Outage, All Library Resources: Sunday, April 28, 8am – 4pm

Due to scheduled maintenance by IT Services on the AMC campus’ Internet connectivity, ALL Health Sciences Library online resources will be unavailable on Sunday, April 28 from 8:00 am until 4:00 pm (time approximate), including:

• All on- and off-campus access to licensed online resources including databases and journal full text
• Library’s web page
• Find Journals journal portal
• Article Linker connectivity from PubMed
• Proxy server
• IMPULSE library catalog
• Electronic reserves
• HSL Streaming Media

Announcement from UC Denver ITS

IT Services Alert: Planned Network Outage 04-28-13 from 8:00am to 4:00pm

Locations affected:

All Network connectivity in Building 500, RC1 North and South, RC2, AO1, Health and Wellness, Building 400,401,402,406,407, Ed1, Ed2 North and South, CUP, SoDM, NightHorse Native health, BDC, Campus Services, University of Colorado departments in Bio-Sciences building and Bio-Science East,  EHS, Library, and School of Pharmacy, Off-site locations including ( ARTS, ATP, boulder sports medicine, CGL, and Perinatal ) and all University of Colorado network connections on Auraria including School of Business, Lawrence Street Center, CU Building and all UC Denver network connections on the Auraria Campus.

Services affected: 

All Data services provided by Office of Information Technology (OIT) will be unavailable including Internet Access, campus to campus connectivity (AMC to DC), Server Access, Portal authentication, VPN, webmail, E-mail, Citrix, Video conferencing  

Type of Outage:

[X] Scheduled Outage    [ ] UnScheduled Outage    [ ] Emergency
Date of Outage:           Sunday, April 28th, 2013
Time of Outage:          8:00AM to 4:00PM

Reason for Outage: IT Services will be performing an upgrade on the University Network. During this maintenance, users will experience outages with data services including  internet access, email, access to University data center Servers and access to the UCD Access Portal.  If you continue to experience issues with the above mentioned services after this maintenance has concluded (after 4:00pm), please contact the IT Services Help Desk at (303) 724-4357 for assistance.

Thank you in advance for your cooperation and patience during this upgrade.
University of Colorado Denver | Anschutz Medical Campus IT Services

Article Linker problem in PubMed

There is an intermittent problem with Article Linker on PubMed. Users may see the following message: “PubMed look up service is temporarily unavailable.” If you encounter the error please keep trying. You can try your search via Google Scholar.

You might also try the following:

1) open two browser windows, one on Pubmed and the other on Find Journals single citation matcher or title search

2) flip back and forth between the windows or tabs, copy and paste the relevant info for the full text you wish to look up

If you have questions, please contact Ask a Librarian

Informa Healthcare access problem

Informa Healthcare journals are not accessible right now.  We will update this posting as soon as we have more information.

UPDATE:  Access is restored.

General Dentistry back issues

The website for the journal General Dentistry is undergoing some updates and only the current issue is available online. If you need access to an older article, please email the  Electronic Resources Librarian, Heidi Zuniga,  (heidi.zuniga@ucdenver.edu) and she will request it from the publisher.

UPDATE: Back issues should now be available

PubMed Experiencing Technical Difficulties, October 25, 2012

The NLM reports that they are having “intermittent technical difficulties with PubMed and related databases, including problems creating PubMed searches from the MeSH Database and overall system slowness.”  They will resolve the problem as soon as possible.

Informa Healthcare titles currently down

Informa Healthcare journals are currently down but access should be restored by 12:00 p.m. 9/17/2012

Science Direct Scheduled Downtime Alert: August 25th-26th

ScienceDirect is expected to be offline and unavailable for approximately 19 hours beginning Saturday, August 25th, 2012 for scheduled maintenance for a new release.

Anticipated downtime: 5:30 AM Saturday, August 25th – 12:30 AM, Sunday, August 26th

Redesign of Health Sciences Library website and downtime scheduled

The Health Sciences Library website has been redesigned. The website launched Saturday, June 23.  As with any new website launch, we are experiencing some minor problems and links that need to be fixed. Feedback, questions, and comments are encouraged – please send them along to library.web@ucdenver.edu.

Jeff Kuntzman, Head of Library IT

9 pm Friday, May 25 – Health Sciences Library – Outage of All Online Resources

The Health Sciences Library will be reconfiguring its server room on Friday, May 25, 2012 from 9:00 pm until approximately midnight.  Unavailable resources will include the library’s web page, Find Journals journal portal, Article Linker, proxy server, IMPULSE library catalog, electronic reserves, and streaming media.

If you anticipate a need for a specific resource during the timeframe in question, please contact Jeff Kuntzman on or before May 24 for customized access instructions: jeff.kuntzman@ucdenver.edu

We apologize in advance for any inconvenience.

Micromedex updates: outage and mobile

Scheduled outage: Between the hours of 7pm and 8pm on April 21, 2012

Updated directions for accessing the mobile interface:  The Micromedex Drug Information App is free from the iTunes store. The Drug Interactions App is available free for our faculty, staff and students with the password Micromedex provides. You must access the Micromedex page through the library’s website, (if you are off campus, you will authenticate with your usual username and password) then click on mobileMicromedex in the upper left corner and continue with the directions they provide. Please see the directions below for more assistance.