Not that I’m surprised, but on July 14th, U.S. News & World Report has named Johns Hopkins Hospital the top hospital in the US for the 20th year in a […]
2009 Journal Rankings Available
The 2009 Journal Citation Reports (JCR) became available in June. The JCR provides measures of a journal’s impact on an area of research. They provide many such measures, including impact […]
What Did I Hear About Nature and California?
You may have heard from friends and colleagues about a disagreement between the University of California and Nature Publishing Group (NPG). Long story short: NPG proposed an extremely large increase […]
Downtime for Wiley Interscience: Saturday June 19
The Wiley Interscience platform, which includes many online journals and books used by the JHU community, will be down for maintenance starting at 8:00 am Saturday, June 19th. Wiley expects […]
Your Privacy is Important – Protect It!
How many news stories have you heard about the need to protect your personal information? Both Facebook and Google were in the news recently for privacy problems. Libraries are very […]
Happy (Belated) Anniversary, PubMed Central!
PubMed Central, the National Library of Medicine’s free online archive of biomedical literature, celebrated its 10 year anniversary this past February. (And I missed it!) PubMed Central started back in […]
Take a Tour of PubMed
Do you feel like you’re not using all of PubMed’s functionality? Are you still not used to their new look? Wondering why the full text options don’t show up sometimes? […]
GREENR: A New Environmental Database
Have you ever researched an environmental topic? There are many kinds of resources about the environment: laws, treaties, policy statements, and case studies for policy; newspapers, magazines, television, and blogs […]
How Do You Use Journal Articles?
Faculty and graduate students have a chance to participate in research about how journal articles are used in the different disciplines. The research is being conducted by Dr. Carol Tenopir […]
Duke Faculty Join Open Access Movement
On March 18th the faculty at Duke University agreed to make their research articles freely available to the public. Like other agreements at Harvard, MIT, and Stanford, Duke faculty will […]