AgEcon Search Hits 20,000 Mark

AgEcon Search (http://agecon.lib.umn.edu) has reached a milestone with the addition of the 20,000th paper. This free-to-user Web resource contains full-text of working papers, conference papers and journal articles in agricultural, resource, environmental, consumer, and other areas of applied economics. It is coordinated by two librarians at the University of Minnesota, and co-sponsored by the American … Continued

Nature Journals Online

The UT Libraries now have electronic access to the following titles, including the most current issues: Nature Biotechnology Nature Cell Biology Nature Genetics Nature Immunology Nature Medicine Nature Neuroscience Nature Structural Biology Nature Reviews Cancer Nature Reviews Drug Discovery Nature Reviews Genetics Nature Reviews Immunology Nature Reviews Neuroscience Nature Reviews Microbiology Nature Journals are listed … Continued

EPA Set to Close Library Network and Electronic Catalog

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is slated to shut down its network of libraries that serve its own scientists as well as the public, according to internal agency documents released by Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER). For more information see: http://www.peer.org/news/news_id.php?row_id=643

Resource Guide

Do you want to learn more about African Americans’ contributions to the fields Agriculture and Veterinary Medicine? If your answer is yes, then African Americans in Agriculture and Veterinary Medicine is a great place to start! Visit the guide for a list of print and web resources. http://old.lib.utk.edu/agvet/agriculture/aaavm.html

New Homeland Security Digital Library database

From the description: “This full-text, searchable collection includes U.S. policy documents, key federal publications, state & municipal documents, and more such as links to web sites, professional journal articles, multimedia materials, theses, gray literature, and Homeland Security related news.” Find it on the database menu at http://old.lib.utk.edu/databases/ by typing in the word [homeland] or looking … Continued

EndNote Tutorial available

Can’t make it to the EndNote workshops at Hodges Library, or do you need to figure out how to do something new in EndNote? The EndNote page has a link to the new Endnote Tutorial, designed to help you use EndNote bibliographic management software with scholarly resources available at libraries in the University of Tennessee … Continued

Take a Trip to Tox Town

Want to take a trip that won’t cost a thing? If so, then go to Tox Town where you can visit the US-Mexico Border as well as a city, town, and farm all on one website. Tox Town http://www.toxtown.nlm.nih.gov/town/main.html is a web-based introduction to environmental health risks and toxic chemicals. The target audience is students … Continued

Welcome to Shantel Agnew

Join us in welcoming Shantel Agnew to our staff. She is a Library Resident on rotation to Pendergrass Library for this Semester. Shantel is a graduate of Clark Atlanta University in Mass Media Arts and has an MS from UT School of Information Sciences. During her time at Pendergrass she is responsible our News Channel. … Continued

Current Protocols Subscriptions Reminder

The UT Libraries have subscriptions to Current Protocols in: Cell Biology Cytology Food Analytical Chemistry Immunology Protein Science Molecular Biology Hint: Find the protocols on the list of databases http://old.lib.utk.edu/databases/ by typing the word [protocols] in the search box. Current Protocols are collections of peer-reviewed best practices revised several times year. For more information click … Continued

Canary Database–Animals as Sentinels

Canary Database, Yale School of Medicine P.O. Box 102283 New Haven, CT 06510-2283 Home URL: http://canarydatabase.org/ The Canary Database contains studies in the biomedical literature that explore the use of wildlife, domestic, and companion animals as “sentinels” for the effects of chemical, biological, and physical hazards in the environment that may be a risk to … Continued