Category Archives: Electronic Resources

Electronic journals records upgraded in library catalog

The UIC Library upgraded records for more than 50,000 electronic journals in its library catalog (UICCAT).
All titles listed in the Journals page now have records in the library catalog.

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New Web site pages for electronic resources and health sciences gateway

The UIC Library is changing four frequently-consulted Web pages from lists to research guides. Effective May 15, the Library Web site will be updated with the new links, and redirects will forward users from the older pages to the new pages.
Electronic Resources-alphabetical list will be Databases A-Z
Electronic Resources-subject list will be Research Guides (Home)
Health [...]

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New! ECCO, Literature Criticism, The Sixties

The Library is pleased to announce that three new electronic resources are available.
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 [...]

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Historical New York Times content update

The Library is pleased to announce that additional years of coverage have been added to the New York Times. The new dates of coverage are 1851-2005.
To view the contents of this historical newspapers and others, visit our Journals, Magazines and Newspapers page.

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Roper Center archives of public opinion polls now available

UIC students and researchers now have access to data from the Roper Center for Public Opinion Research. The Roper Center is the largest archives of public opinion information. The UIC Library/Information Technology Assessment Committee recommended purchase of this resource, and the Library was able to license it using revenue from the Library/IT assessment.
From your [...]

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ArchiveGrid provides access to thousands of manuscript collections worldwide

Students and other members of the UIC community now have access to the online resource ArchiveGrid, an online guide to historical documents, personal papers, and family histories held in archives around the world. The UIC Library/Information Technology Assessment Committee recommended purchase of this resource, and the Library was able to license it using revenue from [...]

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Access to CSA Illumina Restored

A legal dispute between Sprint-Nextel and Cogent Communications made the Cambridge Scientific Abstracts database (CSA Illumina) temporarily unavailable to some customers including the UIC Library.
Service was reinstated on November 2.
The Cambridge Scientific Abstracts Internet database service is an electronic resource that provides access to numerous databases covering major areas of research, including materials science, environmental [...]

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Two ARTstor Training Sessions Oct. 23 and 24

You are invited to two ARTstor training sessions:
- 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 [...]

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New Art Imagery Database: ARTstor

The Library is now making ARTstor’s entire image content as well as all software tools available to our patrons.
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 [...]

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Evidence-Based Practice Tutorials

We are pleased to announce new Evidence-Based Practice online tutorials. The tutorials are tailored to five health sciences disciplines: Applied Health, Dentistry, Medicine, Nursing, and Pharmacy. Each tutorial consists of five instructional modules:
* Introduction to Evidence-Based Practice
* Structure of literature
* Research design
* Searching the literature
* Evaluating the quality of research
Evidence-Based Practice in the Health Sciences [...]

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