home J. Otto Lottes Health Sciences Library, Resources and Services Overview of Recent University of Missouri Publications in Medicine and Related Fields: December 2019

Overview of Recent University of Missouri Publications in Medicine and Related Fields: December 2019

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

This month’s featured article:

Sebaceous carcinoma: evidence-based clinical practice guidelines” was co-authored by Dr. Nicholas Golda of the Department of Dermatology. The article was published in Lancet Oncology (impact factor of 35.386 in 2018).

See the list of publications in medicine and related fields we retrieved for this month: http://library.muhealth.org/resourcesfor/faculty/faculty-publications/dec2019

*This list is not intended to be comprehensive.

Did we miss something? Email asklibrary@health.missouri.edu and we will add your publication to the list.

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

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Recent CVM Publications (January 2020 Update)

2 January 2020

Below are College of Veterinary Medicine publications added to the Scopus database in the last 30 days.

PubMed Collection of MU CVM Publications 2019

Congratulations to all the recently published authors!

Journal Articles

Romero MA, Mumford PW, Roberson PA, Osburn SC, Parry HA, Kavazis AN, Gladden LB, Schwartz TS, Baker BA, Toedebusch RG, Childs TE, Booth FW, Roberts MD. Five months of voluntary wheel running downregulates skeletal muscle LINE-1 gene expression in rats. American Journal of Physiology: Cell Physiology. 2019;317(6):C1313-C23. Epub 2019/10/17. doi: 10.1152/ajpcell.00301.2019. PubMed PMID: 31618076.

Tune JD, Goodwill AG, Kiel AM, Baker HE, Bender SB, Merkus D, Duncker DJ. Disentangling the Gordian knot of local metabolic control of coronary blood flow. American Journal of Physiology: Heart and Circulatory Physiology. 2020;318(1):H11-H24. Epub 2019/11/09. doi: 10.1152/ajpheart.00325.2019. PubMed PMID: 31702972.

Ruyle BC, Martinez D, Heesch CM, Kline DD, Hasser EM. The PVN enhances cardiorespiratory responses to acute hypoxia via input to the nTS. American Journal of Physiology: Regulatory, Integrative and Comparative Physiology. 2019;317(6):R818-R33. Epub 2019/09/12. doi: 10.1152/ajpregu.00135.2019. PubMed PMID: 31509428.

Alwan G, Emter C, Anaz A, Manring N, Alwan Y, Salim AD, Leary E, Delafontaine P, Hassan A. Real-time determination of the cardiovascular mechanical determinants using the intra-aortic balloon pump mechanism. ASME 2019 Dynamic Systems and Control Conference. 2019;1. doi: 10.1115/DSCC2019-9229.

Yang M, Zhang C, Hansen SA, Mitchell WJ, Zhang MZ, Zhang S. Antimicrobial efficacy and toxicity of novel CAMPs against P. aeruginosa infection in a murine skin wound infection model. BMC Microbiology. 2019;19(1):293. Epub 2019/12/18. doi: 10.1186/s12866-019-1657-6. PubMed PMID: 31842727; PMCID: PMC6915932. Open Access article

Lei WL, Han F, Hu MW, Liang QX, Meng TG, Zhou Q, Ouyang YC, Hou Y, Schatten H, Wang ZB, Sun QY. Protein phosphatase 6 is a key factor regulating spermatogenesis. Cell Death and Differentiation. 2019. Epub 2019/12/11. doi: 10.1038/s41418-019-0472-9. PubMed PMID: 31819157.

Hoffman JM, Kiklevich JV, Austad M, Tran V, Jones DP, Royal A, Henry C, Austad SN. Tryptophan metabolism is differently regulated between large and small dogs. GeroScience. 2019. Epub 2019/12/01. doi: 10.1007/s11357-019-00114-x. PubMed PMID: 31784886. Open Access article

Toedebusch CM, Garcia VB, Snyder JC, Jones MR, Schulz DJ, Johnson GC, Villalon E, Coates JR, Garcia ML. Lumbar spinal cord microglia exhibited increased activation in aging dogs compared with young adult dogs. GeroScience. 2019. Epub 2019/12/13. doi: 10.1007/s11357-019-00133-8. PubMed PMID: 31828496.

Zhou K, Goodman CL, Ringbauer J, Jr., Song Q, Beerntsen B, Stanley D. Establishment of two midgut cell lines from the fall armyworm, Spodoptera frugiperda (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae). In Vitro Cellular and Developmental Biology: Animal. 2019. Epub 2019/12/04. doi: 10.1007/s11626-019-00420-w. PubMed PMID: 31792802.

Hubner MP, Gunderson E, Vogel I, Bulman CA, Lim KC, Koschel M, Ehrens A, Frohberger SJ, Fendler M, Tricoche N, Voronin D, Steven A, Chi V, Bakowski MA, Woods AK, Petrassi HM, McNamara CW, Beerntsen B, Chappell L, Sullivan W, Taylor MJ, Turner JD, Hoerauf A, Lustigman S, Sakanari JA. Short-course quinazoline drug treatments are effective in the Litomosoides sigmodontis and Brugia pahangi jird models. International Journal of Parasitology. Drugs and Drug Resistance. 2019;12:18-27. Epub 2019/12/24. doi: 10.1016/j.ijpddr.2019.12.001. PubMed PMID: 31869759; PMCID: PMC6931063. Open Access article

Rogers E, Jaffey JA, Graham A, Hostnik ET, Jacobs C, Fox-Alvarez W, Van Eerde E, Arango J, Williams F, 3rd, DeClue AE. Prevalence and impact of cholecystitis on outcome in dogs with gallbladder mucocele. Journal of Veterinary Emergency and Critical Care. 2019. Epub 2019/12/20. doi: 10.1111/vec.12910. PubMed PMID: 31854510.

Karaffa KM, Hancock TS. Mental health stigma and veterinary medical students’ attitudes toward seeking professional psychological help. Journal of Veterinary Medical Education. 2019;46(4):459-69. Epub 2019/03/29. doi: 10.3138/jvme.1217-185r. PubMed PMID: 30920943.

Kumar S, Goldgof D. Automatic tracking of SPAMM grid and the estimation of deformation parameters from cardiac MR images. Proceedings of SPIE – The International Society for Optical Engineering. 1993;1905:194-205. doi: 10.1117/12.148634.

Cohn LA. Canine nasal disease: an update. Veterinary Clinics of North America: Small Animal Practice. 2019. Epub 2019/12/17. doi: 10.1016/j.cvsm.2019.11.002. PubMed PMID: 31839206.

Zhu XL, Li SF, Zhang XQ, Xu H, Luo YQ, Yi YH, Lv LJ, Zhang CH, Wang ZB, Ouyang YC, Hou Y, Schatten H, Liu FH. Synaptotagmin 1 regulates cortical granule exocytosis during mouse oocyte activation. Zygote. 2019:1-6. Epub 2019/12/04. doi: 10.1017/S0967199419000704. PubMed PMID: 31787133. Open Access article

Book Chapter

Palaniappan K, Bunyak F, Chaurasia SS. Image analysis for ophthalmology: segmentation and quantification of retinal vascular systems. In Ocular Fluid Dynamics. Modeling and Simulation in Science, Engineering and Technology. Basel: Birkhauser; 2019. pp. 543-580. doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-25886-3_22.

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RJI 2019: Strengthening journalism, connecting with citizens, preserving content and exploring tech

As another year ends, the Donald W. Reynolds Journalism Institute reflects on some of its accomplishments and lessons learned with a mission of helping journalism survive and thrive.

Read more at the Reynolds Journalism Institute blog: RJI 2019: Strengthening journalism, connecting with citizens, preserving content and exploring tech

home J. Otto Lottes Health Sciences Library, Resources and Services Overview of Recent University of Missouri Publications in Medicine and Related Fields: November 2019

Overview of Recent University of Missouri Publications in Medicine and Related Fields: November 2019

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

This month’s featured article is:

Self-renewing endometrial epithelial organoids of the human uterus” was co-authored by Dr. Danny J. Schust and Dr. Thomas E. Spencer of the Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology & Women’s Health. The article was published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (impact factor of 9.58 in 2018).

See the list of publications in medicine and related fields we retrieved for this month: http://library.muhealth.org/resourcesfor/faculty/faculty-publications/nov2019

*This list is not intended to be comprehensive.

Did we miss something? Email asklibrary@health.missouri.edu and we will add your publication to the list.

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Recent CVM Publications (December update)

6 December 2019

Below are College of Veterinary Medicine publications added to the Scopus database in the last 30 days.

PubMed Collection of MU CVM Publications 2019

Congratulations to all the recently published authors!

Olver TD, Grunewald ZI, Ghiarone T, Restaino RM, Sales ARK, Park LK, Thorne PK, Ganga RR, Emter CA, Lemon PWR, Shoemaker JK, Manrique-Acevedo C, Martinez-Lemus LA, Padilla J. Persistent insulin signaling coupled with restricted PI3K activation causes insulin-induced vasoconstriction. American Journal of Physiology: Heart and Circulatory Physiology. 2019;317(5):H1166-H72. Epub 2019/10/12. doi: 10.1152/ajpheart.00464.2019. PubMed PMID: 31603345; PMCID: PMC6879917 (Available on 2020-11-01).

Torres JA, Kruger SL, Broderick C, Amarlkhagva T, Agrawal S, Dodam JR, Mrug M, Lyons LA, Weimbs T. Ketosis ameliorates renal cyst growth in polycystic kidney disease. Cell Metabolism. 2019;30(6):1007-23 e5. Epub 2019/10/22. doi: 10.1016/j.cmet.2019.09.012. PubMed PMID: 31631001.

Liang QX, Wang ZB, Lei WL, Lin F, Qiao JY, Filhol-Cochet O, Boldyreff B, Schatten H, Sun QY, Qian WP. Deletion of Ck2beta gene causes germ cell development arrest and azoospermia in male mice. Cell Proliferation. 2019:e12726. Epub 2019/11/23. doi: 10.1111/cpr.12726. PubMed PMID: 31755150. Open Access article

Vientos-Plotts AI, Ericsson AC, Rindt H, Reinero CR. Respiratory dysbiosis in canine bacterial pneumonia: standard culture vs. microbiome sequencing. Frontiers in Veterinary Science. 2019;6:354. Epub 2019/11/05. doi: 10.3389/fvets.2019.00354. PubMed PMID: 31681810; PMCID: PMC6798064. Open Access article

Grunewald ZI, Jurrissen TJ, Woodford ML, Ramirez-Perez FI, Park LK, Pettit-Mee R, Ghiarone T, Brown SM, Morales-Quinones M, Ball JR, Staveley-O’Carroll KF, Aroor AR, Fadel PJ, Paradis P, Schiffrin EL, Bender SB, Martinez-Lemus LA, Padilla J. Chronic elevation of endothelin-1 alone may not be sufficient to impair endothelium-dependent relaxation. Hypertension. 2019;74(6):1409-19. Epub 2019/10/22. doi: 10.1161/HYPERTENSIONAHA.119.13676. PubMed PMID: 31630572; PMCID: PMC6854321 (Available on 2020-12-01) .

Howell K, Matuszak M, Maitz CA, Eisaman SH, Padilla L, Brown SL, Joiner MC, Dominello MM, Burmeister J. Three Discipline Collaborative Radiation Therapy (3DCRT) special debate: In the future, at least 20% of NIH funding for radiotherapy research should be allocated to non-oncologic applications. Journal of Applied Clinical Medical Physics. 2019. Epub 2019/10/02. doi: 10.1002/acm2.12729. PubMed PMID: 31573150. Open Access article

Haney MM, Hamad A, Woldu HG, Ciucci M, Nichols N, Bunyak F, Lever TE. Recurrent laryngeal nerve transection in mice results in translational upper airway dysfunction. Journal of Comparative Neurology. 2019. Epub 2019/09/13. doi: 10.1002/cne.24774. PubMed PMID: 31512255.

Wang X, Zhang Z, Zhang N, Li H, Zhang L, Baines CP, Ding S. Subcellular NAMPT-mediated NAD(+) salvage pathways and their roles in bioenergetics and neuronal protection after ischemic injury. Journal of Neurochemistry. 2019. Epub 2019/09/26. doi: 10.1111/jnc.14878. PubMed PMID: 31553812.

Oliver HA, Bozynski CC, Cook CR, Kuroki K, Sherman SL, Stoker AM, Cook JL. Enhanced subchondroplasty treatment for post-traumatic cartilage and subchondral bone marrow lesions in a canine model. Journal of Orthopaedic Research. 2019. Epub 2019/11/07. doi: 10.1002/jor.24508. PubMed PMID: 31692048.

Reich CF, Salcedo MC, Koenigshof AM, Hopp MM, Walker JM, Schildt JC, Beal MW. Retrospective evaluation of the clinical course and outcome following grape or raisin ingestion in dogs (2005-2014): 139 cases. Journal of Veterinary Emergency and Critical Care. 2019. Epub 2019/11/13. doi: 10.1111/vec.12905. PubMed PMID: 31714003.

Jaffey JA, Reading NS, Giger U, Abdulmalik O, Buckley RM, Johnstone S, Lyons LA, Lives Cat Genome Consortium. Clinical, metabolic, and genetic characterization of hereditary methemoglobinemia caused by cytochrome b5 reductase deficiency in cats. Journal of Veterinary Internal Medicine. 2019;33(6):2725-31. Epub 2019/10/28. doi: 10.1111/jvim.15637. PubMed PMID: 31650629; PMCID: PMC6872605. Open Access article

Bernier Gosselin V, Dufour S, Middleton JR. Association between species-specific staphylococcal intramammary infections and milk somatic cell score over time in dairy goats. Preventive Veterinary Medicine. 2019;174:104815. Epub 2019/11/16. doi: 10.1016/j.prevetmed.2019.104815. PubMed PMID: 31731036.

Kumar NR, Khamar P, Shetty R, Sharma A, Shetty N, Pahuja N, Abilash VG, Jhanji V, Ghosh A, Mohan RR, Vangala RK, Ghosh A. Identification of novel predictive factors for post surgical corneal haze. Scientific Reports. 2019;9(1):16980. Epub 2019/11/20. doi: 10.1038/s41598-019-53123-3. PubMed PMID: 31740714; PMCID: PMC6861263. Open Access article

Axiak-Bechtel SM, Mathew LM, Amorim JR, DeClue AE. Dogs with osteosarcoma have altered pro- and anti-inflammatory cytokine profiles. Veterinary Medicine and Science. 2019;5(4):485-93. Epub 2019/08/03. doi: 10.1002/vms3.191. PubMed PMID: 31374161; PMCID: PMC6868446. Open Access article

Chu S, Wylie TN, Wylie KM, Johnson GC, Skidmore ZL, Fleer M, Griffith OL, Bryan JN. A virome sequencing approach to feline oral squamous cell carcinoma to evaluate viral causative factors. Veterinary Microbiology. 2020;240. doi: 10.1016/j.vetmic.2019.108491.

Cui Y, Grant DG, Lin J, Yu X, Franz AWE. Zika virus dissemination from the midgut of Aedes aegypti is facilitated by bloodmeal-mediated structural modification of the midgut basal lamina. Viruses. 2019;11(11). Epub 2019/11/20. doi: 10.3390/v11111056. PubMed PMID: 31739432. Open Access article

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Library Staff Interviewed on Inside Mizzou Podcast

On this week’s Inside Mizzou Podcast, E-Learning Librarian Nav Khanal and Library Information Specialist Courtney Gillie are interviewed by Chancellor Cartwight about Mizzou’s comprehensive learning resources and technologies available to students and faculty both inside and outside the classroom.

Listen now. 

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Use MOspace to Measure the Worldwide Impact of Your Research

Are you presenting at Health Sciences Research Day? Add your poster to MOspace to help boost your resume.

MOspace is the freely available online repository for scholarship and other works by University of Missouri faculty, students, and staff.

You retain copyright, and we provide access.

Once items are submitted, the platform can provide statistics like number of downloads, and from which countries.

Currently, all Health Sciences Research Day posters in MOspace have a total of 14,651 downloads from over 100 countries worldwide.

Interested in seeing the worldwide impact of your research? Submit your poster using our online form today.

You can further your impact by signing up for an ORCID ID at ORCID.org.

home Zalk Veterinary Medical Library Recent CVM Publications (November update)

Recent CVM Publications (November update)

7 November 2019

Below are College of Veterinary Medicine publications added to the Scopus database in the last 30 days.

PubMed Collection of MU CVM Publications 2019

Congratulations to all the recently published authors!

Mishra PK, Adameova A, Hill JA, Baines CP, Kang PM, Downey JM, Narula J, Takahashi M, Abbate A, Piristine HC, Kar S, Su S, Higa JK, Kawasaki NK, Matsui T. Guidelines for evaluating myocardial cell death. American Journal of Physiology: Heart and Circulatory Physiology. 2019;317(5):H891-H922. Epub 2019/08/17. doi: 10.1152/ajpheart.00259.2019. PubMed PMID: 31418596. Free article

Longeri M, Chiodi A, Brilli M, Piazza A, Lyons LA, Sofronidis G, Cozzi MC, Bazzocchi C. Targeted genotyping by sequencing: a new way to genome profile the cat. Animal Genetics. 2019;50(6):718-25. Epub 2019/09/13. doi: 10.1111/age.12838. PubMed PMID: 31512748.

Shababi M, Smith CE, Kacher M, Alrawi Z, Villalon E, Davis D, Bryda EC, Lorson CL. Development of a novel severe mouse model of spinal muscular atrophy with respiratory distress type 1: FVB-nmd. Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications. 2019;520(2):341-6. Epub 2019/10/13. doi: 10.1016/j.bbrc.2019.10.032. PubMed PMID: 31604525.

Reed SK, Vander Ley BB, Bell RP, Wilson DA, Wilborn E, Keegan KG. Survey on Thoroughbred use, health and owner satisfaction following retirement from racing. Equine Veterinary Education. 2019. doi: 10.1111/eve.13185.

Ho KV, Schreiber KL, Vu DC, Rottinghaus SM, Jackson DE, Brown CR, Lei Z, Sumner LW, Coggeshall MV, Lin CH. Black Walnut (Juglans nigra) Extracts Inhibit Proinflammatory Cytokine Production From Lipopolysaccharide-Stimulated Human Promonocytic Cell Line U-937. Frontiers in Pharmacology. 2019;10(SEP):1059. Epub 2019/10/15. doi: 10.3389/fphar.2019.01059. PubMed PMID: 31607915; PMCID: PMC6761373. Open Access article

Jaffey JA, Harmon M, Masseau I, Williams KJ, Reinero C. Presumptive Development of Fibrotic Lung Disease From Bordetella bronchiseptica and Post-infectious Bronchiolitis Obliterans in a Dog. Frontiers in Veterinary Science. 2019;6:352. Epub 2019/10/28. doi: 10.3389/fvets.2019.00352. PubMed PMID: 31649945; PMCID: PMC6795681. Open Access article

Ledbetter L, Cherla R, Chambers C, Zhang Y, Zhang G. Eosinophils Affect Antibody Isotype Switching and May Partially Contribute to Early Vaccine-Induced Immunity against Coxiella burnetii. Infection and Immunity. 2019;87(11). Epub 2019/08/21. doi: 10.1128/IAI.00376-19. PubMed PMID: 31427447; PMCID: PMC6803328 [Available on 2020-04-18].

Milanick WJ, Polo-Parada L, Dantzler HA, Kline DD. Activation of alpha-1 adrenergic receptors increases cytosolic calcium in neurones of the paraventricular nucleus of the hypothalamus. Journal of Neuroendocrinology. 2019;31(10):e12791. Epub 2019/09/09. doi: 10.1111/jne.12791. PubMed PMID: 31494990.

Charalambous M, Volk HA, Tipold A, Erath J, Huenerfauth E, Gallucci A, Gandini G, Hasegawa D, Pancotto T, Rossmeisl JH, Platt S, De Risio L, Coates JR, Musteata M, Tirrito F, Cozzi F, Porcarelli L, Corlazzoli D, Cappello R, Vanhaesebrouck A, Broeckx BJG, Van Ham L, Bhatti SFM. Comparison of intranasal versus intravenous midazolam for management of status epilepticus in dogs: A multi-center randomized parallel group clinical study. Journal of Veterinary Internal Medicine. 2019. Epub 2019/10/04. doi: 10.1111/jvim.15627. PubMed PMID: 31580527. Open Access article

Moskowitz JE, Andreatta F, Amos-Landgraf J. The gut microbiota modulates differential adenoma suppression by B6/J and B6/N genetic backgrounds in Apc(Min) mice. Mammalian Genome. 2019. Epub 2019/09/25. doi: 10.1007/s00335-019-09814-3. PubMed PMID: 31549210.

Li L, Jing Y, Dong MZ, Fan LH, Li QN, Wang ZB, Hou Y, Schatten H, Zhang CL, Sun QY. Type 1 diabetes affects zona pellucida and genome methylation in oocytes and granulosa cells. Molecular and Cellular Endocrinology. 2019;500:110627. Epub 2019/10/23. doi: 10.1016/j.mce.2019.110627. PubMed PMID: 31639403.

Guo J, Johnson GS, Cook J, Harris OK, Mhlanga-Mutangadura T, Schnabel RD, Jensen CA, Katz ML. Neuronal ceroid lipofuscinosis in a German Shorthaired Pointer associated with a previously reported CLN8 nonsense variant. Molecular Genetics and Metabolism Reports. 2019;21. doi: 10.1016/j.ymgmr.2019.100521.

Cummings KJ, Hodges MR. The serotonergic system and the control of breathing during development. Respiratory Physiology & Neurobiology. 2019;270:103255. Epub 2019/07/31. doi: 10.1016/j.resp.2019.103255. PubMed PMID: 31362064; PMCID: PMC6802291 [Available on 2020-12-01].

Ludwick DC, Ericsson AC, Meihls LN, Gregory MLJ, Finke DL, Coudron TA, Hibbard BE, Shelby KS. Survey of bacteria associated with western corn rootworm life stages reveals no difference between insects reared in different soils. Scientific Reports. 2019;9(1):15332. Epub 2019/10/28. doi: 10.1038/s41598-019-51870-x. PubMed PMID: 31653954; PMCID: PMC6814711. Open Access article

Oramas A, Boston SE, Skinner OT. Iliectomy with limb preservation for a dog with ilial osteosarcoma: Surgical description and case report. Veterinary Surgery. 2019. Epub 2019/10/13. doi: 10.1111/vsu.13329. PubMed PMID: 31605496.

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home J. Otto Lottes Health Sciences Library, Resources and Services Overview of Recent University of Missouri Publications in Medicine and Related Fields: October 2019

Overview of Recent University of Missouri Publications in Medicine and Related Fields: October 2019

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

This month’s featured articles:

Both articles were published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (impact factor of 9.58 in 2018).

See the list of publications in medicine and related fields we retrieved for this month: http://library.muhealth.org/resourcesfor/faculty/faculty-publications/oct2019

*This list is not intended to be comprehensive.

Did we miss something? Email asklibrary@health.missouri.edu and we will add your publication to the list.

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Fulbright Scholar Appreciates Journalism Library Resources

By Christina Mascarenas

Going to America was more a dream than reality to Indah Setiwati, a 30 hour plane ride dream. Indah was the deputy editor for the Jakarta Post in Jakarta, Indonesia when she decided to make a change and apply to graduate school.

In the beginning, Indah only applied to local scholarships even though studying abroad is a goal for many Indonesians. Indah had her family to think about. Not wanting Indah to limit her academic potential, a friend encouraged her to apply for the Fulbright Foreign Student Program, which enables graduate students, young professionals and artists from abroad to study and conduct research in the United States. If Indah was accepted, she would finally have her ticket to the United States.

After weighing the pros and cons, Indah decided to go for it and applied to four scholarships including the Fulbright program. One day, she was taking the train to work when she received an email telling her she was accepted into the Fulbright program. “It was surreal,” she said. “The Fulbright Scholarship is the most prestigious scholarship on earth.”

Indah did research to find the best journalism school in the U.S. that would fit her interests. She chose the Missouri School of Journalism because it was the best journalism school and was affordable with her Fulbright Scholarship.

According to Indah, the Journalism Library at Mizzou has extremely knowledgeable librarians. “Sue is really helpful and resourceful,” she stated referring to Sue Schuermann, senior library specialist. Sue took the time to show Indah how to do precise searches and search for specific journals. “She is very helpful. She is a great resource, all you have to do it ask,” she said.

When Indah needed a book that the library didn’t have, Sue was able to purchase the book for the library. Indah was especially grateful for the “really cool” interlibrary loan program. When she wanted to read a particular book, she was asked if she’d like to read the PDF or the book, she chose both. She thought it was great to get the book in three days.

“Books in Indonesia are precious. They are like a treasure,” she said. “Especially children’s books, it’s really hard to get English children’s books in Indonesia, they are expensive.” In addition to the Journalism Library, she has used Ellis Library and the Daniel Boone Regional Library. She said, “American libraries are like wow.” In Indonesia, according to Indah, “If you want to get an affordable children’s English book. You have to go to a second-hand store. The upper-class Jakartans donate or sell their books to the second-hand stores. You can only find books at certain places.”

“I’m happier here to see the library resources,” she said. “Another cool thing about the library is you have access to the New York Times and other publications, and you don’t have to spend your money to subscribe to them since the library already subscribes to them.”