Monthly Archives: June 2007

JCR 2006 citation measurements, Impact Factors and Rankings released

By Sara Blaszczak | Published: June 20, 2007

Journal Citation Reports on the Web recently released 2006 citation measurements, including new rankings based on impact factors.
The JCR is an online quantitative database, published by ISI Thomson Scientific, for comparing and evaluating the impact and influence of journals in the areas of science, technology, and social sciences.
If you need help learning to use the [...]

Posted in Electronic Resources | Comments closed

New resource: LGBT Life with full text

By Sara Blaszczak | Published: June 20, 2007

The Library is pleased to announce the recent acquisition of LGBT (Lesbian, Gay, Bi- and Transsexual) Life with full text
LGBT Life with Full Text contains full text for 50 of the most important and historically significant LGBT journals, magazines and regional newspapers, as well as dozens of full text monographs. The database [...]

Posted in Electronic Resources | Comments closed

CIC Libraries Join in Google Book Search Project

By lnaru | Published: June 6, 2007

The Midwest’s twelve-university consortium, the Committee on Institutional Cooperation (CIC), has announced an agreement with Google to digitize distinctive collections across all its libraries as part of the Google Book Search project. UIC is part of this initiative.
Over the next several years, Google will scan and make searchable up to 10 million [...]

Posted in Front Page | Comments closed

Documentary on Italian-Americans

By lnaru | Published: June 4, 2007

Photographs and other historical materials from UIC’s Special Collections are featured in the film And They Came to Chicago, a documentary describing 150 years of Italians in Chicago. The film highlights the neighborhood of UIC as well as other “Little Italy’s” in Chicago and draws on material from UIC Special Collections, [...]

Posted in Front Page, Special Collections | Comments closed

ATLA Service Interruption

By lnaru | Published: June 4, 2007

In order to improve response time for searches in their products, ATLA (American Theological Library Association) will perform significant network upgrades on their systems during the afternoon of Monday June 4th, beginning at 5:00 p.m. EDT. Interruptions in the ATLA Religion database access may occur between the hours of 5:00 and [...]

Posted in Alerts, Electronic Resources, Front Page | Comments closed