Veterinary and Animal Sciences
An Audio-visual Guide to Client Communication
The videos have been produced in partnership with the US-China Center for Animal Health at Kansas State University. Ryane Englar, DVM, DABVP (Canine and Feline Practice) presents each episode. Dr. Englar is the author of Writing Skills for Veterinarians published by 5m Publishing, as well as the forthcoming books: A Guide to Oral Communication in Veterinary Medicine and The Veterinary Workbook of Small Animal Clinical Cases.
Online Reference Sources
Encyclopedia of Animal Science by ISBN: 0415802865Publication Date: 2011-02-01The link above will take you to a library record for the e-book available through the Greenleaf Library Online.
- AGRICOLA This link opens in a new window
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Covers agriculture; plant and animal sciences; forestry; entomology; soil and water resources; agricultural economics and engineering; alternative farming; nutrition, 1970-present. - AGROVOC Thesaurus This link opens in a new windowAn open access list of controlled, multilingual terms for research in agriculture, forestry, fisheries, food, and the environment. Contains more than 16,600 descriptors and numerous (10,758 in English) non-descriptors (synonyms).
- Cold Spring Harbor Protocols This link opens in a new window
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Research methods for microbiology, genetics, bioinformatics, proteins, plant biology, neuroscience, lab organisms, and imaging. - Plumb's Veterinary Drugs This link opens in a new window
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Find the drug interactions, dosages, and adverse effects for veterinary drugs.
- Encyclopedia of Animal BehaviorCovers communication, learning, sexual selection, navigation, and the history of the field; also emerging topics in cognition, animal welfare, conservation, and applications of animal behavior
- Encyclopedia of LifeCollaborative internet project to document all species of life on earth. A work in progress, it contains some information about many thousands of species, but is far from complete at this time.
- Medline/PubMed Veterinary Science Search and Veterinary Information ResourcesLinks to useful sites from the National Library of Medicine. The Vet Science Search helps you search PubMed specifically for veterinary research articles.
- Merck Veterinary ManualFree, online version of a reference that covers animal health care in a diversity of species. On the webpage, search is in the top bar at present (2017).
Reference Books (in paper - NOT online)
A tiny sample of the reference books in paper format - links are to the Library catalog records.
A Dictionary of Biology [Oxford]
UM Science Ref QH302.5 .D54 2008
Short definitions with some line drawings.
Encyclopedia of Life Sciences
UM Science Ref QH302.5 .E525 2002
Twenty-volume set from the Nature Publishing Group.
Illustrated Veterinary Anatomical Nomenclature
UM Science Ref SF 671 .I45 2007
Just what it says; Lots of line drawings and diagrams.
A Manual of Equine Diagnostic Procedures
UM Science Ref SF951 .M65 2006
"How-to" manual for collection of tissue & fluids from horses for diagnosis.
The Merck Veterinary Manual (9th ed)
UM Science Ref SF745 .M47 2010
"Concise, authoritative information on diagnosis and treatment of the diseases of animals kept by man for use or pleasure."
Veterinary Medicine
UM Science Ref SF745 .B65 2007
A textbook of the diseases of cattle, horses, sheep, pigs, and goats.
CRS Reports
The Congressional Research Service (CRS) is the non-partisan public policy research arm of the United States Congress.
CRS experts prepare reports to assist members of Congress throughout the legislative process providing background information and data on public policy issues.
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Reports by the public policy research arm of the U. S. Congress on current issues and their legal and legislative status, 1970-present. Library doesn't subscribe to tabbed extras like Bills, Memebers & Votes, etc.
How to cite a CRS report APA 7th edition:
Author, A. A. (Year). Title of report in sentence case and italics (CRS Report No. xxxxxxx). Retrieved from Congressional Research Service website: URL
Example:
Erwin, M. C. (2011). Intelligence issues for Congress (CRS Report No. RL33539). Retrieved from Congressional Research Service website: http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/intel/RL33539.pdf
