UIC Library News

Please be advised that a period of scheduled maintenance is planned for 7-9 PM on Tuesday 26th June, 2007. This may cause intermittent downtime. We apologise for any inconvenience caused.
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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 […]

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 […]

June 11, 2007
As you may be aware, we experienced a disruption of our internet service from approximately 7:15 a.m. to 9 p.m. EDT, yesterday that affected all Wilson subscribers. This disruption included access to WilsonWeb, our homepage site, as well as our telephone and email.
We are very sorry for this inconvenience. Construction crews installing a […]

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 […]

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, […]

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 […]