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 […]
Robert Hooke Journals Now Online
I’m often drawn to figures who can be described as polymaths. The word certainly applies to seventeenth century scientist and natural philosopher Robert Hooke, having been cited for his microscopic […]
Make videos? Enter to win…
The SPARC Discovery Awards Competition is looking for videos under two minutes in length that examine the value of information sharing. The contest is sponsored by the Scholarly Publishing and […]
Dissertations and Open Access
If you are almost finished with your dissertation, or advise graduate students, you know that every thesis and dissertation should be submitted to a company called ProQuest. They create the […]