Full Text Finder down

UPDATE: The Full Text Finder is now working. 9/18/20 5:15 PM

The Pumerantz Library's full text finder button (  ) is currently not working.  The vendor is aware of the problem and working on a fix.  

As a workaround, you can look up the journal name on our ejournal search page to see if we have access.

We will update this blog when the problem has been resolved.

EBSCO Discovery Service and Research Databases intermittent loading issues

UPDATE: Access to all resources has been restored. 9/16/20 9:29 AM 

EBSCO Discovery Service (search box on the library's home page) and Research databases are experiencing intermittent problems loading webpages.  They are working on the problem now and we will update this blog when the problem has been fixed.

Online Catalog Scheduled Maintenance

The Pumerantz Library Online Catalog (https://whsl.sirsi.net/) will be unavailable on Wednesday, September 16 from 8 p.m. to 12 a.m. due to maintenance.

During this time, the Online Catalog features (item lookup, online renew, online holds, item due notices, etc.) will not be available.

Electronic Resources will be available through the Library’s webpages (www.westernu.edu/library).

Thank you for your patience while we improve our library systems.

Plumb's Veterinary Drugs planned maintenance for 7/15/20

Plumb's Veterinary Drugs database will be performing scheduled maintenance on Wednesday, July 15, from 5:00 PM to 10:00 PM PDT.  You may experience limited access while the work is being done. 

You will still be able to:

• Search drugs
• View monographs
• View and share Medication Guides
• Use the conversion calculator

If you are experiencing problems outside of the maintenance window, please let us know.

EDS and EBSCOhost databases down

UPDATE: Access to all resources has been restored. 6/23/20 6:52 PM

EDS (search box on the library homepage) and all of our EBSCOhost databases are currently down.  EBSCO is aware of the problem and is working to fix it.  Here is a list of all the databases and resources affected:

• EDS
• Academic Search Elite
• Alt Health Watch
• Biological and Agricultural Index Plus
• Business Source Elite
• CINAHL
• DynaMed
• EBSCO eBooks
• Health Source: Consumer Edition
• Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition
• Newspaper Source
• Regional Business News

We will update this blog when access is restored.

EDS and EBSCOhost databases down

UPDATE: Access had been restored. 5/7/20 4:17 PM

EDS (search box on the library homepage) and all of our EBSCOhost databases are currently down.  EBSCO is aware of the problem and is working to fix it.  Here is a list of all the databases and resources affected:

• EDS
• Academic Search Elite
• Alt Health Watch
• Biological and Agricultural Index Plus
• Business Source Elite
• CINAHL
• EBSCO eBooks
• Health Source: Consumer Edition
• Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition
• Newspaper Source
• Regional Business News

We will update this blog when access is restored.

Journal of Applied Biomechanics

UPDATE: Access had been restored. 5/12/20 1:20 PM

We have temporarily lost access to Journal of Applied Biomechanics.  We are working with the provider and will update this blog when access is restored.