Ethics in Science, Mathematics, and Engineering Online Resource Center
The Library will play an integral role in a newly announced National Science Foundation grant awarded to the University of Illinois for the development of an ethics in science, mathematics, and...
View ArticleFaculty of 1000 is Expanding
Hopefully you’re a regular user of Faculty of 1000 Biology – a great way to find out which articles “experts” in various biology fields are recommending as noteworthy, controversial, or must-reads! You...
View ArticleFormer NIH Director Touts Benefits of Open Federal Science
Reposted from: http://www.ombwatch.org/node/11332 Former National Institutes of Health (NIH) director Harold Varmus touts the benefits of open science in a new video released for Open Access Week (Oct....
View ArticleFaculty of 1000 has Expanded its Coverage
Hopefully you were a regular user of Faculty of 1000 Biology – a great way to find out which articles “experts” in various biology fields have evaluated as “exceptional”, “must-reads”, or...
View ArticleNCBI Training Opportunity... at UIC
Note: These workshops will be offered on the UIC campus, NOT the Champaign-Urbana campus! The NCBI has cut back on their training opportunities and now only does outreach to regional facilities....
View ArticleNCBI Training Handouts Available
As announced in the previous blog entry, the NCBI will be offering training on it's resources Dec. 15-16, 2010. If you can't make the workshops, which will be presented on the UIC campus in Chicago,...
View ArticleNSF Announces Its Strategic Vision for Road Ahead
May 10, 2011 The National Science Foundation (NSF) recently released a strategic plan to guide the agency's priorities and investments for the next five years. Empowering the Nation Through Discovery...
View ArticleU.S. Expands List of Fields in Which Foreign Students May Extend Stay After...
The Chronicle of Higher Education News Ticker is carrying a short article that will be of interest to many of our international students: --- May 13, 2011 The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement...
View ArticleThe National Academies Press Makes All PDF Books Free to Download
As of today all PDF versions of books published by the National Academies Press will be downloadable to anyone free of charge. This includes a current catalog of more than 4,000 books plus future...
View ArticleNew Open Access Journal from Nature: Scientific Reports
PRESS RELEASE FROM NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP 14 June 2011 New open access title Scientific Reports launches today with the publication of its first articles. The fifteen articles published today range...
View Article2010 Impact Factors are Out!
The 2010 edition of Journal Citation Reports is out, with the 2010 Impact Factors for journals that are tracked by Thomson Reuters (Web of Science). From their news release: “The 2010 release features...
View ArticleNRC Assesssment of Biological Programs
The National Academies of Science have released the report, Research-Doctorate Programs in the Biomedical Sciences: Selected Findings from the NRC Assessment. It is available as a pdf for free download...
View ArticleLibrary Resources Update
The ORR (Online Research Resources), www.library.Illinois.edu/orr/, is no longer being updated will be discontinued after the Spring semester. In its place, please use the Find Journals and Databases...
View ArticleMedical Information Resources
If you’ve ever suffered information overload when you’ve Googled for medical information, or wondered if the facts you found were really from an authoritative source, try one of these online medical...
View ArticleUpdate on Library services for Ag-bio-medical research
Several of our science librarians are retiring at the end of June. This includes Tina Chrzastowski, Chemistry Librarian (chrz@illinois.edu), Diane Schmidt, Biology/Veterinary Medicine Librarian...
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