Whether you’ve published 1 or 101 journal articles, you must be curious about how frequently those articles are read, shared, and cited. Later posts in this series will examine the […]
High-Energy Physics Articles for Everyone!
While many physics articles are freely available at arXiv, many are not; they’re tucked away in subscription journals. If you work at a government or university lab, you probably have […]
A Toast to the Old Year: 2013
The Sheridan Libraries Blog team was busy in 2013, serving up blog posts on a variety of topics related to the libraries, JHU, Baltimore, or… nothing in particular. Here’s a […]
DORA: Declaration on Research Assessment
The Declaration on Research Assessment grew out of conversations among journal editors and publishers at the December, 2012 meeting of the American Society for Cell Biology. For some time scientists […]
Electronic Reserves Down Part of Friday Nov. 15
Our Electronic Reserves system is undergoing maintenance tomorrow, Friday Nov. 15th. The system is scheduled to be offline from 10am to 1pm. For more information during the outage, please contact […]
Update: Open Access Promotion Fund
Back in October, 2012, during Open Access Week, the Scholarly Communications Group announced an initiative to help JHU authors publish their articles in Open Access journals. It’s Open Access Week […]
So You Want to Publish in an Open Access Journal…
but how do you decide which one? Please understand that there are good, mediocre, and bad journals and publishers in print and online, in subscription and open access venues. Subscription […]
The Federal Government and Research: An Integral Relationship
There’s nothing like a government shutdown to make me realize how important the US federal government is to academic research. I expected economists to have a hard time since timely […]
Improve Your Skills at the Library
A lot of skills are involved in a successful academic career. Active listening, note-taking, and studying…all of these will help you pass exams and write terms papers. Library skills will […]
No Desktops in the Library?
I just read an interesting blog post about the future of desktop computers in libraries. Will mobile computing devices and improvements in collaboration tools (think TeamSpot) decrease the need for […]