Value Line’s technology team will be performing maintenance on their website beginning Thursday evening (April 2, 2015) and ending early Sunday morning (April 5, 2015). During that time, the following digital services will be unavailable:
We apologize for any inconvenience this will cause.
The Royal Society is celebrating the 350th anniversary of Philosophical Transactions, the world’s first science journal.
Philosophical Transactions, first published in 1665, pioneered the concepts of scientific priority and peer review which, together with archiving and dissemination, provide the model for almost 30,000 scientific journals today.
Landmark papers that have been published in Royal Society journals include: 
To celebrate the anniversary, the Royal Society is holding a series of events looking back at the history of Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society and forward to the future of scientific publication. If you happen to be planning a trip to England, visit the exhibition of archives in London, or, if not, just check out the exhibition’s brochure. You can also just read more about the history of Philosophical Transactions here.
As part of their 350th anniversary celebrations, all Royal Society journals content is free to access until the end of March 2015.
SRDS Media Solutions will experience a planned downtime affecting their online services during the winter break. Beginning at 1 p.m. on Wednesday, Dec. 24, they will perform scheduled network infrastructure and security maintenance that will cause SRDS services on the web to be unavailable until Monday, Dec. 29. During the outage, they will post any updates to Twitter @SRDS. Check-in there to keep up-to-date on when everything is back up and running.
ProQuest will be performing system maintenance beginning on Saturday, June 14th at 9:00 p.m. through Sunday, June 15th at 5 a.m.
The products and platforms listed below will not be available during this time.
• ProQuest
• ProQuest Congressional
• ProQuest Digital Microfilm
• RefWorks
ProQuest will be making improvements to its internal systems to accommodate a growing number of users and to reduce the need for future downtime. Sorry for any inconvenience this may cause.
I’m sorry to report that PsycInfo is once again experiencing some technical difficulties.
The technical team behind the resource is aware of the problem and actively working on it. In the meantime, if you’re looking for psych articles, try using Summon. It includes all articles published by the American Psychological Association.
Beginning on Saturday, March 1st at 10 a.m. and lasting up to 16 hours (until March 2nd at 2 a.m.), journals published by Taylor & Francis as well as journals found on the BioOne and Annual Reviews databases will not be available. This will affect almost 400 of our online subscribed journals, but is due only to scheduled platform maintenance.
If you cannot access journal content during this window and it is from one of these three places, please try again after the scheduled maintenance window. Thank you for your patience!
“Am I registered to vote?”
“Can I vote even if I am not registered?”
“What the heck are we voting on?”
Get all these questions answered and more using the Libraries’ “Vote 2013” Subject Guide.
It’s Friday! Though this first week was a short one, I bet you are ready to relax a little bit this weekend after all the back-to-school excitement. Well, guess what… the library can help you with that, too! Sure, we are all about helping you academically, but we like fun, even if we don’t always look like it! :O)
Feel like going out, but either don’t have a car or don’t want to give up the killer parking space you scored? Come check out a bike from the library! Whether you feel like cruising it around on the river path, exploring The Twin Cities, grabbing something to eat, or snagging some forgotten essentials, the bikes are free and come equipped with both a helmet and a bike lock. These go fast, so check on availability.
Don’t feel like going anywhere? How about staying in and watching a few movies? While most of our streaming movie sites consist of documentaries and educational stuff (which can be just as fun), we have lots of Hollywood movies and t.v. shows available for check out from our Media Resources Collection, currently located behind the Circulation Desk (but soon to move to the new space being built out on the first floor across from the coffee shop). 
Go in and browse the collection old school (but be aware their hours differ slightly from OSF’s regular hours), or check out some of their offerings online. Whether you want to laze about re-watching the first few seasons of Breaking Bad or want to feel smart and impress your roommate by taking in a few TED Talks, the Media Resources Collection can be the place for you.
I know we say this every year, but it’s true…we missed you! Contrary to popular belief, we library staff are not content merely surrounded by piles of moldering books. No way! What we really love is helping you, and connecting you with the content, resources, and services you need to succeed!
Daniel J. Boorstin wrote in Democracy and Its Discontents, “Education is learning what you didn’t even know you didn’t know,” and that is something we take seriously here at the library. Outside of the classroom, this is where you come to find out what else you don’t know, so when you get stuck, don’t be embarrassed to ask us for help! Whether you visit it us in person or prefer to connect via phone, chat, email, text, or Twitter, we are waiting for you!
ATTENTION REFWORKS USERS:
If you are running into problems trying to export citations into RefWorks, check to see if you are using a Gale database.
If you are using one of these databases, chances are you seeing one of two things.
Experience #1
In CITATION TOOLS, you choose REFWORKS, hit EXPORT, and see this:
Lucky you! You get the super easy fix! Just click on the hyperlinked RefWorks and you are on your way.
Experience #2
In CITATION TOOLS, you choose REFWORKS and it asks you to download an .RIS file.
-OR-
Go ahead and save this file somewhere on your computer. You are going to need it to finish the process. The next step is to log in to RefWorks. Once there, choose IMPORT found under REFERENCES.
Next, change the DATABASE to RIS FORMAT; then, browse to your saved file under SELECT TEXT FILE; and finally, click IMPORT.
Gale has been made aware of these problems, so hopefully exporting from these databases into RefWorks will soon once again be direct. Until then, these few extra steps should get you where you need to go. If you encounter any other problems, just remember, we are here to help you!