The Good News: Google Scholar, which is the part of Google that indexes scholarly literature, includes some citations to books as well as to journal articles. The Bad News: If […]
Poets of the Great War
Veterans Day, as you may know, used to be called Armistice Day; November 11 was officially designated such by President Woodrow Wilson in 1919 to honor the cessation of hostilities […]
National Native American Heritage Month
November is the National Native American Heritage Month during which we commemorate the cultural legacy and remember the contributions of Native Americans to our country. Throughout this month, various events […]
The Salem Witch Trials (1692-1693)
Between the years 1692-1693, several people were brought to trial in colonial Massachusetts for their involvement in witchcraft. The mass hysteria began when Elizabeth Parris, the nine year old daughter […]
PubMed Is the Answer!
Maybe PubMed isn’t the answer to *everything*, but this extraordinary database has the answers to most things related to medicine, biochemistry, and other biomedical sciences. The PubMed workshop will be held […]
Copyright and Fair Use Workshop
With Web 2.0 platforms, Facebook, mash-ups and peer-to-peer file sharing, we have witnessed a proliferation in the creation and sharing of information in various formats e.g. audio, video, music, image and […]
The Crystal Palace/Great Exhibition of 1851
“As the day of the opening of the Great Exhibition approaches, the interest of the public of this and other countries increases in intensity with regard to it. The fairy-like […]
JSTOR Opens Up the Doors
JSTOR is one of our more popular library resources. Between January and August of 2011, JHU researchers downloaded 207,558 JSTOR articles. This demonstrates how much we depend upon and appreciate […]
How E-Books Work
Attend E-books for Academics , a library workshop held on Wednesday, October 5, 4:30-5:30PM, on Q level of the library (in the CER, past Cafe Q, last door on your left). […]
Making the Best of Google
Google offers many different products. Three of their products, Google, Google Scholar, and Google Books, are heavily used by scholars and researchers to find scholarly literature. Librarians also use these […]