More on Wiley and Blackwell Online Journal Merger

The publishers Blackwell and Wiley spent the past weekend merging their online journal holdings. Wiley is now back online. There are a few gaps in what is available. Wiley has made a list available of the journals that are still down.
Right now the FindIt links from our research databases (think Academic Search Premier or Web of Science) aren’t working for the Blackwell journals. They only take you to the Wiley home page. From there you will have to navigate to the journal article you are interested in. This may take several days to fix.
If you have questions, please contact your liaison librarian.

Welcome Summer Programs!

Welcome to students enrolled in Center for Talented Youth, Discover Hopkins, Pre-College, and other summer academic programs getting started this weekend on Homewood Campus and continuing throughout the summer!

A few things to know about the MSE Library:

• You need a photo ID to enter the building. Have a JCard? You’re in. Did housing issue you a card that swipes you through our turnstiles? No problem. If you’re under sixteen or otherwise without photo identification, though, you’ll need to be with an instructor or librarian.
• We’re here to help. Seriously. Have a question about where to find news articles? Not sure what a journal article is? Need to find fantastic images for your presentation or project? Come ask at the Information Desk, and talk to us in that office with the big red “Reference Librarian” on the door.
• Group study rooms are available for when you need to work together. Our building stays full throughout the year with lots of researchers: quiet and talkative types alike. Two groups study rooms on A-Level next to the Government Publications librarians’ offices are available to be reserved by using the sign up sheet on the door. Other group study rooms are first come, first served.

Enjoy Johns Hopkins and have a great summer!

What You’re Reading

Every month, The Chronicle of Higher Education lists the top 10 best-selling books compiled from information supplied by stores serving Johns Hopkins University and more than 30 other campuses,some of which include College of William and Mary, George Washington U., Georgetown U., Georgia State U., Harvard U., James Madison U., Pennsylvania State U., Rutgers U., U. of Chicago, U. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, U. of North Carolina at Chapel Hill,Vanderbilt U., and Washington State U. So here’s what y’all are reading:

1. The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch and Jeffrey Zaslow (on order)
2. The Audacity of Hope by Barack Obama
3. Curious You: On Your Way! by H.A. Rey
4. Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert
5. A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life’s Purpose by Eckhart Tolle
6. Armageddon in Retrospect by Kurt Vonnegut
7. I Am America (And So Can You!) by Stephen Colbert
8. Rant: An Oral Biography of Buster Casey by Chuck Palahniuk
9. The Yiddish Policemen’s Union by Michael Chabon
10. Unaccustomed Earth by Jhumpa Lahiri

Blackwell Online Journals Moving to Wiley Platform

The publishers Blackwell and Wiley have merged and all Blackwell content is being moved into Wiley’s platform.
At the end of June they will move all the online Blackwell journals into the Wiley Interscience platform. The Blackwell platform will be closed at the end of the day Friday, June 27. The migration will take place over the weekend and should be complete Monday, June 30.
During that weekend there will be times when you can’t access any of the journals. Please be patient. The MSEL Serials Department will also be working hard to update all the links in our system as well. If you have problems accessing any of these journals after Monday, June 30th, please contact your library liaison.
For more information, see the Wiley-Blackwell transition news.

Finding Resources and Fiction about Chicago

Chicago is in the running to host the 2016 summer Olympic Games! Will you be going to Chicago if they win their bid? Or perhaps you’re be traveling there sometime or just want to know more about that exciting town?

Take a look at the Encyclopedia of Chicago, online or in the General Reference section. The User’s Guide will show you how to find maps, history, photographs, and other information.

A lot of fiction is set in Chicago, too — a catalog search using “chicago” and “fiction” as subject keywords gives 90 results! (To find novels about other cities, towns, states, countries, etc., just use the name of the place and the word “fiction” in the same way.)

Good luck, Chicago!

Reflections on the HUT

Thursday, May 15, 2008 was an historic day as the HUT closed for the next two academic years. The Library staff has known from word of mouth how popular the HUT was and how fond of it students were (some of them even preferring it to the “mother ship” of MSEL!), but I thought I’d provide some hard evidence of that fondness with these numbers. Did you know that the HUT monitors routinely counted patrons and reshelving of materials at various times of day? From our patron counts of 2003-04 to 2007-08, 145,521 patrons used the HUT. For that same period of time, 11,110 magazines were reshelved. If you find yourself missing the copies of People or Rolling Stone that you used to read at the HUT, don’t despair! We’re moving the popular magazine collection down to the south end of A-Level along with some comfortable seating.

Have a special memory of the HUT? Feel free to share it as a comment. And, for those who like to burn the midnight oil, MSEL will be open 24/7 (following the academic calendar) starting in Fall 2008.  Check out more historic pictures of the HUT and Gilman Hall here.

Welcome, Research Experience for Undergraduates Students!

The Sheridan Libraries welcome Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) students to campus this summer. While on campus this summer, REU students will be doing research in microsurgical robotics, nanobiotechnology, and other fascinating areas of engineering and science.

REU students, please call upon your librarians (”wow, we have librarians?”) if you need help finding papers, DVDs, or anything else. You can make individual appointments with specialists in your area of research, or just stop by the Research Consultation Office on M-Level of the MSE Library and ask a question.

To get started with the best bet sources for engineering research, start with the Engineering Research Guide.

Wondering when the MSE Library is open? See this summer’s library hours.