http://rivendell.lib.uic.edu/news Library News Tue, 22 Jul 2008 22:58:09 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en This month, EBSCO databases debuted its redesigned web site. EBSCO is the provider through which you access such databases as CINAHL, Health Source, and Alt-Health Watch. The updated version includes all of the search features you are used to, plus some new ones. Some new features include: a complete ... http://rivendell.lib.uic.edu/news/2008/07/22/ebsco-makeover/ Current status: SciFinder Scholar reports are available online as of Friday, June 27, 2008. Formerly announced: As of Monday, June 23, 2008, SciFinder Scholar reports are currently unavailable due to issues identified with the data. CAS is taking steps to correct the reports. In the process, CAS has ... http://rivendell.lib.uic.edu/news/2008/06/23/service-alert-scifinder-scholar-reports-are-currently-unavailable/ The Library is pleased to announce the availability of the 2007 ISI Journal Citation Report. The JCR tracks 7,600 of the most important journals in the sciences and social sciences. With the data provided, researchers can use the JCR to help determine the most influential journals in their disciplines and ... http://rivendell.lib.uic.edu/news/2008/06/23/journal-citation-reports-jcr-releases-new-data/ The groundbreaking separation of a pair of conjoined twins is documented in an exhibit of papers, photographs and other materials at the University of Illinois at Chicago's Library of the Health Sciences – Chicago . In 1952, Dr. Oscar Sugar (1914-2008), a faculty member of the University of Illinois Department of ... http://rivendell.lib.uic.edu/news/2008/06/13/lhs-chicago-exhibit-documents-surgical-breakthrough/ 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 ... http://rivendell.lib.uic.edu/news/2008/06/11/elections-2008/ Announcing hours for Summer II Session at the Library of the Health Sciences-Urbana! Hours begin on June 9 and end August 15. Watch this page for updates! Summer II Hours: Monday - Tuesday: 8:30am - 6:00pm Wednesday - Friday: 8:30am - 5:00pm Saturday - Sunday: CLOSED Hours may be viewed on this page: http://www.uic.edu/depts/lib/lhsu/services/hours.shtml http://rivendell.lib.uic.edu/news/2008/06/09/summer-ii-hours-lhsu/ Last year, ABC-CLIO Serials sold Historical Abstracts and America: History and Life to EBSCO, Inc. EBSCO will stop supporting the native ABC-CLIO interface after June 30, 2008. The EBSCOhost search is the new version. You will probably notice that it differs in some functions from the former ... http://rivendell.lib.uic.edu/news/2008/06/02/abc-clio/ Hundreds of photographs and other graphic materials from the UIC Library’s collections are freely available online, providing easy access to visual documentation of past events, social movements, architecture and the built environment, and prominent historical figures. There are five UIC Library collections in the CARLI Digital Collections database, established ... http://rivendell.lib.uic.edu/news/2008/05/21/historical-photographs-from-uic-library-collections-available-online/ Summer's here and the time is right... for visiting the Library of the Health Sciences-Urbana! Announcing the hours for Summer I, which begins May 19 and ends June 8. Watch this page for updates, including the announcement for Summer II hours! Summer I Hours: Mon. May 19 8:30am - ... http://rivendell.lib.uic.edu/news/2008/05/15/summer-i-hours-lhsu/ The winning entries in the Image of Research, a competition sponsored by UIC’s Graduate College and the University Library, will be displayed in the Daley Library May 2 – 30. The Image of Research is an opportunity for a graduate student to create an image with aesthetic appeal that expresses ... http://rivendell.lib.uic.edu/news/2008/04/30/image-of-research-exhibit-in-daley-and-lhs-may-2-30/