As part of a campus network core upgrade, there will be a network outage to the Internet of approximately 2 hours on Sunday, July 15th from 6AM-8AM.
Scheduled Campus network outage this Sunday, July 15th (6AM-8AM)
New Open Access Journal: GigaScience
Open access publisher BioMed Central, UK, and BGI, one of the world’s largest genomics institutes, have announced the launch of GigaScience, a new open access, open data journal with a scope that embraces all life science research that generates ‘big data’. Together GigaScience and its integrated database GigaDB provide scientific analyses, full dataset hosting, and access to the software tools used to conduct these analyses, along with publication of more traditional scientific articles describing the studies. To see this and other Open Access journals click here to access BioMed Central.
Problems accessing e-resources from School of Medicine appear to be resolved. We will continue to monitor.
Problems Accessing Library Resources & Services from School of Medicine
Recent server updates at the School of Medicine have caused problems with access to library resouces. If you are unable to access HS/HSL databases, e-journals, e-books, ILLiad, e-reserve, or the library catalog from a SOM location, we encourage you to come to the library to get the information you need.
Access to library resouces from other campus locations and from off-campus is not affected.
The School of Medicine is aware of the problem and is working to address it. For more information, please contact the SOM Help desk at 410-706-3998 or help@som.umaryland.edu.
HS/HSL Closed July 4th
The HS/HSL will be closed on Wednesday July 4th, in obsevance of Independence Day. The HS/HSL will reopen Thursday July 5th.
Software Purchasing Available Now on 5th Floor
The Circulation will no longer be selling software including Microsoft Office, Symantec, and Adobe Photoshop. Software purchases can now be made on the 5th Floor of the HS/HSL from the Software Licensing Office in Room 540. For further information you can call 410-706-8166.0
“Find It” button unvailable 6/27 early am
The “Find It” button will be unavailable between 6am – 8am, Wednesday, June 27th. Use the A-Z Journals list to link to journals instead (bit.ly/HSHSLjournals).
“Find It” button unavailable this weekend
The “Find It” button will be unavailable between 11PM Saturday, June 23 and 7AM Sunday, June 24. Use the A-Z Journals list to link to journals instead (bit.ly/HSHSLjournals).
Annals of Internal Medicine PDF Issues Resolved
The Annals of Internal Medicine online journal have fixed issues that were causing users to be asked for payment. Access to PDFs is available without this prompt now.
Find It Unavailable 6/14/12 from 6:00 am to 8:00 am
Find It will be unavailable in all databases tomorrow morning from 6-8 am due to scheduled maintenance. To access full text articles electronically during this time please use the library’s Journals page.