Archive for the 'Science Library' Category

Service alert: Scifinder Scholar reports restored to service

Monday, June 23rd, 2008

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 […]

Journal Citation Reports (JCR) Releases New Data

Monday, June 23rd, 2008

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 […]

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 […]

ISI Web of Science Expands

Tuesday, December 11th, 2007

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. […]

JCR 2006 citation measurements, Impact Factors and Rankings released

Wednesday, June 20th, 2007

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 […]

New resource: AccessScience

Friday, April 27th, 2007

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 […]

Announcing GeoScience World

Thursday, April 12th, 2007

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 […]