UIC Library News

You can now link out directly from AccessMedicine and AccessSurgery to full text that is available through UIC. So when you want to read a complete reference for cited material in either resource simply click the “fulltext” link for the familiar “linkout” web page that will guide you to the full text or, if not […]

Thomson Scientific recently debuted a new search interface for Web of Knowledge and some users began to experience problems with previously saved searches. If your saved search does not run and gives you an error message, please remove ampersands, parentheses, and other non alphanumeric characters.
If you have any questions, please contact Library Systems.

To download Pocket Consult on your PDA, you must first sign into your MDConsult account . Once you are logged into MDConsult, click the link to FIRSTConsult, and then click “Download FIRSTConsult through POCKETConsult’. You will be asked to create a POCKETConsult account (seperate from the MDConsult account). Once you have a POCKETConsult account, you […]

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 […]

Starting on January 1, 2008, InfoRetriever with InfoPOEMs will be renamed Essential Evidence Plus. As a result, if you are currently using InfoRetriever on your handheld device and/or Windows PC, you must re-register it. If you fail to re-register before January 15, the program will no longer run.
For Automatic Re-registration
Unless you […]

We are pleased to announce that the Library is expanding access to ISI Web of Science, giving UIC users the ability to search from 1975 to present. This purchase adds 12 more years (1975-1986) of access to retrospective literature, in the Science Citation Index, Art & Humanities Citation Index, and Social Sciences Citation Index. […]

UIC PDA users wishing to download Clinical Pharmacology On-Hand to their PDA from off-campus need to contact the Library of the Health Sciences for a promotional code. Instructions for obtaining a promotional code are available at http://www.uic.edu/depts/lib/lhs/resources/guides/Clinicalpharmacologyonhand.pdf
Clinical Pharmacology contains current, concise and clinically-relevant drug monographs for all U.S. prescription drugs, hard-to-find herbal and nutritional […]

If you are a current user of Clinical Pharmacology On-Hand, your password is set to expire Sept 30, 2007. To ensure you do not lose access, please contact the Library of the Health Sciences to obtain a new promotional code. Instructions for obtaining a promotional code are available at http://www.uic.edu/depts/lib/lhs/resources/guides/Clinicalpharmacologyonhand.pdf.

Do you want to contact a UIC Librarian now? Send a message from your IM account to the screen name uiclibrarian. IM is another way to contact us to get help finding a fact or researching a paper through the Ask a Librarian service.
The UIC Library has IM accounts on AOL Instant Messenger, Google Talk, […]

Access to quality medical care is always in high demand - this is an issue in some places more than others. If you are interested in finding out which US populations have a determined need for increased medical care, try searching the HPSA database or the MUA/MUP database.
“HPSA” stands for “health professional […]