Archive for April, 2008

Image of Research Exhibit in Daley and LHS, May 2 - 30

Wednesday, April 30th, 2008

The winning entries in the Image of Research, a competition sponsored by UIC’s Graduate College and the University Library, will be displayed in the Daley Library May 2 – 30.
The Image of Research is an opportunity for a graduate student to create an image with aesthetic appeal that expresses his or her research. Each […]

Major Extended Hours @ LHSU!

Tuesday, April 29th, 2008

The Library of the Health Sciences-Urbana will be open for extended hours this weekend and during Finals for College of Medicine students.
Weekend before Finals:
Saturday, May 3 - 11:00 AM - 8:00 PM
Sunday, May 4 - 1:00 PM - 10:00 PM
Finals Schedule:
Monday, May 5 - Thursday, May 8 - 7:00am - Midnight
Friday, May 9 - 7:00am - […]

Extended hours @ LHSU

Friday, April 25th, 2008

The Library of the Health Sciences-Urbana will be open for extended hours this weekend for College of Medicine students.

Saturday, Apr. 26 - 11:00 AM - 8:00 PM
Sunday, Apr. 27 - 1:00 PM - 10:00 PM
Monday, Apr. 28 - Open at 7 AM
You can always view LHSU hours on this page:
http://www.uic.edu/depts/lib/lhsu/services/hours.shtml

Global health resources @LHSU

Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008

It’s Global Health Week, and LHSU would like to highlight a relevant database, Global Health. Available through UIC libraries, Global Health is a public health database that provides information on international health, biomedical life sciences, non-communicable diseases, public health nutrition, food safety and hygiene, and much more. This database contains records dating back to […]

Service alert: Informaworld (Taylor & Francis) journals

Monday, April 21st, 2008

A one-hour period of downtime of Informaworld journal hosting service is scheduled on Tuesday, April 22, 2008, between 11 pm and 12 midnight CDT to complete some essential maintenance. The temporary network outage will affect more than 200 journals, mostly in science, technology and medicine, from Taylor & Francis, Routledge, Informa HealthCare and Psychology Press.
If […]

Service alert: Proquest interface maintenance April 19 & 26, 2008

Wednesday, April 16th, 2008

Three ProQuest platform enhancements are scheduled for release on April 26th, 2008. To prepare for this release, a series of maintenance windows will occur on the following dates :
April 19th, 2008 from 9:00 to 11:00 PM CDT (2 hours)
April 26th, 2008. at 9:00 PM to April 27, 2008, at 9:00 AM (12 hours)
The following […]

Celebrate National Library Week, April 13-19

Friday, April 11th, 2008

The UIC Library celebrates National Library Week beginning April 13, joining a nationwide focus on the contributions of libraries, librarians and library workers in schools, campuses and communities.
Commenting on this year’s theme “Libraries Make a Difference,” University Librarian Mary Case said, “The UIC Library strives to make a difference in the lives of […]

Service alert: Wiley Interscience journals interruption

Thursday, April 10th, 2008

(Previous message) On Wednesday, April 9, 2008, at approximately 12:00 noon U.S. Eastern Daylight Savings Time, the Wiley InterScience server facility experienced technical difficulties.
New message:
This message is to alert you that the previous interruption of Wiley InterScience service has been corrected. Access to all online content and functions should be fully restored as of April […]

Service alert: ScienceDirect downtime notification 11th April 2008

Wednesday, April 9th, 2008

Please be advised that Science Direct will be unavailable for approximately 30 minutes during the period: 9:00 to 10:00 PM, Friday, April 11, 2008. This is due to scheduled maintenance work by the publisher. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.  If you have any questions please contact Library Systems.

Link to full text from directly from AccessMedicine and AccessSurgery

Wednesday, April 9th, 2008

You can now link out directly from AccessMedicine and AccessSurgery to full text that is available through UIC. So when you want to read a complete reference for cited material in either resource simply click the “fulltext” link for the familiar “linkout” web page that will guide you to the full text or, if not […]