UIC Library News

This month, EBSCO databases debuted its redesigned web site. EBSCO is the provider through which you access such databases as CINAHL, Health Source, and Alt-Health Watch.

The updated version includes all of the search features you are used to, plus some new ones. Some new features include: a complete overhaul of Visual Search, a simplified Basic Search screen, and a pop-out window when choosing preferences. There are far too many to mention in this post, so we encourage you to play around in the new interface and see the changes for yourself.

If you have any questions about using the new EBSCO, or any other library resource, be sure to contact Information Services. Have fun!

Current status: SciFinder Scholar reports are available online as of Friday, June 27, 2008.

Formerly announced: As of Monday, June 23, 2008, SciFinder Scholar reports are currently unavailable due to issues identified with the data. CAS is taking steps to correct the reports. In the process, CAS has removed the incorrect reports from myCAS. Please check back later for notification here, when the new reports are available. We apologize for this inconvenience. If you have an immediate need for information provided by these reports, please contact CAS Customer Care for assistance.

The Library is pleased to announce the availability of the 2007 ISI Journal Citation Report. The JCR tracks 7,600 of the most important journals in the sciences and social sciences. With the data provided, researchers can use the JCR to help determine the most influential journals in their disciplines and which journals they should read.

The JCR uses the following metrics; it ranks journals in a given field by the number of articles published, the number of times that articles from the journal are cited in the report year, the immediacy factor - which is the average number of times articles are cited within the same year of publication - and finally, the impact factor, the number of citations from the current year to articles published in the journal over the past two years. The report also provides the frequency with which journals in related fields cite each other. The Library’s subscription to JCR Online includes reports from 1998 to 2007, and the Library also owns earlier issues in paper and microfilm. The reports covering 1990 to 2002 are available on reserve at the Science Library .

For assistance with this database, please contact Tim Klassen, Science Librarian, or Ask A Librarian.

The groundbreaking separation of a pair of conjoined twins is documented in an exhibit of papers, photographs and other materials at the University of Illinois at Chicago’s Library of the Health Sciences – Chicago .

In 1952, Dr. Oscar Sugar (1914-2008), a faculty member of the University of Illinois Department of Neurosurgery, led the pioneering surgery to separate a pair of craniopagus twins—twins joined at the head. The process had been attempted only twice before, both times unsuccessfully.

The exhibit that commemorates this milestone is on the first floor of the Library of the Health Sciences – Chicago, available for viewing at all times that the Library is open.

Rodney and Roger Brodie, the two infant boys, were born in 1951. Their parents brought them to the University of Illinois Research and Education Hospital where they stayed for a year of observation and doctors’ consultations to determine if surgical separation was possible. Sugar, Pediatrician Herbert Grossman, Anesthesiologist Max Sadove and others performed the surgery in a daylong operation on Dec. 17, 1952.

While Roger made it through the surgery, he never regained consciousness and died approximately five weeks later. Rodney survived and lived at the hospital for further surgery and intense rehabilitation for five years.

Rodney eventually returned with his large family to their home in Ferris, Illinois. He lived a happy life with them but was beset by numerous complications resulting from the separation and died in 1963 at the age of eleven.

The University Archives holds the papers of both Dr. Grossman and Dr. Sugar. Researchers can examine them in the LHS - Chicago Special Collections department.

Where would you find candidate, issue and voting information online? Are there authoritative, unbiased, political websites? Here are a few of our favorites and selected recommendations from the January 2008 C&RL News:

American National Election Studies

http://www.electionstudies.org/

Campaign Legal Center

http://www.campaignlegalcenter.org/

Center for Media and Democracy

http://www.prwatch.org/

FactCheck

http://www.factcheck.org/

Federal Election Commission

http://www.fec.gov/

Follow the Money

http://www.followthemoney.org/

League of Women Voters

http://www.lwv.org/AM/Template.cfm?Section=Home

Map the Candidates

http://www.mapthecandidates.com/

Office of the Clerk

http://clerk.house.gov/member_info/electionInfo/index.html

Open Secrets

http://www.opensecrets.org/

University of Michigan Documents Center: Elections 2008

http://www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/polisci.html

U.S. Census Bureau: Voting and Registration

http://www.census.gov/population/www/socdemo/voting.html

Announcing hours for Summer II Session at the Library of the Health Sciences-Urbana! Hours begin on June 9 and end August 15. Watch this page for updates!

Summer II Hours:

Monday - Tuesday: 8:30am - 6:00pm
Wednesday - Friday: 8:30am - 5:00pm
Saturday - Sunday: CLOSED

Hours may be viewed on this page: http://www.uic.edu/depts/lib/lhsu/services/hours.shtml

Last year, ABC-CLIO Serials sold Historical Abstracts and America: History and Life to EBSCO, Inc. EBSCO will stop supporting the native ABC-CLIO interface after June 30, 2008. The EBSCOhost search is the new version. You will probably notice that it differs in some functions from the former ABC-CLIO search, especially, with less search guidance and an absence of scholarly contextual notes. We regret any inconvenience that this change may cause. If you have any questions or feedback, please contact our Ask A Librarian service.

Hundreds of photographs and other graphic materials from the UIC Library’s collections are freely available online, providing easy access to visual documentation of past events, social movements, architecture and the built environment, and prominent historical figures.

There are five UIC Library collections in the CARLI Digital Collections database, established by the Consortium of Academic and Research Libraries in Illinois (CARLI). Each digital image includes descriptive information about the subject.

The UIC collections include 134 photographs from the Hull-House Yearbooks, from 1906 through 1941, showing programs, events, and classes held at the world-famous settlement house; 483 photographs of the Bowen Country Club, a summer camp operated from 1912 until 1963, for children from Chicago’s near west side; 254 photographs from A Century of Progress, the world’s fair held in Chicago in the summers of 1933 and 1934; and 873 photographs of activities in seven settlement houses in Illinois during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

A recent addition to the CARLI Digital Collections is the set of finalists in the 2008 Image of Research competition, sponsored by the UIC Graduate College and the Library.

Additional digital collections are listed on the Library’s resources Web page. For information about all of the Library’s holdings of photographic and graphic materials, including those not yet digitized, contact Special Collections and University Archives.

Summer’s here and the time is right… for visiting the Library of the Health Sciences-Urbana! Announcing the hours for Summer I, which begins May 19 and ends June 8. Watch this page for updates, including the announcement for Summer II hours!

Summer I Hours:

Mon. May 19 8:30am - 4:30pm
Tues. May 20 8:30am - 4:30pm
Wed. May 21 8:30am - 4:30pm
Thurs. May 22 8:30am - 4:30pm
Fri. May 23 8:30am - 4:30pm
Sat. May 24 CLOSED
Sun. May 25 CLOSED

Mon. May 26 CLOSED for Memorial Day
Tues. May 27 8:30am - 4:30pm
Wed. May 28 8:30am - 4:30pm
Thurs. May 29 8:30am - 4:30pm
Fri. May 30 8:30am - 4:30pm
Sat. May 31 CLOSED
Sun. June 1 CLOSED

Mon. June 2 8:30am - 4:30pm
Tues. June 3 8:30am - 4:30pm
Wed. June 4 8:30am - 4:30pm
Thurs. June 5 8:30am - 4:30pm
Fri. June 6 8:30am - 4:30pm
Sat. June 7 CLOSED
Sun. June 8 CLOSED

Hours may be viewed on this page: http://www.uic.edu/depts/lib/lhsu/services/hours.shtml

The winning entries in the Image of Research, a competition sponsored by UIC’s Graduate College and the University Library, will be displayed in the Daley Library May 2 – 30.

The Image of Research is an opportunity for a graduate student to create an image with aesthetic appeal that expresses his or her research. Each entry includes a 100-200 word explanation of the image’s context, which may include such information as what the image is (if it is not immediately apparent) and how the image relates to the student’s work at UIC.

Seventy-one students from a wide range of academic disciplines — including anthropology, architecture, bioengineering, biomedical visualization, computer science, and microbiology/immunization — submitted entries during spring semester 2008. Images of the three top winners will be on display at the Library of the Health Sciences – Chicago and the Daley Library throughout May. In addition, nine other finalists’ work will be exhibited on the first floor of the Daley Library.