Marlene Bishop

StatPearls – New Board Review Resource

Starting July 31st, we now have access to StatPearls, a board review resource and question bank. Our subscription includes the following packages:

All Medical Specialties
Nurse Practitioner
Nursing Certification
Nursing NCLEX (RN and PN)
Pharmacy
Physician Assistant
USMLE Steps 1, 2, and 3

For more information visit our database page for StatPearls: https://www.lsuhsc.edu/library/databases/statpearls.aspx. To access our subscription, first visit the StatPearls LSUHSC-New Orleans registration portal and register. The link to the portal is on the database page.

If you need assistance, please contact your librarian liaison or email library technical services: librarytech@lsuhsc.edu.

Case Files Collection glitch

Our subscription to Case Files Collection from McGraw-Hill is not working correctly. Ignore the message that says “Get Free Access Through Your Institution.” You can still access some of the content if you are not logged into your MyAccess profile/account, but if you log in to your profile, it should be working correctly.

Creating a MyAccess profile is free, and you will need a MyAccess profile to use all of the functionality of the cases. If you are off-campus, you will need to be in an authenticated web session first in order to create a profile. See more information about off-campus access here: https://www.lsuhsc.edu/library/offcampus.aspx.

If you need assistance, please contact your librarian liaison or library technical services: librarytech@lsuhsc.edu.

BoardVitals subscription ending July 31, 2023

The library’s access to BoardVitals will be ending Monday, July 31st. The group through which we receive BoardVitals is switching to a different board review service, StatPearls, https://www.statpearls.com/. We will have access to select packages on StatPearls starting July 31st.

Packages to be included are:

All Medical Specialties
Nurse Practitioner Package
Nursing Certification Package
Nursing NCLEX Package (RN and PN)
Pharmacy Package
Physician Assistant Package
USMLE 1, 2, 3

We will provide more information about StatPearls once it becomes available.

We apologize for any inconvenience this might cause.

If you have any questions, please contact Head of Collection Development, Marlene Bishop, mbisho@lsuhsc.edu or LibraryTech@lsuhsc.edu.

AHA ebooks cancellation Oct 31, 2022

Due to a large price increase, limited functionality, and low usage, our subscription to the American Heart Association ebooks will be discontinued effective Monday, October 31, 2022. This includes BLS, ACLS, and PALS manuals. Both the downtown and dental libraries have copies of those manuals in print on reserve. If you need further assistance, please contact a Collection Development team member at LibraryTech@lsuhsc.edu.

Bates’ Visual Guide to Physical Examination Online

We are pleased to announce that we now subscribe to Bates’ Visual Guide to Physical Examination Online!

Please visit the library database page, https://www.lsuhsc.edu/library/databases/bates.aspx, or the library catalog record, https://innopac.lsuhsc.edu/record=b1158833~S1, to access this resource.

Bates’ Visual Guide includes over 200 streaming videos on physical examination, communication and interpersonal skills, and Objective Structured Clinical Examination (OSCE) clinical skills.

The visual guide can be used alongside the textbook, Bates’ Guide to Physical Examination and History Taking by Lynn Bickley, which the library subscribes to via the LWW Health Library: https://innopac.lsuhsc.edu/record=b1153440~S1.

We hope you find this useful! Let us know if you need more information, LibraryTech@lsuhsc.edu.

UPDATE! Scopus glitch in Citation Overview RESOLVED

Scopus developers have fixed the sorting issue in Citation Overview. If you continue to have problems, please contact the library.

Original post:

The sorting functions are not working in Scopus Citation Overview. The Scopus developers are working on the problem. Citations can be exported and then sorted using Excel. Sorting in the regular results display is not affected.


We will update this blog post once the problem has been fixed.

Sage Knowledge Online collections

We have access to a selection of SAGE Health titles on the Sage Knowledge Online platform.

Key subject areas covered are Counselling & Psychotherapy, Education, Nursing & Medicine, Psychology, Research Methods & Academic Skills, and Social Work. This program provides online access to content that supports each learning modality: books and reports for traditional learners, videos for visual and auditory learners, and cases for tactile learners benefiting from step-by-step examples and re-usable experiments. The cross-disciplinary nature of this collection ensures faculty and students have vast and varied content to enhance their teaching and research.

Included in this subscription:
-SAGE Knowledge Books & Reference: 118 eBooks in Psychology and Medicine & Health
-SAGE Research Methods (SRM) Cases: Medicine & Health
-SAGE Video: Counseling & Psychotherapy, Nursing, Psychology, and Social Work

To access the content and explore these collections, visit https://ezproxy.lsuhsc.edu/login?url=https://sk.sagepub.com/. Login will be required if you are off-campus and are not already authenticated.

This resource is fully funded by the the Louisiana Board of Regents and the LOUIS Library Network. Access to all of the collections is open through 6/30/2022 at which time each participating library will be able to select one collection for perpetual access.

If you need help, please reach out to your librarian liaison.

RESOLVED: EBSCO Technical Difficulties

Update, 11/9/2021: EBSCO has resolved issues with their platform. If you continue to experience problems please contact the library: reference@lsuhsc.edu.

EBSCO has reported problems with multiple products including our EBSCO Discovery search system and EBSCO eBooks collections. They are working to resolve the issues. We will update the blog once everything is back to normal.

Trial for AccessPhysiotherapy through Aug 6

The Department of Physical Therapy has set up a trial of McGraw-Hill’s AccessPhysiotherapy and the F.A. Davis PT ebooks collection through August 6th. For more information see our Trial Access LibGuide.

BoardVitals problems – some fixes in the works

BoardVitals has been working to resolve our registration issues. You do not have to use a special link to register anymore. You can register with your lsuhsc.edu email. All lsuhsc.edu users will now be added to the LSUHSC-New Orleans account. LSUHSC-Shreveport (aka LSU Health Shreveport) users should register with their new lsuhs.edu email to be registered under the Shreveport account. Our libraries are working to identify existing users that have been assigned to the wrong account, and we will try to correct those users as soon as possible.

LSUHSC-New Orleans subscribes to the following question banks. If you do not see these question banks when you log in, please contact your librarian liaison or Head of Collection Development, Marlene Bishop or BoardVitals Technical Support at support@boardvitals.com.

AACN Adult-Gerontology Acute Care NP
AANP Family Nurse Practitioner
Adult-Gerontology Primary Care NP
ANCC Adult-Gerontology Acute Care NP
ANCC Family Nurse Practitioner
Certified Nurse Midwife
Critical Care Nursing
Dermatology
Family Medicine
Family Medicine MOC
Internal Medicine
Internal Medicine MOC
NAPLEX
NCLEX-PN
NCLEX-RN
PANCE
Pediatric Nurse Practitioner
Psychiatric-Mental Health Nurse Practitioner
Psychiatry
Radiology Core
Surgery
Surgery MOC
USMLE Step 1
USMLE Step 2
USMLE Step 3

VisualDx now available

The library is pleased to announce that we are now subscribed to VisualDx, a differential diagnosis tool based on a curated collection of medical images. Users can search by symptom, medication, or diagnosis. VisualDx recently expanded their collection to include a section devoted to dermatology for skin of color.

Access is available both on and off-campus through proper authentication methods.

BoardVitals problems continue

There is a problem with registering users for BoardVitals access. If you have not registered yet, you must register using the following link or your account will not be created correctly: https://www.boardvitals.com/users/sign_up?o=1c1f90eda105b70d3bae56769589b414

LSUHSC-New Orleans subscribes to the following question banks. If you do not see these question banks when you log in, please contact your librarian liaison or Head of Collection Development, Marlene Bishop or BoardVitals Technical Support at support@boardvitals.com.

AACN Adult-Gerontology Acute Care NP
AANP Family Nurse Practitioner
Adult-Gerontology Primary Care NP
ANCC Adult-Gerontology Acute Care NP
ANCC Family Nurse Practitioner
Certified Nurse Midwife
Critical Care Nursing
Dermatology
Family Medicine
Family Medicine MOC
Internal Medicine
Internal Medicine MOC
NAPLEX
NCLEX-PN
NCLEX-RN
PANCE
Pediatric Nurse Practitioner
Psychiatric-Mental Health Nurse Practitioner
Psychiatry
Radiology Core
Surgery
Surgery MOC
USMLE Step 1
USMLE Step 2
USMLE Step 3

BoardVitals new users registration link

BoardVitals has created a new registration link for our LSUHSC-New Orleans patrons. The registration link and other information is now available on our BoardVitals database web page: https://www.lsuhsc.edu/library/databases/boardvitals.aspx

NEW USERS, PLEASE USE THE SECOND LINK ON OUR BOARDVITALS DATABASE PAGE WHEN YOU REGISTER. (SEE BELOW)

If you have already registered, and you are not able to see the question banks for LSU Health Sciences Center – New Orleans, please contact the library for assistance. You can check your access by going to “Add/Manage Question Bank Favorites”.

If you see LSU Health Science Center – New Orleans, you are good to go.

If you see Louisiana State University – Shreveport, your access is not correct and we will need to have BoardVitals correct your account.

Please let us know if you have any problems or need further assistance.

Thank you for your patience.

Board Vitals technical difficulties continue, 2/1/21

We are still experiencing some technical difficulties with our Board Vitals subscription. It seems that most of the issues are with relatively new accounts.

We have contacted support for assistance and will update the blog when the issue has been resolved. Sorry for any inconvenience this may cause.

Book request form


The Collection Development Department is pleased to offer a new online book request form here.

The form is also available on the Collection Development web page where you can find more information about reserves and donations. Feel free to reach out and let us know how we can help you!