The UIC Library is pleased to announce the addition of electronic Research Guides to our growing suite of library services. Research Guides are Web-based guides that provide streamlined access to discipline specific databases, books, articles and more for study and research.
UIC Librarians welcome the opportunity to collaborate with faculty to create guides customized to meet [...]
By kpendell | Published:
August 11, 2008
We are pleased to announce new Evidence-Based Practice online tutorials. The tutorials are tailored to five health sciences disciplines: Applied Health, Dentistry, Medicine, Nursing, and Pharmacy. Each tutorial consists of five instructional modules:
* Introduction to Evidence-Based Practice
* Structure of literature
* Research design
* Searching the literature
* Evaluating the quality of research
Evidence-Based Practice in the Health Sciences [...]
Where would you find candidate, issue and voting information online? Are there authoritative, unbiased, political websites? Here are a few of our favorites and selected recommendations from the January 2008 C&RL News:
American National Election Studies
http://www.electionstudies.org/
Campaign Legal Center
http://www.campaignlegalcenter.org/
Center for Media and Democracy
http://www.prwatch.org/
FactCheck
http://www.factcheck.org/
Federal Election Commission
http://www.fec.gov/
Follow the Money
http://www.followthemoney.org/
League of Women Voters
http://www.lwv.org/AM/Template.cfm?Section=Home
Map the Candidates
http://www.mapthecandidates.com/
Office of the Clerk
http://clerk.house.gov/member_info/electionInfo/index.html
Open Secrets
http://www.opensecrets.org/
University [...]
The UIC Library has built several useful tools into external Websites like Google Scholar, Facebook and Del.icio.us.
The Lexis Nexis Academic electronic resource provides full-text transcripts to dozens of radio and television news programs. Coverage is international and includes Al Jazeera, CQ Congressional Testimony, Official Kremlin International News Broadcasts, CNN, MSNBC, Jim Lehrer, Fox News Network and NPR.
The Complete List
ABC News Now
ABC News Transcripts
ABC Transcripts (Australia)
Al-Jazeera
American Public Media
Burrelle’s Transcripts
CBS News Transcripts
Channel NewsAsia
CNBC/Dow [...]
The Media Resources Center at the University of California at Berkeley has made available online a 1965 debate between the late William F. Buckley and the late author, James Baldwin. Buckley was a national figure from the time he founded the conservative “National Review” in 1955 at age 29.
Craig Silverstein, Google’s director of technology and the first employee hired at Google said: “My guess is about 300 years until
computers are as good as, say, your local reference library in doing search,” says Craig Silverstein. “But we can make slow and steady progress, and maybe one day we’ll get there.”
Full Text Link:
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/03/25/sunday/main608672.shtml
In other [...]
It is time once again for the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences annual awards. Have you ever wondered about the history of the awards? Have you ever been curious who won in previous years? The Daley Library gives you access to quick answers and in-depth analysis of the Oscars. Here are a few [...]
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LibX University of Illinois at Chicago Edition is a Firefox extension that provides direct access to the Library’s resources.
It features:
Toolbar & right-click context menu: Search the UIC catalog (UICCAT) directly from the LibX toolbar or using the right-click context menu.
Support for off-campus access: Using the UIC University Library’s proxy, you may reload a page [...]