On the Homewood campus, January is a special time of year. There are fewer people on campus. Intersession offers interesting classes. Everyone is more relaxed. A good number of people […]
Where is Wikipedia?!
To protest two U.S. bills about online piracy and intellectual property, Wikipedia will black out the English Wikipedia for 24 hours. The English language version of Wikipedia will not be […]
2011: Categories of our Blog
Last year I reviewed 2010 by walking through the months. This year I thought I’d explore our 2011 blog posts by category. The categories you see on the right are […]
Revisiting The New Scientific Journal Article
Back in July of 2009, I wrote a blog post about The Article of the Future (ta-da!) that Cell Press and Elsevier were working on. I thought it was time […]
Pages Worth Bookmarking
Catalyst, the JHU Libraries catalog, is a great tool. With it, you can find books about study skills, maps of Maryland, and action movies. Besides all the great search capabilities, […]
PsycINFO: Lots of Limits
PsycINFO is the database to use for literature searches about psychology, psychiatry, behavioral science (including animal behavior), and mental health. The things you already know how to do probably include […]
Open Access Quiz Winners!
Last week we ran a quiz about Open Access Week. We had blog posts about authors’ rights, philosophy resources, and Open Data. Here are the winners of our prizes! Chris […]
Open Access Week: Authors’ Rights and Copyrights
You have written a manuscript describing your research. This manuscript represents hundreds of hours spent reading, writing, and doing the actual research. To get this published in a reputable journal, […]
JSTOR Opens Up the Doors
JSTOR is one of our more popular library resources. Between January and August of 2011, JHU researchers downloaded 207,558 JSTOR articles. This demonstrates how much we depend upon and appreciate […]
Making the Best of Google
Google offers many different products. Three of their products, Google, Google Scholar, and Google Books, are heavily used by scholars and researchers to find scholarly literature. Librarians also use these […]