Stress Relief Finals Week

When: December 11-15, 2017

What: Join Dykes Library for Stress Relief Finals Week as we support KUMC students with ways to de-stress! We will be featuring the following events:

Daily	All Day The Corner Take a moment to enjoy the corner! A place to de-stress, enjoy the quiet, and chill. With coloring, puzzles, chess, and comfortable places to sit! Located on Dykes’ upper floor. #dykescorner Photo Booth Grab a prop and get snapping!!  Best picture that tag us gets a PRIZE! Tag: @dykeslibrary Hashtag: #dykesstudybreak Day Flavored Water Located at the Users Service Desk.  Help us stay green, B.Y.O.C. (bring your own cup). Night Coffee & Tea Located at the Users Service Desk.  Help us stay green, B.Y.O.M. (bring your own mug). *Note: Snacks will be provided at varying times!
Monday 11	Social Media Facebook Guess how many keys for a PRIZE!
Tuesday 12	Social Media Facebook Check out the secret phrase of the day and then come in and say it to the person at the User Service Desk for a PRIZE!
Wednesday 13	Social Media Facebook Encourage your fellow KUMC classmate during finals by tagging them in today's photo!  A tagged friend will be randomly selected to receive a PRIZE! Games Wii Located in the vending area of Dykes, grab a friend or play solo!
Thursday 14	Social Media Facebook Check out the secret phrase of the day and then come in and say it to the person at the User Service Desk for a PRIZE!
Friday 15	Social Media Facebook Find the Roasterie plane in the library for a PRIZE!

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Open Access Week 2017

When: October 23-39 2017

What: Open Access is the freely immediate online availability of research articles coupled with the rights to use these articles fully in the digital environment. Open Access Explained

Theme: This year's theme is an invitation to answer the question of what concrete benefits can be realized by making scholarly outputs openly available. "Open in order to…" serves as a prompt to move beyond talking about openness in itself and focus on what openness enables - in an individual discipline, at a particular institution, or in a specific context; then to take action to realize these benefits.

Open in order to increase the impact of my scholarship. Open in order to enable more equitable participation in research. Open in order to improve public health. These are just a few examples of how this question can be answered.

How does Dykes Library support OA? KU's One University Open Access (OA) Author Fund is designed to heighten the visibility and accessibility of the University's scholarship.

• Request OA Funding Here
• View KU and KUMC OA Awarded Authors List

Additionally, publication consultations through the Research and Learning Department and through the One University OA Fund team are available for researchers to identify high-quality open access journals to publish within and to navigate questions of copyright and authors' rights.

More info at SPARC* and International Open Access Week

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Ovid Full Text Online Errors

Full Text Online links for journal articles in our Ovid collection are experiencing technical difficulties however, articles are still accessible through our browse the journal option.

We apologize for the inconvenience.

1. Click on the Details link on the citation results page.

 
2. Click on the "Browse Journal" button.

3. Navigate to the Issue where the article appears to view the Full Text.

Catalog Upgrade August 11-14, 2015

The server maintenance is now complete (Monday, August 14th at 8am) and everything should be operating as normal again.

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Beginning Friday evening and extending through end of day on Monday, Library systems will be upgraded, impacting catalog searches, request processes, and check out and renewal of library materials.

The following services will remain available for most of the upgrade; however, there may be periods when these services are not available – watch for further announcements:

• Library website (library.kumc.edu)
• Search the catalog …to search for journals and books
• E-Journals
• Databases
• Request Materials (ILLiad) … to get Articles, Books, More

Patrons will still be able to use the Search box on the library home page to search both electronic and print holdings. However, print titles searched and accessed may not display accurate availability, location or call number. Electronic journal content can still be searched and accessed via the E-Journal Finder and Citation Linker (http://mt8fd2he2v.search.serialssolutions.com/).

We apologize for any inconvenience

A.R. Dykes Library

Springer/Nature Journal Titles Are Back Up!

Springer/Nature is back up!

Please let us know if you run into any access issues and thank you for your patience as we worked through this glitch.

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Various issues of Springer and Nature journal titles are currently unavailable.

Our access to Springer/Nature journal titles are jointly licensed with KU-Lawrence and we are working with them to resolve the access issues with Springer/Nature.

We apologize for any inconvenience.

Catalog Maintenance

The Library Catalog will be undergoing maintenance beginning Friday May 26 through Monday May 29. During this time, electronic books and journals may not show up in the journal and book search results.

Access to our eBooks will be available for the duration by going directly to either AccessMedicine or ClinicalKey depending on where the book is published. This maintenance will not affect the E-journal Finder, Database List, Request Materials (ILLiad), or our Find It! button.

Once the work is complete, all of our electronic resources will appear in the catalog again.

We apologize for any inconvenience.

Update on Student Printing

As of June 1, printing at Dykes Library has a capped amount per student. Based on the spring 2017 semester, the quota will impact fewer than 100 students and was arrived at jointly with the Student Government Council.

Here are the details:

• $20 will be added to each student's printing account per spring and summer/fall semesters. This works out to be 670 pages of black/white at $.03 per page or 80 pages of color at $.26.
• Students needing more than $20 worth of printing will be able to pay by credit card at the library User Services desk. Amounts will be reset at the start of each semester regardless of balance.
• The printers will have a new 'tap-n-go' service that will not release the print job until you tap your badge to it. This will reduce unclaimed print jobs and provide security for sensitive documents.
• Students will be able to print directly from their own devices after they install Papercut.

Why is this being done?

Dykes Library was an early partner with KUMC's recycling efforts and shares a commitment to a green, clean, and sustainable medical center. As the library and SGC work together to reduce waste, our goal is to ensure that all students have what they need to succeed. The library must focus its limited resources on needed journal and database collections and research collaborations in the classroom and individuals.

Find It! and Oxford Journals

Our Find It! service is currently experiencing access issues with the "Full Text Online" button with certain journals from Oxford.

To access these articles from our Find It! service, please see instructions below.

1. On the Find It! citation result; click on the "Details" link.

2. In the "Details" pane; click on "Browse Journal." 

3. "Browse Journal" will take you to the journal's webpage.  Here you will click on "Issues." 

4. "Issues" will take you to the issues select page.  On this page, you will be able to select the issue where the article appears. 

5. Alternatively, you can look on the Find It! result page to see if we have access to the article from a provider other than Oxford.  If we do, it will be indicated on the Find It! result page as "Show More Results". 

6. In the "Show More Results" pane, select an alternative source to be taken to the article directly. 

Catalog Maintenance

The server maintenance is now complete (March 22nd at 3pm) and everything should be operating as normal again.


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Beginning late Sunday evening, March 19th and extending through the end of day on Wednesday, March 22nd, the Library catalog will undergo scheduled maintenance which will impact catalog searches, request processes, and check out and renewal of library materials.

The following services will remain available for most of the upgrade, however, there may be periods when these services are not available - watch for further announcements:

• Search for journals and books -- to search for library materials
• E-Journals
• Databases
• Request Materials (ILLiad) -- to get Articles, Books, More

Patrons will still be able to use the Search box on the library home page to search both electronic and print holdings, however, print titles searched and accessed in the catalog will not show availability, location or call number.  Electronic journal content can still be searched and accessed via the E-Journal Finder (http://mt8fd2he2v.search.serialssolutions.com/).

We apologize for any inconvenience.

ScienceDirect PDFs

ScienceDirect is working on fixing the "Download PDF" link for their articles.

As they work on repairing the links, there is a method patrons can use to download the PDFs.

Once you have found the article on ScienceDirect, right-click on the "Download PDF" link and then select "Open in New Tab."

The PDF will download in the new tab.

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Some users are also encountering issues with direct links from our Find It Service.  Science Direct is also working on a fix for this as well.

There is a method to work around this issue.

Once you have the article located on our Find It Service.  Instead of clicking on the "Full Text Online" button, click on the "details" link.  

The details link will open an area with a "browse journal" link.  Once you click on "browse journal", you can navigate through the journal to find the citation you are looking for.

Dykes Library Closed Due To Inclement Weather

Due to  inclement weather arriving ahead of the Martin Luther King Holiday, the A. R . Dykes Library for the Health Sciences will close on Friday, Jan. 13th at 12 p.m. SOM clerkship exam takers will be allowed into the building for testing.  The library will re-open on Tuesday, Jan. 17th at 7 a.m.