As we skate out of snowy season, let’s reflect on the coldest time of year with a few Winter-themed songs from the Lester Levy Sheet Music Collection. The Spring and […]
Snowy Songs From the Lester Levy Sheet Music Collection
New Database: Dimensions
JH Libraries is now providing access to Dimensions, a new bibliometrics, analytics, and research database. If you’re familiar with InCites, Dimensions provides similar, but complementary, analyses and linked information. Researchers […]
New Trends in Digital Librarianship at the DLF
The Digital Library Federation (DLF) Forum took place in St. Louis, Missouri November 12-15. The conference is a yearly event that brings together cultural heritage practitioners who create, preserve, and […]
Retellings for Your Winter Reading
Written by Sue Vazakas and Jenelle Clark, JHU’s Unofficial SF/F Librarians Many authors enjoy “retelling” a story that already exists – they may want to explore the story through characters […]
Recontextualizing Japanese Reparations Photos
By Jenelle Clark and Hanjie Guo Processing archivists spend a lot of our time crafting careful description for the collections our institutions hold. For items that our curators purchase for […]
Johns Hopkins University Open Source Programs Office Announces Project Fund for Free and Open Source Software
The Johns Hopkins University Open Source Programs Office (OSPO) is excited to announce the launch of the new Free and Open Source Software Project Fund (FOSSProF). FOSSProF is a community-driven […]
OA Week: JH Libraries Supports Book Authors Too!
Sometimes, when we talk about Open Access (OA), it can feel like we focus way too much on STEM fields. However, humanities and social sciences want to publish OA too! […]
OA Week: Digital Humanities’ Ethos of Sharing
Please enjoy this blog post written by Emily McGinn. Open Access is at the heart of the Digital Humanities (DH). Freely available and unfettered data is key to being able […]
OA Week: OSTP Nelson Memo Update
What’s going on with the Nelson Memo? In August of 2022, the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) issued Guidance to Make Federally Funded Research Freely Available […]
OA Week: Five Action Items Researchers Can Take Today
Interested in getting more eyes on your publications? Avoiding paywalls for the articles you want to read? Asserting rights to read and reuse your own work? Read on for five […]