UIC Library News

New Online Exhibit About the Cook County Forest Preserves

val66 — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 18:40:34 +0000

Learn the history of the Cook Country Forest Preserves and discover how preservationists ensured future generations access to some of Cook County’s greatest natural resources.
Most of the material in this exhibit comes from the Forest Preserves District of Cook County records at the Special Collections department of the Daley Library, at the University of Illinois at Chicago. This collection is scheduled to be open to the public in 2011. The library wishes to thank the Gaylord and Dorothy Donnelly Foundation for their support in acquiring the collection and making this exhibit possible.

New RefWorks, EndNote, & Reference Manager Guide

Rebecca — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 15:06:57 +0000

Need help with using RefWorks or EndNote? Sandy DeGroote, the Scholarly Communications Librarian & Associate Professor, has created a RefWorks, EndNote, & Reference Manager Guide. This guide has a summary of each bibliographic management program and links to helpful guides and websites for each one. It also has links to websites which will explain the differences between RefWorks, EndNote, and Reference Manager.

New Look to PubMed

rraffer2 — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 16:18:58 +0000

You may have noticed PubMed has a new look.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?otool=uiclib

Over the past year (or so) they’ve been working on and refining this new
interface to PubMed. At first glance it may seem as though some features
have disappeared. Fret not, everything is still there, but it might take
some time to find and get used to where they are now.

The one feature I feel has received the biggest ‘cover-up’ is setting
limits on a search. That function has been absorbed into PubMed’s
“Advanced Search” screen. So, if you conduct searches in PubMed and want
to set limits on those searches, click the ‘advanced search’ link just
above the search box.

If you have troubles with this new interface and need some assistance,
please contact the Library at your convenience and we’ll do our best to help!

New medicine journal: Science Translational Medicine

Sara Blaszczak — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 19:39:50 +0000

Science Translational Medicine is a new journal first published online Oct. 7, 2009. UIC users have full access rights plus you can create a personal login to save your articles in personal folders, save searches and participate in peer-to-peer networks.

Science and related journals and knowledge environments also include the weekly publication Science, Science Translational Medicine New!, Signaling Transduction and Science of Aging knowledge environments.

New Chemistry Database: Reaxys

Sara Blaszczak — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 19:37:50 +0000

Reaxys is a new interface that unifies the well-known Beilstein, Gmelin and Patent Chemistry databases. In addition, Reaxys incorporates journal literature (1771 – present) and patent literature (1869 – present) along with search, analysis and workflow tools.

New! Rock’s Backpages

Sara Blaszczak — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 19:34:11 +0000

Rock’s Backpages is a new subscription database.
Reviews, interviews and features on rock music artists, going back several decades, by the world’s best rock writers and the most influential music publications.

ScienceDirect scheduled downtime for this weekend

Sara Blaszczak — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 16:55:42 +0000

Journals and E-books published on Elsevier ScienceDirect platform will be unavailable due to scheduled maintenance for approximately 9 hours from 8:00PM CDT Saturday, October 31 to 4:00AM CST Sunday 1, November.

We apologize for the inconvenience.

From Interpreting the World to Changing the World: the Work of the Alternative Press Index

lnaru — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 22:56:09 +0000

Charles D’Adamo, senior editor of the Alternative Press Index (API), discusses the underground press from the 1960s to date on Thursday, November 19, at 2:00 pm, in the Daley Library room 1-210.

The Alternative Press Center (APC) is a non-profit collective dedicated to providing access to and increasing public awareness of the alternative press. Founded in 1969, it remains one of the oldest self-sustaining alternative media institutions in the United States. For more than a quarter of a century the Alternative Press Index, a biannual subject index to over 300 alternative, radical and left periodicals, newspapers and magazines, has been recognized as a leading guide to the alternative press in the United States and around the world. Librarians consider the API to be the most comprehensive and up-to-date guide to alternative sources of information available today.

D’Adamo will relate the Alternative Press Index project to the rise and fall of the underground press in the 1960s and 1970s, the development of radical intellectual periodical publishing since the 1970s, projects of media criticism, and the development of the web-based Indymedia movement. D’Adamo will also discuss issues of social responsibility in librarianship.

Daley Library open house on October 28

lnaru — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 21:47:11 +0000

The Daley Library is hosting an open house on Wednesday, October 28, 4 – 7 p.m. to showcase renovated areas, new equipment, special exhibits, SMART group study rooms, and expanded services.

Visitors can view a Special Collections exhibit of early English books and a display that chronicles the history of the UIC mascot to our present-day Sparky D Dragon. Staff will explain mysterious parts of the library such as microforms and the film collection that circulates to i-card holders.

The open house includes food and prizes for a scavenger hunt.

Tutorials That Will Save You Time

Rebecca — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 20:35:41 +0000

Need a brief overview of evidence based practice? A set of tutorials created by the Learning Information Seeking and Technology for Evidence-based Nursing practice (LISTEN) project would be a good place to start. The tutorials are called BOLTs (Brief Online Learning Tutorials) and are between 3-5 minutes a piece. In addition to evidence based practice, topics covered include evaluating information and knowing which database to use. CEU’s can be obtained from this website but you will need to create a username and password and follow the steps listed on the participate in the LISTEN project page. A link to the tutorials has been posted on the Nursing Research Guide’s Tutorials & Videos and the CE sections.