E-Resource News

Data Collection in Digital Scholar

The libraries are excited to announce a new Data Collection in LSU Health’s Digital Scholar! It showcases the public datasets researchers from LSU Health Sciences Center – New Orleans have published. Publishing datasets is an important aspect of Open Science and reproducibility of published research. Our Data Collection is not a repository, but an archive of published data from other platforms, collected in one place to showcase the scholarly work of everyone at LSUHSC-NO.

If you have published a dataset in an open repository such as Zenodo, Harvard Dataverse, Open Science Framework, Dryad, Figshare, or others: please alert the libraries! We will add them to the growing collection of datasets. You can contact digitalscholar@lsuhsc.edu to submit your dataset, and if you have any other scholarly publications you’d like added to LSU Health’s Digital Scholar.

If you are in need of assistance with a Data Management Plan or where to deposit your data as required by funding or encouraged by the journal you’re publishing with: contact the libraries! Our librarians have experts in helping you in a variety of ways.

Bachelor’s in Public Health – Research Guide

The primary Public Health Research guide for the Bachelor’s program has recently been revamped to reflect current courses – core and elective. Additionally, the homepage has been updated to better reflect resources that may be useful to everyone in the School of Public Health, and beyond!

Home – Public Health – LibGuides at LSUHSC-New Orleans Libraries

BSPH Resources – Bachelor of Science in Public Health – LibGuides at LSUHSC-New Orleans Libraries

AccessMedicine Changes Access Profile Authentication

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.

UPDATE: Problems accessing the Cochrane Library

UPDATE: September 22, 2025: Cochrane is back to working via all Library links. If you run into any issues with this or need any other assistance, please contact us.

September 19, 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.

Ezproxy maintenance September 21, 2025

September 19, 2025: On Sunday, September 21, 2025, starting at 7am and lasting until 11am, 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.

Scheduled Maintenance for ClinicalKey, September 20, 2025

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.

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.