Teaching & Research services
Research
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Medical Illustration & graphics, photographs, video and web production
Journals: Instructions for authors, how to select keywords, journal title abbreviations
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Off campus access to library resources
Teaching
- VBOT: Veterinary Bookstore of Tennessee
- Know Your Copy Rights: What You Can Do brochure on how to make good copyright decisions when preparing lectures or other teaching materials
- Instructional Resources: classroom support, clickers, etc.
- UT Educational Enhancement
- Services for persons with disabilities
- Request Class Instruction: Ann Viera can assist with custom presentations or tutorials
Statistical Consultant
Ann Reed, Biostatistician from the OIT Statistical Consulting Center, consults on statistics at the Pendergrass by appointment Tuesdays & Thursdays. Her phone is (865-974-1576).
Other statistical resources:
Books on statistics & research design
Michael Festing's Isogenic.info--Web site on the design of experiments, isogenic strains, ethics and genetics in toxicity testing
Writing, grant seeking & grants administration
- Writing assistance: Misty Bailey, UT CVM Technical Writer 974-7446
- UT CVM Grants and Contracts Administrator: Tammy Berry 974-5572
- Grant Seeking:
Community of Science: looking for a grant, fellowship, or prize? Community of Science (www.cos.com), is a comprehensive database for all types of grants and agencies.
Broad searches work better than narrow searches.
Tammy Berry 974-5572 is the contact if you have questions about searching COS.
Need a COS account? Send email to cos@tennessee.edu or contact the Office of Research
Ten Simple Rules Series of Tips from TC Erren and PC Bourne / PLoS
"Written by PLoS Computational Biology Editor-in-Chief Philip E. Bourne, sometimes with collaborators, the 'Ten Simple Rules' provide a quick, concentrated guide for mastering some of the professional challenges research scientists face in their careers." Highly recommended.
Includes: successful collaboration, getting grants, giving good oral and poster presentations.
UT Libraries guide to grants and other funding sources
Counting citations: thinking of counting citations to your articles for promotion/tenure?
Ask for guidance about the use of citation statistics in your dossier from the chair of your college promotion and tenure committee, your mentor, or your department head. Not all departments use citation statistics when evaluating candidates. There are problems with using an individual's citation statistics and the impact factors of journals. See Measuring Productivity and Impact Using Citation-Based Metrics: Suggestions and Caveats. Searching databases
- List of databases at UT to search for veterinary medicine/biomedical topics
- For a search appointment, contact Ann Viera 865-974-9015
- For database searching instruction for individuals, small groups or classes, contact Ann Viera 865-974-9015.
- Tutorials and Webinars on database searching are available for individuals and classes:
- Dissecting a Database: Teaching Yourself How to Search an Unfamiliar Database (UCLA)
- PubMed has very good tutorials
- Web of Science Recorded Training in several languages
- Dissecting a Database: Teaching Yourself How to Search an Unfamiliar Database (UCLA)
Managing Citations
Should I use EndNote or Zotero? Both are free.
UT has a site license to EndNote and the easier to use version, EndNote Web. The open source software Zotero has several large academic institutions backing it and sports a user-friendly interface. Zotero does not support as many journal formats as EndNote, and downloading citations from Web of Science may be hard (Web of Science is owned by Thomson Reuters, which also owns EndNote.) You will need to be able to use the Zotero site to troubleshoot problems. In addition to the EN Web site, there is an 800 number (800-336-4474) to call for EN technical support, which is usually good. See comparison sheet for more information or contact Ann Viera.
EndNote/EndNote Web
Should I use EndNote Web or EndNote desktop? EndNote Web makes it easier to share references but doesn't have all the features of the EndNote X3 desktop version. EndNote X3 is more powerful than the Web version but has a steeper learning curve. All that said, if you use EndNote X3, you will probably want to use EN Web, too. For example, you can save citations to the EN Web version and then download them to your EN desktop version if you are not at your own computer.
Get an EndNote Web: either 1) sign up for an account when you are logged onto the Web of Science database. The username and password for EndNote Web will be the same as your Web of Science username and password, OR 2) go to the EndNote Web Web site from a computer with a UT IP and sign up for an account.
Get EndNote Desktop ( UT site license) for your personal computer:
EndNote desktop versions X3 for Windows and X1 for Mac are available for downloading on the OIT Software distribution server. As of 10/15/08 the new X2 version for Mac is not yet available.
EndNote Help
EndNote Web . Take the Live or Recorded Training to learn to use it.
Web-based: EndNote/EndNote web-based forum for both EndNote and EndNote Web
EndNote support pages
By phone: EndNote Technical Support 800-336-4474.
UT Libraries' EndNote Page --includes tutorials, EN training classes
Zotero
UT CVM personnel please note: Zotero is a Firefox extension and the UT CVM does not currently support the Firefox browser. This may change in the near future.
- Zotero Guide by Peter Fernandez
- Zotero Web Cam Conversation and guide by Librarians at Murdoch University
- Moving to Zotero from EndNote Guide 10/08 GMU
- Zotero Blog
- 7 Things You Should Know About Zotero -- Educause Sept. 2008 - a good overview if you are new to Zotero, despite the article's age
- Comparison of Zotero and EndNote
Journals:
- Instructions to authors from 3,500 journals courtesy Mulford Library/ U. Toledo
- Selecting keywords for authors from NIH/National Library of Medicine
- Journal title abbreviations online (PubMed Journals list)
- Veterinary Journals at AG-VET MED--if the journal you seek isn't on this list, check E-Journals, then the Catalog.
- Photocopy services by dept:
SACS: Norma Jean Miller 4-8441
Comparative Medicine: Tressie Brown 4-5574
Request Purchase of a Book, DVD, or Other Material:
Requests for new books, and other materials are welcome throughout the fiscal year.
Send requests to Ann Viera via email, Campus Mail (A-113 VTH/Pendergrass Library) or drop them by the library or stop me in the hallway. Every book in English on veterinary medicine is automatically added to the collection, usually very soon after publication, so check the online catalog before forwarding an order for a veterinary book. It is probably already in the collection. However, if additional copies are needed please let me know.
I need the most help selecting human biomedical books, and books that support new areas of teaching and research, and specialized/obscure materials, including ebooks and DVD's.
Open Access Publishing
- OASIS is the comprehensive Web site on all aspects of OA publishing.
- Need funds for OA publishing fees?
1) Request them from Dr. Buddy Moore, Associate Dean for Research, UT CVM.
2) Build OA publishing fees into grants.
3) Check for discounts. For example, UT authors receive a 10% discount on PLOS publishing fees because UT is an institutional member.
- UT is very close to having all the pieces in place to adopt an institutional mandate. See UT Timeline and/or contact Ann Viera for more information.
