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. [...]
The UIC library is pleased to announce that SimplyMap is now available through the Library’s web site. SimplyMap is a web-based mapping application that lets users quickly create thematic maps and reports using demographic, business, and marketing data. SimplyMap turns complex data into valuable information that is accessed through a user-friendly interface.
With SimplyMap, users [...]
Have you tried lately to open a PDF, but seen an error message like this?
“Cannot extract the embedded font ‘F0′. Some characters may not be displayed or printed correctly.”
An earlier version 7.0.9 of Acrobat Reader will fix this error. We also recommend that you uninstall the 8.0 or 8.1 version you are probably [...]
The UIC community now has access to a powerful and comprehensive database of business, economic, and demographic information for all areas of the world. Economist Intelligence databases continually update data and analyses of global industries, demographics, consumption, average wages, income levels, market size, infrastructure, and business environments. Researchers can manipulate, display, graph, [...]
Red BookOnline, Report of the Committee on Infectious Diseases, is newly available for UIC library users. It gives all current American Academy of Pediatrics recommendations for diagnosing, treating and preventing infectious diseases in infants, children and adolescents. It builds on Red Book editions published from 2000 to present, includes an electronic image library, and [...]
The UIC Library now subscribes to the online database Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1600-2000, a collection of primary documents, books, images, scholarly essays, book reviews, Web site reviews, and teaching tools, all documenting women’s activism in public life.
The database is organized around document projects, each posing a new interpretative question [...]
The Library has purchased six new databases for the study of religion, theology and philosophy. The ATLA/ATLAS database, produced by the American Theological Library Association, is brought to users by EBSCO instead of another provider, FirstSearch. EBSCO uses specialized search terminology and more accommodation for users with a visual disability. [...]
The full text of the Wall Street Journal (Eastern edition) is available in the UIC Library’s electronic resources as part of ABI/INFORM Global. Current issues of the Journal, as well as back issues since 1984 are available. Images — photos, graphs, tables — are available from August 9, 2006 [...]
Journal Citation Reports on the Web recently released 2006 citation measurements, including new rankings based on impact factors.
The JCR is an online quantitative database, published by ISI Thomson Scientific, for comparing and evaluating the impact and influence of journals in the areas of science, technology, and social sciences.
If you need help learning to use the [...]
The Library is pleased to announce the recent acquisition of LGBT (Lesbian, Gay, Bi- and Transsexual) Life with full text
LGBT Life with Full Text contains full text for 50 of the most important and historically significant LGBT journals, magazines and regional newspapers, as well as dozens of full text monographs. The database [...]