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October 26, 2009
**** PUBMED-ALERTS NOTICE ****

PubMed has been re-designed!

The National Library of Medicine has completely re-designed the PubMed search interface. Because of the re-design, how you search and how you view and manage the results of the search has changed. The underlying functions remain the same, but you will be using different steps to get to those functions.

Here is how Pumerantz Library will be helping you. We will provide workshops and training on the new re-design. We can also provide one on one training if you so desire. For information about the re-design please see the following article which describes changes to PubMed: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/so09/so09_pm_redesign.html.

Contact Pumerantz Library by email at reference@westernu.edu or call 909-469-5323 or contact us via chat at http://www.westernu.edu/xp/edu/library/library-chat-reference.xml.

October 22, 2009
Serials Solutions Downtime (E-Journal A-Z list)

Serials Solutions will be down on Saturday, October 24th beginning at 12:01 am PDT for maintenance. Downtime is expected to be 2 - 3 hours but could possibly be up to 6 hours. This will impact the following resources on our Electronic Resources web page;
  • E-Journal A-Z List
  • E-Journal Locator
  • E-Journal Subject Browse
  • Full-Text Locator

Access to Databases under "Article Searching & Databases" will not be affected. Full-text articles will be available while searching the individual databases.

October 13, 2009
October is National Medical Librarian's Month

Book Sale
The library will be holding a book sale October 13th - 23rd. Human and veterinary medical books will be available. Prices range from 25 to 50 cents. The book sale will be located on the first floor of the library.

Fine Free Day
Return your overdue library materials on Friday, October 23rd and your fines will be forgiven.

September 30, 2009
EndNote X3 for Mac now available for download

EndNote X3 for Mac is currently available for download. Download instructions and EndNote information is available at http://www.westernu.edu/xp/edu/library/library-databases-endnote.xml.

Each authorized user is permitted two (2) EndNote downloads; one for your desktop computer and one for your laptop. Please contact the library by email at reference@westernu.edu or by phone at (909) 469-5323 with any questions about EndNote.

September 17, 2009
Wiley Interscience (Wiley-Blackwell) will be unavailable Monday, September 21st

Wiley Interscience will be unavailable due to scheduled maintenance for approximately 1 hour on September 21st during the period from 1 am to 2 am PDT.

September 17, 2009
ScienceDirect will be unavailable Saturday, September 19th

ScienceDirect will be unavailable due to scheduled maintenance for approximately 13 hours on September 19th during the period from 5 am to 6 pm PDT.

September 4, 2009
Index Veterinarius service outage

UPDATE: 9/9/2009 Index Veterinarius is now available.

The Index Veterinarius database is currently unavailable. The library is in communication with the vendor to get this issue resolved.

August 13, 2009
Wiley/Blackwell server maintenance notification

Due to essential site maintenance, access to Wiley/Blackwell may be interrupted for up to 1 hour on Monday, August 17th, at 1am.

August 5, 2009
COMLEX and USMLE review books now available in STAT!Ref

You may access these books on or off campus by clicking on any of the links provided above or by browsing the titles in STAT!Ref. When accessing remotely you will need to log in using your WesternU email username and password. Access is for 5 concurrent user per title.

For more information, please contact the Reference Department at reference@westernu.edu or call 909-469-5323.

Last Updated:10/26/2009