Scopus and ScienceDirect will be down for approximately 9 hours this Saturday, Nov. 13th, from 7:30 am to 4:30 pm. This scheduled maintenance will also shutdown the SciVerse Hub. Read […]
A Librarian’s Day: Robin
Most of you talk with librarians for specific reasons: you need a book purchased you can’t get to an online journal article you need help finding literature on a topic […]
Open Access by the Numbers
If you’re wondering how many Open Access journals are available, the Directory of Open Access Journals has an answer. On October 11th, there were 5,509 Open Access journals available. According […]
A T-Shirt for the First 10 OA Stories
To help promote Open Access Week, we have Open Access t-shirts. They’re bright, they’re cotton, and they let you show the world you think research should be freely accessible to […]
Open Access Week 2010
Open Access Week 2010, October 18 – 22, promotes the immediate and free online sharing of the results of scholarly research and the ability to use that information to move […]
Which books get checked out?
Despite protests to the contrary, we know that Hopkins students and researchers have leisure time because they read fiction and watch movies! But what about the academic books you use […]
Welcome from the Sheridan Libraries
If you’re new to JHU, welcome! We’d like to share a few basics about the libraries with you. Your first question may be “How many libraries are there?” The Sheridan Libraries […]
How Popular are Online Journals?
We all know that online journals are the workhorses of the academic library. Faculty, graduate students, and undergraduate students continually tell us that the ability to access journal articles from […]
New Looks for Online Resources
The companies that provide online journals, books, and databases to academic libraries know that we don’t want them to change the way they look during the school year. So during […]
Navigating Brains
Do you need to use brain scans of mice, rats, or primates in your research? Elsevier has a new product you may be interested in: BrainNavigator. They are using images […]