Tennessee’s Wild Side is a television show produced by the Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency. The show features stories about outdoor life, from hunting and fishing, to outdoor adventures, to nature found right around your home. The website has many informational links that teach readers more about the subject at hand. Check out the website for … Continued
UT offers electronic access to the Birds of North America Online database, a joint production of the Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology and the American Ornithologists’ Union. Originally offered as a series of species monographs (which we also have in print!), the BNA database gives exhaustive species profiles of North American birds. Besides the amazing articles, … Continued
UT Professor and Ivan Racheff Chair of Excellence in Plant Molecular Genetics C. Neal Stewart, Jr. and Associate Professor and Graduate Director for the Department of Animal Science Professor J. Lannett Edwards, teamed up to teach a class on Research Ethics for graduate students in life sciences. Their experiences and suggestions for others are chronicled … Continued
Celebrating 30 years of offering high-quality workshops, hikes, and adventures to enhance participants relationship with the Smoky Mountain National Park. Visit the calendar of events by clicking here.
Click the poster to visit the site. The 2008 competition has officially started with over 400 schools across the country participating to see who can motivate their campus communities to recycle more and reduce overall waste. Schools will use the week from Sunday, January 27 through Saturday, February 2 to collect their recycling and trash … Continued
Come by Pendergrass Library and take a look at our new displays. This time we are focusing in the Biofuels Initiative at UT and New Government Document publications in our collection.
The Great Backyard Bird Count, a joint project between the Cornell Lab of Ornithology and the Audubon Society, is a nationwide citizen science* project happening Feburary 15-18, 2008. Participants simply count the number and kinds of birds they see for as little as 15 minutes during the Bird Count and submit an online checklist. Scientists … Continued
Heavily used agriculture and veterinary medicine databases have a interface new to UT searches. It is called OVIDSP. If you search these databases, we have training aids and guides that will help you learn how to search them with OVIDSP: AGRICOLA 1970 to present Biological Abstracts 1969 to present CAB Abstracts 1973 to present Food … Continued
To read more about the change from voluntary to mandatory open access of all NIH-funded research, see the BioMed Central Blog. A white paper by Michael W. Carroll, an attorney, copyright expert, and faculty member at Villanova University law school is available: “Complying with the National Institutes of Health Public Access Policy: Copyright Considerations and … Continued