What tools do you use to get your research done? Google Drive, MS Word, or Open Office? RefWorks, Zotero, or Mendeley? Google Scholar or Scopus? Your librarians want to know […]
Changes at MSEL
If you’re a returning student (or staff or faculty), there are a few changes around MSEL you should know about. Elevators – The MSEL public elevators (near the central staircase) […]
Can you get 0 results in the catalog?
There used to be a game called Googlewhack where the goal was to get only 1 result in a Google results list using only 2 real words in your search. […]
M Level Current Periodicals Has it All!
As journals, magazines, and newspapers moved online, MSEL decreased our print subscriptions. This happened most quickly in the science and engineering fields. Back in 2008 we started decreasing shelf space […]
MSEL Helps you Forecast the Future!
Nope, this isn’t about the discovery of a Greek oracle on D Level. This is about the different resources MSEL offers that deal with different types of future forecasting. Weather […]
What Publishers Think About Technology
The International Association of STM Publishers released their Tech Trends 2015 list as a set of infographics. It’s always an interesting list to librarians because we spend our time working […]
Popular Books, 2014
In previous posts I’ve told you about the journals with the most downloads in 2014, as well as the library databases with the most searches in 2014. Now it’s time […]
Most Popular Library Databases
In early March I listed the journals used most often by the JHU community in 2014. Now it’s time to do the same for library databases. I did this back […]
And the Winner is…
The Grammys and Oscars have me thinking about awards (and stunning evening wear). It’s been a few years since we looked at the most downloaded online journals, so let’s take […]
Can I Share My Article?
If you’ve published a journal article, you want as many people as possible to see it, read it, and (hopefully) cite it in their own work. Now websites like ResearchGate […]