2 Accounts for Research
Please register for these accounts as soon as possible.
1. ILLIAD - for interlibrary loans. This service brings you electronic copies of articles, which are not automatically available in the LHS full-text holdings. ILLIAD delivery is rapid and you may have an article in 1-2 days. You are also welcome to request articles we have in print, upon which they will be scanned and sent to you.
a. Sign up for ILLIAD at: https://proxy.cc.uic.edu/login?url=https://uic.illiad.oclc.org/illiad/illiad.dll
To register, click on "First Time Users"
Fill out the New User Registration for ILLiad form. Be sure to use your UIC Netid as your username. This enables us to verify that you are enrolled in a UIC program. Since Distance Ed enrollees are rarely issued I-Cards, the Library ID number is not applicable. Enter N/A in this field.
To help identify online and Distance Ed students to our staff, choose "Distance Ed" from the Status pull-down menu.
If you have filled out the first information screen and a second appears asking for account information, please ignore the second screen. Only the first screen needs to be filled out to register.
Once successfully registered, online and distance ed students may request material that can be electronically reproduced and delivered, such as copies of articles and individual book chapters. We will not be able to deliver physical items such as books or media material (DVDs, etc) to distance learners.
b. You can see how to use the Find it at UIC button and ILLIAD in the context of a PubMed search in the screenshots below.
Sign in with your netID, then you will be able to click Request via interlibrary loan.
The form should autopopulate with the article information. Add any necessary information (e.g. what languages you will accept the article in) and submit the request.
2. RefWorks - the citation management database can be accessed online from anywhere.
a. Sign-up at: https://www.refworks.com/refworks2/default.aspx?r=authentication::init&groupcode=RWUIllChicago
You can also bookmark the link above.
b. Familiarize yourself with the RefWorks tutorials page in our guides: https://researchguides.uic.edu/refworks/tutorials
These tutorials are well worth the time and provide an introduction to Refworks's features that help you manage your citations and insert citations in your Word document.
c. RefWorks is a suggested account because we have an institutional subscription that covers you as a student, but if you have a different citation manager that you like better, please follow your preferences. A citation manager should be able to import and export citations from various resources - usually databases like PubMed - and offer some kind of plug-in to Word that enables you to insert citations and a references list.
OPTIONAL 3. MyNCBI - PubMed's online dashboard. Use it to save searches, set alerts, change settings.
a. Sign up at: https://account.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/signup/
b. Watch the tutorial on MyNCBI for an overview of the features. https://youtu.be/fTlGVPXLXeE?si=MYPylBLtZ9Zi-Lek
The "Find It at UIC" Button - How to Access Full-text
The "Find it at UIC" button only appears if you have entered the database (e.g., PubMed) via the UIC library website. This button links you to the electronic full-text of an article if it is available. When you begin your database search via the library website, look for this icon in your search results! If you are in PubMed and do not see this button, you probably did not enter PubMed through the library website.
If the article is not available through the library's subscriptions, you will see a link that says "sign in to view request options." Once you're signed in there will be a link that says "request via interlibrary loan." As long as you have used that link through the library, the information required to process the interlibrary loan should populate the form automatically.
Interlibrary loan often takes as little as 1-2 days. A message will be sent to your UIC email when your article has arrived. Follow the link in the email to log in to ILLIAD, and you can view and download your requested article under "Electronically Received Articles".