Monthly Archives: January 2008

Downloading Pocket Consult on Your PDA

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 [...]

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Library Provides Global Economic Data through eiu.com/illinois

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, [...]

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Daley Library Reference Department starts a newsfeed

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.

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LHSU Extended Hours, Jan. 26 & 27

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

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New Interlibrary Loan Service Starts January 22

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 [...]

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New name for InfoRetriever

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.

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New! Red Book Online from American Academy of Pediatrics

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 [...]

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Instructional Technology Lab Opens in Daley Library

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 [...]

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New Interlibrary Loan Service @ LHSU

The Library of the Health Sciences-Urbana will cutover to a new Interlibrary Loan service later this month. This new service should offer significant improvements. We will be using the same software (ILLiad) that is currently used by the UIUC Library so you may notice some similarities.
When you need an item such as [...]

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New database of more than 2,400 primary sources on history of women

The UIC Library now subscribes to the online database Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1600-2000, a collection of primary documents, books, images, scholarly essays, book reviews, Web site reviews, and teaching tools, all documenting women’s activism in public life.
The database is organized around document projects, each posing a new interpretative question [...]

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