EndNote WEB 2.0 Web-Based Training Nov & Dec

EndNote Web Web-based Training Audience: faculty, grad students, UT CVM residents and interns. Students and staff who need to keep track of and format citations for papers or work. Seven web-based classes on EndNote Web are being offered in November and December. Thomson (the company that owns ENWeb) is offering a chance to win an … Continued

Compendium in PubMed July 2007—

The Compendium, formerly titled Compendium on Continuing Education for the Veterinary Practitioner, has been accepted by the National Library of Medicine (NLM) for indexing in PubMed from July 2007 forward. Veterinary librarians in Missouri and Washington State have worked tirelessly to keep this omission before the committee at NLM that evaluates journals for indexing. Issues … Continued

Sign up for Understanding Plagiarism @ UT Libraries

The Understanding Plagiarism workshop will help students recognize and avoid plagiarism in their research and scholarly work. After a discussion of the various aspects of plagiarism, we will introduce techniques of paraphrasing, summarizing, and quoting and will discuss appropriate citation of sources. Examples and exercises will help reinforce some of the concepts. Event Time: 11/13/2007 … Continued

Essay Contest: Win up to $300

Great Moments in American Life, History, and Culture: An Essay Contest Entry Form – 24 KB Word file | 32 KB PDF file Entry Deadline: November 26 All UT students are invited to enter our essay contest as part of the University of Tennessee Libraries’ celebration of its 100 years of participating in the Federal … Continued

Buckweed Fire satellite images from NASA’s Earth Observatory

We have added the Earth Observatory to the online subject guide for Biosystems Engineering & Environmental Science The Earth Observatory’s mission is to provide a freely-accessible publication on the Internet where the public can obtain new satellite imagery and scientific information about our home planet. The focus is on Earth’s climate and environmental change. Click … Continued

Wildfires–Health Effects from National Library of Medicine

The National Library of Medicine has released a new resource focused on the health effects from wildfires http://sis.nlm.nih.gov/enviro/californiafires.html The California Wildfires web page includes information on the health effects from fires and exposure to smoke; links to air quality resources, environmental clean-up following fires, and animals in disasters. In addition, resources for emergency responders and … Continued