UIC Library News

If you want to see the National Library of Medicine’s exhibit Visible Proofs in person, you’ll need to get to Bethesda, Maryland before February of 2008. The good news is you can view the electronic version of the exhibit from your computer!
Visible Proofs showcases the history of forensic medicine through photographs, illustrations, and text. […]

Alt-HealthWatch is a comprehensive database of alternative health resources. Available through EBSCO, it offers all the search features of the EBSCO interface, such as keyword searching, advanced searching, and a searchable online thesaurus.
What is meant by “alternative”?
In the case of medicine, “alternative” encompasses holistic and integrative approaches to healing. These are perspectives which […]

Journal Citation Reports on the Web recently released 2006 citation measurements, including new rankings based on impact factors.
The JCR is an online quantitative database, published by ISI Thomson Scientific, for comparing and evaluating the impact and influence of journals in the areas of science, technology, and social sciences.
If you need help learning to use the […]

Two journals published by the Radiological Society of North America have been added to the Library’s online journal collection.
Radiology is a monthly journal devoted to clinical radiology and allied sciences. It includes original research, reviews, commentary and expert opinion on new techniques and technology in radiology. Its impact factor of 5.377 […]

UPDATE - May 11, 2007 Links between MD Consult and First Consult have been fixed and are acting normally again.
[Linking problems between MD Consult and First Consult were reported (Wed., 9 May 2007). Searching in MD Consult normally returns results linked to materials in First Consult. Those links are giving error messages […]

The Library is pleased to announce the recent acquisition of ResearchNow from bepress.
ResearchNow is a database of scholarly information drawing its content from several primary sources:
The roster of peer-reviewed, Berkeley Electronic Press journals in social sciences, law, medicine, engineering, computer science, etc.
All working papers, preprints and other “grey literature” content from institutional repositories hosted […]

Searching Google Scholar for access to full text articles and books is growing in popularity as online availability of scholarly materials increases; however, there is a barrier when some publishers try to charge for downloaded articles and chapters. All current UIC students, faculty and staff have the right to get articles for free by […]

The UIC Library is pleased to provide access to the electronic products published by The Medical Letter, Inc., of New Rochelle, New York. Readers can sign up to receive the E-table of contents on a regular basis.
The Medical Letter on Drugs and Therapeutics (1988-present) provides critical evaluations of drugs for physicians and other members […]

The Library is pleased to make AccessSurgery available for UIC users. This electronic resource provides surgery textbooks (CURRENT Surgical Diagnosis and Treatment, CURRENT Consult Surgery, Schwartz’s Principles of Surgery, Zollinger’s Atlas of Surgical Operations, and Skandalakis’ Surgical Anatomy) and chapterized, narrated videos of surgical procedures to UIC users. AccessSurgery also contains Board Review exams after […]

The Library is pleased to introduce Global Health, a new resource for UIC users on EBSCOhost. Global Health is a public health database that provides information on international health, biomedical life sciences, non-communicable diseases, public health nutrition, food safety and hygiene, and much more. This database contains records dating back to 1973.
Global […]