Search Results for: JSTOR
Creating Stable Database & Article Links
You’ve found the perfect database, you know, the one that holds the key to your end-of-term paper. You’d like to save the URL for future reference or to share with your study group. But wait! Don’t copy the address as … Continue reading
Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941): A Cultural Icon and A Nobel Laureate
My Song This song of mine will wind its music around you, my child, like the fond arms of love. This song of mine will touch your forehead like a kiss of blessing. When you are alone it will sit … Continue reading
Remembering Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr.
We all know Martin Luther King’s famous speech, “I Have a Dream,” delivered on August 28, 1963 in front of the Lincoln Memorial during the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. However, a few years earlier in December 1956, as a … Continue reading
What Was New in 2009?
As we round out the calendar year, we’re pleased to round up and list the below notable online products that we added to the libraries collections in 2009: LexisNexis Congressional: We’ve added Digital Congressional Hearings and the Congressional Record. Read … Continue reading
How to Find or Avoid Reviews in JSTOR
As you dig in to find sources for end-of-semester papers, a question we often hear in the library is how to avoid reviews and focus on journal articles in your searching. As JSTOR puts it so succintly, “Sometimes you need … Continue reading
JSTOR statistics (and my iPod)
You may have read our prior updates on JSTOR, a journal archive database that includes fulltext PDFs of journals (minus the most recent 2-5 years). I recently investigated our 2007 JSTOR usage statistics and found some interesting tidbits on just … Continue reading
Citing Electronic Resources: Part 1, Using MLA Style
Most of you are familiar with how to cite print books and articles when you’re writing a research paper. But how do you cite information you find on the internet? Well, you’ll need to include the same basic information as … Continue reading
You Folks Are Busy!
I always knew Hopkins researchers and students were industrious, hardworking, and dedicated, but I never understood how busy you were until I started looking at use data from some of our electronic resources. Did you know that in 2006 every … Continue reading
JSTOR Tips and Tricks
For many of you tracking down scholarly journal articles online, JSTOR is a known and trusted archive of journal back issues. For those of you who really want to get all you can out of JSTOR, try out a search … Continue reading
PDF Tips and Tricks
As you navigate all of the library’s databases and e-journals, you’ll no doubt run into PDF files. Or perhaps you’re working on a dissertation or article and you’re dealing with PDFs of your own creation. Either way, you might be … Continue reading