RCVS Trust Library Newsletter - December 2007

RCVS Trust Library Newsletter – December 2007

Welcome to the January 2008 edition of the RCVS Trust Library’s electronic newsletter. There’s lots of news to update you with this issue…

RCVS Trust’s Golden Jubilee year - free £50 for RCVS Trust Library members

To celebrate the RCVS Trust’s Golden Jubilee (1958-2008) we are offering £50 credit to all practices or individuals when they renew RCVS Trust library membership. This golden sum can be spent on any library services such as literature searches and quarterly updates.

We are also offering £50 credit to the first 50 practices or individuals each month that purchase a new RCVS Trust Library membership, so please spread the word!

For further information on library membership please click here .

Author Evening at RCVS Trust Library

RCVS Trust Library is hosting an author evening on 11th February 2008 at RCVS Trust Library, Belgravia House, 62-64 Horseferry Road, London, SW1P 2AF from 5pm to 7pm.

This event is the first of many initiatives organised in celebration of the RCVS Trust’s Golden Jubilee year.

Donald Broom, the world's first Professor of Animal Welfare, has recently revised his book Domestic Animal Welfare and Behaviour, which is now in its 4th edition. During his talk he will take us through key developments in animal welfare over the past ten years.

The event is open to all and promises to be of interest to anyone interested in animal welfare. Entrance is free, but as space may be limited you will need to book a place by contacting Bonnie Fernley on 020 7202 0743 or [email protected]

This event is organised by the Animal Health Information Specialists (UK & Ireland), a group representing librarians and others working in the field of veterinary information and is generously sponsored by CABI, a not for profit organization, specialising in scientific publishing, research and communication.

VetMed Resource

The RCVS Trust Library is trialling a new online database: VetMed Resource from 01 February to 15 March.

According to the publishers “VetMed Resource, from CABI, is a comprehensive source of information for veterinarians. With its specific veterinary focus it provides access to over 1 million relevant records from the CAB Abstracts database.

It also gives links to full text from international veterinary journals and major conferences proceedings from around the world, and has the Animal Health and Production Compendium (an electronic encyclopaedia with disease profiling, a drugs database, and an extensive image library).

VetMed Resource is an ideal way for veterinarians to ensure that they are kept abreast of recent developments in veterinary science around the world, and can ensure their practice is based on the best available evidence.”

Please have a look at this online database and let us know what you think. Your feedback will be vital in helping us to decide whether this would be a useful addition to our member resources.

The username is: rcvs08 and the password is: cabivet

The url for the resource is http://www.vetmedresource.com/

If you have any queries about VetMed Resource, just let us know.

Library Membership

Membership renewal is due for many at the beginning of January 2008.

Library membership offers many benefits for those interested in keeping their skills and current knowledge of veterinary issues up-to-date. Here’s a reminder of some of the benefits of library membership, to help you make the most of the services we offer.

Free full-text remote access to over 2,500 online journals, including many popular titles, such as: the Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association, Journal of Small Animal Practice and Veterinary Surgery.

Substantial (average 30%) savings on all library services: document delivery, journal circulation, quarterly updates, literature searches and postal book loans. The library holds over 30,000 books and over 100 current print journal titles, all of which are available on loan.

If you have received a renewal invoice from us in recent weeks please submit your membership payment to ensure you continue to receive all these benefits.

New Books

Recent additions include:

· Bellows, Jan, Small animal dental equipment, materials and techniques: a primer, Blackwells, 2004,

ISBN: 9780813818986

· Meuten, Donald J, Tumors in domestic animals, Iowa State University, Blackwells, 2002, ISBN: 9780813826523

· Samper, Juan C, Current therapy in equine reproduction, Elsevier, 2007,

ISBN: 9780721602523

· Stafford, Kevin, The welfare of dogs, Kluwer, 2007,

ISBN 9781402061448

If you would like to borrow any of the new books, please let us know. We loan books out in person or by post. You can search our complete catalogue on our website.

We also have over 100 Diploma casebooks and nearly 50 Certificate casebooks in our collection. A full-text electronic version of the majority of the Certificate casebooks is available through our library catalogue.

Quarterly Updates

We currently run quarterly updates on the following topics:

• aquaculture
• competition horses
• diseases of psittacines
• diseases of rabbits
• diseases of reptiles
• equine orthopaedics
• equine surgery
• small animal medicine
• small animal neurology
• small animal nutrition
• small animal oncology
• small animal orthopaedics
• small animal surgery
• veterinary anaesthesia
• veterinary cardiology
• veterinary dermatology
• veterinary ophthalmology
• veterinary diagnostic imaging

We are reviewing our updates, with a view to possibly producing them monthly or bi-monthly, so they are shorter and more relevant; we are also reviewing the search terms to ensure the topics remain relevant. We are keen to make our services as useful as possible and would value any feedback you are able to give us.

If you already take a quarterly update are there any ways it could be improved? If you do not take a quarterly update, what could we change to make this service more relevant to your needs? We are happy to add updates for different areas of speciality and to alter existing updates to better serve your needs.

Other Trust news

2008 grants round – closing date Wednesday 23 January

A final reminder that the RCVS Trust’s 2008 grants round will close on Wednesday.

We are offering eight programmes this year, including Residencies, Blue Sky research, Travel Scholarships and Small Grants, and a new programme designed to support practice-based veterinary surgeons in their Diploma studies and expect to release over £850,000 in March.

Full details of the individual programmes can be found on the Trust’s website  from the Trust Office 020 72 02 07 41.