ProQuest is one of the leading vendors of online databases. If you are a regular user of JHU’s online information resources, then you’ve probably already mined information from a ProQuest product: […]
Group Study Reservation Service
For the first time ever, you can guarantee yourself a spot in one of the coveted group study rooms throughout the library. Our new, online service allows anyone with a […]
Additional Bloomberg Terminals!
Created by New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg (a JHU alumnus), and now a service of Bloomberg L.P., the Bloomberg Financial Service offers real-time and selected historical economic, financial, and industrial […]
Make ‘Em Laugh!
Did you hear the one about two German teenagers who opened a publishing house in Baltimore? Nope, this is not the set up to some real bad joke involving lederhosen […]
Western Depictions of Crime and Punishment in Late Imperial China
Recently, we have digitized a collection of 51 images on crime and punishment in late Imperial China, gleaned from the 19th century Westerners’ China travelogues housed at the Department of […]
New RefWorks Platform
JHU has moved to the new RefWorks platform, RefWorks 2.0. The old version is now referred to as “RefWorks Classic.” RefWorks 2.0 looks very different, but the functionality hasn’t changed […]
Bharatanatyam and Mohiniyattam – Classical Dances of South India
The Sangeet Natak Akademi, the National Academy for Music, Dance and Drama of India, confers classical status on eight dance forms of India — Bharatanatyam, Odissi, Kuchipudi, Manipuri, Mohiniyattam, Sattriya, […]
On Escapology, Contortionism, Pantomime and Magic Lanterns: Victorian Popular Culture
“I was born—that fact is undisputed and undisputable. I make no apology for that! but I apologise for appearing before you in the character of an autobiographist. I never wrote a […]
Downtime and Changes for Web of Knowledge Suite
Web of Knowledge is changing over to a new platform this Sunday, July 17th. Access to all the databases on the Web of Knowledge platform may be interrupted between 9:00 […]
Empire Series from the 19th Century UK Periodicals
Are you researching the history of the British Empire? Then, we have some good news for you! Recently, we have added the second part of the 19th Century UK Periodicals […]