The Johns Hopkins University Press is the oldest university press in the United States, founded in 1878. Within a few years, they were publishing the American Journal of Mathematics and […]
Happy Open Access Week!
The candy comes at the end of October, but this week (October 19-23) is Open Access Week. That means you can read some scholarly articles for free – without logging […]
Publishing Opportunities Workshop for Graduate Students and New Faculty
Please join us Friday afternoon, October 23d, from 1:00 – 4:00 pm in Levering’s Great Hall, for a workshop sponsored by The Johns Hopkins University Press and The Sheridan Libraries. […]
Universities in Support of Open Access
A new group, and a new acronym, have joined the open access discussion. COPE, or Compact for Open-Access Publishing Equity, is proposing a way to provide reliable support to open […]
And We Have 100! (Articles in PLoS)
Less than two weeks ago I pointed out that JHU authors had published 99 articles in PLoS journals. Thanks to the eagle eye of librarian and Baltimore Sun reader Ellen […]
99 and Counting!
Thanks to an inquiry by Welch Medical Librarian Susan Fowler and the response from the kind folks at PLoS, we now know that Hopkins authors have published 99 articles in […]
The New Scientific Journal Article?
Have you been wondering when journals would take full advantage of the opportunities presented by the WWW? Are you longing for more information than a pdf with a few supplemental […]
Fun with Journal Titles
Being a science librarian, you might say I swim in journals. I help students search for journal articles on a topic, and I get requests from faculty to subscribe to […]
More Public Access to Federally Funded Research
Senators Cornyn and Lieberman have reintroduced the Federal Research Public Access Act (FRPAA) to Congress. This Act follows in the footsteps of the NIH’s Public Access Policy by requiring journal […]
Reader Beware!
Blogs and email lists are buzzing with the latest news about Elsevier, the large STM publishing corporation. Elsevier publishes many highly respected journals like Brain Research Reviews and Biomaterials. Most […]