As you start your Spring Break festivities, please include a moment of acknowledgment for pi. Irrational? Maybe, but I’ll take any excuse to have a piece of pie. To see […]
Happy Pi Day! 3.14
Adventures in Publishing: Homewood Researchers Share Experiences with New Publishing Models
The panel will take place on: Monday, March 26th 4:00 pm – 5:30 pm Macksey Room, M-Level, Brody Learning Commons Refreshments will be served. This event this is FREE; please […]
Consider an Open Textbook for your Next Teaching Gig
The high cost of college textbooks has been in the news as well as research journals. There’s a movement to counter those escalating costs called Open Educational Resources. In fact […]
Learn Cool Things and Save Time with Library Workshops
A very wise man, S. R. Ranganathan, created 5 Laws of Library Science. My personal favorite is #4: Save the time of the reader (or researcher). We’re here to help […]
How to Avoid Predatory Journals
If you’ve heard horror stories about predatory journals or conferences and want to avoid them, we have a couple ways to help you out. A page about predatory journals, with […]
Intersession at the Library: Five Courses to Choose From
Intersession at Homewood is a great opportunity to try something new. Even if it’s a course in your major, Intersession courses often focus on aspects or topics that can’t be […]
ResearchGate and Sharing Your Articles
ResearchGate is a scholarly collaboration network (SCN) that gives researchers a place to describe their work, ask questions, and share documents. The ‘share documents’ part of that has received a […]
JHU Libraries Support Open Access
The first Open Access Week blog post looked at how and why individual researchers and groups within JHU make their research openly available. Now it’s time to tell you the […]
“Open in Order to” – Open Access Week 2017
“Open in Order to” is the theme of 2017’s Open Access Week. “Open in order to” invites us to share our reasons for making our research, data, journal articles, and […]
Library Shop Classes
Library shop classes? Of course! The Sheridan Libraries offer many tools to help you with your library research. While you can always stop at the Reference Consultation Office and Information […]