The 2009 Homewood Student Video Competition has begun! Make a short video and enter to win cash prizes and (at least two-three minutes of) fame. What’s at stake? Cash prizes, […]
ScienceDirect Unavailable Sat. Nov. 15
ScienceDirect is the online face of Elsevier, one of the big sci-tech-med journal publishers. All the online journals we get through ScienceDirect will be unavailable from 8 am to 5 […]
Dr. John Willinsky to Speak on Open Access & Libraries
On October 30th, Dr. John Willinsky of Stanford University will give a talk titled Proprietary Scholarship or Open Access? The New Intellectual Properties of the Library. The talk will begin […]
More on Wiley and Blackwell Online Journal Merger
The publishers Blackwell and Wiley spent the past weekend merging their online journal holdings. Wiley is now back online. There are a few gaps in what is available. Wiley has […]
Make a Video and Enter to Win $1,000
The Sparky Awards are looking for your videos on the value of sharing information and ideas. Submissions must be publicly available on the Internet — on a Web site or […]
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 […]
NIH Public Access Policy
If you have received NIH funding, you’ve heard about the new policy which requires you to deposit journal articles that are based on that funding into PubMed Central. One of […]
Publishing? Know your rights.
‘Tis the season for dissertations to come into our Commercial Binding Office at full speed. For those of you who are prepping your projects for publication, we bring you the […]
JHU announces interest in SCOAP3
The Johns Hopkins University has indicated its interest in participating in SCOAP3 and becomes the first institute on the U.S. East Coast to do so, stretching the SCOAP3 U.S. membership […]