Other Helpful Guides at LHS
Journals of Interest
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JAMAJournal of the American Medical Association
Research Databases
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MEDLINE via PubMed@UICPubMed, a service of the National Library of Medicine, provides access to MEDLINE citations and additional life sciences books and databases. From mid-1960s to present.
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BioMed Central Open AccessOpen access publisher of science-technology-medicine journals; databases of controlled trials.
Note: For authors planning to submit a manuscript to BMC, no code is required in order to claim University of Illinois at Chicago’s 15% institutional discount. The author must submit it through BMC on campus or through the UIC network. When the author selects option 2 on the payment options page during submission, they can select “University of Illinois at Chicago” from the dropdown list and enter an institutional discount request. -
EMBASE : Excerpta Medica DatabaseDatabase in biomedicine which also excels in its coverage of pharmaceutical research. From 1974 to present.
Tip: If you have problems with off campus access, use AnyConnect VPN. To install, go to AnyConnect VPN and make sure you select the Library-Resources group.
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ACM Digital LibraryACM Digital Library offers full text of every article ever published by the Association for Computing Machinery.
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IEEE XploreIEEE journals and conference proceedings; Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) journals and proceedings; all current IEEE Standards.
Note: If you're unable to set up an IEEE account, go to https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/. After creating an account, go to IEEE in the library website and sign in.
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Education Research CompleteSearch Education Research Complete in EBSCOhost.
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ERIC from the Department of EducationFreely available version hosted on the Department of Education website.
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Professional Development Collection (for educators)Provides a highly specialized collection of nearly 600 full text education journals, 1965 to present.
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Academic Search CompleteFind journals and books in social sciences, humanities, science, medicine, technology and more.
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Credo ReferenceProvides access to a collection of aggregated and integrated reference books from high-quality publishers.
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Google ScholarSearches for scholarly materials such as peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, preprints, abstracts and technical reports from broad areas of research. It includes a variety of academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories and universities, as well as scholarly articles available across the web.
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ScienceDirectA 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.
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ScopusScopus 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
Liaison Librarian
Amelia Brunskill
Contact:
Amelia Brunskill
Library of the Health Sciences,
abrunsk2@uic.edu
Library of the Health Sciences,
abrunsk2@uic.edu
(312) 996-8323