Library News

Happy New Year! I would like to highlight the 16 electronic books we just bought, plus some that will be coming in 2015. In addition to the books the Veterinary Library buys, the Tufts Libraries buy thousands of electronic books each year, too many to list here. Links to our...

Cummings staff have authored publications on many subjects over the years. Come see the book display in the library. The topics include: anatomy anesthesia animal welfare behavior equine neonatal medicine ethics exotics & birds genetics goat medicine hematology international veterinary medicine neurobiology oncology physiological chemistry physiology practice management radiography surgery...

Signs a journal or publisher might be "predatory" or that it might not be a good fit. The journal is not listed in the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ). The journal is not listed in Ulrichs (Tufts login required). It is not widely available on major databases. The publisher...

The Tufts Scholarly Communication Team is celebrating Open Access Week with seminars about research data management and scientific publishing. They have information about OA Week on their website and a full list of events. The Tufts Scholarly Communications Team’s goal is to provide information for faculty, staff, and students about...

Celebrate the Freedom to Read September 21−27, 2014 Banned Books Week is an annual event, highlighting the value of free and open access to information and drawing attention to the harms of censorship. Check out this article posted by the American Library Association which includes a link to frequently challenged...

The Library's web site has been updated to include a link to veterinary specialty board reading lists for our residents and a search tool called JumboSearch. A link to the Resident Reading Lists is on the left side of our web page. At the request of some of our residents...

The library hopes to once again host a Farmer's Market this summer with produce donations from the Cummings community. All money collected will be given to the Travis Fund for Needy Animals so, think of the Travis Fund when planning your garden. Look for email notices on market days and...

The library's summer hours begin on May 29 and run through August 18. We will be open Monday-Thursday 8:00am-6:00pm, Friday 8:00am-5:00pm, and closed on the weekends.

What does 'One Health' mean to you? Come see the display in the Veterinary Library. We are proud to feature posters created by our students, articles written by our faculty, a local newspaper article featuring one of our students, in addition to other materials. Tufts at Tech Education and Partnerships...

The library has lots of books to give away! Unfortunately we are running out of space and can't keep the second copies of non-current editions of popular books such as Smith's Large animal internal medicine, Pavletic's Atlas of small animal reconstructive surgery, and many others. Come browse our shelves of...