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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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New! ECCO, Literature Criticism, The Sixties

The Library is pleased to announce that three new electronic resources are available.
ECCO (Eighteenth Century Collections Online) is an ambitious project that digitizes every significant English-language and foreign-language book printed in Great Britain during the eighteenth century, along with thousands of important works from the Americas. ECCO and EEBO (Early English Books Online) are [...]

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Historical New York Times content update

The Library is pleased to announce that additional years of coverage have been added to the New York Times. The new dates of coverage are 1851-2005.
To view the contents of this historical newspapers and others, visit our Journals, Magazines and Newspapers page.

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Roper Center archives of public opinion polls now available

UIC students and researchers now have access to data from the Roper Center for Public Opinion Research. The Roper Center is the largest archives of public opinion information. The UIC Library/Information Technology Assessment Committee recommended purchase of this resource, and the Library was able to license it using revenue from the Library/IT assessment.
From your [...]

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Two ARTstor Training Sessions Oct. 23 and 24

You are invited to two ARTstor training sessions:
- Thursday, October 23, 9:00 am- noon, in the ELL, 1st floor, Daley Library. This is an intensive “Train-the-trainer” session intended to provide detailed instruction.
- Friday, October 24, 10:00 am – noon in the Graphic Design Lab, 2312 Art & Architecture Building. This session is open to any [...]

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New Art Imagery Database: ARTstor

The Library is now making ARTstor’s entire image content as well as all software tools available to our patrons.
What is it?
ARTstor is a growing repository of 750,000 digital images accompanied by presentation tools for classroom teaching and management tools for creating personalized image collections. The image collections in ARTstor document artistic and visual culture traditions [...]

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New digital resources in African American history

The Library now offers the UIC community a new permanent collection: Black Thought and Culture online.

Black Thought and Culture covers non-fiction works of leading African-Americans, including books, journal articles, and pamphlets.
The collection ranges from the eighteenth through the twenty-first centuries and contains the work of over 1,000 individuals.
Editors Sharon Harley, Clayborn Carson, and Russell L. [...]

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