Library News

ClinicalKey Maintenance Saturday Morning!

May 30, 2025: ClinicalKey will be performing scheduled maintenance on Saturday morning, May 31st, from 6am to 10am our time. During that time, some functionality or content may not be available.

Summer Hours @ the Libraries

Both the Dental and the Isché Libraries will have Summer Hours for the month of June.

The Dental Library will be open from 8am to 6pm Monday-Thursday, 8am to 5pm on Friday and closed on Saturday and Sunday from June 1 through June 30.

The Isché Library will be open from 7:30am to 9pm Monday-Thursday, 7:30am to 6pm on Friday, 9:30am to 6pm on Saturday and 9:30am to 9pm on Sunday from June 1 though July 31.

Bates Visual Guide Unavailable Tonight

May 20, 2025: Due to scheduled maintenance, Wolters Kluwer has advised us that Bates Visual Guide will not be available this evening. Per the notice we received this morning, the module will be undergoing scheduled maintenance from Tuesday, May 20 at 8:45 pm until 3:00 am on Wednesday, May 21, 2025. During this period, some functions may be temporarily unavailable, including password reset, new user registration, and administrative functions. If you were planning on using Bates Visual Guide during that time frame and think you might need to reset your password or you need to register, you might consider doing so before the scheduled maintenance begins.

Research Poster Printing returns to the Dental Library

Research Poster Printing is now available at the Dental Library, thanks to the generosity of the Department of Genetics who donated their poster printer to the Libraries.

The process and policies are the same as for Research Poster Printing at the Isché Library. For information about submitting a poster printing request, please visit our Poster Printing page here: https://www.lsuhsc.edu/library/services/posterprinting.aspx

Please note that the printer at the Dental Library is slightly smaller than the one at the Isché Library, with a maximum width of 42”.

Easter Weekend Hours

Both Libraries will be closed Friday, April 18th – Sunday, April 20th for Easter. The Dental Library will close at 5pm on Thursday, April 17th and the Isché Library will close at 6pm that day. The Libraries will return to regular hours on Monday, April 21st.

Isché Computer Lab Closed

The Isché Computer Lab has been closed and the space will soon be the new Student Success and Wellness Center.

Don’t worry the computers are still available! They have been moved to the large carrels right outside the old Lab.

Isché Library – Study Room 401C

The Library is pleased to announce that room 401C on the Gravier side of the building is back in service as a study room which brings the Library up to 9 study rooms. We are hoping to have 3 more rooms that had been repurposed into offices post-Katrina, restored to study room use by the end of the year.

The monitor is not yet installed in this room but should be in the next 2 weeks.

EBSCO EBooks Scheduled Maintenance February 26, 2025

February 25, 2025
EBSCO will perform scheduled maintenance on the EBSCO eBooks system platform tomorrow at 7AM and expect it to be completed within 4 hours.

Per EBSCO:
“During the maintenance window, users will not be able to download DRM-protected eBooks from the new user interfaces, classic Ehost/EDS, or the EBSCO Mobile App. All other eBook access is unaffected: users will continue to have access to read eBooks in the online viewer, download chapters, and download DRM-free eBooks.”

EBSCO apologizes for any inconvenience that this necessary maintenance may cause.

Carnival Hours

The Libraries will both close at 5pm on Friday, February 28th and remain closed on Saturday, March 1st and Sunday, March 2nd. Both Libraries will be open on Lundi Gras, March 3rd. The Isché Library will be open from 7:30am to 5pm and the Dental Library will be open from 8am to 5pm. Both Libraries will be closed on Mardi Gras Day, March 4th.

The Isché Library will return to regular hours on Wednesday, March 5th and the Dental Library will be open from 8am to 6pm on Wednesday and Thursday, March 5th and 6th before returning to regular hours on Friday, March 7th.

Artificial Intelligence Research Guide

The Libraries know that AI is rapidly being established as the future of health sciences and health care, and we strive to help keep the LSUHSC-NO community well-informed of the technology and the discussion around it. Check out the AI Research Guide on the Libraries page for resources and tools meant specifically to assist those in the health sciences navigate this ever-changing landscape.

The “Artificial Intelligence for Health Sciences” research guide can be found by navigating to the Libraries’ main page, selecting the Resources by Subject tile, and then in the drop-down menu under “Technology”. Tools you’ll find there include links to articles and videos on the subject, citation guides for AI-assisted research, descriptions of and links to AI models specific to medicine and health sciences, creative uses of AI in scientific research, and the potential pitfalls and conflicts found in the use of AI in health care and research. This guide will be updated to reflect the ongoing advances in and discussion around AI.

If you are researching AI in the medicine and health sciences, please reach out to our Digital Initiatives Librarian at eholt3@lsuhsc.edu to post links to your published articles in this guide.

Graduate Research Day

The Libraries are pleased to share that Digital Scholar now hosts the 2019, 2022, 2023, and 2024 Dr. Joseph M. Moerschbaecher, III Graduate Research Days! Graduate Research Day has taken place annually since 1986, and in 2022 was renamed in honor of Dr. Joseph M. Moerschbaecher, III, the former Dean of the School of Graduate Studies and Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs at LSU Health-NO.

This event is archived in the Digital Scholar alongside other Schools’ and Organizations’ research symposia and events; it can be found by navigating to the Libraries’ main page, selecting Digital Scholar, and then Research Days & Events. There you will find each Graduate Research Day’s agenda, participant names, research titles, and in many cases, the abstracts of research presented. More years will be archived in an ongoing project to build the LSUHSC-NO institutional repository.

LSUHSC-NO Digital Scholar is an institutional repository and is a service of the LSU Health Science Center Libraries. Research and scholarly output included here has been selected and deposited by the Libraries, as well as individual university departments and centers on campus. For questions or to submit research to the repository, please contact digitalscholar@lsuhsc.edu

EBSCO EBooks Downtime Super Bowl Sunday

EBSCO will be performing scheduled maintenance on their eBooks system on February 9th. The scheduled maintenance will start at 1AM our time and should last about 3 hours.
Per their announcement, “During the maintenance window, users will not be able to download DRM-protected eBooks from the new user interfaces, classic Ehost/EDS, or the EBSCO Mobile App. All other eBook access is unaffected: users will continue to have access to read eBooks in the online viewer, download chapters, and download DRM-free eBooks.”

EBSCO goes on to “apologize for any inconvenience this scheduled maintenance may cause”.

Super Bowl Weekend Library Hours

Since getting to the downtown campus will be a challenge this coming weekend, the Isché Library will be closed on Saturday and Sunday, February 8th and 9th. The Library Commons will be available 24/7 as usual to badge holders. Parking in the Roman Street Garage will require a special permit to be acquired in advance.

BUT! We will open the Dental Library on Saturday (Feb. 8, 2025) to accommodate students from 9:30am to 6pm and the Dental Library will remain open from 11:30am to 8pm on Sunday (Feb. 9, 2025) as usual.

The Libraries will return to regular hours on Monday, February 10th.

New Subscriptions Announcement: Cabells Journalytics Medicine and Predatory Reports

LSUHSC Libraries now subscribes to Cabells Journalytics Medicine and Predatory Reports. These products will assist authors with evaluating scholarly journals for quality and impact and identifying predatory publishers.

Journalytics Medicine provides detailed reports on over 9,000 medical journals to assess their scope, history, quality, and impact.

Predatory Reports offers the largest database of predatory journals with reports on over 17,000 titles. It tracks the use of misleading metrics, irregular publication practices, and other predatory characteristics and then details all violations for a transparent view of each journal.

Look for an upcoming class from the Libraries about these new Cabells products and learn how to use these powerful resources to get the highest impact for your journal publication.

Please contact us at reference@lsuhsc.edu with any questions.

MLK, Jr Day Closure

Both the Isché and Dental Libraries will be closed on Monday, January 20, 2025 in honor of Martin Luther King, Jr Day.