Due to scheduled maintenance Scopus and ScienceDirect will be unavailable from 2:30 pm – 10:00 pm on Saturday August 29th. ScienceDirect provides our online access to Elsevier journals. Scopus is […]
Preparing for Classes
Classes are starting! Graduate students are arriving. Undergraduate students will soon follow. (Faculty and staff have been here most of the summer!) Here are some pointers to library information you […]
And We Have 100! (Articles in PLoS)
Less than two weeks ago I pointed out that JHU authors had published 99 articles in PLoS journals. Thanks to the eagle eye of librarian and Baltimore Sun reader Ellen […]
99 and Counting!
Thanks to an inquiry by Welch Medical Librarian Susan Fowler and the response from the kind folks at PLoS, we now know that Hopkins authors have published 99 articles in […]
The New Scientific Journal Article?
Have you been wondering when journals would take full advantage of the opportunities presented by the WWW? Are you longing for more information than a pdf with a few supplemental […]
Fun with Journal Titles
Being a science librarian, you might say I swim in journals. I help students search for journal articles on a topic, and I get requests from faculty to subscribe to […]
More Public Access to Federally Funded Research
Senators Cornyn and Lieberman have reintroduced the Federal Research Public Access Act (FRPAA) to Congress. This Act follows in the footsteps of the NIH’s Public Access Policy by requiring journal […]
Quosa Training June 22 and 23
QUOSA is a tool to help you download and manage full-text. It is built to work with PubMed and a few other databases. A trainer from QUOSA, Dr. Eszter Hars, […]
Safari Books Online: Computer Manuals and Business Books
We’ve had lots of requests for this particular resource and we’re very happy to announce that we’ve been able to obtain access to Safari Books Online. This is a set […]
New Look for CIA World Factbook
The CIA World Factbook has long been a trusty resource for information about the nations of the world. This past Monday they introduced a new website design, which makes navigation […]