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 […]
Enter the 2009 Homewood Student Video Competition
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 […]