Friday, February 20, 2015

New additions to "The Henry Stewart Talks" database

New additions to “The Biomedical & Life Sciences Collection” of the Henry Stewart Talks are now available.

Eight of the ten newly released online lectures are part of a series covering “Animal models in Biomedical Research”.

  • The moral status of invasive animal research Prof. Bernard E. Rollin, Colorado State University, USA
  • Legal aspects of using animals for research in the U.S. Dr. B. Taylor Bennet, Management Consultant, USA
  • Modern production of laboratory animals Dr. Martin Toft , Taconic Ltd., USA
  • Creating animal models by genetic techniques Mr. Emmanuel Gomas, Transgenic Technologies, Training and Consulting, 3TC, FR
  • Surgical models and perioperative care in swine Prof. M. Michael Swindle, Medical University of South Carolina, USA; Prof. Mary Ann McCrackin, Medical University of South Carolina, USA
  • Improving and humanizing animal models by microbiomic techniques Prof. Axel Kornerup Hansen, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
  • Behavioral phenotyping of mouse models of neuropsychiatric and neurodevelopmental disorders Prof. Jacqueline N. Crawley, University of California, USA
  • Development of immunotherapies for type 1 diabetes. Value and limitations of mouse models. Prof. Matthias von Herrath, Novo Nordisk Ltd, USA

The University of Pretoria has full access to all the lectures which can be accessed from the Library website: E-Resources – Databases – Henry Stewart Talks

Monday, February 2, 2015

UPSpace performs well in webometrics ranking

Dr Leti Kleyn,Manager of the library's Open Scholarship Office announced on Friday that the university's repository UPSpace has moved up a considerable number of places on the webometrics ranking system:

"The new Webometrics ranking were announced earlier today at http://repositories.webometrics.info/en/Ranking_africa

UPSpace is still first in Africa. The repository performed well on the world ranking and moved up from 99th position to 73rd."

We are proud to be part of this achievement as our Veterinary Science component within UPSpace is also growing continuously.