Veterinary Technology

Starting your Research

Starting your Research

Encyclopedias, handbooks and subject specific dictionaries will help provide useful background information, as well as terms to use when searching the databases. For example:

Lane, D. R., Guthrie, S. & Griffith, S. (2008). Dictionary of veterinary nursing. Edinburgh; New York: Elsevier Butterworth-Heinemann.	Bowman, D. D. (2009). Animal biology and care. Oxford, UK: Blackwell Publishing.
Tighe, M. M. & Brown, M. (Ed.). (2008). Mosby's comprehensive review for veterinary technicians. St. Louis, MO: Mosby/Elsevier.	Gaynor, J. S. & Muir, W. W. (2009). Handbook of veterinary pain management. St. Louis, MO: Mosby.

A GOOGLE search can also help find background information and suggestions for more keywords.

Keywords & OPAC

Keywords & OPAC

Use OPAC (Online Public Access Catalogue) to find books, journal titles and audio-visual materials in the Library. When searching for information, you need to use keywords. See below for some suggestions.

Animal health technicians	Animal health technology	Cat/dog infections
Cat/dog parasites	Laboratory animal diseases	Pet diseases
Pets health	Veterinary Medicine

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Finding Articles Online

Finding Articles Online

The articles inside magazines, journals & periodicals are very useful sources of information. Articles are different from books because:

• they are much more up-to-date
• they are shorter (less to read!)
• they concentrate on topics or specific aspects of topics
• there are many articles being published all the time so you have more choice.

The library catalogue, OPAC, does NOT tell you what articles the Library has, only which journals or periodicals, so the easiest way to find articles is to use the online databases.

• Academic Search Premier

• Biomedical Reference Collection: Comprehensive

• Health Source: Consumer Edition

• ProQuest Science Journals

• ScienceDirect Subject Collections

Newspaper Articles

Newspaper articles are also very useful sources of information, and can be found in the LexisNexis Academic and the Factiva databases.

• Factiva (Dow Jones)

• LexisNexis Academic

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Click here for a list of all the databases subscribed to by TP Library.

Recommended Websites

Recommended Websites

Agri-Food & Veterinary Authority of Singapore - the section on animals and pets provides a wide variety of information from the import regulations for domestic pets to the care of animals for scientific purposes.

Singapore Veterinary Association Online - the website for the the professional society representing the interests of veterinary surgeons & the veterinary community in Singapore.

Merck Veterinary Manual - a comprehensive full text electronic reference for animal care information, brought to you by Merck & Co., Inc. and Merial Limited.

NADIS - NADIS (National Animal Disease Information Service) is a network of 40 veterinary practices and 6 veterinary colleges monitoring diseases in cattle, sheep and pigs in the UK.

Intute: Health and Life Sciences - a free online service providing you with access to the web resources for education and research, evaluated and selected by a network of subject specialists. Formerly known as BIOME, it contains specialised gateway of VetGate (animal health and veterinary science), among others.

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