University of Georgia Libraries: Recent submissions
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Using Improv as a Tool for Fostering Mentorship Among Medical and Pre-medical Students
(2019-06-09)PURPOSE: Advising for pre-medical students can be reinforced and strengthened by involving current medical students. Medical students can improve their own communication skills and give back to medical community by mentoring ... -
Evaluation of a Gender Gap in Student Academic Performance of an Integrated Hybrid Curriculum
(2019-06-10)PURPOSE Studies have shown that gender differences exist for performance on both the MCAT and the USMLE Step 1 exam. Data show that men outperform women even when controlling for prematriculation factors. In addition, other ... -
"Sieving" Your Search: Semi-Automated Citation Screening for Search Strategy Refinement
(2019-05-06)Background : Those who develop search hedges and systematic review strategies often use a process where they measure how effective a given search is at retrieving items from a set of “gold standard” articles. While this ... -
Word Trees for Visualizing PubMed Search Results
(2019-05)Background : It can be daunting to begin the search process for a complicated question, particularly if a searcher is new to a topic and not yet familiar with the language used to describe it. As many biomedical searches ... -
What's in You Bag? Practical Tools and Strategies for Scalable Digital Preservation
(2018-10-25)In 2017, the University of Georgia Libraries developed and implemented a redundant, secure, monitored digital preservation storage environment (ARCHive) for its most important digital archival assets. Before ingesting ... -
Search Workbench: Building, Refining, and Comparing PubMed Searches Using Interactive Visualizations
(2018-05-21)Objectives: Search Workbench is designed to facilitate the process of developing complex PubMed searches by allowing the user to examine, edit and visualize searches from a single interface. Importantly, the system not ... -
Mind the Gap: Identifying What Is Missed When Searching Only the Broad Scope with Clinical Queries
(2018-05-21)Objectives: PubMed Clinical Queries are subdivided into “broad” and “narrow” versions, tuned to maximize retrieval sensitivity and specificity respectively by using similar but different sets of terms. This study seeks to ... -
Using Improv to Develop Communication Skills for Medical Students
(2018-06-10)Strong communication skills are essential for clinicians, and clear and confident self-presentation is important for medical students. Techniques of improvisational theater have been adapted for use in many classroom ... -
Visualizing PubMed: Displaying Search Results by Topic, Region and Time
(2017-06-15)Objectives: This project is an attempt to visualize the results of PubMed searches in a variety of different ways: topics and how they overlap with Venn diagrams, aspects of a search (MeSH categories and subheadings) with ... -
Building information visualizations with PubMed
(2017-04-27)The E-utils interface is a powerful tool for querying the multitude of databases available at the NCBI, particularly PubMed. In this session, we'll explore how one can use this interface in conjunction with Google charts ... -
Research Support Services for Agriculture
(2017-03-10)In 2016 the University of Georgia Libraries joined 18 other academic libraries serving as local research partners for the project titled “Research Support Services for the Field of Agriculture,” organized by Ithaka S+R, a ... -
Information Literacy Credit Course Survey
(2016-06-22)The Information Literacy Credit Course Survey was administered during the summer of 2014 to a stratified random sample of academic libraries in the United States (public and private, including for-profit). The principal ... -
Onotogenetic and environmental shifts in detection probability of pond-breeding amphibians in the Georgia Piedmont
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Political and social foundations for environmental sustainability
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The legacy of AQ Khan: An analysis of nuclear dual-use illicit trade patterns in the pre-enlargement European Union
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The creative moment: The ethics of understanding in Virginia Woolf and Hermann Broch
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Intracellular gene transfer from the mitochondrion to the nucleus in Toxoplasma gondii
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Fighting for a radical city: Student protesters, cultural radicals and the politics of space in 1960s & 1970s lower Manhattan
(University of Georgia, 2007)