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 […]
Harvard and Open Access
If you are interested in the Open Access movement, you’ll be interested in the latest news from Harvard. The Faculty of Arts and Sciences has voted unanimously to allow Harvard […]
4 Sources for Collaborative Writing
Are you tired of trading versions of documents and presentations via email or hard copy? For easier version control when writing with others, think about trying out one of the […]
Public Access to NIH-supported Research is Signed into Law
On December 26th President Bush signed a very large appropriations act that will impact many Hopkins researchers. The Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2007 (H.R. 2764) requires the NIH (National Institutes […]
4 Ways to Catalog Your Books at Home
Some of you students have already taken off for the holidays, and even more of you are eyeing a few weeks off after this week. If you’re passing winter holiday […]
Citing Electronic Resources: Part 2, Chicago Style
Now that you know how to cite online resources using MLA, shall we move on to Chicago Manual of Style? Many humanities disciplines, particularly History, use Chicago as their documentation […]
Citing Electronic Resources: Part 1, Using MLA Style
Most of you are familiar with how to cite print books and articles when you’re writing a research paper. But how do you cite information you find on the internet? […]
Aren’t You Productive!
Last week, the Chronicle of Higher Education published the Faculty Scholarly Productivity Index. Like U.S. News and World Reports, the Productivity Index ranks (largely Ph.D. granting) institutions of higher education […]