More Bad News - PubMed is Down - PubMed is Back

PubMed is down, as of 10:25 am Wednesday. They hope to have it up shortly.

We’ll keep you posted!

UPDATE: 12:47 pm PubMed seems to be working at normal speed. No official word yet, but it seems to be OK.

Thank you for your patience!

RefWorks Down - RefWorks Works Again!

RefWorks is currently down. Their support group hasn’t been able to give us a time frame for their repairs. If we hear anything, we will let you know.

UPDATE: We received the official email last night - RefWorks is back. I’ve successfully logged in a few times. Everyone can now resume their literature research.

Thank you for your patience!

ScienceDirect Down Time

Elsevier will be doing some planned maintenance on  ScienceDirect (their online journals) tonight, Saturday, October 31. They should start at 9:00 pm, EDT and finish Sunday, November 1 by 5:00 am, EST.

ScienceDirect will be unavailable during this time. Use your extra hour as we move off Daylight Savings Time for sleep, not research!

Workshop: Spatial Intelligence for China and Global Studies

Workshop: Spatial Intelligence for China and Global Studies

Presented by Shuming Bao Ph.D. China Data Center/University of Michigan

Time: Thursday, October 29th, 12-1pm

Location: Electronic Resource Center, Eisenhower Library M-level

This invited lecture will give an introduction to Chinese government statistics, Census data, and GIS data, including methodologies, definitions, and data coverage. It will also present spatial intelligence technologies for spatial data integration, data selection, and data analysis. It will demonstrate how space-time data of different formats and sources can be integrated, visualized, and reported in a web-based system. Some applications in disaster assessment, environment, health, regional development, cultural and religious studies, and household surveys will be discussed for China and global studies. ALL ARE WELCOME!

History at Your Fingertips

Looking for an authoritative introduction to a country, era or historical event?  Need to know more about the history of literature, politics, religion or philosophy?  Look no further than Cambridge Histories Online.  This resource contains over 650 volumes covering 15 subjects, and offers comprehensive and authoritative scholarly content.

Cambridge Histories Online tell you more than just who, what, when, where and why.  They also introduce you to aspects of your topic that you’ve never dreamed of.  Working on a paper on Chicago’s Columbian Exposition of 1893?  Searching the phrase “Columbian Exposition” leads you to chapters on the role it played in American literature, theatre, foreign policy, music and food.   It’s a great way to further narrow and define your topic.

More of a Good Thing: Oxford Scholarship Online

The Johns Hopkins community has had access to full-text Oxford Scholarship Online (OSO) e-books in Economics & Finance, Philosophy, Political Science, and Religion for awhile.  We’ve heard how convenient and useful these collections are so we’ve recently expanded our holdings to over 1800 books in these four collections.

OSO comprises many of the core scholarly monographs published by the Oxford University Press.  OSO offers many benefits, including full-text searching and analysis.  Also, having online versions of these important books greatly expands access to the entire Hopkins community - OSO makes the content of each book available simultaneously to many people.

Our OSO full-text subscription is limited to the four areas listed above, but there are tables of contents for many more books across other fields of study.  So, you can use OSO to identify chapters in many other books and use  to locate a printed copy.

Need some quick stats?

The United States Government collects an extraordinary amount of data and publishes statistics on a wide range of topics.  Need to know how many traffic fatalities there are in a given state?  Or perhaps how many women-owned businesses there are in the U.S.?  You could try a Google search to find this information, but you’d be far better served going directly to Fedstats.gov.  Use the Topics A-Z list to browse for your topic or use the cross-agency search feature.

Featured: Black Drama, 1850 to Present

Black Drama contains the full text of 1,200 plays written from the mid-1800s to the present by more than 100 playwrights from North America, English-speaking Africa, the Caribbean, and other African diaspora countries. Many of the works are rare, hard to find, or out of print. Each play is extensively and deeply indexed, allowing both keyword and multi-fielded searching.

The plays are accompanied by reference materials, significant ancillary information, a rich performance database, and images. The plays deal with the social and political ills stemming from colonialism, slavery, and apartheid; the struggle for independence; African history; and neo-colonialism.

New: Statesman’s Yearbook Online

Statesman’s Yearbook Online provides reliable and timely information on every country in the world, covering key historical events, population, city profiles, social statistics, climate, recent elections, current leaders, defence, international relations, economy, energy and natural resources, industry, international trade, religion, culture, and diplomatic representatives, as well as fact sheets and much more.

It also provides extensive further reading lists and web links for research. All the data and information in the database are regularly updated. As an essential reference tool for researchers in international affairs, The Statesman’s Yearbook offers the first point of reference for anyone needing reliable, concise information on any country in the world.

Scopus and ScienceDirect Down Time

Elsevier will be doing some planned maintenance on Scopus and ScienceDirect (their online journals) tomorrow, Saturday, September 19. They should start at 8:00 am and finish by 9:00 pm, EDT.

Scopus and ScienceDirect will be unavailable during that time. Please plan your research around this.