Services for University of Illinois Alumni at the UIC Libraries

Onsite access to books, journals, and unique resources

The UIC Library welcomes UIAA members to use its extensive information resources by visiting in person. UIC Library sites include: the Richard J. Daley Library, the Science Library, and the Library of the Health Sciences in Chicago, Peoria, Rockford and Urbana. The UIC Library locations and hours are posted online.

Search UICCAT for books, journals, and other library materials in the Library's collection.

Special Collections and University Archives contain rare and primary source materials that tell the history of the city of Chicago and UIC.

The Government Documents, Maps, and Microforms Department regularly receives documents from federal government and Illinois state agencies. There is a strong current and historical collection of local government information from Chicago and municipalities in the six-county metropolitan area.

Borrowing from University of Illinois libraries

Current sustaining and life members of the University of Illinois Alumni Association can borrow regularly circulating monographs from University of Illinois libraries by presenting their UIAA membership card and a photo ID at the circulation desk. Online renewals are available from the UICCAT My Account feature on the Library's home page.

Online access to ProQuest/ABI-INFORM

The University of Illinois Alumni Association in collaboration with the libraries of the University of Illinois offers sustaining and life members online access to ProQuest/ABN-INFORM Complete (https://www.uiaaconnect.org/UIAA/Login.jsp?GoToUpdate=Proquest), a database of more than 4,000 magazines, newspapers, periodicals, scientific and professional journals and trade publications.

Article databases, indexes and online journals freely available on the Internet include the following:

General

DIRECTORY OF OPEN ACCESS JOURNALS (LUND UNIVERSITY):
This service covers free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals. The Directory aims to include open access journals in all subjects and languages.

GOOGLE SCHOLAR:
Searches peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, abstracts and articles, from academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories, universities and other scholarly organizations.

LIBRARY OF CONGRESS:
Library catalogs, historical documents, American Memory Project, exhibitions and more.

Census information

AMERICAN FACTFINDER:
Population, housing, economic and geographic data from the U.S. Census Bureau, or see the Census Web site.

Education

ERIC:
The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC), sponsored by the Institute of Education Sciences (IES) of the U.S. Department of Education, produces the world's premier database of journal and non-journal education literature.

Government and Politics

FIRSTGOV:
Home page of the US Government's Official Web Portal for all government transactions, services and information.

THOMAS:
Legislative Information on the Internet.

Medicine and Science:

BIOMED CENTRAL:
Publisher of over 150 peer-reviewed open access journals.

PUBLIC LIBRARY OF SCIENCE:
A non-profit organization of scientists committed to making the world's scientific and medical literature freely accessible to scientists and to the public around the world.

PUBMED:
PubMed is a service of the U.S. National Library of Medicine that includes over 16 million citations from MEDLINE and other life science journals for biomedical articles back to the 1950s.

PUBMED CENTRAL:
A digital archive of life sciences journal literature with free and unrestricted access.

Photographs

CITY 2000: The Comer Archive of Chicago in the year 2000
Searchable Digital Archive of photographs by over 200 photographers documenting the City of Chicago in the year 2000.

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For general information, contact UIC Library Administration at (312) 996-2716.