Category Archives: Electronic Resources

New medicine journal: Science Translational Medicine

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 [...]

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New Chemistry Database: Reaxys

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.

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New! Rock’s Backpages

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.

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ScienceDirect scheduled downtime for this weekend

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.

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Register for SciFinder Scholar Web version by November 16

The UIC Library now has access to the latest version of SciFinder Scholar in its new format, SciFinder Scholar Web (SFWeb) version. Users must register for SFWeb with their UIC email accounts by November 16, 2009, to continue to use SciFinder Scholar. SFWeb can be used with the UIC proxy server so it [...]

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Electronic journals records upgraded in library catalog

The UIC Library upgraded records for more than 50,000 electronic journals in its library catalog (UICCAT).
All titles listed in the Journals page now have records in the library catalog.

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New Web site pages for electronic resources and health sciences gateway

The UIC Library is changing four frequently-consulted Web pages from lists to research guides. Effective May 15, the Library Web site will be updated with the new links, and redirects will forward users from the older pages to the new pages.
Electronic Resources-alphabetical list will be Databases A-Z
Electronic Resources-subject list will be Research Guides (Home)
Health [...]

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New! ECCO, Literature Criticism, The Sixties

The Library is pleased to announce that three new electronic resources are available.
ECCO (Eighteenth Century Collections Online) is an ambitious project that digitizes every significant English-language and foreign-language book printed in Great Britain during the eighteenth century, along with thousands of important works from the Americas. ECCO and EEBO (Early English Books Online) are [...]

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Historical New York Times content update

The Library is pleased to announce that additional years of coverage have been added to the New York Times. The new dates of coverage are 1851-2005.
To view the contents of this historical newspapers and others, visit our Journals, Magazines and Newspapers page.

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Roper Center archives of public opinion polls now available

UIC students and researchers now have access to data from the Roper Center for Public Opinion Research. The Roper Center is the largest archives of public opinion information. The UIC Library/Information Technology Assessment Committee recommended purchase of this resource, and the Library was able to license it using revenue from the Library/IT assessment.
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