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Scholarly Communication Workshop Series

Empower your academic career with practical tools and strategies in scholarly communications! This workshop series is designed to help researchers and scholars at all levels navigate the complexities of academic publishing, promotion, and research impact.

Maximizing Your Research Identity and Measuring Research Impact
Date: Tuesday, February 18, 2025
Time: 1:00pm – 2:00pm
Register for online workshop.
Learn about the usefulness of various researcher profiles that you can create for yourself and discover where to find metrics for your research output including citation counts, journal impact factors, h-index and altmetrics.

Promotion & Tenure Packets – How the Libraries can Help
Date: Monday, March 17, 2025
Time: 1:00pm – 1:30pm
Register for online workshop.
Discover how the library can support you in crafting compelling promotion and tenure packets. From citation analysis to showcasing your publications, we’ll provide tips and resources to make your materials stand out.

Find the Right Journal to Publish Your Research
Date: Tuesday, April 1, 2025
Time: 1:00pm – 2:00pm
Register for online workshop.
Not sure where to publish? Learn strategies to identify reputable journals that match your research scope and audience. We’ll also cover tips for avoiding predatory journals and improving your chances of acceptance.

All About Altmetrics
Date: Wednesday, April 9, 2025
Time: 1:00pm – 1:30pm
Register for online workshops.
Go beyond citation counts and learn about alternative metrics that can help you track and measure the impact of your research publications.

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Who Should Attend?
• Faculty preparing for promotion and tenure.
• Early-career researchers building their scholarly presence.
• Graduate students navigating academic publishing.

For a complete list of library workshops, visit library.missouri.edu/workshops.

home J. Otto Lottes Health Sciences Library, Resources and Services Spring 2025 Health Sciences Textbooks Available Online or at the Health Sciences Library

Spring 2025 Health Sciences Textbooks Available Online or at the Health Sciences Library

Spring 2025 and optional textbooks for classes are now available!

Pick your school/college, then your program, and finally the course. It’s as easy as that. Access textbook copies at the Health Sciences Library here.

Note: Paper copies will be available at the Health Sciences LIbrary Desk for 24 hour checkout. Any duplicate copies of textbooks are available and subject to regular check out times.

Some ebooks are limited to one viewer at a time, so please close your browser window when you are finished so that the book will be available to others.

Unfortunately, we don’t have all the books required for every class. If we don’t have your textbook, there are several avenues you can use to find a copy, which are all clearly labeled on each class page.

You can also recommend the Health Sciences Library purchase an online copy here. Please provide what course the textbook is for and the name of your instructor.

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Taira Meadowcroft

Taira Meadowcroft is the Public Health and Community Engagement Librarian at the Health Sciences Library at the University of Missouri.

home J. Otto Lottes Health Sciences Library, Resources and Services Enhance Your Research Visibility and Reach with Data Services

Enhance Your Research Visibility and Reach with Data Services

With more focus on data, especially how to store and share your data for grants, we recently established data services at the Health Sciences Libary.

Our library data services strive to ensure the reproducibility of scientific research by training students, staff, and faculty to find, interpret, manage, and preserve research data, making your work easier and less overwhelming while enhancing your research visibility and reach.  

The Data Services Librarian can help: 

  • find and evaluate datasets 
  • find the appropriate repository to store your data 
  • review your data for findability and reusability to create a data management plan which are a requirement for NIH grants 
  • point to resources to learn how to analyze your data 

Visit our data services page to learn more and to connect with our data services librarian.

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Taira Meadowcroft

Taira Meadowcroft is the Public Health and Community Engagement Librarian at the Health Sciences Library at the University of Missouri.

home J. Otto Lottes Health Sciences Library, Resources and Services Overview of Recent University of Missouri Publications in Medicine and Related Fields: December 2024

Overview of Recent University of Missouri Publications in Medicine and Related Fields: December 2024

Each month we provide an overview of University of Missouri School of Medicine faculty-authored articles in medicine and related fields as well as a featured article with the highest journal impact factor.

This month’s featured article, “Burden of disease scenarios by state in the USA, 2022–50: a forecasting analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021” was co-authored by Dr. Fares Alahdab of the Department of Biomed Informatics Biostat EPI. The article was published in The Lancet  (impact factor of 98.4 in 2023).

See the list of publications in medicine and related fields we retrieved for this month: https://library.muhealth.org/facpubmonthlyresult/?Month=December&Year=2024

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Taira Meadowcroft

Taira Meadowcroft is the Public Health and Community Engagement Librarian at the Health Sciences Library at the University of Missouri.

home J. Otto Lottes Health Sciences Library, Resources and Services New MU Authored Trending Articles in PubMed

New MU Authored Trending Articles in PubMed

Two recently trending articles in PubMed were:

  1. The structure of apolipoprotein B100 from human low-density lipoprotein co-authored by Dr. Zachary Berndsen from the School of Medicine.
  2. Real-world effectiveness and causal mediation study of BNT162b2 on long COVID risks in children and adolescents co-authored by Dr. Abua Mosa from the School of Medicine.

What is a PubMed trending article?

Trending articles is a marker of increased interest in a PubMed abstract. Trending articles are those with a significant increase in daily PubMed views in the past two days as compared to the previous baseline period, which is approximately a week.

You can see the full list of trending articles here.

Interested in tracking the impact of your articles after they are published? Email asklibrary@health.missouri.edu to learn how we can help.

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Taira Meadowcroft

Taira Meadowcroft is the Public Health and Community Engagement Librarian at the Health Sciences Library at the University of Missouri.

home J. Otto Lottes Health Sciences Library, Resources and Services New MU Authored Trending Article in PubMed

New MU Authored Trending Article in PubMed

A recently trending article in PubMed was Solving the Global Opioid Crisis: Incorporating Genetic Addiction Risk Assessment with Personalized Dopaminergic Homeostatic Therapy and Awareness Integration Therapy authored by Dr. Paul Carney from the School of Medicine.

What is a PubMed trending article?

Trending articles is a marker of increased interest in a PubMed abstract. Trending articles are those with a significant increase in daily PubMed views in the past two days as compared to the previous baseline period, which is approximately a week.

You can see the full list of trending articles here.

Interested in tracking the impact of your articles after they are published? Email asklibrary@health.missouri.edu to learn how we can help.

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Taira Meadowcroft

Taira Meadowcroft is the Public Health and Community Engagement Librarian at the Health Sciences Library at the University of Missouri.

home J. Otto Lottes Health Sciences Library, Resources and Services Overview of Recent University of Missouri Publications in Medicine and Related Fields: November 2024

Overview of Recent University of Missouri Publications in Medicine and Related Fields: November 2024

Each month we provide an overview of University of Missouri School of Medicine faculty-authored articles in medicine and related fields as well as a featured article with the highest journal impact factor.

This month’s featured article, “EPHB4-RASA1 Inhibition of PIEZO1 Ras Activation Drives Lymphatic Valvulogenesis” was co-authored by Dr. Michael J. Davis of the Department of Medical Pharmacology and Physiology. The article was published in Circulation Research (impact factor of 16.5 in 2023).

See the list of publications in medicine and related fields we retrieved for this month: https://library.muhealth.org/facpubmonthlyresult/?Month=November&Year=2024

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Taira Meadowcroft

Taira Meadowcroft is the Public Health and Community Engagement Librarian at the Health Sciences Library at the University of Missouri.

home J. Otto Lottes Health Sciences Library, Resources and Services New MU Authored Trending Article in PubMed

New MU Authored Trending Article in PubMed

A recently trending article in PubMed was MicroRNA-145-5p inhibits the tumorigenesis of breast cancer through SENP2-regulated ubiquitination of ERK2 authored by Dr. Xunlei Kang, from the School of Medicine.

What is a PubMed trending article?

Trending articles is a marker of increased interest in a PubMed abstract. Trending articles are those with a significant increase in daily PubMed views in the past two days as compared to the previous baseline period, which is approximately a week.

You can see the full list of trending articles here.

Interested in tracking the impact of your articles after they are published? Email asklibrary@health.missouri.edu to learn how we can help.

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Taira Meadowcroft

Taira Meadowcroft is the Public Health and Community Engagement Librarian at the Health Sciences Library at the University of Missouri.

Welcome to Piper Brown-Kingsley

The MU Libraries are pleased to announce the hire of Piper Brown-Kingsley as the Information and Data Services Librarian at the Health Sciences Library. She began over the summer. Piper is a May 2024 graduate of the University of Wisconsin-Madison Information School. In addition, she’s been working as a remote Data Curation Intern at the National Neighborhood Data Archive (NaNDA) at the University of Michigan. We’re so excited to have her join the Information Services Team at the newly renovated Health Sciences Library.

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NOW OPEN: Health Sciences Library

After a little over a year and a half, the Health Sciences Library is OPEN.

We are so happy to be back and we can’t wait to see you in our new space!

Here are our hours for the rest of the semester:

Thanksgiving Break
Monday -Wednesday   8am-5pm
Thursday-Friday           Closed
Saturday                      12pm-6pm
Sunday                        12pm-9pm

Regular Hours (Dec. 2nd-13th)
Monday -Thursday      8am-9pm
Friday                          8am-6pm
Saturday                     12pm-6pm
Sunday                       12pm-9pm

Intersession Hours (Dec. 14th-24th; Jan. 2nd-Jan. 5th)
Monday -Thursday      8am-5pm
Friday                          7am-6pm
Saturday                     12pm-6pm
Sunday                       12pm-5pm

Christmas
Dec. 25th Closed
 
Winter Break
Dec. 26th-Dec. 31st Closed

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Taira Meadowcroft

Taira Meadowcroft is the Public Health and Community Engagement Librarian at the Health Sciences Library at the University of Missouri.