Last week we ran a quiz about Open Access Week. We had blog posts about authors’ rights, philosophy resources, and Open Data. Here are the winners of our prizes! Chris […]
Unleash Your Inner Author
If you need a reason to start and finish that great unwritten novel, look no further: National Novel Writing Month is almost upon us. Between November 1 and 11:59:59 on […]
The Salem Witch Trials (1692-1693)
Between the years 1692-1693, several people were brought to trial in colonial Massachusetts for their involvement in witchcraft. The mass hysteria began when Elizabeth Parris, the nine year old daughter […]
Open Access Week: Opening Doors with Open Data
The idea of sharing research data – both scientific and social science – has been around for quite some time (for replication studies and new science), but the Open Data […]
Tales from the Trenches, Educause Edition
We’ve triumphantly returned from Educause Annual Conference after presenting our poster, Tales from the Trenches: Social Media Use at the Sheridan Libraries, to a whole range of folks from higher […]
Open Access Week: Philosophy Resources
The Open Access (OA) movement is most typically associated with a specific disciplinary domain and a specific format of research literature: The scientific journal article. But OA is actually much broader […]
Open Access Week: Authors’ Rights and Copyrights
You have written a manuscript describing your research. This manuscript represents hundreds of hours spent reading, writing, and doing the actual research. To get this published in a reputable journal, […]
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 […]
Happy Anniversary to Us
Get out your confetti and party hats, ’cause this January marks the fifth anniversary of our blog! We’ve just passed 800 entries, and we’re celebrating by taking this show on […]