EnterpriseWorks: A Guide to Library Resources at UIUC
March 14, 2006
Bill Mischo, Engineering Librarian, 333-7497, w-mischo@uiuc.edu
Katie Newman, Biotechnology Librarian, 265-5386, florador@uiuc.edu
Who may use the Electronic Resources from the UIUC Library.
Electronic resources at the University are licensed for use by UIUC students, researchers and faculty for
educational purposes. If you have a NetID, you may use the Library Resources. Unfortunately, the license for
SciFinder is written to allow only on-campus access.
Where to find the Resources:
Main Library Gateway
http://www.library.uiuc.edu/
Online Library Catalog
http://www.library.uiuc.edu/catalog
Note: search I-Share to request materials held at libraries across the state.
Online Research Resources (ORR)
http://www.library.uiuc.edu/orr/
Go to this site to access databases, journals, and reference resources.
Interlibrary Loan
https://loanshark.library.uiuc.edu/illbluestem/ild_bslogin.pl
For those resources we don’t own
Need Help?
Contact Ask a Librarian service for assistance (http://www.library.uiuc.edu/rex/askus/) via email, chat, or instant
messaging.
Or contact a subject specialist librarian for assistance: http://www.library.uiuc.edu/people/a-cdepartphone.html
Searching the Literature for Technology Information
Basic precept – you’ll want to search more than one database!
Multidisciplinary: ..........Web of Science [Science Citation Index], Scopus (trial), Google Scholar
(http://scholar.google.com)
Medical: .......................EmBase; PubMed
Engineering: ................EiVillage’s Compendex; CSA Technology Research Database
Physics, Computers: ...EiVillage’s InSPEC
Biological: ....................PubMed, Biological Abstracts
Agriculture: ..................CAB Abstracts
Chemical: ....................SciFinder Scholar (Chemical Abstracts) –on-campus, non-commercial use only
Business:.......................ABI/Inform; Business Source Premier.
Newspapers: ................Lexis-Nexis
Business databases
The Business & Economics Library (BEL) has many non-bibliographic databases that are only available from
within the BEL; see http://www.library.uiuc.edu/bel/complab.htm#details For example:
Compustat Research Insight -- 20 years annual data. Financial analysis of over 12,000 publicly held
companies, groups of companies and 220 industries.
Datastream -- data on equities, bonds, derivatives, interest rates, exchange rates, economic time series, and
investment trusts and mutual funds.
Value Line Investments -- reports on approximately 1700 stocks in over 95 industries.
Illinois Statistical Abstract -- http://www.igpa.uillinois.edu/abstract/
Patent information:
See: http://www.library.uiuc.edu/biotech/botcenter.htm#patent for links to the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office,
European Patent Office, and more.
This Document: http://www.library.uiuc.edu/biotech/EnterpriseWorksLibrary.pdf 3/14/06 kn