Emergency Dental Campus Closure 1/26/2024

January 26, 2024 – the Dental Campus (including the Dental Library) closed at noon today because of a water main break. Stay tuned to see if the Library can open on Sunday.

Notice regarding alumni access to Library resources

We have received reports that alumni are being informed they can access Library resources online once they receive an alumni email account. This is incorrect. Alumni do not have access to the Library’s online resources and subscriptions.

Alumni who have been issued an alumni email cannot access Library resources due to licensing restrictions.

If you need any more information or have any questions, please contact us.

5th Floor Project Update

The major project on the 5th Floor of the Library to create space for an IT data center has reached a milestone. We have completed shifting the print journal collection, so the floor will be markedly quieter for a while.

The next phase of the project, which will entail clearing and tearing down of the shelving on the Prieur Street side of the floor, is tentatively scheduled to commence in the summer. We will post signage warning of increased noise and commotion once we have a better idea of when these next steps will start.

Although the print volumes have been removed, we still have some work to do for the affected journals’ records in our Library catalog. If you need assistance locating a print journal, please don’t hesitate to ask for help.

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

Isché Library Closed 1/20/2024

January 19, 2024 – Due to an emergency repair scheduled for Saturday, January 20th, the Isché Library will be closed on this date. The Library will reopen at 9:30am on Sunday, January 21st.

The Library Commons will be open but only emergency power will be on, so limited lighting, HVAC and elevator service may be available.

Digital Scholar Outage Tonight from 6PM-9PM

January 18, 2024 – Digital Scholar will be performing a planned outage tonight, Thursday, January 18th, 2024 from the hours of 6PM – 9PM.

Apologies for any inconvenience! Please contact rholle@lsuhsc.edu or digitalscholar@lsuhsc.edu with any questions or concerns. Thank you!

LSUHSC Campus Closed 1/16/2024

January 15, 2024: Due to the expected icy conditions, the LSUHSC New Orleans Campus is closed on Tuesday, January 16, 2024. Hopefully the campus will reopen on Wednesday.

January Faculty Publications

January 13, 2024

A new selection of articles has been added to the Faculty Publications display in the Isché Library. These eight articles, as well as all the articles in LSU Health Digital Scholar, 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. Check out the display below: 

LSUHSC 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.  

Publications cited in LSU Health Digital Scholar are harvested 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. You can access LSU Health Digital Scholar at https://digitalscholar.lsuhsc.edu/.  

If you have an article that you would like us to highlight or if you have any questions regarding the display or the database, you can contact our Librarians at reference@lsuhsc.edu. 

MLK Day Closure

January 12, 2024: The Libraries will be closed on Monday, January 15th in honor of Martin Luther King, Jr Day. Both Libraries will be open our regular hours on Sunday, January 14th and Tuesday, January 16th.

Libraries Are Open – Happy 2024!

January 2, 2024: The Isché Library reopened at 7:30am this morning and the Dental Library reopened at 8am. Welcome back!

Libraries Are Closed for Winter Break

Both the Dental and Isché Libraries are closed for Winter Break. Online systems will work while the physical libraries are closed. And the Library Commons will be open downtown as long at the building remains open. Both Libraries will reopen on Tuesday, January 2nd, Isché at 7:30am and Dental at 8am. See you in 2024!

Winter Break Hours

The Isché Library will have Winter Break hours on Sunday, December 17th through Tuesday, January 2nd. The Dental Library will have Winter Break hours on Friday, December 23rd through Tuesday, January 2nd.

Isché Library

Dental Library

LSUSD Faculty Publications | Q4-2023

Dec. 2023 | As an extension of the faculty publication provided by the Ische’ Library, each quarter the Dental Library presents the published work of the LSUHSC – School of Dentistry community. These articles and more found in the LSU Health Digital Scholar, are authored by at least one member of the LSUHSC – New Orleans research community. Current publications are stored digitally and can be accessed here:

Copies of the articles listed above are located on the “LSUSD Publications” shelf and can be read in the Dental Library. Publications are harvested weekly from a variety of sources, such as PubMed, SCOPUS, and CINAHL. In addition to articles – books, book chapters, papers, editorials, letters to the editor, and meeting abstracts are included. All publications are authored by at least one member of the LSUSD community. If you have an article that you would like us to highlight or if you have any questions regarding the display or the database, you can contact our Librarians at reference@lsuhsc.edu.

UPDATE: Catalog/INNOPAC slowness

UPDATE: The problem has been resolved and the catalog is back up and running as usual.

Thursday, December 14, 2023: After an outage earlier this morning, we are experiencing slowness with the Library Catalog/INNOPAC. We have reported the issue to the vendor, and will update when we have more information.

In the meantime, you can search for the majority of the books and journals we have online through the E-Books & E-Journals A to Z List, or contact us if you need any assistance.

UPDATE: Problems access Wiley content through EZproxy

UPDATE: The problem appears to be fixed as of 2:45pm 12/11/2023, but if you encounter any problems please contact us.

If you are trying to access a Wiley book or journal with a link that goes through our EZproxy system, those are currently not working correctly. All EZproxy users are experiencing this problem, and it affects links to Wiley titles in the Library’s catalog and the E-Journals & E-Books A to Z List. In all instances, there is a Cloudflare connection check, and the EZproxy links are stalling and will not redirect to the content after logging in.

Until this problem is fixed, you can access Wiley journals and books directly by using OpenAthens.

Start at https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com. When at the Wiley site, click Login/Register on the right of the screen:

Next, click on Institutional Login at the bottom right of the box:

Then, click on Sign in with your OpenAthens account:

On the next screen, enter LSU and click on LSU Health Sciences Center Library:

Then you will be able to enter your LSUHSC-NO full e-mail address and current password, after which you can access all of the Wiley titles we have access to through our subscriptions.

If you are attempting to get to an article in a Wiley journal from databases such as PubMed, Scopus, etc., those links appear to be working as expected.

We will update when we have more information about this issue, but if you need any help with this or other Library resources please contact us.

Journal subscription cancellations for 2024

Due to low use, we will not be renewing our subscriptions to the following journals for 2024:

• American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
• British Journal of Nutrition
• Dermatitis
• Journal of Dentistry for Children
• Journal of Neuro-Oncology
• Journal of Neurovirology
• Neurochemical Research

Also, the following titles are moving to new publishers, but we will not be subscribing to them for 2024 because of low use:

• Biometrics
• ISME Journal
• Journal of Evolutionary Biology

Articles published in 2024 from any of these journals may be requested through our Interlibrary Loan service.

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