UIC Library News

(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.

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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.

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, […]

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).