School of Medicine faculty, students, or staff members can now access E-Journals, E-Books, StatRef, MDConsult and most of the Library's other electronic resources from off-campus. Simply click on the resource, and you will be prompted for a username and password. No tweaking of your browser or computer is required, but you will need to be an authorized School of Medicine user.
If you have an e-mail account through the school (including
"richmed.medpark.sc.edu" and "gw.mp.sc.edu" addresses),
you can use your normal Novell network (or Groupwise) username
and password. Otherwise, please contact Briget Livingston
at blivingston@med.sc.edu
or 733-3351. See below for the answers to some frequently
asked questions.
Who can access the library's electronic resources? (back to top)
Anyone can access the library's resources during business
hours at the library. However off campus access is
limited to University of South Carolina School of Medicine
Faculty, Staff, and Students using their Novell Login information
(the same login used to check your email). If you are a
member of one of the above groups and you do not know your
Novell Login, then please contact the Computer and Communications
Resource Center at 733-3365.
Why can't I get into that journal at USC Aiken (Beaufort, Sumter, etc)? (back to top)
Many of the library's resources are available because the University pays for instiution wide access. ScienceDirect journals are a good example of a resource available to all USC constituents. However because of the price structuring of licenses for scientific publications, often times it is too expensive to license a resource for the entire USC population. Many schools have a specific need for a journal, and they pay to have local access. This local access is often far cheaper than the price for the University as a whole. To avoid this problem be conscious of which campuses holdings you are searching. On the main TDNet search page, just below the search box and browsing list, you'll find a dropdown box that allows you to limit to a specific campus (indicated by the red oval in the screen shot below).
Where do I look to find if you have a particular journal? (back to top)
There are two answers to this question. For online journals the best place to search is the E-Journals link in the upper left corner of the library's homepage. For print journals, search SCARlit, the library's electronic catalog, also available from the library homepage.
Why does x journal charge me when I follow the full text link from PubMed? (back to top)
Through its Linkout technology/program PubMed offers links to a variety of full text journals, books, and other resources. For many PubMed citations, if you view PubMed search results in "Abstract" or "Citation" view you'll see icons that link to the publisher/providers site to retrieve full text. In some few cases the link will be to free full text online, but most of these publisher/provider links will be to "pay per use" articles.
You can very easily link to many of the library's electronic journals while searching PubMed. All you have to do is click the special link to PubMed located on the library's home page, perform your search, and view the results in "Abstract" or "Citation" view. For many citations, you'll see the following icons indicating either online access or print (of course for print you have to come to the library).
TDNet/PubMed says you have access to x journal, but when I go there it asks me to login.
Why? (back to top)
There are at least two possible answers to this question.
The publisher/provider only provides password access. In which case you need to double check our TDNet holdings information. Go to www.tdnet.com/scg, and locate the specific journal either by searching or browsing. In the column labeled "Full text" you may see the following icon:
If so, then simply click on this icon and another window will open that provides you with the username and password for that journal. Please note: the password icons are proxied links, and you will need to have an active proxy server session in order to see them from off campus.
We may have lost access to the journal in question for any of a variety of reasons. Please report the error to the library staff.
733-3344 or asklib@med.sc.edu
Do I have to start at the library's webpage to get off campus access? (back to top)
Yes. The library's proxy server only works with specially constructed links that direct the proxy server to route the traffic to specific sites. You have to use the links from the library's homepage if you are off campus.
How do I suggest journals, databases, etc to the library to purchase? (back to top)
The library has a print copy of this journal, why don't you have an online subscription?
We inquire with all our journal providers whether they offer online access. When they do, we generally try and acquire this access. So for any journal that we have print but not online access it is either because 1) online access is not currently available or 2) the cost of the online access is too high.
A proxy server is just a computer that is here on the school of medicine network,
that takes a request from you, sends it to a publisher/provider who requires
IP authentication, and then redirects the requested content back to you. The
login screen for the proxy server looks like this:
Once you login to the proxy server you session stays active for two hours if left unattended. In other words, once you login for one resource you should not have to login again for at least two hours. For more information about who is able to use the proxy server click here.
Who can access the library's 
Who can access the library's electronic resources? 
