Archive for the 'Electronic Resources' Category

Service alert: Wiley Interscience journals interruption

Thursday, April 10th, 2008

(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 […]

Service alert: ScienceDirect downtime notification 11th April 2008

Wednesday, April 9th, 2008

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.

Link to full text from directly from AccessMedicine and AccessSurgery

Wednesday, April 9th, 2008

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 […]

Service alert for VPN users

Friday, March 28th, 2008

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 […]

Service alert: Saved searches in Web of Knowledge

Thursday, February 28th, 2008

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.

Technical question: How to display all the symbols in PDFs

Monday, February 18th, 2008

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 […]

Alert: Database users beware problems connecting to catalog

Tuesday, February 5th, 2008

As of today, the Library and its users are experiencing time-out errors when trying to go to the UICCAT catalog from within databases.
Most full text databases include a custom UIC Options button. Clicking this blue “UIC Options” button in a database automatically brings users to a customized UIC Options menu. When the menu says […]

Service alert: Remote access to McGraw-Hill databases

Wednesday, January 30th, 2008

AccessMedicine and AccessSurgery databases are offline temporarily on 1 February 2008 as of 3:00 PM. We expect full service to be restored shortly. Please contact Library Systems if you have any questions.

Library Provides Global Economic Data through eiu.com/illinois

Friday, January 25th, 2008

The UIC community now has access to a powerful and comprehensive database of business, economic, and demographic information for all areas of the world. Economist Intelligence databases continually update data and analyses of global industries, demographics, consumption, average wages, income levels, market size, infrastructure, and business environments. Researchers can manipulate, display, graph, […]

Service alert: EBSCO Publishing is UP again

Thursday, January 24th, 2008

The EBSCO Publishing online service has been restored as of 3:15 PM on Thursday, Jan. 24. Earlier, it was unavailable from 11-3:15 CST due to a power outage in Boston that knocked out the EBSCO internet service provider (ISP).