Last Friday was the start of fall. That means cooler weather is coming. It also means you need to start working on those long-term papers, projects, and presentations. This week […]
First in the Lineup: RefWorks
We have a great group of library workshops this fall, and first in the lineup is RefWorks. These one-hour workshops will be held: Tuesday, Sept. 20, 11:00 – noon Wednesday, […]
Having Fun and Answering Questions
You know you can count on the Sheridan Libraries to provide you with the books, journals, patents, standards, newspapers, music, films, maps, and government documents you need to do your […]
New RefWorks Platform
JHU has moved to the new RefWorks platform, RefWorks 2.0. The old version is now referred to as “RefWorks Classic.” RefWorks 2.0 looks very different, but the functionality hasn’t changed […]
PLoS ONE: The Newest SPARC Innovator
SPARC, a coalition of academic and research libraries, wants to improve the scholarly publishing system. To bring attention to individuals and groups that are doing just that, they started the […]
Downtime and Changes for Web of Knowledge Suite
Web of Knowledge is changing over to a new platform this Sunday, July 17th. Access to all the databases on the Web of Knowledge platform may be interrupted between 9:00 […]
Free E-Books from the National Academies Press
Science, technology, engineering and mathematics publishers are making more and more of their publications freely available online. I recently received emails from IOP and AIP informing me about some of […]
Important RefWorks Information: Downtime Sunday Morning
RefWorks needs to shut down access to all JHU RefWorks accounts this Sunday morning, to do maintenance work. Access will not be allowed between midnight and 5 am, the morning […]
Open Science? What’s That?
You’ve seen posts here about Open Access, the movement attempting to make research journal articles freely available to all. We’ve also mentioned the Open Data movement, which aims to make […]
Our Popular Research Guides
Have you used any of our research guides yet? They’ve been around for almost two years now, and are very popular. The box on the Sheridan Libraries home page labeled […]