On November 10th the Alliance for Taxpayer Access released a letter from 41 Nobel laureates to the U.S. Congress. The letter was written by the scientists in support of the […]
Have You Heard About Our Press?
The Johns Hopkins University Press is the oldest university press in the United States, founded in 1878. Within a few years, they were publishing the American Journal of Mathematics and […]
More Bad News – PubMed is Down – PubMed is Back
PubMed is down, as of 10:25 am Wednesday. They hope to have it up shortly. We’ll keep you posted! UPDATE: 12:47 pm PubMed seems to be working at normal speed. […]
RefWorks Down – RefWorks Works Again!
RefWorks is currently down. Their support group hasn’t been able to give us a time frame for their repairs. If we hear anything, we will let you know. UPDATE: We […]
Travelogue: JHU Libraries
As most of you are aware, there are a number of libraries associated with The Johns Hopkins University. This blog is written primarily by librarians associated with The Sheridan Libraries. […]
Happy Open Access Week!
The candy comes at the end of October, but this week (October 19-23) is Open Access Week. That means you can read some scholarly articles for free – without logging […]
Publishing Opportunities Workshop for Graduate Students and New Faculty
Please join us Friday afternoon, October 23d, from 1:00 – 4:00 pm in Levering’s Great Hall, for a workshop sponsored by The Johns Hopkins University Press and The Sheridan Libraries. […]
Everything Nobel
Congratulations to JHU’s Dr. Carol Greider for her Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. If you’re curious, you can easily see who else associated with JHU has been awarded a […]
Scopus and ScienceDirect Down Time
Elsevier will be doing some planned maintenance on Scopus and ScienceDirect (their online journals) tomorrow, Saturday, September 19. They should start at 8:00 am and finish by 9:00 pm, EDT. […]
Universities in Support of Open Access
A new group, and a new acronym, have joined the open access discussion. COPE, or Compact for Open-Access Publishing Equity, is proposing a way to provide reliable support to open […]