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Congratulations to Deborah Finfgeld-Connett, who recently published an article via open access, joining the growing ranks of MU authors who are reinventing academic publishing, one article at a time. Making their articles available via open access is the best defense the academic community has against out of control journal price increases, and we salute Deborah and other MU …
You hear a lot of chatter about escalating journal subscription prices, which typically inflate about 6-7% year after year, in good economic times or bad. But some of our faculty are helping to change the publishing paradigm by making their work available via open access. By paying a fee up front, they made their article …
… we give you ten gems from a Bibliography of Rudyard Kipling. "Ten Gems" as in Ten Gems from Kipling, a collection of ten stories from Kipling. It is featured in an entry in this rather thorough bibliography of the author. Interestingly enough, this book was given as a Christmas gift in 1927 from Flora Livingston …
Staying Ahead of the Curve: Be Aware of What Your Library Offers You Jan. 23 1:00 – 2:00 p.m. Learn how other faculty and students are using the Library’s services and find out about the newest tools and information sources. Goodie Bhullar, Library Instruction Coordinator Rachel Brekhus, Humanities Librarian All workshops are offered simultaneously in two formats: Face-to-face in …
This post is by Amanda Sprochi, Health Sciences Cataloger at the J. Otto Lottes Health Sciences Library. Often called "the Father of Modern Medicine," William Osler was a Canadian physician, pathologist, and internist who established the programs of clinical clerkship and medical residency still in use in medical schools today. One of the four founders of Johns …
Updates regarding mold are listed in reverse chronological order. May, 2015 Update on remediation of mold-damaged books The remediation phase of the recovery of mold-damaged books has now been completed with receipt on May 15 of the final shipment of cleaned books back to the Library Depository located in the midway area of Columbia. In …
To finish out October, here's an extra special Halloween edition of Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them in Special Collections. Today's featured beast is the demon, which is usually defined as an evil spirit or fiend. Nearly every religion has a form of demons that populate whatever version of Hell that particular religion believes …
(Your blood, that is.) How does one even begin to write about vampires with any sort of completeness? Every culture's got one – some version of a creature that rises from the dead and preys on the life force of the living (either the blood or something more abstract, such as energy or the soul) to …
Contrary to what you may have learned in school, people in the Middle Ages knew quite well that the world was round. Johannes de Sacrobosco made sure of that fact. Sacrobosco was one of the leading astronomers, educators, and science communicators of the Middle Ages. We don't know very much about his life: he wrote during the early thirteenth century, …
Satellite center will make population, economic and health research more efficient for scientists Oct. 07, 2014 Story Contact(s): Nathan Hurst, hurstn@missouri.edu, 573-882-6217 COLUMBIA, Mo. – The University of Missouri has received approval from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to become a satellite location for the new Research Data Center (RDC) to be located in Kansas City, …