Wiley Interscience, the web site that hosts online Wiley journals and books, will be down for maintenance starting at 7 am Saturday morning, May 24th. This outage could last between […]
3 Ways to Keep Current This Summer
As the year wraps up, here are a few ways you can prepare for summer with an eye toward keeping current, courtesy of the Sheridan Libraries Blog Archives… 1. Set […]
Open Humanities Press
If you’re following the Open Access movement, you are aware that medicine and the sciences have been really pushing ahead on this. Don’t think for a moment that other disciplines […]
Help the Library, Get a $5 Gift Card
The Johns Hopkins Libraries are working on a project to design a new interface for searching and accessing library and other scholarly resources. We are holding interviews to research and […]
Google (Scholar) Guide
Do you Google? If so, you might know that characters like quotation marks, asterisks, and other operators can customize, even refine, your search. Google Guide offers a wealth of such […]
Library Toolbar for Firefox and Internet Explorer
The JHU LibX Library Toolbar is now available for both Firefox and Internet Explorer! New to the toolbar? Download it in order to: Search the JHU Libraries Catalog, Google Scholar, […]
JSTOR statistics (and my iPod)
You may have read our prior updates on JSTOR, a journal archive database that includes fulltext PDFs of journals (minus the most recent 2-5 years). I recently investigated our 2007 […]
Web of Science is problematic
Good Monday Morning! Web of Science, which includes Science Citation Index, Social Science Citation Index, Arts & Humanities Citation Index, Essential Science Indicators, and Journal Citation Reports, is acting a […]
Searching Popline
In case you missed the April 4th dust-up over at the School of Public Health, here’s the scoop. For a short time the term “abortion” could not be searched in […]
Mobile Poets
T.S. Eliot may have written that “April is the cruelest month,” but did you also know it is national poetry month, too? To commemorate this most lyrical of all months, […]