UIC Library News

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 removed the incorrect reports from […]

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 which journals they should read.

The […]

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 ABC-CLIO search, especially, with less […]

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 […]

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 […]

(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 […]

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.

VPN (Virtual Private Network) software lets you control a work desktop from home, and is useful for encrypting information exchanged between your home and office.  But there can be problems when accessing UIC Library licensed resources online.  Although it mimics your office computer, VPN does not share the IP address of your office computer.  Most […]

Thomson Scientific recently debuted a new search interface for Web of Knowledge and some users began to experience problems with previously saved searches. If your saved search does not run and gives you an error message, please remove ampersands, parentheses, and other non alphanumeric characters.
If you have any questions, please contact Library Systems.

Have you tried lately to open a PDF, but seen an error message like this?
“Cannot extract the embedded font ‘F0′. Some characters may not be displayed or printed correctly.”
An earlier version 7.0.9 of Acrobat Reader will fix this error. We also recommend that you uninstall the 8.0 or 8.1 version you are probably […]