Come find our events officially posted on the official Open Access Week website. So far, the libraries have presented two information sessions: Retractions, Reputations, and Responsibility; and Your Scholarly Publishing Roadmap. These were recorded and will be posted on the libraries YouTube channel, as well as our Open Access Month research guide, and to LSU Health’s Digital Scholar.
Come join us for the last information session- Who Accesses’ our Knowledge- Wednesday, October 22nd at 12 Noon over zoom or live in the downtown library. Our final event this month will be a 2-hour Open Scholarly Communications Lab where you can ask the Scholarly Communications Librarian any questions you may have about open science, OA publishing, and more!
Register for our remaining sessions at the links below.
During the month’s popcorn Thursdays, come play Data Detectives: an academic twist on the classic board game Clue. It will be set up at a table near where popcorn is popped!
The libraries are excited to announce a new collection as part of the Public Health Faculty Publications: Policy & Positions Collection. These are numerous publications which LSU Health Researchers have created either on behalf of the state of Louisiana, or to serve the benefit of the public for the state of Louisiana. These include the historic Tumor Registries, the modern Cancer in Louisiana publications, Evidence 2 Practice reports, investigations completed by the Institute for Public Health and Justice, and so much more!
October 9, 2025: For several weeks now, AccessMedicine has been notifying users of an upcoming change to the authentication process for users who have registered for an Access Profile. Across the top of most of their web pages you will have seen the following banner:
This has been accompanied by a pop-up as well:
If you have an Access Profile you will need to update your profile information by October 14th to ensure it includes your current institutional email address, which you will have to use to sign in to your Access profile. Institutional authentication methods are not changing. If you are not registered for an Access profile and are just clicking in via the Library’s catalog or database pages, you shouldn’t notice any change in authentication.
This month in the libraries, we are hosting Open Access Month! Join us for a host of classes every Wednesday at 12 Noon the entirety of October. One exception for the last Wednesday of the month, as we will have an Open Access Lab where you can ask the Scholarly Communications Librarian any question relevant to Scholarly Communications, Publishing, and Open Access. We also have interactive activities in and around the downtown library including Post-It Notes, a handmade board game, and a selfie station with the libraries’ own mascot: Opie the Open Access Alligator!
A Resource Guide has been created to provide guidance for searching biomedical literature in PubMed database. It provides a description of the contents of PubMed along with basic and advanced searching tips. It also includes guidance for creating a My NCBI account, which is now required to save searches, email results, and interact with other features in the database.
The new Resource Guide can be accessed at this link.
October 7, 2025: We’ve been informed that the start date for the construction of the IT server room on the 5th Floor is now estimated to begin in December 2025, after the end of the Fall 2025 semester.
The facilities contract for the new IT Data Center which is taking over part of the 5th floor of the Isché Library has been signed and construction will be starting soon. Unfortunately this means the quiet floor will not be so quiet through Fall 2026. It is our understanding that construction should end every day by 3:30pm.
September 18, 2025: If you were planning on getting up early Saturday to delve into the latest edition of Clinical Chemistry on the ClinicalKey database, you might want to sleep in. The ClinicalKey database will undergo scheduled maintenance this Saturday morning, September 20, 2025. The affected time will be from 5:30 am to 8 am our time. During the maintenance period, some functionality or content which would normally be accessible in the database may not be available or operate as it normally would. ClinicalKey, and the Library, appreciate your patience, as always.
To commemorate the 20th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, the LSUHSC Libraries are collecting materials relating to the storm, the catastrophic flooding of the LSUHSC-NO campuses as well as surrounding partners and communities, the emergency and disaster management tasks undertaken by faculty, staff and students, and the monumental efforts toward rebuilding. This collection is being archived and made available to the public on LSU Health Digital Scholar, the LSUHSC-NO institutional repository.
This growing archive will include oral histories of LSUHSC faculty and staff of the time sharing their experiences, LSUHSC Facilities daily and biweekly campus repairs updates from 2005-2012, photos and videos (some available digitally), bibliographies of Katrina-related research and publications authored by LSUHSC-NO community members, and other materials from the years after the hurricane.
The mission of this collection is to focus on the institution and its community members in their capacity as LSUHSC employees at the time of the event; personal experiences beyond what might be shared during an interview, photos or videos of personal belongings or family, and personal items in general are not to be included in this archive.
This collection is in process; every effort is being made to ensure supporting files and documents meet PDF/UA v1 standards of accessibility. If you have any comments or questions about this collection in particular, or about the institutional repository in general, please contact DigitalScholar@lsuhsc.edu.
The Libraries will be closed Saturday, August 30 – Monday, September 1 for the Labor Day Holiday. Both Libraries will reopen at their regular times on Tuesday, September 2.
The LSU Health New Orleans Libraries are excited to announce the launch of our Hurricane Katrina Archive hosted in our institutional repository LSU Health Digital Scholar! Two parts of the collection, the Facilities Updates and Oral Histories, are live. Both collections are a work in progress, and more entries will continue to be added to these collections. In the future, three more collections: Bibliographies, Images and Videos, and Reports and Presentations, will be added to the LSUHSC Hurricane Katrina Archive when they are ready to be made public. The LSUHSC Hurricane Katrina Archive can be found here: https://digitalscholar.lsuhsc.edu/hka/.
GraphPad Prism, a statistical analysis and graphing software program, has been updated on the computers in the Library Commons on the third floor of the Resource Center Building
It is available to all LSUHSC faculty, staff, and students.
This summer, LSU Health Libraries will be showing the entirety of the award-winning anime series “Cells at Work!” Monday evenings from July 21 to Sept 8 at Ische Library on the downtown campus!
Follow red blood cell AE3803 as she, white blood cell U-1146, and others join forces to fight germs, bacteria, viruses, extreme environmental factors, and other attacks across the human body!
Weekly presentations of the English-dubbed version of this Japanese anime will begin at 7pm. Schedules can be found below, on the LSU Health Libraries Instagram page, and posted at the Ische circulation desk. Presentations will occur in the study area by the reference desk.
Whether it is to stop by to relax for an occasional study break, or to commit to watching all 22 episodes, we hope you will enjoy this outreach offering!
July 21 S1.E1 Pneumoccocus S1.E2 Scrape Wound July 28 S1.E3 Influenza S1.E4 Food Poisoning S1.E5 Cedar Pollen Allergies August 4 S1.E6 Erythroblasts and Myelocytes S1.E7 Cancer Cell S1.E8 Blood Circulation August 11 S1.E9 Thymocyte S1.E10 Staphylococcus Aureus S1.E11 Heat Stroke August 18 S1.E12 Hemorrhagic Shock (Part I) S1.E13 Hemorrhagic Shock (Part II) S1.E14 OVA: Cold Syndrome August 25 S2.E1 Bump S2.E2 Acquired Immunity/Peyer’s Patch S2.E3 Dengue Fever/Acne September 2 S2.E4 H. Pylori/Antigenic Shift S2.E5 Cytokines S2.E6 Harmful Bacteria September 8 S2.E7 Cancer Cell II: Part 1 S2.E8 Cancer Cell II: Part 2 (last episode)
LSUHSC-NO Libraries were granted permission to present this series by Aniplex of America Inc.
The old Medical School Library at 1542 Tulane had a high-end paging system installed in the mid 1960s which was donated by the School of Medicine Class of 1963. That system was mover to the Resource Center Building in the summer of 1989 and reinstalled.
For the last year or so, that system has been failing. As of yesterday, a brand new intercom system was installed which will make the Library safer in emergencies and make it clearer to our users when we’re closing. Thank you to Campus Facilities Department for replacing our antique equipment with some actually from this century!
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