UIC Library News

Due to infrastructure upgrades to Proquest-CSA’s primary data center, service for the following products will be temporarily interrupted, starting at 5:00PM CST, Friday, February 23:
-PapersInvited
-Ulrichsweb.com
Access to CSA Illumina, CSA MultiSearch, and CSA Illustrata will still be
available; however, response times may be slower than normal during this
upgrade. No other products or services will be affected […]

ScienceDirect will be unavailable on Saturday, February 24th while Elsevier performs maintenance on underlying systems to ensure continued reliability. The outage will last for approximately 9 hours starting at 5 AM CST and service should be restored by late afternoon. During this time a message will appear onscreen whenever users try to access […]

On Wednesday, February 21st, Senior Library Specialist Pia M. Hunter will present an overview of reserve services and electronic resources available to faculty and students through the UIC Library. The symposium will be held at Student Center East, Room 713 from 11:00 am-1:00 pm. Topics to be covered include:
* Docutek Electronic Reserve System […]

The Library of the Health Sciences-Peoria is pleased to offer a collection of Playaway titles thanks to a Library Systems Technology Act grant through the Alliance Library System.
Not an MP3 or CD player and not software, Playaway is the self-contained audio equivalent of a book. Half the size of a deck of cards, Playaway […]

The UIC Library has created a series of online tutorials designed to assist users with their research:

Doing Research: An Introduction to the Concepts of Online Searching (interactive)
An Introduction to UICCAT (audio)
Accessing Article Indexes (audio)
Academic Search Premier (audio)

Subject specific guides are also available. These cover topics such as African-American Studies, Art, […]

Emily Guss, Assistant Professor at the University Library, was presented with the 2007 Trailblazer Award at the Chicago Public Library’s African American History Month Opening Program. Ms. Guss was Co-chair of the African American Services Committee at CPL for many years and the Director of the CPL’s Woodson Regional Library. She retired […]

The Richard J. Daley Library, The Library of the Health Sciences (Chicago) and the Science Library will keep regular hours for Tuesday February 13, 2007.

Now available in time for tax season, the University Library is pleased to announce campuswide access to a new tax research resource, RIA Checkpoint.
RIA Checkpoint, published by Thomson RIA, includes the Federal Tax Handbook, IRS Revenue Code, IRS publications and forms, tables and rates, 50-state and local complete tax analyses, interactive tools for financial planning, […]

The Nature.com website has had periods of instability over the past few weeks due to an increase in traffic to the site. This has caused the backend database that manages access to content to stop responding to requests. The Nature.com technical team has increased capacity by adding additional web servers and optimizing database […]