UIC Library News

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.

The […]

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 […]

Three ProQuest platform enhancements are scheduled for release on April 26th, 2008. To prepare for this release, a series of maintenance windows will occur on the following dates :
April 19th, 2008 from 9:00 to 11:00 PM CDT (2 hours)
April 26th, 2008. at 9:00 PM to April 27, 2008, at 9:00 AM (12 hours)
The following […]

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 […]

Ebrary announced the removal of approximately 2,000 eBooks published by Taylor & Francis that are currently in our collection. When you are searching UICCAT or Ebrary for one of these titles, you will have a result that tells you it is unavailable. In response to this move, the Library has purchased outright several […]

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. […]

A number of years ago, the Library set up a mailing list, Library-News@listserv.uic.edu to distribute news about the library via email. Faculty were encouraged to subscribe to Library-News to receive updates about the library and particularly about library collections.
No messages have been sent out on Library-News for more than a year, as the […]

Maintenance is continuing on UICCAT, the online catalog, and links to e-journals are temporarily unavailable. Until further notice, UICCAT will NOT display the full holdings of electronic journals. However, you can still find these journals online — by search and browse using a journal title, subject classification, or article citation — on […]

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 […]