The JKM Library Blog

May 2015

alertUpdate 5/18/2015 2:10pm: The upgrade is complete, and off-campus access to library databases is now working. If you have any difficulties, please do not hesitate to contact us by phone: 412-365-1670, by email: jkmref@chatham.edu, or by IMing us on our website here: http://library.chatham.edu/.
On Monday, May 18th, we will be upgrading EZproxy, which is the tool that allows you to access our library databases from off-campus. This will mean that access to the databases from off-campus will be spotty at best and possibly down all day.
If you normally have to log-in using your Chatham username and password while on-campus (this often happens for computers connecting to the wireless, as well as the occasional desktop computer), that access will be affected as well.
We hope to have the upgrade completed in as timely a manner as possible. Thank you in advance for your patience.

July 2014

Hi there! So today was the big switch from Ovid to EBSCO for the following databases:
EBM Reviews (renamed Cochrane Collection)
Medline
PsycINFO (including PsycArticles)
SocINDEX (replaced Social Work Abstracts)
As we work to update our links to these databases on the Library website, here’s a (relatively) easy way to access these databases.
1.  From JKM’s homepage, click Databases A-Z underneath the search toolbar
2. Click the link for “Academic Search Premier” (It’s the first one-can’t miss it!)
3. Above the EBSCOHost search bar, click the “Choose Databases” link 
4. Un-select Academic Search Premier and choose the database(s) that you’d like to search
5. Tah-dah!
Soon enough, you’ll be able to search through your chosen database(s).
Thank you for your patience, and best of luck with your research!

June 2014

On July 1st or shortly after, the following library databases will move from the Ovid platform to EBSCO:
EBM Reviews (will be renamedCochrane Collection)
Medline
PsycINFO (including PsycArticles)
PsycTests
SocINDEX (replaces Social Work Abstracts)
If you have any saved search histories, projects, articles, alerts, etc within Ovid, you will no longer have access to those as of July 1. You will want to take a screenshot of this information so that you can replicate it within the relevant EBSCO database. If you would like assistance with this, please ask a librarian using the following options:
Call: 412-365-1670
Email: jkmref@chatham.edu
Text: 724-919-4645
or IM us on our website

June 2014

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February 21, 2014

All of the library databases previously reported as not working off-campus should be working again:
Mango Languages
MarketLine
Natural Standard
Oral History Online.
If you have any problems accessing these, please let us know by calling (412) 365-1670 or via email at
jkmref@chatham.edu

October 17, 2013

All of our library databases should now be working. If you encounter any problems with them, please let us know! Call: 412-365-1670
Email:  jkmref@chatham.edu

IM: JennieRef (or use the Ask a Librarian! chat box on our website)

October 2013

The government shutdown has affected two of our databases,
ERIC and Medline
With ERIC, patrons will still be able to get into the database and search, but will not be ableto access any full text. Clicking on a “Full Text from ERIC” link will bring you to either a blank page or a page saying the connection was reset. If the shutdown persists over a long period of time, EBSCO might take away the full text links. 

As far as MEDLINE is concerned, it is still accessible through OVID and the freely available NIH site, but it is not being updated. Through OVID, full text links will work unless they link directly to a government funded site (and there shouldn’t be many of those.)

As for websites, we have many government sites linked from the LibGuides; the Library of Congress and any digital initiatives through them (ie. American Memory) are not accessible at all, as well as American Fact Finder and any other Census related sites. For the others, most health related website are still up, but are not being updated and any transactions done through the websites are non-functional right now
Sites that are down include:
Any U.S. Census Bureau sites, including FedStats and Mapstats
Federal Trade Commission
USDA (includes Agricola)
Library of Congress
National Park Service
NASA
Social Security Administration
Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement (omsre.gov)

September 2013