UC Davis School of Veterinary Medicine

School of Veterinary Medicine


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Vet Med Resources

 

 

DATABASES and RESOURCES
  PubMed CAB Web of Science Biosis IVIS VIN Merck World Cat** Google
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Agricola

subject coverage

clinical medicine animal & ag general life science   vet   all all animal & ag
peer reviewed x x x x           x
books
monographs
  x   x       x   x

proceedings

  x x x       x   x
free x       x   x x x x
access to full-text x* x* x* x*     x     x*

UC e-Links

x x x x         x x
years covered 1949- 1910- 1900- 1926-       1000bc-   1970-

vendor producer

NLM OvidSP ISI ISI       OCLC   OvidSP

UC e-Links - provide access to UC holdings, including full-text
free - PubMed and Agricola also licensed versions
*full-text - access from subscriptions and/or free (eg., PubMed Central, PLOS)
** WorldCat - Melvyl now on WorldCat platform

 

Twtpoll
http://twtpoll.com/1dklr9

YouTube Veterinary Resources: Cows, Cattle, Heifers, bovine
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d4Tro0LE3Nk
or in HD
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d4Tro0LE3Nk&fmt=22

5 minute LOOPING version
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ciMhFnCGs7Y
or in HD:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ciMhFnCGs7Y&fmt=22

 

Bernadette Swanson bswanson@lib.ucdavis.edu 752 7637
Mary Wood mwwood@ucdavis.edu 754 9122
Dr. Klingborg djklingborg@ucdavis.edu

14 October 2009

 

 

Question: What effect(s) does the IBR vaccine have on pregnant cows?

 

TEAMS: IS YOUR SOURCE GOOD ENOUGH?

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  • relevance - answer question? anything on topic?
  • specialized search features - controlled vocabulary (subject hdgs, descriptors, thesaurus), boolean, truncation, term mapping
  • authority - reviewed, peer reviewed
  • subject/format coverage - db size
  • problems - due to query? user interface? search capabilities? (and/or/not)
  • recommendation - resource potentially useful? is this good enough?

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