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Veterinary Technology

Selected resources available through UMass and 5 Colleges for Students in the Mount Ida Vet Tech Program or other Animal and Biological Sciences programs at UMass Amherst. Resources include topical selections, general information, and career materials.

Welcome!

Welcome to the Veterinary Technology LibGuide. Check out the many resources we have to support research and learning related to Veterinary Technology. We also encourage you to explore our guide on Veterinary and Animal Sciences, which includes information and resources on conducting searches, accessing subject databases, evaluating the quality and relevance of sources, writing, managing citations, and many other topics.  

Understanding your audience

To create a compelling story, you might want to investigate these three types of sources:

  1. Popular Magazines to get a view into what the public is reading; use the database Academic Search Premier
  2. Newspaper articles - Start with the NY Times - see this guide https://guides.library.umass.edu/nytimes then other options https://guides.library.umass.edu/sb.php?subject_id=128867
  3. Peer-reviewed scholarly research articles
  4. Government information for statistics and legislation; CRS reports are particularly helpful

Database Search Tools

Search Techniques

Target your database search by combining these tools with your strategic keywords.

  • Using quotes "_____"  keeps words together as a phrase.  Example: "Climate Change"
  • Using parentheses (_____)  collects like terms.  Example: (Sea or Ocean or Coast)
  • Using an asterisk * at end of of a word returns all the various word endings.  Example: Flood*  for Flood, Flooded, Flooding

Looking at popular magazines to scaffold information

When starting a research project, it is sometimes helpful to search popular magazines to scaffold information and learn the level of information communicated to a public audience.

The database Academic Search Premier is the ONLY database that will let you search specifically for magazine and trade publications.

Databases

Ebooks

Career-related print resources available through UMass Amherst