UIC Library News

To download Pocket Consult on your PDA, you must first sign into your MDConsult account . Once you are logged into MDConsult, click the link to FIRSTConsult, and then click “Download FIRSTConsult through POCKETConsult’. You will be asked to create a POCKETConsult account (seperate from the MDConsult account). Once you have a POCKETConsult account, you […]

AccessMedicine and AccessSurgery databases are offline temporarily on 1 February 2008 as of 3:00 PM. We expect full service to be restored shortly. Please contact Library Systems if you have any questions.

The UIC community now has access to a powerful and comprehensive database of business, economic, and demographic information for all areas of the world. Economist Intelligence databases continually update data and analyses of global industries, demographics, consumption, average wages, income levels, market size, infrastructure, and business environments. Researchers can manipulate, display, graph, […]

The reference department is now offering syndicated research help from the research help page. Find a topic for your paper, research library resources about events in the news, learn about new resources and services at the library, and get database tips and tricks.

The EBSCO Publishing online service has been restored as of 3:15 PM on Thursday, Jan. 24. Earlier, it was unavailable from 11-3:15 CST due to a power outage in Boston that knocked out the EBSCO internet service provider (ISP).

The Library of the Health Sciences will be open for extended hours this weekend for College of Medicine students. Stay warm while you study!
Saturday, Jan. 26 - 11:00 AM - 8:00 PM
Sunday, Jan. 27. - 1:00 PM - 10:00 PM
You can always view LHSU hours on this page:
http://www.uic.edu/depts/lib/lhsu/services/hours.shtml

The UIC Library will introduce a new interlibrary loan service in January 2008. The name of the existing interlibrary loan system–MyILL@UIC–will remain the same, but users will notice significant improvements.After completing a brief online registration form, interlibrary loan users at all five UIC sites will be able to create new requests, view outstanding requests and […]

InfoRetriever with InfoPOEMs will change its name to Essential Evidence Plus effective February 1, 2008. The new EBM Guidelines resource has already been added to the database as you will see in your search results. EBM Guidelines is a concise, easy-to-use collection of over 950 Practice Guidelines, over 3,000 Evidence Summaries and over 1,000 images.

Red BookOnline, Report of the Committee on Infectious Diseases, is newly available for UIC library users. It gives all current American Academy of Pediatrics recommendations for diagnosing, treating and preventing infectious diseases in infants, children and adolescents. It builds on Red Book editions published from 2000 to present, includes an electronic image library, and […]

The Academic Computing and Communications Center (ACCC) opened its east campus Instructional Technology Lab (ITL-East) in the Richard J. Daley Library at the beginning of the spring 2008 semester. ITL-East is located at the south end of the first floor of the Daley Library in room 1-310.
The services of ITL-East are available to UIC […]