JAMA Oncology now available

The Libraries are happy to report that we’ve added a subscription to JAMA Oncology that became active with the new month.

We know this is a title many of you have been trying to use, and we are glad to finally be able to offer it.

If you have any questions about this or any other Library resource, please contact us.

New look for the Link Resolver

Today we’ve launched a new and hopefully improved look for the WebBridge LR Link Resolver results page. All of the links you’re used to are still there, but now they’re in a slightly different presentation:

If you need more information about the WebBridge Link Resolver, you can take a look at the LibGuide that will walk you through the basics.

Need help with this or any other Library resources? Please contact us.

Free Symposium of Children’s Environmental Health

This symposium will provide important information about environmental impacts on children’s health. Sessions are planned for health care providers, academics, community health workers, policymakers, social workers and community leaders.

The symposium will be held June 10-11 at the International House Hotel (221 Camp St. NOLA).

Registration and more information can be found at: https://elpaso.ttuhsc.edu/ecommerce/Conference/

CEH Symposium Flyer

Summer Hours – June & July

The Libraries will have Summer Hours for the months of June and July. The Isché Library will close at 10pm Sunday-Thursday and at 6pm on Fridays. Opening times and Saturday hours will remain the same. The Dental Library will close at 6pm Monday-Thursday and will be closed on weekends. The Dental Library will continue Summer Hours through Thursday, August 1st.

Elsevier Products at LSUHSC-NO

Joining a growing number of universities and government entities who find themselves at odds with Elsevier’s pricing or policies, LSU has recently announced that it will terminate its “big deal” with Elsevier at the end of the year. Understandably, some are asking how this will affect LSUHSC-NO.

LSU’s action is no cause for alarm on our own campus. Our collections are not directly connected with those of LSU. And we recently entered a deal with Elsevier for the Freedom Collection, adding several hundred relevant journals to our collection and many more that may appeal to the “long tail” users of our community. Our Elsevier agreement is one of our most cost-effective and, because of a three-year controlled-cost agreement, likely to stay that way for a while.

We feel solidarity with the librarians at LSU and the University of California.  We recognize that the rising costs of biomedical literature access far outstrips the costs of inflation. And we acknowledge that the current system in which those who produce the literature must also pay to use it is greatly flawed. These are concerns LSUHSC-NO faculty may wish to address on multiple fronts such as tenure and promotion and scholarly communication processes before we find ourselves in crises mode.

Accessing resources during system outage

INNOPAC, our library system, will not be available starting at 7am on Tuesday, May 21st, and it’s estimated it could be out for up to four hours. This outage means that you will not be able to look up anything through the Library’s online catalog, and the link resolver in all databases will not work as well. There are, however, other options to find the resources you need during this time.

The Discovery/EDS Health search will still function and can help you locate a specific journal, book, or article:

There are many options presented that will still work, but some do rely on the system in order to work. As a result, any options to check the Library’s catalog or to use the WebBridge Link Resolver will not be available. However, particularly in the case of articles, there are many other options that can get you to what you need:

Another option to find a particular ebook or journal is the E-Journals & E-Books A to Z List.

If you need to access any resource when off-campus, you will need to use your LSUHSC-NO e-mail and password through OpenAthens; you will not be able to log in using your Library barcode and PIN while the system is unavailable:

Even though INNOPAC, the Library’s catalog, will not be available, Library staff will have other ways to get to journals and resources during this downtime, so please contact us if you need help.

Eduroam on the road

Our campus is compatible with Eduroam, which can be used when our faculty and students are traveling. Or when visitors who are here from participating campuses.

Eduroam is a global Wi-Fi service enabling connectivity across campuses.

For more information about Eduroam and which campuses are compatible with this service, check out their website.

INNOPAC Down – 5/21/19 *Restored*

*Update* The servers were restored by 9:35am.

The Libraries’ online catalog, INNOPAC, and all associated programs will be down again on Tuesday morning beginning at 7am for scheduled maintenance. We will post when it comes back online. We apologize for the inconvenience.

INNOPAC – 5/13/19

*Update 5/13/19 8:30am* access has been restored.

The Libraries’ online catalog and all associated programs will be down Monday morning beginning at 7am for scheduled maintenance. We will post when it comes back online. We apologize for the inconvenience.

May Faculty Publications

A new selection of articles highlighting the School of Public Health have been added to the Faculty Publications display in the Ische Library. These eight articles, as well as all of the articles in our Faculty Publications database, are authored by at least one member of our research community here at LSUHSC-New Orleans. Each month the Library is proud to present copies of eight of these publications in a rotating display of 16.

1. Brisolara KF, Gasparini S, Davis AH, Sanne S, Andrieu SC, James J, Mercante DE, De Carvalho RB, Patel Gunaldo T. Supporting health system transformation through an interprofessional education experience focused on population health. J Interprof Care. 2019;33(1):125-128(1):125-128.
2. Chapple AG, Blackston JW. Finding benefit in n-of-1 trials. JAMA Intern Med. 2019;179(3):453-454.
3. 3. DiGiorgio AM, Mummaneni PV, Fisher JL, Podet AG, Crutcher CL, Virk MS, Fang Z, Wilson JD, Tender GC, Culicchia F. Change in policy allowing overlapping surgery decreases length of stay in an academic, safety-net hospital. Oper Neurosurg (Hagerstown). 2019;.
4. Huang HL, Peng WD, Lin YC, Lee CH, Hu CY, Huang ST. Gender-specific factors associated with the suicidal ideation of children in taiwan: A large-scale cross-sectional study. Int J Psychol. 2019;54(1):53-60.
5. Kao YH, Celestin MD,Jr, Yu Q, Moody-Thomas S, Jones-Winn K, Tseng TS. Racial and income disparities in health-related quality of life among smokers with a quit attempt in louisiana. Medicina (Kaunas). 2019;55(2):10.3390/medicina55020048.
6. Maziveyi M, Dong S, Baranwal S, Mehrnezhad A, Ratthinam R, Huckaba TM, Mercante DE, Park K, Alahari SK. Exosomes from nischarin-expressing cells reduce breast cancer cell motility and tumor growth. Cancer Res. 2019;.
7. 7. Welsh DA, Ferguson T, Theall KP, Simon L, Amedee A, Siggins RW, Nelson S, Brashear M, Mercante D, Molina PE. The new orleans alcohol use in HIV [NOAH] study: Launching a translational investigation of the interaction of alcohol use with biological and socioenvironmental risk factors for multi-morbidity in people living with HIV. Alcohol Clin Exp Res. 2019;43(4):704-709.
8. Yu Q, Wu X, Li B, Scribner RA. Multiple mediation analysis with survival outcomes: With an application to explore racial disparity in breast cancer survival. Stat Med. 2019;38(3):398-412.

Publications cited in the Faculty Publications database are harvested weekly from a variety of sources, such as PubMed, SCOPUS, and CINAHL, to name a few. In addition to articles they include books, book chapters, papers, editorials, letters to the editor, and meeting abstracts, all authored by at least one member of the LSUHSC-NO community. The database is maintained by Reference Librarian Kathy Kerdolff and is available to the general public here or via the Library’s webpage. For a PDF of a bibliography of this month’s additions,click here. If you have an article you would like us to highlight or if you have any questions regarding the display or the database, you can contact Kathy Kerdolff.

Please come to the Library and view these recent publications by our research community.

Get a free digital LA driver’s license until the end of May 2019!

If you have a Louisiana driver’s license, get a free legal digital driver’s license, available for Android or iOS smartphones through the LA Wallet app.

It is legal to use for driving in Louisiana, and ATC has approved for all responsible vendors to accept LA Wallet.

LA Wallet will be free until May 31, 2019, after which the price will be $5.99.

For more information, go to https://lawallet.com/

New TVs with HDMI Ports in Library Commons

There are two new televisions in the library commons which allow for computer screens to be shared via HDMI connection. Just stop by the Circulation Desk to checkout HDMI cables! Use of these televisions is available on a first come, first served basis.

Please let the circulation staff know if you have any questions!

Weather Closure 4/18/19

Due to anticipated severe weather in the New Orleans area, the Chancellor has announced an emergency closure at noon today, April 18, 2019. The text of the email is included below:

Due to the hazardous weather conditions forecast for the metropolitan New Orleans area, LSU Health New Orleans academic downtown and dental campuses will close at 12:00 noon today. Classes, patient appointments and events scheduled on campus this afternoon and evening are cancelled.

At this time, this closure applies only to the academic campus of LSU Health Sciences Center New Orleans and the LSU Healthcare Network’s Primary Care and Dental Clinic on the Dental School campus. Hospital and Healthcare Network personnel should follow hospital and HCN emergency procedures and check with their leadership for information and instructions. The LSU Healthcare Network plans to issue a separate communication regarding their other clinic locations.

Easter Hours

The Libraries will be closed  from Friday, April 19th through Sunday, April 21st for the Easter Holiday. In addition, the Dental Library will close at 5pm on Thursday, April 18th and the Ische Library will close at 6pm that day. Both Libraries will reopen with regular hours, Monday, April 22nd.

Kids’ Teeth Website Nearing Completion

Kids’ Teeth is a new website in development that will help families of children with special needs find information on the connection between their child’s condition and their oral health.  It was created by LSU School of Dentistry Librarian Julie Schiavo and Pediatric Dentistry Associate Professor Dr. Priyanshi Ritwik after they observed a lack of readily available information on this topic to share with parents at the point of care.

The website can help families decide when special-needs children need to go to a dentist and what to do to make seeing the dentist easier.  As well, health care providers can use the information on this website to inform and educate patients and their families about oral problems that are caused by common diseases.  There are currently ten topics that will be regularly updated and expanded in the future.

The website debuted at the recent annual ADEA conference in Chicago where it was received positively, and it will go live in a matter of weeks after further testing.  Feedback is encouraged, so make sure to complete a survey through the handy links on the website:  https://www.lsusd.lsuhsc.edu/kids_teeth/

This project was funded by a grant award from the National Library of Medicine and the National Institutes of Health.