UIC Library is offering several online workshops. Here is a list of what is being offered for the next few months:
CINAHL
Discover Your Health Sciences Resources
HaPI-Health & Psychosocial Instruments
Finding Medical Images
Gideon/Global Health
Library 101 for the UIC Nursing Community
Online Consumer Health Information You Can Trust
RefWorks
To sign up, please follow the instructions on creating an e-rooms account and [...]
You can text a UIC librarian at 773-442-2757 to ask where to find facts, how to start your research, which resources will help you in a particular course, and get answers to your other information needs.
Text a Librarian is a new way to contact the UIC Library, in addition to instant messaging, email, telephone, in-person [...]
Ganong’s Review of Medical Physiology, 23rd ed., is now available electronically in Access Medicine. Ganong’s review has been updated to reflect the latest research and now has full color illustrations. You can also take an interactive self-assessment, which includes 241 questions. It will be a great study tool for med students no matter what their [...]
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.
Crawford Library welcomes Dave DeCastris to our staff as our new Library Clerk. Dave will be starting on Aug. 4th, and will be working at the User Services Desk on Monday, Wednesday and Thursday evenings. Stop by and say “Hi”!
The UIC Library will launch its newly redesigned Web site on July 4, 2009.
The Library utilized patron surveys and usability testing to design a site with easily scanned pages, simplified terminology, clear navigation, and a clean graphic appearance.
Beginning on July 4, users will be redirected to pages on the new site from several pages on [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]