The high cost of college textbooks has been in the news as well as research journals. There’s a movement to counter those escalating costs called Open Educational Resources. In fact […]
Consider an Open Textbook for your Next Teaching Gig
From Ancient Rome to Punk Rock: Two KSAS Grad Students Share Their Experiences with Artstor
JHU faculty, students, and staff have access to Artstor and its more than 2 million images, including almost 77,000 images within open-access public collections, plus the 160,000 local images in […]
Digitizing Memories of the Kennedy Space Center: Sharing Images with Artstor
JHU faculty, students, and staff have access to Artstor and its more than 2 million images, including almost 77,000 images within open-access public collections, plus the 160,000 local images in […]
Artificial Languages, Universal Languages
An undergrad recently asked me about Lojban. Those in computer science and related fields have probably heard of Lojban (a constructed language, formerly known as Loglan). And most of us […]
Fairy Tales for Christmas Holidays
As a young girl growing up in Indonesia, I remember that Christmas was one of my most favorite times of the year. My parents bought us a small Christmas tree […]
Holiday Treats!
Are you eagerly anticipating traditional holiday foods? Or, perhaps you are interested in baking some cakes and cookies? Celebrate the spirit of the season with some cool recipes from our […]
Intersession at the Library: Five Courses to Choose From
Intersession at Homewood is a great opportunity to try something new. Even if it’s a course in your major, Intersession courses often focus on aspects or topics that can’t be […]
JHU Libraries Support Open Access
The first Open Access Week blog post looked at how and why individual researchers and groups within JHU make their research openly available. Now it’s time to tell you the […]
“Open in Order to” – Open Access Week 2017
“Open in Order to” is the theme of 2017’s Open Access Week. “Open in order to” invites us to share our reasons for making our research, data, journal articles, and […]
Time and the Semester Wait for No Instructor! Download a PowerPoint Today!
Stressed out? Exhausted? Have a hundred and one things to do? Looking for images this fall semester? The Visual Resources Collection and Artstor are here to help, and to let […]