Encyclopaedia Britannica recently announced that they would no longer produce a print encyclopedia set; they’re moving to online only. This is a very big deal since they have been publishing […]
Columbian Exposition of 1893
The World’s Columbian Exposition or Chicago’s World’s Fair of 1893 was held from May 1 to October 30, 1893. Approximately 27 million visitors attended this fair which was organized to […]
PsycINFO: The Power of a Thesaurus
Previous posts have described the PsycINFO literature database and its limits. But searching the scholarly literature offers another major challenge: using the scholars’ language correctly. Why use the thesaurus? The […]
Crime and the Victorian City
Last June, I wrote a blog post about the London Low Life database that our library had newly acquired. It is a great resource to learn about different kinds of crimes […]
Unplug!
Now that the semester is in full swing, and we are all trying to do 10 things at once, maybe it’s time to step back for a moment and think […]
PsycINFO: A Database for Your Mind
PsycINFO is a library database that covers a LOT of ground. Subject-wise, it includes (but isn’t limited to) the following topics: psychology psychiatry animal behavior neuroscience social psychology educational psychology […]
Hopkins Blogs — Getting the Word Out
The amazing ecosystem that is Johns Hopkins University has countless ways to tell the world about what’s happening here. There are JHU Facebook pages, JHU twitterers, JHU newspapers, and of […]
What’s new in Museum Studies? For one thing: the Research Guide!
There are so many people at Hopkins interested in Museum Studies that we are constantly thinking of new ways to meet research needs for Hopkins’ museums staff and faculty and […]
New Mapping Tools
Do you need a map to illustrate an area’s changing demographics? Or you want to map how many pizza parlors are in your neighborhood? The library now subscribes to two new databases […]
Background on the Elsevier Boycott
If you’ve heard about the boycott of Elsevier, you may have a few questions about why this is happening. Below is an overview, followed by a boat-load of links. Don’t […]