About the Biotechnology Information Center
Biotechnology Information Center Navigation
NOTE: The Biotechnology Information Center website is currently maintained by Funk Library. If
you have any questions, please contact Sarah Williams, Life Sciences Data Services Librarian, at
scwillms@illinois.edu.
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What is the Biotechnology Information Center?
The Biotechnology Information Center is a "Virtual Branch" of the University of Illinois
Library. The BIC is not a physical library. Rather, it provides specialized services
and support to those engaged in biotechnology, molecular biology, genomic, etc. research or study
on campus.
A few examples of the kinds of services offered:
- Help you locate a specific journal article or book
- Help you find articles on specific topics, by recommending citation databases / resources you
may not be aware of
- We can teach you, your class, or your lab group how to use the many citation databases (PubMed,
Web of Science, CAB Abstracts, etc.) and how to determine which are appropriate for your subject
area
- We can teach you, your class, or your lab group how to use RefWorks and EndNote to build your
own database of citations
- Create a customized Web page for your class or lab group, with links to appropriate databases,
journals, Google Scholar, etc.
- Help you gain access to our subscription-based journals and databases from off-campus
- Help you with questions that may arise as you're preparing a grant application
- Help you set up effective search strategies in the appropriate databases, so you will receive
weekly email alerts with the latest latest articles published in your area
- Help you obtain materials that are not available on-campus
- Help you submit your articles to PubMed Central, thus fulfilling the new NIH Public Access
Mandate
- When you're ready to publish an article, help you with verbiage that will enable you to keep
some of your author-rights -- you needn't give them all to the publisher
- Help you put your article into the University's scholarly archive (IDEALS), where it will
receive a secure, perpetual home that is easily "discoverable" by Google and other search
engines
