The day that I learned that Dr. Gilbert V. Levin (’47, PhD ’63) had passed away was not long after NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab (JPL) announced that its Perseverance rover […]
In Memoriam: Dr. Gil Levin
Easier Open Publishing with Wiley Journals
The Johns Hopkins Libraries are piloting an agreement with Wiley to promote Open Access and make it easier for our researchers and authors to achieve. The Johns Hopkins Libraries have entered […]
New Workshops: Copyright for Graduate Students
Are you interested in learning more about the copyright issues that may arise as you develop your scholarship? Would you like to understand what copyright is, how to work with […]
New Open Access Publishing Opportunities for Hopkins Authors: PLOS Biology, PLOS Medicine, and TOME
PLOS Partnership Johns Hopkins Libraries now participate in the PLOS Community Action Publishing (CAP) program to support Hopkins authors in their efforts to publish openly. Any article accepted by PLOS […]
Digital Pedagogy and the Great Global Online Learning Experiment
COVID-19 has enrolled many of us in higher education in an unexpected experiment in online learning. While many classroom teachers have been practitioners of hybrid pedagogy for years—in-person meetings facilitated […]
Ada Lovelace Day
In honor of Ada Lovelace Day, an “international day of blogging to celebrate the achievements of women in technology and science,” I’d like to offer a tribute to Rachel Carson, […]
How Do We Find Geospatial Data?
From using GPS to navigate traffic to apps tailoring selections based on location, geospatial data is integral to our daily lives. Researchers also increasingly use geospatial data. For example, in […]
Life on Mars?
Is there life on Mars? The debate continues. In 1976, NASA launched three experiments to investigate the possibility of life on Mars as part of the Viking Mission. An exhibit on […]
Life on Mars?
Is there life on Mars? The debate continues. In 1976, NASA launched three experiments to investigate the possibility of life on Mars as part of the Viking Mission. An exhibit on […]
Open Access Success Story: 20,000 Free Articles in Particle Physics
Back in 2008 researchers and librarians at CERN wanted to be sure that the high energy and particle physics journals they utilize would be freely available to any reader in […]