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PUBLISHING WORKS IN THE UNIVERSITY’S INSTITUTIONAL REPOSITORY KnowledgeExchange@Southern, Southern’s institutional repository, is an online platform used to collect, preserve, and disseminate the university’s research and scholarly output. Open-access institutional repositories like KnowledgeExchange@Southern provide researchers with opportunities to self-archive and promote their research to increase awareness and availability. The repisotory provides students and faculty with a tool for efficiently managing and presenting their own research, which is Google-searchable once submitted to the repository. All items are also included in the Digital Commons database. Current Statistics KnowledgeExchange@Southern currently houses 1,700 papers that have been downloaded over 405,000 times by 15,000 institutions from 214 countries. Seven out of the 10 most popular works in the repository are student publications, with the most popular work having been downloaded 50,000 times by 3,250 institutions from 156 countries around the world. Real-time count and worldwide location of download activity is available for each item in the repository. A detailed download activity report can be provided for each department upon request. Submitting Your Research Most research can be submitted
electronically. To submit your works, visit knowledge.e.southern.edu and select the “Submit Research” link on the righ-hand side of the page. Some publications do not allow authors to submit directly. In these cases, you will be provided with a mail form to contact the appropriate administrator for further instruction. Student submissions require a signed form by the supervising professor prior to publication in the repository. A copy of this form can be found at knowledge.e.southern.edu/submission_ form.pdf. Types of Content A wide variety of materials can be included in the repository including research projects, book reviews, images, videos, posters, conference presentation slides, project documentation, data sets, events, and theses. Published examples include the following: • Undergraduate research projects • Graduate research projects • Multimedia image galleries • Video projects • Doctoral theses • Department-level faculty research • Department-level presentation series • Department-level multimedia collection • Research project documentation and data Questions To learn more about the repository, or to have a custom community built for your course or project, please contact Jessica Spears at jspears@southern.edu.
March 2019
What’s Inside WOMEN OF SCIENCE PAGE 2 NEW & NOTEWORTHY PAGES 2 - 3 NATURAL MEDICINES PAGE 3 MARCH AT THE LIBRARY PAGES 4 - 5 FROM THE VAULT PAGE 6 ART IN THE LIBRARY PAGE 6
McKee Minute Jessica Spears Editor
Library Faculty & Staff
Deyse Bravo-Rivera Genevieve Cottrell Stanley Cottrell Pamela Foard Sonja Fordham
Carol Harrison Donald Martin Katie McGrath Seth Shaffer Jessica Spears
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MUST READ BOOKS
The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women Written by Kate Moore HD6067.2.U6 M66 2017 As World War I raged across the globe, hundreds of young women toiled away at the radium-dial factories. When the fatal poison of the radium took hold, the women found themselves embroiled in one of America’s biggest scandals and a groundbreaking battle for workers’ rights.
Women of Science Visit our reading list for more recommendations
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Natural Medicines Database
At some point in our lives, we seek natural remedies, alternative therapies, dietary supplements, or herbal concoctions to improve our general health and/ or heal an ailment. The Natural Medicine collection of databases can help you in your pursuit of wellness. This collection of databases is the most authoritative resource available on dietary supplements, natural medicines, and complementary alternative and integrative therapies. It is maintained by the Therapeutic Research Center, which is not supported by any interest group, professional organization or product manufacturer. The databases afford
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searching by food, herbs, and supplements, health and wellness, sports medicine, comparative effectiveness, manufacturers, commercial products, and fixed herbal combinations. Tools include an interaction checker, nutrient depletion, effectiveness checker, pregnancy & lactation, and adverse effects. The interaction checker analyzes interactions between all drugs and over 90,000 commercial dietary supplements and natural ingredients. The effectiveness checker provides a comparison of the effectiveness of different natural medicines for a specific condition. In addition to these resources, there is a continuing education center,
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a place for colleagues to interact, and several monthly news pieces. Unique Content Each Natural Medicines entry includes the scientific name, background, what people use it for, safety, effectiveness, dosing & administration, adverse effects, drug interactions, toxicology, herb interactions, nutrient depletion, food interactions, lab interactions, disease interactions, mechanism of action, pharmacokinetics,
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classifications, and references. Accessing Natural Medicines To access this database, click here. To access the library’s databases by subject, click here. Questions? Please contact Donald Martin at dmartin@southern. edu with questions regarding Natural Medicines or other McKee Library databases.
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Pecan Day
Pecans: A Savor the South Cookbook
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St. Patrick: The Living Legend
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From Vault
Historical work by J. N. Andrews available for viewing in the library’s vault.
About the Work The work HIstory of The Sabbath and First Day of the Week by J. N. Andrews, third edition, published in 1887, is part of the McKee Library collection. This work was published by the Review & Herald Publishing Association in Battle Creek, Michigan.
Art in the Library
View the Work To view this work, please complete the special collections request form.
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Yasmin Phillip Exhibit
Dale Jacobson Exhibit
A collection of works from Southern Adventist University student Yasmin Phillip is on exhibit
A collection of works from Southern Adventist University adjunct professor Dale Jacobson is on exhibit
Artwork is located on the the library’s second floor
Artwork is located on both the first floor and second floor
March 4 through June 28, 2019
January 28 through June 28, 2019