UIC Library News

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 [...]

UIC users can now access the online journals of the American Physiological Society. These include:

American Journal of Physiology (AJP) Consolidated
AJP Cell Physiology
AJP Endocrinology and Metabolism
AJP Gastroinestinal and Liver Physiology
AJP Heart and Circulatory Physiology
AJP Lung Cellular and Molecular Physiology
AJP Renal Physiology
Physiological Genomics
Journal of Applied Physiology
Journal of Neurophysiology
The Physiologist
Physiological Reviews

To access these titles, especially from [...]

The Library is pleased to announce the availability of Published International Literature on Traumatic Stress (PILOTS), a new resource for UIC users on CSA Illumina. More than 30,000 citations lead to articles in journals, book chapters and books, pamphlets, technical reports, and other documents in several languages. For UIC users, links provide immediate access [...]

This is a reminder to all faculty and researchers that because UIC is a BioMed Central supporter member, you receive a 15% discount on the article processing charge when you publish your research in any one of BioMed Central’s open access journals. Over 140 online journals are published by BioMed Central covering [...]

The papers of allergist Max Samter, MD (1908-1999) are now available for research in the University Archives. The collection documents Samter’s pioneering work in the field of immunology, as well as his experience practicing medicine in Nazi and wartime Germany.
Max Samter began his medical career in 1931 as an intern at the Charite [...]

A new exhibit at the Library of the Health Sciences features facsimiles of letters written by Florence Nightingale from the Midwest Nursing History Resource Center at the UIC College of Nursing’s collection. The Florence Nightingale Letters Collection highlights aspects of Nightingale’s work throughout her life. The correspondence exemplifies her engagement in policy matters as well [...]