The 2009 Journal Citation Reports (JCR) became available in June. The JCR provides measures of a journal’s impact on an area of research. They provide many such measures, including impact […]
What’s Being Funded by NIH?
Wow – during FY2011, NIH will spend about $276 million on research about food safety and $841 million on regenerative medicine! And how did I just find out that NIH […]
The D Word
You’re a graduate student, the time has come, you can’t put it off any longer—it’s time to think about your dissertation. Like your advisor, your librarian is here to help […]
Downtime for Wiley Interscience: Saturday June 19
The Wiley Interscience platform, which includes many online journals and books used by the JHU community, will be down for maintenance starting at 8:00 am Saturday, June 19th. Wiley expects […]
Scopus by Phone
Scopus is a huge database for searching journal articles, conference papers, book series, and websites, primarily in the sciences, engineering, and medicine. Its best coverage is from 1996+, but there are also vast listings before […]
OECD Gets a Makeover
SourceOECD is now OECD iLibrary. This is the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development’s online library for books, papers and statistics and the gateway to OECD’s analysis and data. The […]
Graduating Soon? Check out Hopkins KnowledgeNET™, the Alumni Virtual Library!
Pay your Alumni Association annual membership dues, and you’ll get remote access to Hopkins KnowledgeNET™, the Hopkins Alumni Virtual Library. You’ll have access to some of the library resources you’ve used […]
New: Ethnographic Video Online
We recently purchased Ethnographic Video Online, which is a large collection of online ethnographic films and documentaries. Currently it contains about 300 videos and will grow to 1,000 videos at […]
Happy (Belated) Anniversary, PubMed Central!
PubMed Central, the National Library of Medicine’s free online archive of biomedical literature, celebrated its 10 year anniversary this past February. (And I missed it!) PubMed Central started back in […]
Here comes the Sun
I think it’s safe to say that besides uniting the white and blue Ps, online access to the Historical Baltimore Sun has been high on our patrons’ wishlists. We’ve just […]