Latin American and Latino Studies (LALS) are expanding at UIC. In May 2009, the Board of Trustees approved the establishment of a Master of Arts in Latin American and Latino Studies. HAPI Online is a key source for supporting work in LALS. It provides authoritative, worldwide information about Mexico, Central and South America, the Caribbean, and Hispanics/Latinos in the United States. Topics include current political, economic, and social issues plus Latin American arts and letters. Students who recommended HAPI Online praised its extensive coverage of Hispanic Americans and noted its value for dissertation research.

Science and related journals and knowledge environments also include the weekly publication Science, Science Translational Medicine New!, Signaling Transduction and Science of Aging knowledge environments.

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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 cross-searchable so you can search all full text from 1475 to 1800.

Literature Criticism Online delivers access to valuable works formerly available only in our non-circulating reference collection. LCO replaces our brown bound books series titled: Contemporary Literary Criticism , Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism, Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism, Shakespearean Criticism, Literature Criticism from 1400 to 1800, Classical and Medieval Literature Criticism , Poetry Criticism, Short Story Criticism, Drama Criticism, and Children’s Literature Review. UIC users have access to these works from Vol. 1 to the most current one.

The Sixties is a new project on life in the 1960s. The Sixties brings together 1960-74 diaries, letters, autobiographies and other memoirs, written and oral histories, manifestos, government documents, memorabilia, and scholarly commentary on American history, politics and culture. Its scope and contents will continue to grow as the editors solicit new contributions.

To view the contents of this historical newspapers and others, visit our Journals, Magazines and Newspapers page.

From your workstation on- or off-campus, access Roper Center. The first time you enter the Roper Center web site, you will be asked to register your email address, name, and institutional affiliation.

You now have on-demand access to the full datasets required to conduct bivariate and multivariate analyses on archived surveys using RoperExpress. The direct link to the catalog of datasets permits searching by keyword, date, country, and survey organization.

The Roper Center also offers access to iPOLL, a comprehensive database of 500,000 questions and answers asked in the US since 1935.

These combined services permit you to locate datasets rich in data of interest to you and then using point and click technology, download the documentation and data files for the studies within minutes.  For US data, iPOLL permits you to locate questions (and the answers of the full sample) and then to link to the data files and run secondary analysis.  Support for these services is available using rcweb@ropercenter.uconn.edu.

For help or feedback, please contact Becky Lowery, Maps & Data Services Librarian.

- 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 UIC faculty, adjunct faculty, staff or students interested in learning more about ARTstor.

Register for the sessions you would like to attend by sending an email to darcovic@uic.edu.  Seating is limited and space will be reserved only for those who register in advance.

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 across many time periods and cultures and will be of interest to a wide range of disciplines. The Library licenses ARTstor images for use in lectures, classroom handouts and reserves, student presentations, etc. The content in ARTstor may not be used for any commercial purpose. For more information, please see ARTstor’s guide to permitted and prohibited uses.

Anyone at UIC can search and browse the images anonymously. You can also register to create personal image groups and download the image presentation software. Instructors who need the ability to create shared folders and image groups can contact Jane Darcovich or Ask A Librarian.

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 across many time periods and cultures and will be of interest to a wide range of disciplines.

How can I use it?

Anyone at UIC can search and browse the images. You can register to create personal image groups and download the image presentation software. If you will use ARTstor for instruction and need the ability to create folders and image groups that can be shared, contact Jane Darcovich or Ask A Librarian.

ARTstor images can be used for lectures, classroom handouts and reserves, student presentations, etc. The content in ARTstor may not be used for any commercial purpose. The only exception to this are the images provided through the Images for Academic Publishing initiative. Additionally, users may not distribute ARTstor content through unrestricted websites. For more information, please see ARTstor’s guide to permitted and prohibited uses.

Where can I get help?

Guides and Handouts
http://help.artstor.org/wiki/index.php/Materials

ARTstor FAQs
http://help.artstor.org/wiki/index.php/ARTstor_FAQs

You may also contact Jane Darcovich or Ask A Librarian for assistance. If you’d like to offer feedback, contact Joan Fiscella.

Background

ARTstor is a non-profit initiative, founded by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, with a mission to use digital technology to enhance scholarship, teaching and learning in the arts and associated disciplines. The roots of ARTstor, as well as its name, can be traced to JSTOR, another Mellon-founded non-profit initiative. What JSTOR is to electronic journal access, ARTstor is trying to be for digital images – aggregating collections, making them accessible, and preserving a reliable and comprehensive archive of images for educational purposes. It is a Web-based image resource which libraries may acquire via a one-time institutional purchase fee plus annual licensing fees. The UIC Library is sponsoring a trial of the full version of ARTstor this Fall. At this time, Purchasing and Legal Counsel are reviewing our permanent license.