UIC Library News

Ebrary E-books service may be unavailable at times during 6:00 PM-7:00 PM CDT planned maintenance window on Wednesday 29-August-2007. Ebrary will be performing software maintenance on database systems. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause. If you have any questions, please contact Ask a UIC Librarian.

Do you want to contact a UIC Librarian now? Send a message from your IM account to the screen name uiclibrarian. IM is another way to contact us to get help finding a fact or researching a paper through the Ask a Librarian service.
The UIC Library has IM accounts on AOL Instant Messenger, Google Talk, […]

A number of years ago, the Library set up a mailing list, Library-News@listserv.uic.edu to distribute news about the library via email. Faculty were encouraged to subscribe to Library-News to receive updates about the library and particularly about library collections.
No messages have been sent out on Library-News for more than a year, as the […]

The National Library of Medicine server that crashed yesterday is back in operation and reconnected with the UIC Library’s full text service, displayed as the “UIC Options” button. Thanks for your patience. If you have questions or continue to experience difficulty, please contact Ask A UIC Librarian.

David Carr discusses his research on cultural institutions as public forums in a democracy
Wednesday, Aug. 29
12:15-1:15 p.m., followed by brief discussion
UIC Institute for the Humanities
Lower level-Stevenson Hall, 701 S. Morgan
David Carr, Associate Professor in the School of Information and Library Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and author of “The Promise of Cultural […]

Maintenance is continuing on UICCAT, the online catalog, and links to e-journals are temporarily unavailable. Until further notice, UICCAT will NOT display the full holdings of electronic journals. However, you can still find these journals online — by search and browse using a journal title, subject classification, or article citation — on […]

The full text of the Wall Street Journal (Eastern edition) is available in the UIC Library’s electronic resources as part of ABI/INFORM Global. Current issues of the Journal, as well as back issues since 1984 are available. Images — photos, graphs, tables — are available from August 9, 2006 […]

Access to quality medical care is always in high demand - this is an issue in some places more than others. If you are interested in finding out which US populations have a determined need for increased medical care, try searching the HPSA database or the MUA/MUP database.
“HPSA” stands for “health professional […]

Journals online at Blackwell Synergy will be unavailable during system maintenance on Friday 3rd of August 2007 starting at 5 PM for up to three hours.
We thank you for your patience and apologize for any inconvenience. If you have any questions, please contact Library Systems or Ask a UIC Librarian.