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 […]
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 […]
New Things To Read and More Ways To Read Them
The world of online reading is exploding with new kinds of content (as well as new business models to generate revenue for the publishers and authors). Here are some of […]
PLoS ONE: The Newest SPARC Innovator
SPARC, a coalition of academic and research libraries, wants to improve the scholarly publishing system. To bring attention to individuals and groups that are doing just that, they started the […]
Free E-Books from the National Academies Press
Science, technology, engineering and mathematics publishers are making more and more of their publications freely available online. I recently received emails from IOP and AIP informing me about some of […]
Don’t Perish! Check Out Our Publishing Tips
Please join the JHU Press and the Sheridan Libraries for a workshop on publishing opportunities for graduate students and new faculty members. We will offer advice on several topics including: […]
Extra, Extra, Read All About It!
The recent announcement by the New York Times on their new digital subscription plan has changed the world of online journalism. Many other struggling newspapers are carefully watching how this […]
Nature following PLoS? What next?
The blogosphere (Scholarly Kitchen, Science in the Open, Book of Trogool, and The Imaginary Journal of Poetic Economics) has been lit up by the recent announcement of Nature’s newest journal […]
Author Metrics Q&A
Politics may be all about who you know, but scholarship is all about who you cite. And who cites you. And how many times you’ve been cited. Here are some […]
A book is a book is a book, or is it?
We’ve known for a long time that anyone can publish anything on the Internet, but now anyone can publish anything as an actual book as well! Several “publishers” in Germany […]