Wednesday 2 October 2013

Information sources affected by US Federal shutdown

EDIT (17 Oct 2013): A deal has now been reached resulting in an end to the federal shutdown. For more on this, see: http://bbc.in/1bXDdO4

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The US federal shutdown has an impact on some information sources we use.  The sources currently affected are:
  • the US National Library of Medicine who maintain PubMed and Medline
  • the US Department of Education who maintain ERIC
  • the Library of Congress
Medline is still accessible and searchable from Discover and our databases page (http://www.yorksj.ac.uk/information-learning-services/information-learning-services/faqs-for-staff--students/where-can-i-find-databases.aspx) however, this database may not be updated as usual.

ERIC is still accessible and searchable from our databases page but access to full text material via ERIC is NOT possible during the shutdown.  Our advice is to continue to use ERIC for searching but alternative access to full-text may be found on Google Scholar.

PubMed is accessible and searchable at http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed but it not being updated or maintained as usual.

There is no access to the Library of Congress website.

For further information on the US federal shutdown see: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-24378831

For further help and assistance please contact Information Learning Services ils@yorksj.ac.uk 


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