7:30 am – 5:00 pm
Sat: Closed
Sun: 1:00 pm – 8:00 pm
Vet Clinics of North America: Now Online!
Through the generous support of the Dean’s Office, the library now has online access to the Veterinary Clinics of North America from 2002 – present.
If you are in PubMed, Scopus, CAB, or any other library database, the FindIt@MU link will take you to the article.
Please note that there is a 5-user limit for each section. So…don’t everybody click on PDFs all at once.
Yahoo!
ORCID has launched!
ORCID, Open Researcher and Contributor ID, is now live! ORCID is a unique identifier to distinguish YOU from other researchers with similar name. Link all of your work together (articles, datasets, etc.) — whether you were published as Truman Tiger or T Tiger.
Find out more: http://about.orcidid.com/
“ORCID is an open, non-profit, community-based effort to provide a registry of unique researcher identifiers and a transparent method of linking research activities and outputs to these identifiers. ORCID is unique in its ability to reach across disciplines, research sectors, and national boundaries and its cooperation with other identifier systems.”
New Books!
Want to see what’s new in the library? Check out our (new) New Books List!
You’ll see new print books, new electronic books, and new “purchase on demand” titles.
What’s purchase on demand? Due to impending shortfalls in our collection budget, we are investigating new ways to ensure that the books we purchase are needed and used by our campus community.
In the MERLIN library catalog, you may run across some titles that say: “Request the library order this book.” You’ll be asked to login with your Username so we can notify you once the book has been purchased and is available. We expect that most books will arrive within 2-3 weeks.
We’ve also pre-loaded some electronic books into the MERLIN catalog. Click on the e-book and it will open instantly just like any other ebook. An official purchase will be made behind the scenes.
What is Open Access?
Have you ever wondered just what Open Access really is? Here’s an 8-minute video, brought to you by the PhD Comics folks: http://www.openaccessweek.org/video/open-access-explained-by-phd-comics.
Now Online! A history of CVM
We’ve digitized Veterinary Medicine, University of Missouri-Columbia, 1872 – 1968, a 50-page booklet on the early history of veterinary medicine at MU.
Check it out at: https://mospace.umsystem.edu/xmlui/handle/10355/15719
Chock full of interesting info!
New “Purchase on Demand” System for Books/eBooks
The library is experimenting with a “purchase on demand” system for books and e-books. Due to impending shortfalls in our collection budget, we are investigating new ways to ensure that the books we purchase are needed and used by our campus community.
In the MERLIN library catalog, you may run across some titles that say: “Request the library order this book.” You’ll be asked to login with your Username so we can notify you once the book has been purchased and is available. We expect that most books will arrive within 2-3 weeks.
We’ve also pre-loaded some electronic books into the MERLIN catalog. Click on the e-book and it will open instantly just like any other ebook. An official purchase will be made behind the scenes.
Questions? Ask Kate
New NAP Book on Food Safety and One Health
Two Mizzou Advantage areas rolled into one! Check out the new National Academies Press book Improving Food Safety through a One Health Approach.
Description:
Globalization of the food supply has created conditions favorable for the emergence, reemergence, and spread of food-borne pathogens-compounding the challenge of anticipating, detecting, and effectively responding to food-borne threats to health. In the United States, food-borne agents affect 1 out of 6 individuals and cause approximately 48 million illnesses, 128,000 hospitalizations, and 3,000 deaths each year. This figure likely represents just the tip of the iceberg, because it fails to account for the broad array of food-borne illnesses or for their wide-ranging repercussions for consumers, government, and the food industry-both domestically and internationally. A One Health approach to food safety may hold the promise of harnessing and integrating the expertise and resources from across the spectrum of multiple health domains including the human and veterinary medical and plant pathology communities with those of the wildlife and aquatic health and ecology communities.
The IOM’s Forum on Microbial Threats hosted a public workshop on December 13 and 14, 2011 that examined issues critical to the protection of the nation’s food supply. The workshop explored existing knowledge and unanswered questions on the nature and extent of food-borne threats to health. Participants discussed the globalization of the U.S. food supply and the burden of illness associated with foodborne threats to health; considered the spectrum of food-borne threats as well as illustrative case studies; reviewed existing research, policies, and practices to prevent and mitigate foodborne threats; and, identified opportunities to reduce future threats to the nation’s food supply through the use of a “One Health” approach to food safety. Improving Food Safety Through a One Health Approach: Workshop Summary covers the events of the workshop and explains the recommendations for future related workshops.