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Current status: SciFinder Scholar reports are available online as of Friday, June 27, 2008.
Formerly announced: As of Monday, June 23, 2008, SciFinder Scholar reports are currently unavailable due to issues identified with the data. CAS is taking steps to correct the reports. In the process, CAS has removed the incorrect reports from [...]

The Library is pleased to announce the availability of the 2007 ISI Journal Citation Report. The JCR tracks 7,600 of the most important journals in the sciences and social sciences. With the data provided, researchers can use the JCR to help determine the most influential journals in their disciplines and which journals they should read.

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The groundbreaking separation of a pair of conjoined twins is documented in an exhibit of papers, photographs and other materials at the University of Illinois at Chicago’s Library of the Health Sciences – Chicago .
In 1952, Dr. Oscar Sugar (1914-2008), a faculty member of the University of Illinois Department of Neurosurgery, led the pioneering surgery [...]

Where would you find candidate, issue and voting information online? Are there authoritative, unbiased, political websites? Here are a few of our favorites and selected recommendations from the January 2008 C&RL News:
American National Election Studies
http://www.electionstudies.org/
Campaign Legal Center
http://www.campaignlegalcenter.org/
Center for Media and Democracy
http://www.prwatch.org/
FactCheck
http://www.factcheck.org/
Federal Election Commission
http://www.fec.gov/
Follow the Money
http://www.followthemoney.org/
League of Women Voters
http://www.lwv.org/AM/Template.cfm?Section=Home
Map the Candidates
http://www.mapthecandidates.com/
Office of the Clerk
http://clerk.house.gov/member_info/electionInfo/index.html
Open Secrets
http://www.opensecrets.org/
University [...]

Announcing hours for Summer II Session at the Library of the Health Sciences-Urbana! Hours begin on June 9 and end August 15. Watch this page for updates!
Summer II Hours:
Monday - Tuesday: 8:30am - 6:00pm
Wednesday - Friday: 8:30am - 5:00pm
Saturday - Sunday: CLOSED
Hours may be viewed on this page: http://www.uic.edu/depts/lib/lhsu/services/hours.shtml

Last year, ABC-CLIO Serials sold Historical Abstracts and America: History and Life to EBSCO, Inc. EBSCO will stop supporting the native ABC-CLIO interface after June 30, 2008. The EBSCOhost search is the new version. You will probably notice that it differs in some functions from the former ABC-CLIO search, especially, with less [...]