June 12, 2009

Library Catalog: Upgrade and unavailablity

Hi, everyone, (sorry for any duplicate message you may receive on this issue...)

The Library Catalog is being upgraded to provide a more user-friendly search interface for you!

The upgrade will start early Sunday morning and is expected to be finished by Tuesday or Wednesday, next week.

During the Upgrade:

* You may continue to search the catalog during the upgrade period, but you will be searching a "frozen" database ... the frozen data was captured June 7th.
* You will not be able to request or renew books online for a few days.
* If you need to check a book out or renew it, you will have to go to a library.
* If you returned a book sometime after June 7th, the Catalog will not reflect that until next Tuesday or Wednesday.
* Down time will be Sunday & Monday, but could extend into Tuesday & Wednesday.
* The ORR, journal databases, and access to electronic journals will continue to work as usual.

If you have any questions / concerns about this process, please let me know!

Katie

~ Katie
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Prof. Katie Newman
Biotechnology Librarian

Office: 2130 IGB (Inst. for Genomic Biology)
Email: florador@illinois.edu
Phone: (217) 265-5386
FAX: (217)-244-1800

Biotechnology Information Center (BIC) website:
http://www.library.illinois.edu/biotech/
BIC News: http://www.library.illinois.edu/blog/bicnews/

Posted by mmalliso at 2:41 PM

June 10, 2009

Trial subscription to AMA Manual of Style Online

The Library has a trial subscription to the new AMA Manual of Style Online (10th edition), the Manual’s first online edition. The Manual is a product of Oxford University Press and JAMA and the Archives Journals Click to trial subscription here.

Please let us know if you find this resource useful so we know whether to advocate for a full subscription to this resource.

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Melody Allison
Assistant Biology Librarian and Associate Professor of Library Administration
Biology Library
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
101 Burrill Hall, 407 South Goodwin
Urbana, IL 61801
mmalliso@illinois.edu
(217) 333-7461; 3654

Posted by mmalliso at 4:15 PM

December 18, 2008

Edit Entry: Some PubMed Links to Full Text not Working from Off-Campus -- UPDATE

UPDATE: AS OF DECEMBER 18TH, THE PROBLEM HAS BEEN RESOLVED!! The problem disappeared once our proxy settings were re-installed.

Melody Allison
Assistant Biology Librarian and Associate Professor of Library Administration
Biology Library
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
101 Burrill Hall, 407 South Goodwin
Urbana, IL 61801
mmalliso@illinois.edu
(217) 333-7461; 3654

Posted by mmalliso at 12:12 PM

December 16, 2008

Some PubMed Links to Full Text not Working from Off-Campus

For several weeks now some of some of the full text links in PubMed records have not been working properly. This is only a problem for those who use PubMed from off-campus.

The Full text for Illinois link continues to work properly, but other links to full text do not.

Read more about this, and what you can do to get to the full text from PubMed articles that are not displaying the Full text of Illinois link:
http://www.library.uiuc.edu/blog/bicnews/archives/2008/12/pubmed_some_lin.html

Aside: When accessing PubMed from off-campus, be sure to use the U of Illinois URL for PubMed:
http://www.library.uiuc.edu/orr/get.php?instid=406312

If you would like to be notified when this problem is resolved, please drop me a note. (florador@illinois.edu)

~ Katie
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Prof. Katie Newman
Biotechnology Librarian

Office: 2130 IGB (Inst. for Genomic Biology)
Email: florador@illinois.edu
Phone: (217) 265-5386
FAX: (217)-244-1800

Posted by mmalliso at 12:02 PM

November 26, 2008

New Web of Science tool -- Scientific WebPlus

Thomson Scientific's Web Citation Index has morphed into Scientific WebPlus. A component of ISI Web of Knowledge (WOK) (inc. Science Citation Index), Scientific WebPlus now includes in its results data from 716 institutional repositories (theses, technical reports, dissertations, manuscripts, and more), including our own IDEALS, Illinois Digital Environment for Access to Learning and Scholarship repository.

You may search Scientific WebPlus directly via links to it on the Select a Database or Additional Resources pages. Results are filtered by domain (.com, .org, .edu, .gov, .au, and other). Links for Repository Results, News Results, and Blog Results are provided along with search results. For example, searching the term "Drosophila mauritiana" reveals 11 repository results from 7 institutions, including results from IDEALS.

Most links go directly to the deposits full text. If you know the name of the institutional repository you can also search the repository name and find a link directly to its Web site. For instance, searching the term "Ideals" finds IDEALS @ UIUC, the IDEALS homepage.

Additionally Scientific WebPlus results are integrated into every WOK search. Besides the general results list, you can locate Scientific WebPlus results from each results page next on the right page side in the same "Results" heading line via "Scientific WebPlus View Web Results" link.

Scientific WebPlus provides access to Web content that has been "fully vetted, adhering to high standards for scientific integrity, accuracy, timeliness, and readability" (Thomson Reuters, Your Access to Institutional Repository Data is About to Change, 2008). This will make your search for relevant Web sources a whole lot faster and productive.

Check out the IDEALS site for information on how you can deposit your research and scholarship into our repository, which then can be found by Web of Science and Scientific WebPlus searchers!


Melody Allison
Assistant Biology Librarian and Associate Professor of Library Administration
Biology Library
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
101 Burrill Hall, 407 South Goodwin
Urbana, IL 61801
mmalliso@illinois.edu
(217) 333-7461; 3654


Posted by mmalliso at 1:38 PM

July 8, 2008

PubMed Update

PubMed has announced two new updates. One is new functionality of its Automatic Term Mapping feature, and the other is a new Citation Sensor feature. Additionally, there is a new Advanced Search feature currently in beta mode that is being tested. Brief descriptions follow.

Automatic Term Mapping. The old Automatic Term Mapping was designed to recognize author names, journal titles, and MeSH terms when searched without field tags. This worked fine when an author or journal name was not the same as a MeSH term, but when that happened the search term was mapped to a MeSH heading and “Text Word” fields, not the author or journal fields – so the citation was missed. The new ATM has been modified to include author and journal field searches. Another ATM update relates to MeSH and journals translations. The new ATM now broadens these searches by searching individual words and multiple words in the “All Fields” field; multiple words are ‘ANDed’ together. Although ATM’s new design expands searches, it may provide less relevant results. Using field tags in the regular PubMed search box or doing field searches in the new (Beta) Advanced Search mode can focus strategies – and results. more

Citation Sensor. Citation Sensor displays results for searches using untagged terms that are characteristic of citation searching, e.g., author names, journal titles, and publication dates (e.g., woese c 1972). Citation(s) results are highlighted in a yellow area above the search results. more

NCBI Beta Version of Advanced Search. The Advanced Search is designed to provide more ease and flexibility to create your search strategy. It can be accessed from the main PubMed search page by a link next to the search box. The PubMed Search History, Search boxes with field options (including links to indexes when available), all PubMed Limits, and the Index of Fields / Field Values for Preview / Index search are all accessible and usable on the same page – a big and welcome change! Send your comments at the bottom of the search page via “Write to the Help Desk.” more

Online Clinic. There is a thirty minute NLM and the National Training Center and Clearinghouse (NTCC) online clinic on Thursday, July 17, 2008 (2:00 pm ET) to go over PubMed changes. It is limited to the first 300 that sign in that day, but will be recorded for viewing from the same page. more

Please let me know if I can help you with any questions about these updates.


Melody Allison
Assistant Biology Librarian and Associate Professor of Library Administration
Biology Library
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
101 Burrill Hall, 407 South Goodwin
Urbana, IL 61801
mmalliso@illinois.edu
(217) 333-7461; 3654

Posted by mmalliso at 10:14 AM

February 21, 2008

Do you like to download articles to your hard drive?


If the way you like to work is to download the PDFs of journal articles to your harddrive, here's some news you will welcome!

Scopus , a multidisciplinary database for the sciences, has just added a DOWNLOAD button that allows you to download up to 50 pdfs at a time to your hard drive. 



Steps:

1.  Perform a search in Scopus

< http://www.library.uiuc.edu/orr/get.php?instid=396840 >

2.  Select the article(s) that you are interested in by checking the box to the left of the citation.

3.  Click on the DOWNLOAD button.  A new window will open.

4.  You'll be asked how you want to have the files named, e.g., by first author's last name + title of the article, or however you like.

5.  Identify the folder on your hard drive where you want the files placed.

6.  If desired, check off that you'd like to have Abstract downloaded, if the pdf is not available.

6.  That's it!  Press Begin Download.



If you use EndNote, you'll still need to pull the citations into EndNote in a separate step.  Then can "link" from EndNote to the downloaded articles on your harddrive, if you like. 

If you'd like to learn more about Scopus, here's a piece I wrote about it, when it was just in Trial mode at the University (we have since decided to subscribe to it): 

http://www.library.uiuc.edu/blog/bicnews/archives/2007/03/scopus_trial_co.html

The technology that Scopus is using to perform this minor miracle of pulling in the pdfs comes from Quosa. 

Katie

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Prof. Katie Newman

Biotechnology Librarian, Biotechnology Information Center (BIC), 

and UIUC Scholarly Communication Officer

Office:  123A Burrill Hall, MC-112

Email: florador@uiuc.edu

Phone: (217) 265-5386

Fax: (217) 333-3662




Posted by mmalliso at 1:29 PM

February 6, 2008

For Maximum Retrievals in the Agricultural / Biological / Medical Sciences...Search Web of Knowledge

For Maximum Retrievals in the Agricultural / Biological / Medical Sciences, Search Web of Knowledge.

Recently the Web of Knowledge search platform was revamped, so that now, when you search "all databases", the records are automatically de-duplicated. If the record of interest is in multiple databases (as they frequently are), the default will be to show the Web of Science record for it if it is in Web of Science. In the case of a record that is present in multiple databases, there will be links to other versions of the record from the Web of Science record, in case you prefer to see the record as presented in another database.

Searching Web of Knowledge in the "all databases" searches the following resources, simultaneously:

Take a look at the results of several searches run in each database individually, vs run in the Web of Knowledge All Databases mode. From the results, you can see that you will get more search retrievals from searching the whole Web of Knowledge database, than from searching any of the individual databases.

Recommendation: Search Web of Knowledge in the "All Databases" mode UNLESS you need to:

Note: Many ag / bio / medical resources are NOT included in the Web of Knowledge platform, and, for now, you will need to continue to search them individually. For example:

with thanks to Katie Newman's Biotechnology Information Center Blog

Posted by mmalliso at 2:26 PM

January 31, 2008

ISI Web of Knowledge platform update

A new platform update for ISI Web of Knowledge is scheduled for February 3, at which point we will lose access to the older version.

Highlights include:

* More intuitive, streamlined design
* New tabular approach to accessing databases and database resources
* Search all databases that we subscribe to at the same time or individually
* PR describes a new multi-database search capability that uses "one common vocabulary that recognizes the varying terms used by different databases and maps them to a unified subject classification. Which means that a search with ISI Web of Knowledge will find all relevant items that may have originally been categorized differently. Newer terms recognize older terms. And specialized terms from one database recognize specialized terms from another."
* General Search now has 3 search boxes with database field options to select from -- you can add additional ones (I have not found a maximum yet!)
* Database indexes, such as Author, Publication Names, etc., easily accessible via small icon directly to the right of the field index box (when that field is selected)
* Searches can easily be refined by various categories via check boxes from Results page
* Search terms are highlighted (yellow) in Full Record
* Marked List functionality for all WOK search results

Biology Library database guides for Biological Abstracts, Science Citation Index, and Zoological Records have been updated.
For more see information from Thomson Scientific at http://isiwebofknowledge.com/currentuser_wokhome/cu_new/newface/.

If you have any questions, please let us know.

Melody Allison

Assistant Biology Librarian and Assistant Professor of Library Administration
Biology Library
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
101 Burrill Hall, 407 South Goodwin
Urbana, IL 61801
(217) 333-7461; 3654

"If men were angels, no government would be necessary."

-- James Madison

Posted by mmalliso at 11:17 AM

January 29, 2008

Biological Abstracts and Zoological Records update

Biology Library is very pleased to announce that the Biological Abstracts AND Zoological Records databases each now goes back to volume 1 (B.A. 1926-present; Z.R. 1864-present).

Enjoy !


Melody Allison

Assistant Biology Librarian and Assistant Professor of Library Administration
Biology Library
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
101 Burrill Hall, 407 South Goodwin
Urbana, IL 61801
(217) 333-7461; 3654

Posted by mmalliso at 2:07 PM

November 16, 2007

Firefox Plugin for PubMed Users at the U of Illinois

If you're a bio researcher who uses the Firefox browser and PubMed, you'll want to read this!

Leslie McNeil, the NCSA researcher who manages the National Microbial Pathogen Data Resource (NMPDR), has created a Firefox plugin for U of I researchers who frequently search PubMed!

About Firefox Plugins:
Are you used to searching Google by typing in queries in the top right-hand side of the Firefox toolbar? Did you know that you can add additional search options so you can choose to search Wikipedia, Google Scholar, the U of I domain, or many other search sites, instead? All you need to do is add additional FireFox plugins.

You'll find many additional Firefox plugins from the following sources:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/browse/type:4
http://mycroft.mozdev.org/
http://www.searchplugins.net/pluginlist.aspx

To load them into Firefox, all you have to do is click on the plugin's link .

About the Firefox PubMed plugin for U of I Researchers:
Leslie McNeil has created a customized a PubMed FireFox plugin for the U of Illinois researchers. Install it from this site by clicking on the "I":
http://www.searchplugins.net/pluginlist.aspx?q=PubMed+for+University+of+Illinois&mode=exactAfter installing the plugin, click on the Firefox drop down box where you normally would type in a Google search. Choose to search PubMed instead of Google and type in your PubMed search. You'll be brought to the PubMed site with all the usual University of Illinois subscriptions and options** intact -- that is, you'll see which articles we have direct e-access to, and you'll see the UI Discover button that lets you discover other options for obtaining the articles. Leslie has also embedded the proxy URL into the plugin, so you can load it on your home computers and still be able to access the full text journals from PubMed citations.

Give it a try! I think you'll agree it's handy!

**That is, you'll go to the same PubMed search as if you started with this URL:
http://www.library.uiuc.edu/orr/get.php?instid=406312

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Note: this message has been archived on the Biotech Info Center blog:
http://www.library.uiuc.edu/blog/bicnews/

Katie
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Prof. Katie Newman
Biotechnology Librarian, Biotechnology Information Center (BIC),
and UIUC Scholarly Communication Officer

Office: 123A Burrill Hall, MC-112
Email: florador@uiuc.edu
Phone: (217) 265-5386
Fax: (217) 333-3662

Posted by mmalliso at 11:16 AM

September 21, 2007

Announcing New University Library Gateway Site

The re-designed University Library Gateway Web site is now up. Highlights include:


* new Easy Search search engine that provides powerful one-stop searching across dozens of digital and print resources to locate journals, books, and other media directly from the University Gateway
* resources and services links accessible from Library Gateway and organized by University affiliation / interest (undergraduates, graduate students, faculty, alumni, visitors, users with disabilities)
* new and updated information, guides, and tutorials about using the library for research (“How to Use the Library”)
* subject guides from various departmental libraries can be accessed directly from the Library Gateway (“Subject Resource Guides” ) as well as from their source library site
* departmental libraries organized by libraries ("Find a Library") and by College major ("Libraries by College/Major")
* more

Content will continue to be added, updated, and enhanced. Your feedback is welcomed by the Library Web Content Group and Gateway SWAT team. Send you comments to the "Gateway conversion team" link at the bottom of any new page or directly by e-mail gateway_conversion@library.uiuc.edu. I will keep you posted as to redesign of pages deeper into the University Library site (departmental libraries' pages) when changes move beyond upper level site pages.


Melody Allison
Assistant Biology Librarian and Assistant Professor of Library Administration
Biology Library
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
101 Burrill Hall, 407 South Goodwin
Urbana, IL 61801
(217) 333-7461; 3654

Posted by mmalliso at 2:03 PM

August 22, 2007

Biology Library Fall 2006 News

New University Library Gateway coming soon ! Feedback welcome !

The University Library is evaluating a new design for its home page, which offers enhanced features and functionality. To access the test site, click http://www.library.uiuc.edu/new/ . Among the new features is a link to the search engine UIUC Library Search Assistant which performs searches across multiple Library and other electronic resources. Also departmental libraries can now be accessed by college and major via “LIBRARIES BY COLLEGE/MAJOR” as well as by departmental library name via “Find a Library”. Undergraduates, graduate students, faculty and other user groups can easily find resources and services useful to their particular needs under the “Resources For” section. Faculty, students, and staff are encouraged to view the test version to explore the new look and features. Feedback can be provided by clicking on 'Gateway conversion team' at the bottom of the page. Changes in the Biology Library Web page will be made once the new University Library Gateway development is completed.

Do you know where your students are ……

…. getting their information?? According to a report by the OCLC Online Computer Library Center, a cooperative of more than 54,000 libraries, browser search engines were the first choice for information by 72% of college students in the study (Part 1-26). Are you certain that your students are using the best sources of information for their course work and research? Are you confident that they know how to use information resources effectively? We can help make sure that your students are using the best resources for their course and research information needs by:


• Providing sessions on library use and services (Online Library Catalog, how to locate library materials, borrowing, interlibrary loan, etc.)
• Presenting workshops on how to use particular databases, how to set up current awareness services to keep up-to-date on the literature, etc.
• Providing sessions on the use of library resources for reading research papers
• Formulating course, project, or research related library instruction sessions
• Assisting with research assignment development
• Creating handouts, guides, Web pages, Web tutorials, and other library research or subject related information tools
• Compiling source selections for class assignments and curriculum
• Providing sessions on information sources that are useful to laboratory classes
• Designing customized print and Web resources for a specific class, project, or subject area
• Presenting new faculty workshops
• Presenting new graduate student workshops

Schedule an information resources instruction session today by filling out the Instruction Request Form , or contacting Melody Allison, Assistant Biology Librarian, at mmalliso@uiuc.edu.

Biology Library Guides

We have several Library orientation, database, subject, and other guides that will help you make the most of out resources. There is a wealth of information in these tools to help you make the most efficient and effective use of the Library’s great variety of information and research resources and services. The only way to get more details is through an information instruction session (see previous item)!

Our orientation guides provide basic information about the Biology Library and its resources and services. Guide to Campus Resources for New SOLS Faculty and Guide to Campus Resources for Students deliver information about the Biology Library and its resources and services; BioBlog; University Library; departmental libraries; the I-Go Library Toolbar; RefWorks; campus academic information; and general information useful for new (and not-so-new! ) faculty, students, and employees.

There are database guides for major life sciences bibliographic databases (Biological Abstracts, Current Contents, PubMed, Science Citation Index, and Zoological Record) with links to vendor guides and tutorials for further enlightenment. The Electronic Resources at the Biology Library guide gives a brief introduction to two dozen bibliographic databases which may be of interest to life sciences researchers.

There are general guides on several topics such as how to locate materials in the Biology Library; how to locate books, journals, and series; and how to locate dissertations and conference proceedings, along with links to information about RefWorks and the Library Discover tool. Our Web site Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) page provides detailed information on finding journals and journal articles, finding books and other materials, using and creating course reserves, and Biology Library services.

Subject guides provide titles of core reference titles, including indexes & abstracts, protocols & methods, and journal titles, for various topic areas.

Two other guides that are useful for any one doing research are the Journal Resources and Research Resources pages. The Journal Resources page links you to information about the Online Research Resources database, journal abbreviations and acronym tools, serials lists for major bibliographic databases, citation format resources, RefWorks and Endnote, and other information related to journal use. The Research Resources page links you to UIUC and other sources of information about academic integrity, intellectual freedom, copyright, ethics, plagiarism, research process, etc.

As our access to electronic resources grows, so do challenges in accessing them. This is true for our growing collection of e-books. Two new guides will help you in this endeavor. Electronic Book Resources at the Biology Library will inform you about various e-book collections our patrons have access to as well as several reference e-books of interest in the life sciences. Retrieving Articles at University Library will help you understand the ways that journal articles may be found using our various resources.


“Librarian Office Calls” for SOLS Faculty

Are there occasions when you would like to learn more about your favorite database, but just haven’t had the time to grapple with all the new nuances? Or maybe you would like to get out of your comfort zone and get acquainted with a bibliographic database that you are not familiar with? Or perhaps you want to begin to use a research tool, like RefWorks, that is new to you?

The Biology Library is piloting a new service for SOLS faculty called “Librarian Office Calls.” You can schedule a librarian to come to provide personalized instruction about library resources to enhance your course and research activities in the convenience of your own campus office (Burrill Hall or Chemical & Life Sciences Laboratory). Schedule a “Librarian Office Call” today by filling out the Instruction Request Form , or contacting Melody Allison, Assistant Biology Librarian, at mmalliso@uiuc.edu.

Illinois Digital Environment for Access to Learning and Scholarship (IDEALS)

The Illinois Digital Environment for Access to Learning and Scholarship (IDEALS) is a set of collections and related services that together constitute the campus institutional repository. IDEALS preserves and provides persistent and reliable access to the digital scholarship of faculty, staff, and students and aims to provide the greatest dissemination and recognition to these works as possible. Offered through the University Library and CITES under sponsorship of the Office of the Provost, IDEALS is now open for deposit! For more information, contact Sarah Shreeves, IDEALS Coordinator, at sshreeve@uiuc.edu.

UI Now has University Library News

Get the latest News from the University Library via UI Now, the place to get the news and feature stories on campus activities. You may subscribe to the Library news via a RSS feed (requires a reader) and get the news as soon as it is available. Learn more about RSS feeds at the Scholarly Communication blog and RSS on Wikipedia.

New ISI Web of Knowledge Interface Coming Soon

Thomson Scientific’s ISI Web of Knowledge interface is changing, and will formally be released sometime this fall. Until then, access to Science Citation Index (Web of Science), Biological Abstracts, Journal Citation Reports, and other databases we get through Thomson Scientific will remain with the current platform. You may access the new version in the current version through a link in the title bar.
Among the changes is the replacement of the “CrossSearch” by the “All Databases” search, which allows you to:


• Search across all ISI Web of Knowledge databases our institution subscribes to

• Retrieve up to 100,000 results, automatically sorted by the journal cover publication date

• Easily refine and analyze your search results

You will also see is a change in how your search terms are entered. The new version has three “Search for” boxes with search field options that can be combined with Boolean operators. Additional “Search for” boxes can be added with a simple click.
See http://isiwebofknowledge.com/currentuser_wokhome/cu_new/newface/ for more information about the new interface. For a short tutorial click see http://www.brainshark.com/thomsonscientific/newwokintro .

Current Protocols in Stem Cell Biology trial in progress

Trial access for Current Protocols in Stem Cell Biology (CPSC) will continue through 12/31/07. CPSC covers protocols and methods for embryonic stem cells and adult stem cells as swell as genetic manipulation of stem cells. CPSC is published in affiliation with the International Society for Stem Cell Research (ISSCR). Please email comments or questions using the form at http://www.library.uiuc.edu/mailform/mail.php?emailcode=ersupport.
For a short tutorial click see http://www.brainshark.com/thomsonscientific/newwokintro .



Chicago Manual of Style Online

Good news from the spring is worth repeating. The Chicago Manual of Style is available electronically. We look forward to electronic versions of other format style manuals as they become available. Will keep you posted.

Please feel free to contact me with any questions at mmalliso@uiuc.edu.

Have great Fall semester.

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Melody Allison
Assistant Biology Librarian and Assistant Professor of Library Administration
Biology Library
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
101 Burrill Hall, 407 South Goodwin
Urbana, IL 61801
(217) 333-7461; 3654





Posted by mmalliso at 4:31 PM

July 16, 2007

Biological Abstracts and Science Citation Index content access now goes further back in time

We are pleased to announce that we now have access to bibliographic information in Biological Abstracts extending back to 1955 and in Science Citation Index Expanded extending back to 1970.

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Melody Allison
Assistant Biology Librarian and Assistant Professor of Library Administration
Biology Library
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
101 Burrill Hall, 407 South Goodwin
Urbana, IL 61801
(217) 333-7461; 3654




Posted by mmalliso at 4:55 PM

May 21, 2007

Link to Full-text Articles from EndNote

Are you an EndNote user? If so, you'll be interested in learning how you can set up EndNote so it communicates with our OpenURL resolver to provide you with links to the full-text of journal articles!

You may have seen the Discover link DiscoverLink in PubMed, Web of Science, and many other article databases. When you click on the Discover link in these databases a new browser window pops up that provides links to the full text of the article (if we have an e-subscription), and several other facets about the article [read more about Discover].

You may enable this same technology in EndNote by following the instructions provided on the page, Linking to Full-text Journal Articles from EndNote Using Discover.

Posted by florador at 4:33 PM

January 8, 2007

CAB Abstracts, FSTA & Zoological Record

Our means of accessing CAB Abstracts, FSTA & Zoological Record has changed from SilverPlatter (SPIRS) over to the Web of Knowledge search platform. If you have book-marked links to these resources, please change them to the following URLs:

CAB Abstracts: the largest and most comprehensive database devoted to all aspect of agriculture from crop science, animal science, horticulture and forestry to travel & leisure and veterinary medicine.
http://www.library.uiuc.edu/orr/get.php?instid=670820

FSTA: Food Science & Technology Abstracts -- the largest index devoted to food science including food technology, human nutrition, toxicology, packaging and engineering.
http://www.library.uiuc.edu/orr/get.php?instid=670819

Zoological Record: Identifies articles on all aspects of animal biology. Coverage includes behavior, ecology, evolution, morphology, and systematics.
http://www.library.uiuc.edu/orr/get.php?instid=670821

Of course, the URLs are also available in the Online Research Resources directory,
http://www.library.uiuc.edu/orr/

Other databases available in the Web of Knowledge platform are:

The advantages of having these databases in the Web of Knowledge platform include:


  • Ability to search all six databases at the same time, should you need to.
  • Many links to the full text. Some go directly to the article a "view full text" button; others will be found by clicking on the Discover button
  • Direct export of citations into EndNote
  • Ability to refine or analyze your results by journal title, author, subject headings, and more
  • Many internal linkages

If you need some help making the transition from SilverPlatter to Web of Knowledge search platform, please contact your friendly, helpful librarian!

Posted by florador at 4:20 PM

January 17, 2006

Biological Abstracts switch

One of our main article indexes, Biological Abstracts (or
BIOSIS) has moved from the SilverPlatter search engine to Web
of Science as of the beginning of January. We will continue
to have access to the old version for about a month. By the
time you read this message there should be a direct link
taking you to the new service from the ORR or our Biology
Library home page but if not, click on our Web of Science link
and then select Biological Abstracts from the pull-down menu
at the very top of the screen. This new search engine
includes links to our new Discover link resolver service, so
give it a try!


Diane Schmidt
Biology Librarian

Posted by mmalliso at 2:32 PM