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Science and Engineering Resources on the Internet
The print collections in the Science Library are complemented by Internet resources that include electronic journals,
reference tools, and Web sites created for scientists and engineers. Many of these resources, particularly the electronic
journals and the databases that index journals, are licensed by the library. Use of these materials is restricted to those
affiliated with UIC. Other resources are freely available to all, and these include many materials produced by government
agencies and professional societies in science and engineering. Questions about using Internet resources may be directed to
LIB-SCI@uic.edu.
Journal publishers in science, technology, and medicine have played a leading role in electronic publishing. Recent issues
of many science journals are available on the Internet. These "electronic journals" may offer features such as interactive
graphics or data, images or sound, and full-text searching capability. The UIC Library is committed to building a strong collection
of electronic journals. For more information see:
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Databases on the Internet provide references to the contents of science journals and are similar to print indexes and abstracts
that have long been part of the Science Library's reference collection. Many of the databases are electronic equivalents of familiar
print indexes while others exist only in electronic format. Some of these covering science and engineering subjects include:
- Access Science- all the articles, fully illustrated, from
the latest edition of the McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science & Technology, and some extras, such as Science News headlines.
- Beilstein/Gmelin
- organic/inorganic chemistry
- Current Contents - recent articles
in science and engineering journals
- Gmelin/Beilstein
- inorganic/organic chemistry
- Journal
Citation Reports
- MathSciNet - mathematics, statistics,
and computer science
- SciFinder
Scholar - Client-Server application for searching Chemical Abstracts
- Web of Science Full text from 1975 to present when available and citation indexes produced by Thomson Scientific - ISI
Institute for Scientific Information
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All of the above are restricted to UIC-affiliated users only.
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Free Web Resources
Listed below is a selection of some freely available Web resources in science and technology:
- Academic Press Dictionary
of Science and Technology (currently unavailable)
- American Astronomical Society
- American Chemical Society; Chemical & Engineering News' Periodic Table - 89 essays celebrating the C&EN's 80th anniversary through a "new perspective on and appreciation of the building blocks of our science."
- American Institute of Biological
Sciences
- American Institute of Physics
- American Mathematical Society
- BiologyBrowser - an interactive portal designed "to connect life sciences
researchers with free, useful resources and other like-minded scientists from all around the world." Includes annotated links
to news and life science Web sites, a nomenclatural glossary for zoology, a zoological thesaurus, a forum for biologists and
scientists to discuss findings, and more. Searchable.
- ChemCenter - collection of web resources
complied by the American Chemical Society
- FASEB (Federation of American Societies
for Experimental Biology)
- FEBS (Federation of European Biochemical ocieties)
- Gold Book (IUPAC Compendium of Chemical Terminology) NEW!
- Microscopy Society of America
- Material Safety Data Sheets (MSDS)
- National Academies Press - a free, internet-available collection of over 3,000
full text books on science and technology topics. Books are also available for purchase.
- National Science Foundation - U.S. science
policy, news, grants information, and more
- NBII The National Biological Information
Infrastructure - collaborative program to provide
increased access to data and information on the nation's biological resources
- NIST Chemistry WebBook - gateway to data collections
of the National Institute of Standards and Technology. You can search for data on specific compounds in the Chemistry WebBook
based on name, chemical formula, CAS registry number, molecular weight, chemical structure, or selected ion energetics and
spectral properties.
- Online Database for International Networking (ODIN) - a database
of worldwide learned and scientific societies in physics and its related disciplines. Each society is associated with one of the
following disciplines: Acoustics; Astronomy/Astrophysics; Biophysics; Crystallography; Geosciences; Medical Physics; Optics; Physics;
Physics Teachers; Rheology; and Vacuum Science. You can search for societies by field, country, and region of the world.
- Patent Information
- United States Patent and Trademark Office Patent/Trademark Search -
US patents issued since 1976
- The European Patent Office
Search - free service on the internet provided by the European Patent Organisation through the EPO and the national offices
of its members states: Austria, Belgium, Cyprus, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Hellenic Republic, Ireland, Italy,
Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Monaco, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom
- Physical Reference Data(NIST)
- Preprints
- Science.gov - over one thousand government information resources about science. These
resources include: technical reports, journal citations, databases, Federal web sites, and fact sheets. The information is all
free, and no registration is required. More about science.gov.
- ThermoDex - Index of selected thermodynamic data handbooks (UTexas)
- Urania - Universal Research Archive
of Networked Information in Astronomy
- U.S. Geological Survey
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Newest e-acquisitions
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Science of Synthesis
- Science of Synthesis is the new edition of the classic chemistry reference work, Houben-Weyl Methods of Molecular Transformations. It currently
contains 32 volumes, with backfiles from 1909-2003 and new volumes being added each year.
ACM Digital Library - All the journals, conference proceedings, and SIG newsletters published online by the Association for Computing Machinery. (Available only to UIC users)
Methods in Enzymology, full series, v.1(1955) -
to date, is now available to UIC users. (Restricted to UIC-affiliated users only.)
Science's Next Wave - A weekly online publication
that covers scientific training, career development, and the science job market. The Next Wave is published by SCIENCE
magazine and the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
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