Just over a month ago, a number of scholars, researchers, writers and countries were acknowledged for their contributions to their various fields with the award of the Nobel Prize. Throughout […]
Data Management Workshops
Grant proposals for the National Science Foundation, and for a growing number of other funders, require data management plans. Developing a competitive data management plan requires understanding and addressing all […]
The Violinist’s Thumb
Did the human race almost go extinct? Can genetics explain a crazy cat lady’s love for felines? How does DNA lead to people with no fingerprints, or humans born with […]
An Archaeology of Knowledge
What do netsukes, skulls, globes, portable pianos and lab equipment have in common? They are soon to be part of an art installation in the Brody Learning Commons designed by […]
Protocols: Not Just for the Polite
Protocols are generally understood as sets of rules. There are etiquette protocols, computer protocols, political protocols, and even laboratory protocols. For biologists and bench scientists protocols are lab recipes followed to […]
Finding Computer Books
You need a book about MatLab, JavaScript, or cryptography. How do you find it? Save your time: look in the one place that lists all of the books that we […]
PsycINFO: The Power of a Thesaurus
Previous posts have described the PsycINFO literature database and its limits. But searching the scholarly literature offers another major challenge: using the scholars’ language correctly. Why use the thesaurus? The […]
PsycINFO: A Database for Your Mind
PsycINFO is a library database that covers a LOT of ground. Subject-wise, it includes (but isn’t limited to) the following topics: psychology psychiatry animal behavior neuroscience social psychology educational psychology […]
eLife: Another Attempt to Change the Scientific Journal
eLife is the newest example of the changes sweeping journal publishing. (It’s so new, it doesn’t have its own website yet.) We’ve already seen: the movement away from print to […]
Background on the Elsevier Boycott
If you’ve heard about the boycott of Elsevier, you may have a few questions about why this is happening. Below is an overview, followed by a boat-load of links. Don’t […]