Mardi Gras is over, but we can’t resist one final Carnival connection between LSUHSC and the glittering courts of faux royalty.
If you read Sunday’s (2-10-08) Times-Picayune Living section’s “Splendid ending: a confluence of crowns”, you may have noticed that 1982 Nobel Prize winner Dr. Bengt I. Samuelsson attended the Rex Ball. Dr. Samuelsson and his colleagues received the 1982 Nobel Prize in Medicine for their work with prostaglandins and related biologically active substances. Dr. Nicolas Bazan, Director of the LSU Neuroscience Center of Excellence, also made mention. He took a day off from synaptic signaling to sling beads at Carnival revelers Tuesday morning.
(Eds note: If you have any boeuf gras left, Dr. B, the library is taking donations!)
Ever click on a link to a full text journal article & run into this error message?
?óÔé¼?ôThe file is damaged and could not be opened?óÔé¼?Ø
Aggravating, right? Well fret no more, a solution is here!
Turns out, this error message is related to settings in Adobe Acrobat (the program that lets you read PDFs). Try these simple steps to fix the full text from our online journal providers.
1. Close your browser.
2. Open Adobe Reader.
3. Go to the Edit menu and select Preferences
4. In the left column select Internet
5. Uncheck Allow fast web view
6. Uncheck Display PDF in browser
7. Click OK, and try again
The PDFs will display in a separate window rather than in your browser window.
STILL NOT WORKING?
Check to see if you have pop ups disabled in your browser. Internet Explorer does this automatically, and this will also cause the full text not to display.
As always, if you still can’t get the PDF full text, PLEASE LET US KNOW! Email reference@lsuhsc.edu or call 504 568 6100 with the article information, and we will get the article for you. If we don’t know its broke, we can’t fix it!
InfoPOEMs will know be known as Essential Evidence Plus, although the web address will remain the same for now. EEP will continue to offer the same tools and content as InfoPOEMs. And a PDA version is still available.
On Monday 4 February 2008 (Lundi Gras to us) the Ovid screen that you’re used to seeing changed.
Do not be alarmed. LSUHSC Librarians have looked at the new interface and our implementation of it should not cause you too many problems. Several functions have been moved to different positions on the Ovid screen, but the functionality you need remains.
One reason for the change is a new “enhanced” Basic Search screen, which facilitates natural language searching. LSUHSC users will see a screen similar to the one in old Ovid-also known as the Advanced Ovid Search. If you want to try the new Basic Search there is a tab for you to use.
Other new features include a ‘Find Citation” tab, an easy way to connect to Books@Ovid, and a new name. “OvidSP” refers to the new Ovid interface.
Want the basics? Spend ten minutes watching this OvidSP tutorial from the Whitney Medical Library at Yale University School of Medicine and you’re on your way to becoming an OvidSP expert.
As always, if you need help with the new Ovid, you can call us at 504 568 6100.
There are 13 articles in PubMed with the keyword Mardi Gras. These articles cover eye injuries, disaster care, sexual behavior, and tattoo removal. Maybe someone at LSUHSC will use this year’s experience to add to the list?
The Isché Library will be open for reduced hours this coming weekend (February 2nd & 3rd). The hours for Mardi Gras are as follows:
Friday, Feb. 1st 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. (Regular Hours)
Saturday, Feb. 2nd 9:30 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Sunday, Feb. 3rd 9:30 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Monday, Feb. 4th 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Tuesday, Feb. 5th CLOSED (University Holiday)
Wednesday, Feb. 6th 8 a.m. to 12 midnight (Regular Hours)
According to the January issue of the European Heart Journal, moderate drinkers (1-14 drinks per week) who engage in leisure-time physical activities lower their risks of fatal heart disease. So, get off that streetcar and walk to the parades and don’t forget the key words: moderate drinkers.
If you want to read the whole article we have it available full-text online through our card catalog, INNOPAC.
Researchers who receive funds from the NIH take note: most U.S. biomedical scientists will have to send copies of their accepted, peer-reviewed manuscripts to the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) for posting in a free archive (or as us librarians like to call it, PubMedCentral). If they don’t, they could have trouble renewing their grants or even lose research funding, reports ScienceNOW Daily News
The New NIH public access mandate was announced January 11th and will take effect in early April 2008. To learn more about how this may affect you, including a list of journals that already submit to the archive (meaning no further action is needed to comply with the submission requirement of NIH Public Access Policy) click here.
NIH Public Access Homepage
Turns out video games aren’t SO bad, at least if you’re planning to be a surgeon. A report from New Scientist magazine posits that surgeons perform better after warming up with Wii, — and that study’s authors are now planning to develop surgery training software for the video game platform.
Read more about it here
“NATURE! We are surrounded and embraced by her: powerless to separate ourselves from her, and powerless to penetrate beyond her.” – JW Goethe
So opened one of the foremost science journals in history. Even back in 1869, Nature: the international weekly journal of science was pondering topics like science education in schools, the impact of environmental projects such as the Suez Canal, and recent solar eclipses.
Now that LSUHSC library has online full-text access to Nature from 1869 – present, you yourself can trace historic scientific events as they unfold in the biomedical literature, all from the comfort of your office or home computer!
Link: NATURE JOURNALS, 1869 – PRESENT: ONLINE FROM THE LSUHSC LIBRARY.
The ILLiad server is back online. Check out the enhanced webpages and order an article or book today!
ILLiad, the Library’s automated ILL service, is down for maintenance. It should be back up in a few hours.
ILLiad will be unavailable from 9:30 a.m. on Wednesday, January 16th until completion (approximately 2 hours). When it is available again, users will enjoy enhanced and more attractive webpages. Thanks for your patience.
Welcome to LSUHSC and thanks for reading our blog! Here’s some useful tips to get a good start to your studies.
GET YOUR LSUHSC ID & LIBRARY BARCODE
As you stop by the Registrars office (Library ?óÔé¼ÔÇØ 4th floor) for your official university ID, make sure to drop by our Circulation desk for a library bar code. You?óÔé¼Ôäóll need it to check out books & get off-campus access to our many online resources.
SET UP YOUR PAYPAW ACCOUNT
Once you have your ID & library barcode, drop by the LSUHSC bookstore on the 2nd floor of the Resource Center Building (433 Bolivar St) to set up your PayPaw account. You can use it in the cafeteria (for food) & the library (to print). You can also add money to it online.
QUESTIONS ABOUT LOGINS, PASSWORDS, EMAIL ACCOUNTS?
See our handout explaining campus logins.
Contact the LSUHSC help desk at 568-HELP for any questions you might have concerning access to WebCT, Blackboard, email, or other computer related services. You can also contact your school?óÔé¼Ôäós computer support directly.
WANT WIRELESS?
We have directions for that for XP, Vista and Intel Proset on our homepage.
COMMON CAMPUS LOCATIONS
Cafeteria & Atrium – 3rd floor of the Nursing & Allied Health Building
Campus Bookstore – 2nd floor of the Resource Center Building
Elevated Walkway/Walk to Wellness – access this from the 2nd floor of any campus buildings
Student Financial Aid Office – 2nd floor of the Resource Center Building (around the corner from the Credit Union)
Wellness Center – 3rd floor of the Stanislaus Hall Dormitory
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We mentioned back in December that Web of Knowledge (the database which, among other things, allows you to see how many times an article has been cited) is changing. The switch is now only 13 days away!
Curious about how YOU can use the new ISI Web of Knowledge? Whether you’re a student, professor, vice provost, or librarian, Web of Knowledge can serve your needs. Check out this quick tour to see how the new face of knowledge can work for you.
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