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Issue no. 139, June 8, 2005

The Library is pleased to announce the following new electronic resources.

Current Protocols from Wiley. This is one of the premier protocol collections of 13 titles. It is a joint purchase with UIUC and UIS where the total cost was $68,396 and UIC paid $33,343.

Methods in Enzymology from Elsevier. This is the full text to all 395 volumes of the well-known methods books in enzymology. This is a joint purchase with UIUC and UIS where the total cost was $8,220 and UIC paid $4,110.

ACP Medicine. Provides up to date authoritative clinical information related to the basic principles of diagnosis and therapy covering all 15 sub-systems of internal medicine. This resource costs $5,437.

The following electronic resources have been renewed for 2005/2006.

ACS Journal Archives and IoP Journals provide the full text to the back files of the journals published by the American Chemical Society and Institute of Physics. The ACS archive costs $4,207 and the IoP costs $2,634.

History e-book Project. This resource now contains over 800 major full text historical books. This resource costs $1,105.

Journal Citation Reports. This resource provides journal evaluations based on citation data drawn from over 8,400 scholarly and technical journals. This resource costs $7,120.

Current Contents. Over 7,500 international journals are included in this database that provides the current tables of contents of each journal. This resource costs $16,654.

Web of Science. ISI provides access to current and retrospective bibliographic information and cited references found in nearly 7,000 of the world's journals in the arts and humanities, science and technology and social sciences. It is also know as the Web of Knowledge. This resource costs $123,594.

All of these resources can be found on the Library's Homepage listing of electronic resources.


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