Archive for the 'Collections' Category

Journal Citation Reports (JCR) Releases New Data

Monday, June 23rd, 2008

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 […]

ABC-CLIO History Databases Now with Ebsco

Monday, June 2nd, 2008

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 […]

Service alert: Proquest interface maintenance April 19 & 26, 2008

Wednesday, April 16th, 2008

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 […]

New! Red Book Online from American Academy of Pediatrics

Wednesday, January 16th, 2008

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 […]

New database of more than 2,400 primary sources on history of women

Wednesday, January 9th, 2008

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 changes book selection; some e-books unavailable

Tuesday, October 9th, 2007

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 […]

New resources: Religion databases

Wednesday, September 5th, 2007

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. […]

Library-News Mailing List Discontinued

Thursday, August 23rd, 2007

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 […]

Electronic journals temporarily removed from UICCAT August 5-17

Wednesday, August 15th, 2007

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 […]

Wall Street Journal Online

Friday, August 3rd, 2007

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 […]