Archive for the 'Collections' Category

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 […]

New ABI/INFORM Global business database

Tuesday, July 24th, 2007

The Library is pleased to announce the new availability of Business ABI/INFORM Global, a business and management resource produced by Proquest Inc. The new subscription to ABI/INFORM Global replaces ABI/INFORM, formerly hosted by OCLC First Search, with even more extensive full text articles, reports, tables and images.
If you have questions, please Ask A UIC […]

Alert: ABI/INFORM database cancelled as of July 1

Thursday, July 5th, 2007

UPDATE:  As of August 1, the Library has purchased the ABI/INFORM Global database. Access is now available.
FORMERLY:  ABI/INFORM, the business and management database, has been cancelled as of July 1, 2007 for all libraries across Illinois. The action was a result of a budgetary reallocation by the Illinois State Library, which formerly subsidized […]

New resource: LGBT Life with full text

Wednesday, June 20th, 2007

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 […]

UIC Library Preserves Chicago Urban League Papers with $100,000 Save America’s Treasures Grant

Sunday, November 5th, 2006

Records of the Chicago Urban League will be preserved and housed at the University of Illinois at Chicago’s Richard J. Daley Library under terms of a two-year, $100,000 grant from Save America’s Treasures, a federal program administered by the National Park Service.
The records include about 400 cartons of correspondence, research papers, photographs, artifacts and news […]