Journals assigned to agriculture and veterinary medicine with 2006 prices are on the journals website . The journals lists are on spreadsheets and are listed either by code or by title. The fund code for agriculture is AGRI. The code for veterinary medicine is VMDO. Please direct questions or suggestions aboutthe journals collection to Ann … Continued

Public Library of Science (PLoS) is a nonprofit organization of scientists and physicians committed to making the world’s scientific and medical literature a freely available public resource. All PLoS activities are guided by core principles. There are a number of ways to stay connected to news and journals of the PLoS. ANYONE AT UT GETS … Continued

Interested in learning how to use blogs in an academic setting? Check out Academic Blogging from the UT Educational Technology Collaborative. This tutorial will take you through the history of the blog and give you tips on how to effectively use this technology for learning and professional development.

The Animal Welfare Information Center (AWIC) of the National Agricultural Library has rolled out it’s new website The new site complies with the new federal mandate for usability and has all the modern features people expect. It has a new section on Companion Animals, in addition to all the information previously available on the old … Continued

The Create Change website from SPARC has a new version. From the first page: “Get more from your academic research Welcome to the new version of the Create Change Web site, launched June 22, 2006. In the age of the Internet, the ways you share and use academic research results are changing — rapidly, fundamentally, … Continued

Are you curious about how EndNote works? Are you running into problems with your software? Come to our drop-in workshop on Friday June 30, 10am-12pm in Room 160 BioTech Building. Diana Holden, of Pendergrass Library, will be answering questions and providing basic troubleshooting for this software. If you already own the software, bring your own … Continued

PLos is increasing the fees charged to authors, but all UT authors are entitled to a 40% discount because UT is an institutional member. The Public Library of Science (PLoS), an open access publisher, is raising the publication fees charged to authors “…..from $1,500 for PLoS’s flagship journals (PLoS Biology and PLoS Medicine) to $2,500, … Continued

The Equine Veteirnary Journal is available in electronic format. As of 6/19 it is only accessible through the online catalog. It will be on the ejournals list soon. A note on the delay in getting this title electronically: The publisher, EVJ Ltd, in offering EVJ electronically for the first time this year, increased the price … Continued

The OIT Statistical Consulting Service offers help with data and text analysis Thursdays from 1-5 in Room 106 Brehm. Call 974-8975 or 974-9862 for an appointment.

SPARC and the Public Library of Science (PLoS) ecourage you to get behind the Federal Research Public Access Act