The Passing of Mike VI
LSU in Baton Rouge announced today the passing of Mike VI, our beautiful mascot.
Rest in peace little Roscoe, we will miss you.
LSU in Baton Rouge announced today the passing of Mike VI, our beautiful mascot.
Rest in peace little Roscoe, we will miss you.
The month of October is packed with a plethora of national awareness campaigns, including the aforementioned Health Literacy Month in our last blog post. And the marathon of mindfulness continues with National Dental Hygiene Month!
For the seventh straight year, the American Dental Hygienists’ Association (ADHA) and the Wrigley Oral Healthcare Program (WOHP) are proud to bring you National Dental Hygiene Month (NDHM). All month long, we are celebrating the hard work dental hygienists do and helping you Start the Conversation about the importance of good oral health and doing the Daily 4.
Click this link to see how you can get involved!
October is a busy month.
We all know October is the National Breast Cancer Awareness Month. It’s hard to miss the pink everywhere. But did you know that October is also Health Literacy Month, Dental Hygiene Month (more on that one later!) and many more?
What is Health Literacy?
Health literacy is the ability to find, understand, and use information on health issues and medical services so that you can make informed decisions about your health. A patient’s health literacy affects their health outcomes and quality of life greatly. Only about 12 percent of U.S. adults have the skills to manage their health and prevent disease, according to the National Assessment of Adult Literacy. And without this essential knowledge, it can be hard for many people to learn how to improve their health.
The Institute of Medicine, Food and Drug Administration, US Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control, and the Agency for Health Care Research and Quality have all made it a priority to provide health information in a clear, easy to understand manner for patients.
For more information about health literacy and health literacy initiatives, take a look at the following links:
What is Health Literacy?
Health Literacy: A Prescription to End Confusion
What Did the Doctor Say?: Improving Health Literacy to Protect Patient Safety
National Action Plan for Health Literacy
MedlinePlus: How to Write Easy-to-Read
Health literacy and patient safety: Help patients understand (and a shorter version here)
A new selection of articles has been added to the Faculty Publications display in the Ische Library. These eight articles, as well as all of the articles in our Faculty Publications database, 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. They can be viewed in the Reference area, on the wall between the main entrance and the Library elevator, on the third floor of the Resource Center Building.
Here is a list of the newest articles to be featured, with the LSUHSC-NO researchers in bold print:
Publications cited in the Faculty Publications database are harvested weekly 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. The database is maintained by Reference Librarian Kathy Kerdolff and is available to the general public here or via the Library’s webpage. For a PDF of a bibliography of this month’s additions, click here. If you have an article you would like us to highlight or if you have any questions regarding the display or the database, you can contact Kathy Kerdolff.
Please come to the Library and view these recent publications by our research community.
Today PubMed along with all NCBI sites permanently changed their web addresses to use the HTTPS protocol. Unfortunately, this is now prompting a security warning when using the Library’s off-campus link to PubMed. Although in this case there is no real danger in proceeding, you will need to add a security exception to your browser in order to get to PubMed.
For Chrome, first click “Advanced”
Then click the link that begins with “Proceed to…” in order to add the exception to Chrome:
In Internet Explorer, click the link “Continue to this website (not recommended)”:
In Firefox, first click the “Add Exception” button:
Then click “Confirm Security Exception” to add it to Firefox:
Finally, for those for whom Safari is your browser of choice, you just need to click the “Continue” button in the window that pops up:
If you need any help with this or other Library resources, do not hesitate to contact us.
The Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) has published a new article by Dr. Victor R. Fuchs entitled “Black Gains in Life Expectancy”. The article explains how much the life expectancy of Black Americans has increased. The article goes on to detail the leading factors which contributed in closing the gap between Black life expectancy and White life expectancy between the years of 1995 and 2014.
The journal issue is available to LSUHSC faculty, staff & students. It can be accessed off-campus with a valid LSUHSC library barcode & PIN. You can find more information at our remote access webpage.
If you are on campus or already logged in, you can access the article here.
RefWorks is currently developing a new and improved version of itself referred to simply as the new RefWorks. At this time, the new RefWorks does not have all of the same functionality as the old RefWorks, which is now referred to as legacy RefWorks. As such, we will not be migrating our subscription to the new RefWorks until all of the kinks have been straightened out. If you are prompted with a choice between the legacy version (orange) and the new version (blue), please select the legacy version (orange).
We will let you know when the new version is ready for prime time. As always, if you need assistance, please feel free to contact us.
LSUHSC-New Orleans Library has added some new E-Books editions. Some are new editions of books on reserve and some are completely new to our collection.
These are just some of the latest additions to our E-Book collection. E-Books can be accessed through our catalog and also through the various database links on our webpage.
If you use BrowZine to keep track of your favorite journals or to discover new ones, a recent update has brought the ability to scan articles that have yet to be assigned to a specific issue of a journal. These prepublication or epub ahead of print articles are now available through the “Articles in Press” link in the web and mobile versions of BrowZine.
On the web version, once you’ve found a journal you would like to peruse, look for the “Articles in Press” link just below the journal’s image:
On the Android and iOS apps, tap the “Available Issues” button, and you will now see these early view articles at the top of the list of available issues:
For more information about the Library’s version of BrowZine, check out our LibGuide with information on how to use this great service to keep up on current journal literature.
If you need any assistance with this or any other resources available from the Library, please do not hesitate to contact us.
The web addresses for all Cambridge University Press journals have changed and as a result you will see a message regarding the security certificate for the new location. Although in this case there is no real danger in proceeding to the new site, you will need to add a security exception to your browser in order to view content from these journals. Each browser handles this situation in a different way, so hopefully the following will help you get to that Cambridge content.
For Chrome, click on “Advanced” and then click the link that begins with “Proceed to…”
In Internet Explorer, click the link “Continue to this website (not recommended)”
In Firefox, first click the “Add Exception” button:
Then click “Confirm Security Exception”
Finally, for those for whom Safari is your browser of choice, you just need to click the “Continue” button in the window that pops up:
Regardless of which browser you use, once you add this exception you will now be able to proceed to any journals from Cambridge without further harassment.
If you need any help with this or other Library resources, do not hesitate to contact us.
The Libraries will be closed Sunday and Monday, September 4th and 5th for the Labor Day Holiday. The Isché Library will be open Saturday, September 3rd from 9:30 am – 6pm.
Both Libraries will be re-open at 8am on Tuesday, September 6th.
A new selection of articles has been added to the Faculty Publications display in the Ische Library. These eight articles, as well as all of the articles in our Faculty Publications database, 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. They can be viewed in the Reference area, on the wall between the main entrance and the Library elevator, on the third floor of the Resource Center Building.
Here is a list of the newest articles to be featured, with the LSUHSC-NO researchers in bold print:
Publications cited in the Faculty Publications database are harvested weekly 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. The database is maintained by Reference Librarian Kathy Kerdolff and is available to the general public here or via the Library’s webpage. For a PDF of a bibliography of this month’s additions, click here. If you have an article you would like us to highlight or if you have any questions regarding the display or the database, you can contact Kathy Kerdolff.
Please come to the Library and view these recent publications by our research community.
We are happy to announce the WebBridge Link Resolver is now available for journal articles cited in all STAT!Ref books. Look for citations to articles in the “Selected Readings” areas throughout the works:
When you click these linked citations, you will now see the “LSUHSC-NO Check Full Text” link resolver icon to check whether the Library has access to that article:
If you need any more information on the WebBridge Link Resolver, be sure to check out this LibGuide. If you need assistance with these or any other Library resources, please do not hesitate to contact us.
The Isché Library is kicking off the fall semester by featuring E-book editions of required textbooks! The newest editions of the books on display are available in our online catalog.
The display is located near the 3rd floor elevator along with the links to the current E-book edition. Subjects include physiology, anatomy, dermatology, nursing, biochemistry, pathology, diagnostic examination, anesthesia, obstetrics, and more.
These books and many more are available for online access.
EBSCOhost E-books may be printed, saved, or emailed one chapter at a time
AccessMedicine E-books may be printed one chapter at a time but may not be saved.
LWW Health Library E-books may be printed one chapter at a time but may not be saved. Emailed chapters are valid for 72 hours only.
Every now and then there is a hiccup in the process by which information goes through a number of channels in order to get you to your article when using the WebBridge Link Resolver from many Library databases. If you’ve seen the dreaded “No DOI found” message, you’ve probably wondered where to go next.
We are happy to report we have added an option that now gives you the option to get to the journal where the article you need is published if you see the above screen when attempting to retrieve an article. For those resources where the Digital Object Identifier (DOI) is integral to this process, you will now see another link that will bring to to the journal’s site:
If you encounter the “DOI not found” error, just return to the link resolver result screen and click the alternate link to get to the journal or the publisher’s site.
We hope that this will help alleviate some of the trouble that you have getting articles through the link resolver. If you need more information about the WebBridge Link Resolver, check out our LibGuide. Also, if you need help with this or any other Library resources, please contact us.