Digital assets unavailable Jan. 23, 7-8am

On Tuesday, January 23, 2018 at 7am we will perform maintenance on the server that hosts many of our digital assets. It should be back by 8am.

This will affect all links to digital assets which include images, PDFs, and datasets that we host.


Web Portal Downtime

Over the weekend of Jan 6-8, the Public Health Library’s web portal will migrate to a new server. This change should be invisible to you, but in order to do this, we will take down the web portal on Friday, Jan 6 at around 3pm. It should be back up on Monday, Jan 9 in the morning. Please plan ahead if you think you will have any weekend needs.

If you need to make article or other requests during this period, please use the website, or you may call the Public Health Library at 510-642-2510.


ACS and RSC to require ORCIDs

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The Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) and the Publications Division of the American Chemical Society (ACS) recently signed the ORCID Open Letter. For published articles the two societies will now require ORCIDs (Open Researcher and Contributor IDs) for corresponding authors and will automatically collect and display the ORCIDs of all submitting authors. The RSC announcement states that coordination between the publishers, Crossref and ORCID will ensure that published works are properly attributed.

In adopting the ORCID system RSC and ACS join a number of other publishers and journals including eLife, the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO), the American Geophysical Union (AGU), Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), Science journals, Wiley, and Wellcome Open Research.