Search PubMed for VetMed and Animal Health Literature

Use PubMed to search for veterinary medicine by adding veterinary[sb] to your search! For example: prion AND veterinary[sb]

You can also navigate to Special Queries (from the left, blue side-bar). Select Veterinary Medicine/Animal Health and click veterinary search (link from explanatory text at top of page). Then, use your search History to combine the veterinary subset of PubMed to your other search terms (e.g. #1 AND #2).

Veterinary[sb] is a comprehensive search strategy of subject terms, title words and veterinary and animal health journal titles. It includes 171 core veterinary journals and currently retrieves over 1.4 million PubMed citations. Its oldest citation is from 1867!

For more information on the Veterinary/Animal Health special query, go to http://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/mj07/mj07_vet.html

With thanks to librarian, Barbara L for this blog post.

LibraryThing

What’s on your bookshelf? With LibraryThing, social networking meets your personal library. LibraryThing is a free (up to 200 titles) cataloguing application that enables you to document the contents of your personal library (drawing bibliographic information from libraries and booksellers) and as a social networking space, to browse the personal libraries of those who may have titles in common or an enthusiasm for particular genres of literature.

You can rate the books in your personal library, write reviews and share book recommendations with other participants in group forums.

Take the tour to learn more.

New MadCat Features

Records from the MadCat catalog will now bear a “Where is this Location” link. This link will take you to a page with information about the holding library. If the location is an electronic one, there will be a help page leading you to follow the “Internet Link.”

If you desire to keep up with what has been recently added to the campus library catalog (mostly records to new items in campus libraries), then subscribing to the new RSS feeds will be your convenient tool for this task.

From the New in MadCat page, you can follow links to subscribe to RSS feeds, either by Subject areas or by campus library locations.

NIH Public Access Mandate Made Law!

Washington, D.C. - December 26, 2007 - President Bush has signed into law the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2007 (H.R. 2764), which includes a provision directing the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to provide the public with open online access to findings from its funded research. This is the first time the U.S. government has mandated public access to research funded by a major agency.

(See the full-media release from the Alliance for Taxpayer Access and its status and time-line reports in the development of the Federal Research Public Access Act).

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) directive will require investigators/NIH grant recipients to deposit their final papers in PubMed Central. Papers will then be available within a year after appearing in a published journal.

More information as it becomes available.

Google Privacy Tips

Would you like to remove your personal phone number from Google results? Or, limit who can view your Blogger postings, Google Documents or Picasa photos?

If so, then Google’s series of Privacy Tips may supply some of that assistance you desire. Each tip is demonstrated by a You Tube video.

With thanks to librarian, Barbara L for this blog post.