E-Resource News

Issues with some Quintessence Publishing journals when using LibKey or BrowZine for articles prior to 2023

UPDATE: August 21, 2025: You may still encounter some issues when accessing articles published prior to 2023 for these three journals. You may be brought to a search result that will lead you to the article, but sometimes this solution does not work as expected. If you need any help getting articles from these or any other journals, contact us.

August 20, 2025: We are aware of an issue affecting linking to International Journal of Oral and Maxillofacial Implants, International Journal of Periodontics and Restorative Dentistry, and International Journal of Prosthodontics when using links from the Library’s link resolver, LibKey Nomad, and BrowZine. This issue affects articles published prior to 2023.

If you try to get to an article using the link resolver, LibKey Nomad, or BrowZine, you will be brought to the main page for Quintessence Publishing or may see a German error page. We have reached out to those who manage LibKey and BrowZine and hope to hear from them soon.

In the meantime, you can use the following links to access the journals directly, after logging in using your LSUHSC-NO email address and current password if prompted to do so:

If you need any assistance with this problem or if you have questions about any other Library resources, contact us.

Ezproxy maintenance August 15-16, 2025

August 15, 2025: On Friday, August 15, 2025, starting at 10pm and lasting until Saturday, August 16, 2025 at 5am, EZproxy will be undergoing maintenance. There may be issues when attempting to access resources using Library links and services.

If you do run into a problem when attempting to log into Library resources during this maintenance window, you can try going to those resources that support logging in directly using OpenAthens. A list of those resources that support direct login is available under OpenAthens-native resources: https://libguides.lsuhsc.edu/openathens/resources.

If you have any questions or need any other assistance with Library resources, please contact us.

Brief outages for EBSCO products, August 1, 2025

July 31, 2025: On Friday, August 1, 2025, starting at 5am CDT until approximately 7am CDT, you may experience intermittent outages of many EBSCO products. If you attempt to use Discovery/EDS Health, EBSCO eBooks, any EBSCOhost databases such as CINAHL and Academic Search Complete, and the E-Journals & E-Books A to Z List, you may encounter outages during the morning.

They are performing maintenance on the systems, and everything should be back to normal once the maintenance is complete.

We will be monitoring these products after the maintenance is complete, but reach out to us if you run into any problems.

PubMed Scheduled Downtime

PubMed will be offline from 6am until 6pm on Saturday, July 26th. The Libraries do have access to MEDLINE through two other Search Systems while PubMed is down.

EZproxy system maintenance July 20, 2025

July 18, 2025: On Sunday, July 20, 2025, starting at 1am and lasting until 12:30pm, EZproxy will be undergoing maintenance. There may be issues when attempting to access resources using Library links and services.

If you do run into a problem when attempting to log into Library resources during this maintenance window, you can try going to those resources that support logging in directly using OpenAthens. A list of those resources that support direct login is available under OpenAthens-native resources: https://libguides.lsuhsc.edu/openathens/resources.

If you have any questions or need any other assistance with Library resources, please contact us.

EZproxy system maintenance, July 11-12

July 11, 2025: On Friday, July 11, 2025, starting at 3pm until Saturday, July 12, 2025, at 1am, EZproxy will be undergoing maintenance. There may be issues when attempting to access resources using Library links and services.

If you do run into a problem when attempting to log into Library resources during this maintenance window, you can try going to those resources that support logging in directly using OpenAthens. A list of those resources that support direct login is available under OpenAthens-native resources: https://libguides.lsuhsc.edu/openathens/resources.

If you have any questions or need any other assistance with Library resources, please contact us.

LibKey retracted article alerts expanded

July 9, 2025: If you use Library databases to get articles or have installed the LibKey Nomad browser extension to make getting those articles very easy, you already know how LibKey helps to identify retracted articles. Check out our post from December 2021 for more information about the retracted articles alerts.

LibKey now brings those retracted article alerts to warn you of papers that cite retracted works in the article you’re linking to:

Screenshot of notice about retracted citations for an article

You can still continue to the original article by clicking “Download PDF” or “Article Link.” If you click on the links next to the retracted citations, you will see the summary of why that article was retracted.

These same alerts will display if you choose to use the LibKey.io product to look up articles using DOIs or PMIDs. You can quickly get to articles we have access to by going to https://libkey.io/libraries/935.

If you need help with this or any other Library products, contact us.

UPDATE: Problems access Wiley content via Library links fixed

UPDATE: July 3, 2025: The issue has been fixed, and you should be able to access all content from Wiley via Library links. Please contact us if you need any additional help.

July 2, 2025: We are currently experiencing issues when accessing journals and books on the Wiley Online Library platform via Library links. You will see a message that the “Website is not accessible via this address” and cannot proceed. This is the same issue we were experiencing with the Cochrane Library until today.

We have contacted Wiley support to fix this problem that is also affecting many libraries. Until the issue is resolved, you can use this link to access our subscribed content on the Wiley Online Library: https://go.openathens.net/redirector/lsuhsc.edu?url=https%3A%2F%2Fonlinelibrary.wiley.com%2F.

If you need assistance with this or any other Library resources, please contact us.

UPDATE: Problems accessing the Cochrane Library

UPDATE: July 2, 2025: The problem has been fixed, and you should be able to access the Cochrane Library via Library links. Contact us if you need any assistance.

June 30, 2025: We are currently experiencing troubles accessing the Cochrane Library via any links from the Library website or other resources. There is an issue with getting to the Cochrane Library via our EZproxy links, and it is affecting many libraries worldwide.

In the meantime, if you need to access the Cochrane Library, please use this link: https://go.openathens.net/redirector/lsuhsc.edu?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cochranelibrary.com%2F.

Until the problem is fixed, please contact us if you need any assisting accessing the Cochrane Library.

Harrison’s Principles of Internal Medicine, 22nd Edition, Now Available

June 30, 2025 – The newest edition of Harrison’s Principles of Internal Medicine is now available via AccessMedicine. The 22nd edition ebook has 24 sections, encompassing 559 chapters. There are 17 new Clinical Procedure tutorials such as “Central Venous Catheter Placement” and “Basic Suturing”, and a fully updated Video Collection, with a new entry, “Primary Progressive Aphasia, Memory Loss, and Other Focal Cerebral Disorders”, added. “Emerging Topics in Clinical Medicine” is a completely new section covering such topics as:

  • Improving Health and Health Care Using Behavioral Economics
  • Network Medicine and Multiomic Approaches to Health and Disease
  • Machine Learning and Augmented Intelligence in Clinical Medicine
  • Emerging Neurotherapeutic Technologies

AccessMedicine also provides a review questions module for this edition. And be sure to check out the Harrison’s Podclass while you’re there.

LSU Health Digital Scholar – New Look!

LSU Health Digital Scholar has a new look! Our repository has grown significantly since it was established in 2023, and a redesign of the home page was undertaken to better reflect and navigate our many collections.

Image of Digital Scholar webpage

Digital Scholar is LSUHSC-NO’s Institutional Repository, a platform where scholarly output and events created and hosted by our academic community are shared. Here you will find Faculty Publications, Research Events, Dissertations & Theses, two journals: the Journal of the Louisiana Public Health Association and the Louisiana Journal of Counseling, Data sets, a collection of Campus Art & Images, and Historical Collections such as academic bulletins, graduation programs and student newspapers dating back to the first days of the originally named “Louisiana State University Medical Center”.

Digital Scholar is growing in content daily and we actively seek out items to include on this open-access platform!  Possible submissions include:

  • Faculty bibliographies
  • LSUHSC-affiliated authors’ articles or research suitable for open-access publication
  • Post-embargo Dissertations & Theses
  • Research Days, Events, or Symposia – past and present
  • School- or Department-specific professional development seminars
  • Data sets suitable for open-access publication or storage

Benefits to having your work or event archived in LSU Health Digital Scholar include: reader analytics and tracking, a consistent URL for inclusion in CVs and communications, access to a broader network of research, proceedings, and data sets, and contributing to the impressive body of LSUHSC scholarly output! If you are interested in submitting a scholarly work or event to the repository or have any questions, please reach out to DigitalScholar@lsuhsc.edu.

You can navigate to LSU Health Digital Scholar from the Libraries homepage, or visit it directly via digitalscholar.lsuhsc.edu. Digital Scholar is a member of the Digital Commons Network representing over 500 institutions in the Medicine and Health Sciences disciplines and over 700 academic institutions across all disciplines.

New Database: Stahl Online

June 26, 2025: The Library has added Stahl Online to our database resources. This collection from Cambridge Core includes such titles as:

  • Clinical Reasoning and Decision-Making in Psychiatry
  • Management of Complex Treatment-Resistant Psychotic Disorders
  • Decriminalizing Mental Illness
  • Next Generation Antidepressants

Also included in the collection are Stahl’s Essential Psychopharmacology, Prescriber’s Guides, Illustrated Guides, Handbooks, and Case Studies.

Cabells LibKey integration ending June 28, 2025

June 24, 2025: The LibKey integration that brought Cabells alerts about problematic and potentially predatory journals will end on June 28, 2025.

We were waiting for additional login functionality to be implemented before we officially announced this new functionality for our LibKey products, but you may have noticed these indicators of a problematic journal:

Screenshots of problematic journal alerts

You can still use Cabells directly by going through our link on this page: https://www.lsuhsc.edu/library/databases/cabells.

If you need more information about LibKey, you can learn all about the various LibKey products at https://libguides.lsuhsc.edu/browzine.

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

New Digital Collection – The Tiger Newspaper

The Libraries are excited to announce a new digital collection in LSU Health Digital Scholar: The Tiger Student Newspaper.

Published bimonthly from September 1932 to May 1940 by the Students of Louisiana State University Medical Center, the Tiger offers a rare and unique glimpse into the history of the school, campus life, local and national events from that era, as well as medical case studies and a brief history of Charity Hospital.

This is an ongoing digitization project undertaken with technical assistance provided by Tulane University Rudolf Matas Library of the Health Sciences. Each digital document is viewable and searchable as a PDF. Currently, The Tiger Vol. 1, No.’s 1-13 are available; new issues will be uploaded as they are completed.

Follow this link to explore this unique collection: School of Medicine Tiger (1932-1940) | Historical Collections | LSU Health Sciences Center

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.