Monthly Archives: October 2009

New medicine journal: Science Translational Medicine

Science Translational Medicine is a new journal first published online Oct. 7, 2009. UIC users have full access rights plus you can create a personal login to save your articles in personal folders, save searches and participate in peer-to-peer networks.
Science and related journals and knowledge environments also include the weekly publication Science, Science [...]

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New Chemistry Database: Reaxys

Reaxys is a new interface that unifies the well-known Beilstein, Gmelin and Patent Chemistry databases. In addition, Reaxys incorporates journal literature (1771 – present) and patent literature (1869 – present) along with search, analysis and workflow tools.

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New! Rock’s Backpages

Rock’s Backpages is a new subscription database.
Reviews, interviews and features on rock music artists, going back several decades, by the world’s best rock writers and the most influential music publications.

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ScienceDirect scheduled downtime for this weekend

Journals and E-books published on Elsevier ScienceDirect platform will be unavailable due to scheduled maintenance for approximately 9 hours from 8:00PM CDT Saturday, October 31 to 4:00AM CST Sunday 1, November.
We apologize for the inconvenience.

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From Interpreting the World to Changing the World: the Work of the Alternative Press Index

Charles D’Adamo, senior editor of the Alternative Press Index (API), discusses the underground press from the 1960s to date on Thursday, November 19, at 2:00 pm, in the Reserve Reading Room (1st floor) Daley Library.
The Alternative Press Center (APC) is a non-profit collective dedicated to providing access to and increasing public awareness of the [...]

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Daley Library open house on October 28

The Daley Library is hosting an open house on Wednesday, October 28, 4 – 7 p.m. to showcase renovated areas, new equipment, special exhibits, SMART group study rooms, and expanded services.
Visitors can view a Special Collections exhibit of early English books and a display that chronicles the history of the UIC mascot to our [...]

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Tutorials That Will Save You Time

Need a brief overview of evidence based practice?  A set of tutorials created by the Learning Information Seeking and Technology for Evidence-based Nursing practice (LISTEN) project would be a good place to start.  The tutorials are called BOLTs (Brief Online Learning Tutorials) and are between 3-5 minutes a piece.  In addition to evidence based practice, [...]

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Updated ICIRN Essential Nursing Resources List

The 2009 edition of the ICIRN Essential Nursing Resources list is now available.  It is available as a website or as a pdf document. A new section on cultural competencies has been added.

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New Digital Images Guide

Peter Hepburn, the Digitization Librarian and Associate Professor at Daley Library, has created a Digital Images and Resources Research Guide.  This guide has links to mostly UIC-based collections of images related to UIC and Chicago.  There is also a medical images section that has links to databases which contain images.  A rights/permissions section details how [...]

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Embellished Medical Title Pages at LHS-Chicago

A new exhibit at the UIC Library of the Health Sciences-Chicago titled “Embellished medical title pages: the sixteenth through the eighteenth centuries” highlights decorative title pages from the rare book collection of the Special Collections department.
These extraordinary images are on view outside of the library administration office on the 2nd floor.
This exhibit was made possible [...]

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