Biological Sciences

Journal publications of American Society for Microbiology (ASM). Note: full access includes all journals exept Genome Announcements .

Journal publications from EDP Sciences. Includes Annales de Physique.

Search scientific, medical and technical research journals from Springer. Note: UIC subscribes to only some of the titles in this database.

Web of Science indexes core journal articles, conference proceedings, data sets, and other resources in the sciences, social sciences, arts, and humanities.

A web database for research that contains abstracts, tables of contents, and full text of articles in the physical sciences and engineering, life sciences, health sciences, and social sciences and humanities.

Scopus is the largest abstract and citation database including peer-reviewed titles from international publishers, Open Access journals, conference proceedings, trade publications and quality web sources. Subject coverage includes: Chemistry, Physics, Mathematics and Engineering; Life and Health Sciences; Social Sciences, Psychology and Economics; Biological, Agricultural and Environmental Sciences

The Journal of Visualized Experiments (JoVE) is a peer reviewed, PubMed-indexed video journal. Includes captions and transcripts.

Note: to create a JoVE test for a video, you need to create an account and then register as either a professor or student. Then you need to click confirm under Newsletter to complete the registration.

PubMed, a service of the National Library of Medicine, provides access to MEDLINE citations back to the mid-1960's to present.

PubMed Central is a free digital archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature at the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH)

China Academic Journals full-text database (also known as CAJ) is the largest and continuously updated Chinese journals database in the world, with the coverage of 1994 onward. Century Journals Project (also known as CJP) is the back file of CAJ with coverage from 1915-1993. UIC has subscribed to Series G (Politics / Military Affairs / Law) and Series B (Chemistry / Metallurgy / Environment / Mine Industry) of CAJ and CJP, with content coverage from 1924 onward.

The most comprehensive streaming video source available to libraries. Academic Video Online: Premium delivers over 70,000 documentaries, feature films, and other titles spanning the widest range of subject areas including anthropology, business, counseling, film, health, history, music, and more. Includes audio descriptions for some videos and captions and transcripts for all videos.

Docuseek 2 is a platform for independent, documentary, educational and social issue video and films. It provides access to over 750 documentaries covering a wide variety of subjects including social issues, sustainability, the environment, and many more. Includes captions.

Kanopy is an on-demand streaming video service for educational institutions that provides students and faculty access to more than 26,000 films. Kanopy provides students access to one of the largest collections of films in the world – including award-winning documentaries, training films and theatrical releases – on every topic imaginable If you are a faculty member who needs a film activated for a class, please use the request form in Kanopy or send a note to lib-electronic@uic.edu . Please include the class name and number, and the date the film is needed.

Direct link to JoVE Science Education videos.
Note: to create a JoVE test for a video, you need to create an account and then register as either a professor or student. Then you need to click confirm under Newsletter to complete the registration.

Annual summations of research in 40 disciplines in scientific, technological and social sciences.

Provides downloadable doctoral dissertations originating from universities in the Big Ten conference from 1997 to present. More dissertations from other North American and European universities are available for preview and individual purchase. This is the new platform for Dissertations & Theses. All CSA and ProQuest databases will be migrated to this platform.

The Journal of Visualized Experiments (JoVE) is a peer reviewed, PubMed-indexed video journal. Includes captions and transcripts.

Note: to create a JoVE test for a video, you need to create an account and then register as either a professor or student. Then you need to click confirm under Newsletter to complete the registration.

Digitized back issues of scholarly journals with a rolling date of five years ago. Covers a wide variety of disciplines.

SciTech Connect is a consolidation of OSTI's Information Bridge and Energy Citations Database, incorporating all the R&D info from these two products into one search interface.

A growing collection of e-books published by Springer and Humana Press in copyright years 2004 to present, with some earlier entries.

Search resources from the Bioethics Research Library at Georgetown University.

BioOne aggregates biological sciences research journals through a collaboration among scientific societies.

Note: We do not subscribe to all the journals listed in this database.

Current Protocols provides online editions of laboratory manuals in chemistry, life sciences, and medicine and healthcare. To ensure easy duplication in any lab, the protocols are thoroughly field tested and scrutinized by our editorial boards. Titles are updated quarterly to reflect the latest innovations in laboratory procedures as they occur.

Agricola presents over 3.3 million bibliographic records of journal articles, theses, patents, software, and technical reports related to agriculture from 1979 to the present.

Wiley Digital Archives is an ongoing initiative to partner with the world’s leading societies, libraries and archives to digitize the unique and rare primary sources that tell the story behind the contemporary research content we publish today. Our archival collections include:

Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland (RAI)
New York Academy of Sciences (NYAS)

Platform for searching across all Wiley journals, online books from 2005-2011, and Current Protocols laboratory manuals.