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Teaching & Research services

Research

• Writing, grant seeking & grants administration

• Statistical Consulting and statistics resources @ Pendergrass Library

• Medical Illustration & graphics, photographs, video and web production

• Copyright: why and how to retain rights to your own work

• SelectedWorks-- increase the visibility of your work, part of UTK's trusted digital archive
  Comparison of SelectedWorks with a static departmental Web site
  

• Open Access Publishing

• Searching Databases

• Managing citations: Zotero, EndNote

• Assessing the impact of Research

• Journals: Instructions for authors, how to select keywords, journal title abbreviations

• Off campus access to library resources

• CEM Graduate program page for current students

• Selected guides to graduate school prepared for the 2010 Dissertation workshop
  

• Request Purchase of a Book, DVD, or Other Material

• Fall Faculty Bookplate Reception Information -- in honor of faculty promoted and/or tenured each year
  
  
• Need to schedule a meeting? Use Doodle a free online scheduling tool.
  

 

Teaching

• Reserves: how to put materials on reserve
  
  
• 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
  
  
• Assessment in Veterinary Education--LIVE U.K. Sarah Baillie
  
• Services for persons with disabilities
  
  
• Request Library Instruction: Ann Viera

 

 

Statistical Consulting

Ann Reed, Bio - statistician 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:

Study Design Tutorial, Dr. Peter Scrivani, Cornell--how to plan a patient-based study
Book: The Design of Animal Experiments by Michael Festing SF405.5.L3
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
    
  
  

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 X4 desktop version. EndNote X4 is more powerful than the Web version but has a steeper learning curve. All that said, if you use EndNote X4, 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 43 for Windows and X2 for Mac are available for downloading on the OIT Software distribution server.

EndNote Help

UT Libraries' EndNote Page --includes tutorials, EN training classes

Zotero

UT CVM personnel please note: Zotero is a Firefox extension. Firefox will be added to UT CVM machines in future. If you do not have Firefox but want it to use Zotero, request it from UT CVM tech support.

• 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
• 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 VMC/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.
• Peter Suber's Field Guide to Misunderstandings about OA
• BioMed Central (Mis) Leading Open Access Myths
  
  
• Need to find an OA journal? Use the DOAJ, the Directory of Open Access Journals.
  
  
• Need funds for OA article processing fees?
  1) Request them from the Open Publishing Support Fund.
  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.