After many years of service, the platform that housed the JHU Visual Resources Collection’s Digital Image Database (DID@JHU or MDID) is being retired. The JHU Visual Resources Collection is now available within […]
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 […]
Study Suggests That Online Searching Only Makes You Feel Smarter
While driving home recently I heard on NPR that online searching may make you think you’re smarter than you really are. Matthew Fisher, doctoral student in cognitive psychology at Yale, […]
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 […]
Can’t Find It? There’s a Guide for That.
If you ask a JHU student why they are in the library, they might tell you that they are there to study, to do homework, work on a group project, […]
Image Is Everything: ARTstor Can Help Illustrate Your Point!
Need a specific image for your term paper? Want to explore a topic in a visual way? Try ARTstor, a research database containing over one million images of art and cultural […]
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 […]
“I swear I’m not texting!” Put your phone to good use in class.
Are your fingers just itching to use your phone in class? Citations making you crazy? Dreading your bibliography? We can help. Attend one of our online workshops this semester to […]
New year, new look for Research Guides
If you’re a frequent user of our Research Guides, you probably noticed that this week we changed over to a whole new look. If you’ve never used our guides before, […]
Print on Demand Springer Books
The JHU Libraries purchase new books from Springer, a large STEM publisher, as ebooks. We’ve been doing this for about 4 years now, so there are thousands of them in […]