Due to reports of problems downloading received articles in ILLiad, here is a workaround for our users who use Chrome.

After logging in to your ILLiad account, find the pdf document you wish to download in the “Electronically Received Requests” section.

Right click on the file and select “save link as” from the menu.

The file then appears as a downloaded file icon in the lower left side of the screen.

Save the file to your workstation, and voila!

Please contact Document Delivery Services at 212.639.7441 if you have any problems or questions, or visit our Full Text LibGuide (for finding full text articles and using ILLiad) for help anytime.

Altmetrics (alternative metrics) is a recent development whereby social media sites such as Twitter and Facebook, reference managers such Mendeley and Zotero, and blogs and news outlets, are watched in order to track and share evidence of the online impact of a paper.  Scopus has now added an Altmetric feature to the database, located as a sidebar (scroll down), for those references for which this data has been collected. Here is an example of such a reference. To read details of this new Scopus initiative, look at Altmetric for Scopus.

The NLM Classification is produced by the National Library of Medicine for the arrangement of library materials in medicine and related sciences.  Since the 2002 edition, it is published in electronic format and updated annually.  Continue reading →