A warning to Night Owls - the system that does our e-journal full-text linking (it's called Serials Solutions) is going to be down for a few hours this weekend. After some back-and-forth with the company it's been determined that the downtime will be between 3 and 7 am on Saturday - a time when we suspect most of you will not be doing intensive literature searches. But just in case, we want to give you some information (which will also come in handy if there is ever any unplanned downtime).
The following WILL NOT WORK Saturday Oct. 23 between 3 and 7 am:
- The Library's E-Journals page
The "yellow button" or FIND IT links, which appear in PubMed and most other databases.
The Work-Around: If you are in PubMed, use the "blue button" when it's available - it'll still work.
If you're not in PubMed, try the following options:
- Find the article in PubMed and see if the blue button is there (it's not there for every article)
- Search the Library Catalog for the journal (select "periodical title" from the search pull-down menu to make your search a little more efficient). Many ejournals are linked to from the catalog.
- Search Google Scholar for the citation or journal. From the results page, click on the citation - this will work for some, but not all articles. Do NOT click on the "Resources @ Levy Library" link because it won't work during these hours.
- Or, if you know the publisher, try one of our direct links below to some of our more popular pulishers, then search the publisher's site
- American Chemical Society
- American Heart Association Journals
- American Medical Assocation Journals
- American Physiological Society
- American Society for Microbiology Journals
- BMJ Journals
- Informa Healthcare
- LWW Total Access Collection
- Nature Journals
- Oxford University Press Journals
- ScienceDirect
- Springer Journals
- Wiley Interscience Journals
Note: if you're off-campus, you'll still need to log in using your Mount Sinai username and password.
There's a little more information on this page: http://fusion.mssm.edu/levy/journals/alternatives.cfm. We hope this doesn't cause too much inconvenience!

BMJ, the British Medical Journal, has made a significant change in their publishing model. If you only read BMJ online, or don't tend to cite articles from it, the change may not be obvious. But readers of the print edition or anyone trying to cite a recent article may notice something odd. Here's a recent citation to BMJ, as seen in PubMed:

