Welcome New Residents!

The Health Sciences Library welcomes all new residents.  The Library is located on the main level of Building 101 and is a great place for you to work on a project, to study quietly and reflect, or just to relax with the daily paper.  We have a conference room that holds up to twelve, a large, bright reading room, which is open 24/7, and a comfortable reading area.

The Library also has a full range of information and education services. Our information resources include a print book and journal collection, e- books, e-journals, and a range of biomedical databases. The Library also provides the following services: reference, interlibrary loan,  and literature searching.

The Library provides access to OVID databases (Medline, PsycInfo, ACP Medicine, ACP Journal Club, Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effects, etc.), MD Consult, Micromedex, RefWorks, DynaMed and Up-to-Date.  All electronic resources are available remotely through our ARCHER proxy server.  To apply for an ARCHER password, click here.

For more information about us and the Library’s hours, resources, services, and policies, go to our home page at http://library.luhs.org. To keep current on all the latest the Library has to offer, RSS feed our blog. Any questions? Contact a reference librarian at 6-9192, chat with a librarian via the chat feature on our homepage or email us at researchservices@lumc.edu.

Refworks Performance Issues

A message from Refworks regarding the recent performance issues you may have encountered:

“As there have been a number of recent inquiries regarding performance issues for the RefWorks service, we wanted to assure you that we are very much aware of the issue and are working expediently to get it resolved.   Our development team has identified 2 issues that we believe are causing the intermittent slowness that our users have been reporting.  The first issue has been addressed and the fix is currently in testing. We anticipate getting this fix loaded on our production servers in very short order. The actual release is unknown at this time, as we have not yet completed all the stringent testing processes that must occur before we load the changes to our live server farms.  A second issue has been discovered only recently, thanks to the diligent help of a number of our users providing us with detailed reports (what happened, when it happened, etc.) of the problems. We would like to thank all of you that have reported these issues to us directly.  Now that we have identified this second issue, we are working towards resolving it as well, and hope to have the fix completed and tested soon.  … We will keep you apprised of the status of the fixes through this list.  We do realize that these issues have come at a very inconvenient time for our academic clients and would like to extend our sincere apologies.   The resolution of the server performance is our top priority and all of us at RefWorks are working to ensure it gets resolved immediately.”

Electronic Resources Deselection

These days, libraries are frequently in the unenviable position of balancing financial responsibility with tough withdrawal decisions so that collections remain useful, accurate and current while remaining within budgetary allotments.

The Health Sciences Library currently provides access to over 11,000 titles in electronic format via 933 paid subscriptions. Access to a larger number of titles than subscriptions because vendors bundle titles into a single subscription, reciprocal subscription sharing with the University Libraries provides access to each others collections, consortium agreements provide cost-free or deeply discounted resources, and open access titles with acceptable 6 or 12 month embargos are available at no cost as are a number of federal government subscriptions.

By working with the Health Sciences Library Committee and other faculty and student groups, the library has identified 620 of our 933 paid subscriptions as core subscriptions that we cannot afford to loose if we are to be a premier academic health sciences center. However, 353 subscriptions to journals, e-books and databases will need to be canceled in December 2010 to comply with budget restrictions. Much care and effort has been taken to minimize the impact of these cancellations, but we are aware that this will have a dramatic effect on several programs.

Please review the excel sheet of possible cancellations and invite you to review and comment–we want your thoughts!

By the Numbers, Part 2

One purpose of the HSL is to obtain and deliver scholarly information.  To that end, Interlibrary Loan is a highly used value-added service.  In FY08:

• 3800 requests were submitted on behalf of our users to other libraries of which 3700 were filled, and,
• 6400 requests were received from other libraries of which 4600 were filled by the HSL

Intracampus Loan i.e., requesting or loaning items to the LUC libraries is another aspect of our resource sharing.  Of the 759 requests submitted on behalf of our users to the LUC Libraries, 753 were filled.  We also filled over 1100 requests that came in from the LUC Libraries.

The Interlibrary Loan staff stays busy processing all of these requests but continues to provide excellent service adhering to our 24-hour turnaround policy.  Many of the requested articles are received within 24 hours and are delivered to the requestor’s email.

Color Printers & Photocopiers

The Library has installed new printers and photocopiers on the main level, in the stacks, and in the Learning Resources Center (LRC). The machines located in the Electronic Resources area behind the Information Desk and the LRC are both a printer and copier. The machines will copy or print in color if the original is in color. The machines also act as scanners. Articles can be scanned into a .PDF, jpeg, or tiff format. Users can e-mail any of these formats to their Loyola e-mail account. In order to provide our users with color printing/copying and scanning capabilities, the cost of printing is now $.10 a page. If you have any questions about printing/copying, please contact Jan at 6-9192 or jbehnke@lumc.edu

 

Write-N-Cite Notice for RefWorks

Make sure you have the latest version of Write-N-Cite on your computer. 

Write-N-Cite III for Windows (Beta Version) is now available to all Windows users.  This beta version includes:

• MS Vista and Word 2007 compatability
• Also compatible with XP and Word 2003
• Single document formatting
• Faster formatting for large documents

To check if you already have WNC III – Open up Write-N-Cite within Word – the version number will be listed at the top left of the screen. 

To download WNC III, login to your Refworks account; click on Tools > Write-N-Cite > then click on ”Click here to download Write-N-Cite III. ”

Need Help??

Please call Donald Nagolski at 65308 or Jeanne Sadlik at 65304, if you have any questions.