January 27, 2005

E-journal problems procedure

For problems getting into Ejournals that we should have access to, call Chris Koehler (4-3755). If he is not available, follow Jim Stemper's advice:

This is the referral doc that InfoPoint uses.

http://staff.lib.umn.edu/rcs/dist/ref/infopoint/Ejournalreferrallist.doc

If our renewal was properly processed by the vendor, the next thought would be "The vendor doesn't have all our IPs" in which case Mary Gibney is your next check.

What's not there, of course, is Autosys. They would be the ones if the issue looks to be workstation specific or network related. No, I've not heard of any long term network problems (and ITS is good about sending all staff notes if there are). Of course sometimes it's "just" the west or east bank so we wouldn't all necessarily know if there was a local problem.

So I guess you could check back with autosys about the weird problems on that terminal if you can't reproduce the effect on other computers.

sometimes Shane has to adjust the proxy script. Often that will be pretty obvious as the browser error message will mention "floyd" -- the name of his proxy server.

This doc may also be of use. Might be more info than ref staff want to know about, but I figure you get a lot of these questions...

sometimes Shane has to adjust the proxy script. Often that will be pretty obvious as the browser error message will mention "floyd" -- the name of his proxy server.

This doc may also be of use. Might be more info than ref staff want to know about, but I figure you get a lot of these questions...

http://staff.lib.umn.edu/rcs/dist/ref/infopoint/tech-assist-tips.html

Posted by magrathref at 11:25 AM | Comments (82)

January 12, 2005

Tinkering with the Blog

Hi all,
Just an FYI -- over the next few weeks you may see a handful of odd postings coming over the Magrath reference blog. Our new graduate assistant, Prahlad Kilambi, is going to be tinkering with the interface to try to accomplish a couple different things. He'll likely be doing some tests in the process. If things pan out, one result might be an ability for us to cross-post items between the Bio-Med and Magrath blogs (since some life science news applies to both staffs).

-Kevin

Posted by magrathref at 03:39 PM | Comments (78)

January 03, 2005

Change in PubMed Limits for Animal and Human Studies

NLM put out this bulletin regarding some changes in MeSH's handling of the taxonomy of the Homonidae. The MeSH changes affect the limits in PubMed for limiting a search to "human" or "animal" studies.

The bulletin is at: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/nd04/nd04_human.html

Posted by magrathref at 08:41 AM | Comments (0)