By lnaru | Published:
October 12, 2009
UIC celebrates Open Access Week, October 19-23, 2009, with three programs sponsored by the Library that explore the principles, advantages, and impact of providing unfettered access to research results. The open access movement advocates the unrestricted sharing of information via the Internet for the benefit of society. Open access is gaining strength as [...]
By lnaru | Published:
February 9, 2009
Five University of Illinois at Chicago students won an international competition for a short video illustrating how online open-access publishing can spur innovation.
UIC Honors College students Danaya Panya, Jaymeni Patel, Sebastian
Rivera, Uriel Rotstein and Hemanth Sirandas produced “To Infinity and Beyond,” a one-minute video that can be viewed online.
The students produced the [...]
By lnaru | Published:
October 13, 2008
The Internet journal First Monday and the UIC Library mark the first Open Access Day, October 14, 2008, with First Monday Podcast’s launch of a series on the topic of openness.
In the first of five episodes, Chief Podcast editors AJ Hannah and Joy Austria examine The State of Openness and the meaning of openness in [...]
By lnaru | Published:
January 26, 2007
This is a reminder to all faculty and researchers that because UIC is a BioMed Central supporter member, you receive a 15% discount on the article processing charge when you publish your research in any one of BioMed Central’s open access journals. Over 140 online journals are published by BioMed Central covering [...]
By kayiwa | Published:
October 14, 2006
Behavior and Social Issues Now Published by UIC Library
Broadening its efforts in electronic journal publishing, the UIC Library introduces Behavior and Social Issues (BSI) to its publication program. BSI joins First Monday and AIDS Book Review Journal, both also published by the Library. Sponsored by the Behaviorists for Social Responsibility, BSI is edited by Professor [...]
By kayiwa | Published:
August 16, 2006
The ISI Journal Citation Reports, published by Thomson Scientific, recently incorporated the 2005 citation measurements, including new rankings based on impact factors.
The ISI JCR is an online quantitative database for comparing and evaluating the influence of journals in the areas of science, technology, and social sciences.
By kayiwa | Published:
March 26, 2006
The University of Illinois at Chicago University Library’s 2006 Nakata Lecture features John Unsworth, dean of the Graduate School of Library and Information Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and expert on cyberspace policy and digital humanities.
Unsworth co-founded Postmodern Culture, the first peer-reviewed electronic journal in the humanities, in 1990. In 2000, he [...]