Archive for March, 2007

Global Health: New Full-Text Public Health Database

Friday, March 30th, 2007

The Library is pleased to introduce Global Health, a new resource for UIC users on EBSCOhost. Global Health is a public health database that provides information on international health, biomedical life sciences, non-communicable diseases, public health nutrition, food safety and hygiene, and much more. This database contains records dating back to 1973.
Global […]

Library Open Longer Hours

Thursday, March 29th, 2007

The Richard J. Daley Library and the Library of the Health Sciences-Chicago will be open longer hours for the remaining weeks of the Spring semester.
Effective April 1st the Daley Library, which now closes at 9 PM Sunday through Thursday, will close at 11 PM on those days.
On April 15th, the Library […]

Online access to journals of the American Physiological Society

Tuesday, March 27th, 2007

UIC users can now access the online journals of the American Physiological Society. These include:

American Journal of Physiology (AJP) Consolidated
AJP Cell Physiology
AJP Endocrinology and Metabolism
AJP Gastroinestinal and Liver Physiology
AJP Heart and Circulatory Physiology
AJP Lung Cellular and Molecular Physiology
AJP Renal Physiology
Physiological Genomics
Journal of Applied Physiology
Journal of Neurophysiology
The Physiologist
Physiological Reviews

To access these titles, especially from […]

New resource: PILOTS - Published International Literature on Traumatic Stress

Friday, March 16th, 2007

The Library is pleased to announce the availability of Published International Literature on Traumatic Stress (PILOTS), a new resource for UIC users on CSA Illumina. More than 30,000 citations lead to articles in journals, book chapters and books, pamphlets, technical reports, and other documents in several languages. For UIC users, links provide immediate access […]

Service alert: IEEE Xplore will be unavailable on Friday, 9 March 2007

Thursday, March 8th, 2007

Due to a scheduled upgrade, the IEE Xplore system will be unavailable for up to three hours between 1 and 4 PM on Friday. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.
If you continue to experience problems with IEE Xplore after 4 PM on Friday, please report it to Library Systems.

Nourishing Culture: Greek Immigrants & Food in Chicago

Monday, March 5th, 2007

Peggy Glowacki, archivist in the UIC Library Special Collections Department, is the curator of a new exhibit at the Hellenic Museum and Cultural Center. The exhibit, Nourishing Culture: Greek Immigrants & Food in Chicago, examines the role that food played in the story of Greek immigration to Chicago and the evolution of Greek […]

Attend a Library Workshop Online

Monday, March 5th, 2007

The UIC Library is offering a series of Virtual Workshops in March and April. Topics include: Keeping Current: Email and RSS Feeds; How Do I Know I Found Everything? Google; Optimizing Searching with CINAHL; Managing Your References (REFWORKS with a health sciences focus, REFWORKS with a social sciences/humanities focus, ENDNOTE, and […]

Service alert: Science Direct Journals Unavailable Sat. 3 March 2007

Friday, March 2nd, 2007

ScienceDirect will be unavailable again on Saturday, 3 March 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 […]