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 […]

The NIH NIH Public Access Policy ensures that the public has access to the published results of NIH funded research. It requires scientists to submit journal articles that arise from NIH funds to the digital archive PubMed Central. The Policy requires that these articles be accessible to the public on PubMed Central to help advance […]

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 […]

The UIC Library will introduce a new interlibrary loan service in January 2008. The name of the existing interlibrary loan system–MyILL@UIC–will remain the same, but users will notice significant improvements.After completing a brief online registration form, interlibrary loan users at all five UIC sites will be able to create new requests, view outstanding requests and […]

InfoRetriever with InfoPOEMs will change its name to Essential Evidence Plus effective February 1, 2008. The new EBM Guidelines resource has already been added to the database as you will see in your search results. EBM Guidelines is a concise, easy-to-use collection of over 950 Practice Guidelines, over 3,000 Evidence Summaries and over 1,000 images.

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 […]

What’s New?
Derm Expert
We’ve launched a new Derm Expert tool designed to help clinicians diagnose dermatological conditions utilizing a series of simple steps! The tool contains hundreds of images, along with clear guidelines, to help clinicians quickly and easily identify the right diagnosis. Derm Expert is now available for the PDA and Web versions.
Coming Soon!
Essential Evidence […]

We are pleased to announce that the Library has expanded access to ISI Web of Science from 1975 - Present. Now UIC users can get 12 more years (1975-1986) of retrospective literature in the Science Citation Index, Art & Humanities Citation Index, and Social Sciences Citation Index.  Please clear the cache/history in your browser before […]