RefWorks has recently been experiencing some technical outages due to hardware upgrades as well as hosting service maintenance. It was not our intention to interrupt service however, it appears that there were some difficulties getting the new hardware on line....
Fri, 17 Oct 2008 21:01:47 PDT
Hi Everyone, I wanted to let you know that we are experiencing problems with the Find It links when trying to connect to a citation from an article index for the MDConsult Eclinics titles. If you use Find It for...
Fri, 17 Oct 2008 21:01:47 PDT
Hi all, Here's an email that came into InfoPoint recently. As you'll read, this patron was frustrated with using Science Direct to email articles to their account. The client is a non-affiliate. Just something to keep in mind for our...
Fri, 17 Oct 2008 21:01:47 PDT
Peter has just informed me that due to some proxy wizardry, the Ref-B computer should now be mimicking off-campus access. Please let him know if you discover any reason to believe this is not the case. Thanks, Emily...
Fri, 17 Oct 2008 21:01:47 PDT
For those of you using Word 2007, you may have noticed that the default line spacing is different than in Word 2003. Microsoft added additional space to provide "better readability." Here's the workaround to change it back: 1. Click the...
Fri, 17 Oct 2008 21:01:47 PDT
I have noticed that neither Ovid Medline nor RefWorks works very well if you use Firefox as your web browser on the new Macs that have been recently installed on the second floor. I recommend that you use Safari as...
Fri, 17 Oct 2008 21:01:47 PDT
Greetings, I just want to remind you that the use study of print items in the Bio-Med Library's reference collection continues at least through the end of this year. Katherine would like us to gather two years of data we...
Fri, 17 Oct 2008 21:01:47 PDT
Hi all, This is just an FYI to let you know about the soft launch of a 24/7 chat service the UL has recently rolled out, called AskMN, in cooperation with Minitex and others. It does not impact users...
Fri, 17 Oct 2008 21:01:47 PDT
Hello, It looks like our access to Access Medicine has been restored. If you continue to experience any problems, please let me know right away. Thanks, Anne...
Fri, 17 Oct 2008 21:01:47 PDT
Hello- FY2008-09 Form Just a reminder that there is a new form for logging instruction and outreach statistics for FY 2008-09, meaning anything after July 1, 2008. I've seen some August and September statistics on the FY 2007-08 form, so...
Fri, 17 Oct 2008 21:01:47 PDT
Hello, As some of you may have already noticed, our access to Access Medicine has been cut off. We are working on the problem and hope to have access restored soon. We get several e-books through Access Medicine, so you...
Fri, 17 Oct 2008 21:01:47 PDT
Greetings, As you know, we do have a few guest passwords for public workstations (PCs) at the Bio-Medical Library. They are listed on a clipboard at the Circulation Desk. Please log the passwords used, along with the time and the...
Fri, 17 Oct 2008 21:01:47 PDT
Greetings, Another thing the NTCC trainers talked about in the PubMed Class on Tuesday were the big changes coming any moment now to MyNCBI. At some point this week, MyNCBI will be taken down for a few hours (see http://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/so08/so08_myncbi_unavailable.html)....
Fri, 17 Oct 2008 21:01:47 PDT
Greetings, Those of you who do instruction might be interested in this 12-minute video from NLM: Branching Out: The MeSH Vocabulary (http://www.nlm.nih.gov/bsd/disted/video/). We watched this during the NTCC PubMed class on Tuesday. I think it could be useful to push...
Fri, 17 Oct 2008 21:01:47 PDT
Now that we are using Desk Tracker to record literature searches, there is no longer a prompt to record ?purpose of search.? This information should be entered in the notes field at the bottom of the form, however it is...
Fri, 17 Oct 2008 21:01:47 PDT
