Marlene Bishop

AAO ebooks subscription ending

The American Academy of Ophthalmology is no longer offering an institutional subscription to their ebooks, and as such, our access will expire on November 15, 2020.

The library has shared the cost of this subscription with the Department of Ophthalmology for the past few years, and we have enjoyed working with the department to provide access to these books.

The Chronicle of Higher Education Data Breach

The Chronicle of Higher Education has reported a data security incident. Some account holder names, email addresses, usernames, and passwords for some online accounts to chronicle.com, philanthropy.com, and/or chroniclevitae.com were posted online by unauthorized parties. Account holders should have received notification from the Chronicle, and the Chronicle reset all passwords. If account holders use the same usernames and passwords for any other online account, The Chronicle recommends that they change the passwords to those accounts as well. Complete information about what happened can be read at https://www.chronicle.com/page/notice-of-data-breach.

RESOLVED: Thieme MedOne Education off-campus access

Thieme has resolved issues with off-campus access to Thieme MedOne Education and the Q&A module for histology.

Let us know if you continue to experience technical difficulties with any Thieme product.

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Original post: We are having technical difficulties with remote access for our Thieme MedOne Education ebooks collection. There is a workaround though, so please see below for the best way to access this resource. MedOne Education is a collection of over 100 basic and clinical science ebooks in subjects like anatomy, biochemistry, dentistry, immunology, microbiology, neuroscience, otorhinolaryngology, physical therapy, and more.  There is also a new Q&A module for histology. Check it out if you haven’t already.

Step 1 – Start at the Thieme MedOne Education web page: https://medone-education.thieme.com/ and sign in using OpenAthens:

(If you have not used OpenAthens yet, please see more instructions here: https://libguides.lsuhsc.edu/openathens.)

Step 2 – Select OpenAthens as the federation:

Step 3 – Select Louisiana State University as the institution:

Step 4 – Then sign up for a free MedOne Education account or log in if you already have one.

If you still have trouble accessing any MedOneEducation content, please contact a library staff member.

*Restored* — AccessSurgery, Emergency Medicine, Neurology and Case Files

McGraw-Hill was able to restore access to our subscribed collections.  If you continue to experience problems, please let us know.

Thank you for your patience!

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McGraw-Hill accidentally turned off access to some of our paid subscriptions. Sorry for the inconvenience! Hopefully they will fix this as soon as possible!

Trial access to online resources

McGraw-Hill (AccessMedicine) and Ovid/LWW (LWW Health Library) have offered to open up extended trial access to some of their resources during the COVID-19 outbreak.

We created a LibGuide to keep track of these: https://libguides.lsuhsc.edu/trial. We will add more resources as they become available.

McGraw-Hill additional access is through June 1st. Those resources are AccessBiomedical Science, Cardiology, Pediatrics, Physiotherapy, and F.A. Davis PT collection (part of AccessPhysiotherapy).

Ovid/LWW additional access is through May 19th. Those resources are 5-MinuteConsult, Acland’s Video Atlas of Human Anatomy, Bates Visual Guide to Physical Examination, LWW Health Library Clerkship/Clinical Rotations, LWW Health Library Exercise Science, LWW Health Library PA Rotations/Specialties.

RESOLVED (mostly): LWW Health Library technical difficulties

It looks like our LWW Health Library access has been restored.  We are still seeing a few books listed in our collections that we shouldn’t be seeing, but the good news is access is mostly fully restored.  LWW also opened up a few extra collections during the CovID-19 outbreak.  We have extra access to the following collections through May 19th: Clerkship/Clinical Rotations, PA Rotations and Specialties, and Exercise Science.  We will blog more about those and a few other things as soon as the details are wrapped up. Thanks to Ovid/LWW for offering us those extended trials during this challenging time.

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LWW Health Library is having technical difficulties. They are working to resolve our access issues. I will update the blog with more information as it becomes available.

RESOLVED: AccessMedicine technical difficulties

Our AccessMedicine access has been restored.  We have institutional access to the following subscribed collections: Medicine, Emergency Medicine, Surgery, Neurology, and the Case Files Collection.  McGraw-Hill is also in the process of adding extended trial access through June 1st to the following collections: Physiotherapy, F.A. Davis PT Collection, Pediatrics, Cardiology, and Biomedical Science.  We will update the blog once those are all turned on.

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Original message: AccessMedicine is experiencing some technical difficulties. They are working on resolving the issues.

RefWorks downtime this weekend

RefWorks will be performing scheduled maintenance this weekend starting at 9pm CST on Saturday, February 8th. The outage will last approximately 12 hours with access restored on Sunday, February 9th.

Legacy RefWorks and (new) RefWorks, RefWorks Citation Manager, and Write-n-Cite will all be unavailable.

If you continue to have access problems after the scheduled maintenance is complete, please contact RefWorks support.

ClinicalKey scheduled maintenance

ClinicalKey will have scheduled maintenance and possible downtime starting Friday, January 31st at 3pm through Saturday, February 1st at 12pm.

GIDEON trial access via Ovid

Ovid is offering trial access to GIDEON: Global Infectious Diseases and Epidemiology Online Network, during January and February 2020. Registration is required and is available here.  GIDEON is updated daily with information on the latest disease outbreaks.

AAO Basic and Clinical Science Course (BCSC) eBook collection maintenance

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The American Academy of Ophthalmology Basic and Clinical Science Course (BCSC) eBook collection is upgrading to a new version effective Monday, September 16th. Maintenance will begin the night before, Sunday, September 15th, starting at 9:30 PM (central time).

The functionality should stay the same, however there will be a few changes:

-The new site will only have the latest Basic and Clinical Science Course (BCSC) titles. The old editions will no longer be available.

-Personalized accounts, including bookmarks, highlights and notes created on the older titles can be accessed under the ‘My activity’ tab and downloaded as an excel file for the user’s reference.

-All books will be presented in chronological order of their publishing date.

If you experience problems accessing the collection, please contact the Collection Development Department.

STAT!Ref updated platform

STAT!Ref ebooks platform is getting a facelift. The new platform will debut on Monday, September 9th. No interruptions in service are anticipated. Read the official announcement from Teton Data Services on the company’s web page.

Our subscription to STAT!Ref comes with over 100 ebooks, including popularly requested titles such as American Academy of Pediatrics Red Book, Davis’ Drug Guide for Nurses, ICD-10 guides, Washington Manual of Medical Therapeutics, Wintrobe’s Hematology, and much more. Our access to BoardVitals online exam review is also through STAT!Ref.

This subscription is coordinated by a group of partner libraries in 3 states, Arkansas, Louisiana, and Oklahoma, allowing participating institutions to share access and cost.

LearningExpress upgrade to PrepSTEP December 26th and 27th!

Our LearningExpress subscription will be upgraded to PrepSTEP on December 26th and 27th.  According to the publisher, the transition should be seamless.

 

Current Protocols cancelled for 2019

Current Protocols access will be cancelled effective January 1, 2019 due to low usage. We will maintain access to our previously subscribed content.

Bioinformatics: 2010-2016
Cell Biology: 2005-2018
Immunology: 2005-2018
Molecular Biology: 2005-2018
Pharmacology: 2005-2018
Protein Science: 2005-2018
Neuroscience: 2005
Human Genetics: 2005-2016

We subscribe to several other protocol resources including JoVE, Springer Protocols, Nature Methods, Nature Protocols, SpringerNature Experiments, and Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Protocols.

LearningExpress technical difficulties FIXED!

UPDATE! Learning Express is now fixed. Login functionality is working, and if you do not have an account yet, you can create a new one by clicking on the “Register” button.

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LearningExpress is not working right now. There is no way to log on or register as a new user. The company is aware of the problem, and hopefully a fix is on the way. Sorry for the inconvenience! We will update the blog once the problem is resolved.