E-Journal News

UPDATE: Troubles accessing all BMJ journals

UPDATE: Monday, March 17, 2025: The issues with accessing all BMJ journals appear to have been resolved for now, so all Library links to content in these journals will work as usual now.

Monday, March 17, 2025: Irish eyes are not smiling on BMJ journals today. There is a problem that is affecting all subscribers’ access to all BMJ journals, both on an off campus. We are currently unable to get to any articles that are hosted on bmj.com sites.

We will update when we have more information. Please contact us if you need assistance with any other Library resources.

UPDATE: Library Catalog journal links temporary change

UPDATE: February 10, 2025: The issue has been resolved, and new links to journals will go back to how they usually appear in the Library catalog as we work through the backlog of adding the link to the records. Please contact us if you need any assistance.

January 30, 2025: Due to a problem in the system that runs the Library Catalog, new links to journals will appear a bit different until the underlying issue is resolved.

Any new links added to journal records will now look similar to those you find in the ebook records:

Screenshot of a link to a journal in a library catalog record

In some instances, you will see the old links to journals grouped in one area, but the current access will be in the topmost link:

Screenshot of links to online versions of journals in a library record

The links will work like all others in the Library Catalog, and you may be prompted to log in if you’ve not yet authenticated on or off campus.

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

UPDATE: Problems accessing De Gruyter journals

UPDATE: Friday, January 10, 2025: The problem has been fixed, and all Library links to our De Gruyter subscriptions should work as expected now.

Friday, January 10, 2025: We are currently having problems when trying to access the journals Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine and International Journal of Nursing Education Scholarship published by De Gruyter. If you use Library links to these journals, you will not be able to access our subscribed content.

We have reached out to the publisher to fix the problem, but please contact us if you need an article from either of the journals or if you run into any other problems.

UPDATE: Problems accessing JOSPT using Library links

UPDATE: The problem has been fixed, but contact us if you run into any problems or need any other assistance.

Monday, October 7, 2024: We are currently experiencing issues accessing content for the Journal of Orthopaedic and Sports Physical Therapy (JOSPT) from all Library links. This affects links to the journal from the Library’s catalog, link resolver, E-Journals and E-Books A to Z List, and all LibKey products.

We are working with the publisher and our proxy service to resolve the issue.

Until the problem is fixed, please contact us if you need an article from this journal.

LWW Online journals maintenance April 18th

April 18, 2024: Journals available through LWW Online will be unavailable this evening starting at 8:30pm CDT for about an hour while the publisher performs maintenance on the site.

Any links we have to journals on LWW Online are in addition to our primary access through Ovid, or the LWW Total Access Collection, so hopefully the impact of this maintenance will be minimal.

If you have any questions about this or any 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.

Springer Publishing journals unavailable December 5th, 8am-Noon

The following Springer Publishing journals will be unavailable on December 5, 2023, from 8am until noon for system maintenance:

  • Journal of Doctoral Nursing Practice
  • Journal of Nursing Measurement
  • Journal of Perinatal Education
  • Neonatal Network

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

New way to access Quintessence journals

We are happy to report that through the great generosity of Quintessence Publishing we are able to provide easier access to their journals.

Now, instead of having to log in with a password, you can get to the full text of Quintessence journals by logging in via EZproxy when prompted. The records in our online catalog for the affected journals are updated to reflect this change, and you can get to those journals by clicking on the links on this page.

There are some issues with the links on the E-Books & E-Journals A to Z List, but we will have these updated to use the new access method as soon as we can.

This new access method is accompanied by a revamp of many of the Quintessence journal sites. There are a couple of things to look out for when trying to access the full text of articles on these new pages.

First, to get the PDF of an article, click the “Full Text” link underneath the article’s title to the left, and ignore the greyed out PDF link to the right:

Screenshot of journal site

Second, to browse through the issues of a title, scroll down when on the journal’s main page:

Screenshot of journal site

We hope this makes accessing content from the Quintessence journals easier. We would also like to thank Quintessence Publishing for their generosity in providing complimentary access to many of the journals we receive from them.

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

Problems accessing Quintessence journals online

UPDATE: Please see our post from September 15, 2023, regarding resolution of this issue

Quintessence Publishing recently updated their website, and we are having problems logging into the online content for journals on the new site. Most links from the records in the catalog go to the old site, where the logins work correctly. However, if you are redirected to the new site, please note you are unable to log in to get articles.

We are working with our subscription agent to resolve the issue and will update when we know more.

Please let us know if you need help with this or any other Library resources.

FIXED: Problems with Thieme journals

UPDATE April 25, 2023: The issues with Thieme journals has been fixed.

Original post April 24, 2023: Thieme is having problems with the online versions of the journals we get from them, and at present only the tables of contents of the issues and abstracts of the articles are available.

We will update when we have more information.

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

New journals from The Royal Society

In addition to the Library’s existing subscriptions to Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences and the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, we now have access to the current issues of Biology Letters, Interface Focus, and Journal of the Royal Society Interface.

Previously, the three new journals were available after a one-year embargo, but our subscriptions to these titles now mean you can access the most recent content from these journals.

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

More journals available from the American Chemical Society

We now have a subscription to the American Chemical Society (ACS) Core Plus Package. This package has brought access to fifteen new journals, as well as adding current access to five journals already in the Library’s collection.

Some of the journals included in this collection are ACS Nano, Journal of Physical Chemistry Sections A, B, and C, and Environmental Science & Technology. These titles are added to our existing subscriptions to Analytical Chemistry, Biochemistry, Journal of Medicinal Chemistry, Journal of the American Chemical Society, ACS Chemical Neuroscience, and Journal of Proteome Research.

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

Read and Publish agreement available for three Rockefeller University Press journals

We’re happy to announce we have entered into our first Read and Publish agreement that will provide the opportunity to publish articles open access at no cost to you! If you wish to publish in the Journal of Cell Biology, Journal of Experimental Medicine, or Journal of General Physiology from Rockefeller University press through December 31, 2023, those articles will be free for all to access and also deposited to PubMed Central.

More information about this agreement can be found at https://rupress.org/journals/pages/read-and-publish-lsu-health, and there is an authors’ guide to walk you through the process to take advantage of this new opportunity.

We are grateful to Rockefeller University Press for providing this benefit as part of our existing subscriptions to their journals.

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

UPDATED: Access to Bone and Joint Journal

February 14, 2023 Update: The issue has been resolved, so you will be able to access this journal on campus and whenever a link goes through EZproxy. You can, however, still use the direct OpenAthens link if you’d like. Please let us know if you run into any problems.

If you need to access Bone and Joint Journal and its previous titles, please use this link to get to the content when both on and off campus: https://go.openathens.net/redirector/lsuhsc.edu?url=https%3A%2F%2Fboneandjoint.org.uk%2Fjournal%2Fbjj. You will need to log in using your LSUHSC-NO email address and current password.

If you attempt to get to this journal on campus or off campus via any Library link that goes through EZproxy, we are currently unable to get to any subscribed content.

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

UPDATE: Troubles accessing articles via LibKey fixed

October 12, 2022 Update: This problem has been resolved, so you should be prompted to log in when needed while getting journal articles when connected to LSUHSC-Secure, the VPN, Citrix, or when in the 1542 building. If you run into any issues, please contact us with the citation of the article you’re having difficulty getting to as well as what network you’re using on your computer.

We are aware there is a problem that is affecting accessing articles via the LibKey products when connected via LSUHSC-Secure, the VPN, Citrix, or when in the 1542 building.

The authentication that is needed to get to articles is not being carried over to the links LibKey provides at this time. We are working with LibKey support to resolve the problem.

Until it is fixed, if you run into a problem when accessing an article via the Library’s link resolver or directly using any of the LibKey products, you can go to the journal’s web site using the Library Catalog or the E-Journals & E-Books A to Z List. You will be prompted to log in as needed to access articles.

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