The National Library of Medicine has announced the release of its Drug Information Portal. The portal “gives the public, healthcare professionals, and researchers a gateway to current, accurate and understandable drug information from the National Library of Medicine and other key government agencies.” (from the official press release) There are over 12,000 records with links to MedlinePlus, PubMed, etc.
The latest issue of the Library’s Newsletter has been released. Archives of the newsletter are also available from 1998 to the present.
All issues have been resolved.
Another Blackboard update:
As of 3:45 am 2/14/08, we are still waiting on the complete restore of the Blackboard software/databases. The process is taking longer than expected.
We’ll keep you updated as the situation changes.
Happy Valentines Day!
Currently the Blackboard system has encountered a major problem, that will require a major shutdown of the system. Blackboard Tech support needs to do a complete rebuild of the operating system.
A backup of all user information was created at 2am 2/13/08, and all transactions since that time is being stored on the transaction server that works in conjunction with the database server. Once we get the database server back online, all user accounts will be updated once it syncs up with the transaction server.
Bottom line: Blackboard is still down for the time being.
The Blackboard server is currently experiencing problems. You will experience problems with ID Works, and other services. Blackboard is aware of the problem and they are working on trying to resolve the issue.
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?
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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.
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.
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