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 […]
Revisiting The New Scientific Journal Article
Back in July of 2009, I wrote a blog post about The Article of the Future (ta-da!) that Cell Press and Elsevier were working on. I thought it was time […]
PubMed Is the Answer!
Maybe PubMed isn’t the answer to *everything*, but this extraordinary database has the answers to most things related to medicine, biochemistry, and other biomedical sciences. The PubMed workshop will be held […]
Eureka!
Since our acquisition last fall of the Dr. Elliott and Eileen Hinkes Collection of Rare Books in the History of Science, we’ve heard from students, faculty, and alumni, all of […]
Worked Problems and Solutions
You have a problem set due in thermo or orgo, but you’re having trouble following the steps about how to solve certain kinds of problems. The library has books full […]
Robots and Robotics
Human beings have been fascinated by robots for hundreds of years. A robot is a “machine that looks like a human being and performs various complex acts (as walking or talking) […]
Standards for the Summer: Deep Fried Food, Roller Coasters, and Yard-Long Drinks
The ASTM Digital Library of publications and standards is now available online through the Johns Hopkins University Libraries. As a read, they are nowhere near exciting as trip to Ocean […]
Western Astronomy in China: Four Hundred Years Ago
Recently, a very rare Chinese book was discovered at the Peabody Library. Hun Gai Tong Xian Tu Shuo (Illustrated Explanation of Cosmological Patterns) was published in 1607 and written by Zhizao Li (1565-1630), […]
PLoS ONE: The Newest SPARC Innovator
SPARC, a coalition of academic and research libraries, wants to improve the scholarly publishing system. To bring attention to individuals and groups that are doing just that, they started the […]
Free E-Books from the National Academies Press
Science, technology, engineering and mathematics publishers are making more and more of their publications freely available online. I recently received emails from IOP and AIP informing me about some of […]