UIC Library News

The Library of the Health Sciences-Urbana will be open for extended hours this weekend for College of Medicine students.

Saturday, Apr. 26 - 11:00 AM - 8:00 PM
Sunday, Apr. 27 - 1:00 PM - 10:00 PM
Monday, Apr. 28 - Open at 7 AM

You can always view LHSU hours on this page:
http://www.uic.edu/depts/lib/lhsu/services/hours.shtml

It’s Global Health Week, and LHSU would like to highlight a relevant database, Global Health. Available through UIC libraries, Global Health is a public health database that provides information on international health, biomedical life sciences, non-communicable diseases, public health nutrition, food safety and hygiene, and much more. This database contains records dating back to 1973..

Click here to check out Global Health!

(You must be using a library computer, or logged in with your netid and password).

Happy Global Health Week!

A one-hour period of downtime of Informaworld journal hosting service is scheduled on Tuesday, April 22, 2008, between 11 pm and 12 midnight CDT to complete some essential maintenance. The temporary network outage will affect more than 200 journals, mostly in science, technology and medicine, from Taylor & Francis, Routledge, Informa HealthCare and Psychology Press.

If you have any problems or questions, please contact Library Systems by email.

Three ProQuest platform enhancements are scheduled for release on April 26th, 2008. To prepare for this release, a series of maintenance windows will occur on the following dates :

April 19th, 2008 from 9:00 to 11:00 PM CDT (2 hours)
April 26th, 2008. at 9:00 PM to April 27, 2008, at 9:00 AM (12 hours)

The following databases will be unavailable during these maintenance windows:

• ABI/Inform Global business database
• African American Biographical Database
• Archives USA
• Criminal Justice Abstracts
• Dissertations & Theses
• Early English Books Online
• Ethnic Newswatch
• GenderWatch
• GeoRef and GeoScience World
• Historical Chicago Defender
• Historical Chicago Tribune
• Historical New York Times
• International Index to Music Periodicals
• PAIS International

If you have any questions, please contact Library Systems.

The UIC Library celebrates National Library Week beginning April 13, joining a nationwide focus on the contributions of libraries, librarians and library workers in schools, campuses and communities.

Commenting on this year’s theme “Libraries Make a Difference,” University Librarian Mary Case said, “The UIC Library strives to make a difference in the lives of our students. We provide the information resources they need to succeed in their classes as well as instruction in the skills to find and evaluate information they need to succeed throughout their lives.”

First sponsored in 1958, National Library Week is a national observance sponsored by the American Library Association (ALA) and libraries across the country each April.

(Previous message) On Wednesday, April 9, 2008, at approximately 12:00 noon U.S. Eastern Daylight Savings Time, the Wiley InterScience server facility experienced technical difficulties.

New message:
This message is to alert you that the previous interruption of Wiley InterScience service has been corrected. Access to all online content and functions should be fully restored as of April 10, 2008 at 7:48 AM CDT.

Thank you for your patience, and we apologize for any inconvenience.

If you have any questions, please contact Library Systems.

Please be advised that Science Direct will be unavailable for approximately 30 minutes during the period: 9:00 to 10:00 PM, Friday, April 11, 2008. This is due to scheduled maintenance work by the publisher. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.  If you have any questions please contact Library Systems.

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 available, allow you to request the article through MyILL@UIC. You can also link directly into PubMed by click the PMID link.

The UIC Library has built several useful tools into external Websites like Google Scholar, Facebook and Del.icio.us. Here are instructions on how to implement them:

1. LibX

LibX is a widget that allows you to search UICCAT from anywhere on the web. You just place it into your browser toolbar and voila!
http://www.uic.edu/depts/lib/lhsc/libx.shtml

2. Goolge Scholar (scholar.google.com)

Set your Google Scholar preferences to link to UIC journal article holdings. There is an option to choose the library holdings you wish to find with your scholar search. In order to link any article or book results from your Google Scholar search to our holdings, select University of Illinois at Chicago.

3. del.icio.us

A del.icio.us page of helpful research bookmarks is currently under development. As of April 4th, there are 34 bookmarks, and it is growing everyday. http://del.icio.us/uiclibrarian .

4. Add the UIC Library search application to your Facebook page:
http://apps.facebook.com/uiccatalog/

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 science and improve human health.