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 […]

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 […]

We are pleased to announce that the Library is expanding access to ISI Web of Science, giving UIC users the ability to search from 1975 to present. This purchase adds 12 more years (1975-1986) of access to retrospective literature, in the Science Citation Index, Art & Humanities Citation Index, and Social Sciences Citation Index. […]

Journal Citation Reports on the Web recently released 2006 citation measurements, including new rankings based on impact factors.
The JCR is an online quantitative database, published by ISI Thomson Scientific, for comparing and evaluating the impact and influence of journals in the areas of science, technology, and social sciences.
If you need help learning to use the […]

AccessScience is now available to provide UIC users with access to all the articles, fully illustrated, from the latest edition of the McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science & Technology. In print, this encyclopedia has 20 volumes; the online encyclopedia also includes frequent updates and supplemental data.
You can find links for on-campus and off-campus access in UICCAT […]

GeoScienceWorld (GSW) has recently been purchased by the Library for UIC users. GSW is a database consisting of 34 geoscientific journals and related information sponsored by a group of leading geoscientific organizations. A good way to start your search is in GeoRef (through CSA Illumina), a bibliographic index to […]