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 […]
How Do We Find Geospatial Data?
Hopkins partners with Harvard and MIT to launch Public Access Submission System (PASS) and support open access
Johns Hopkins University’s Sheridan Libraries, in collaboration with the Harvard University Office for Scholarly Communication, the MIT Libraries, and with inspiration from Jeff Spies, formerly of the Center for Open […]
Open Access Week Events
Open Access Week 2018 will be full of events around open data, open scholarship, and open access. A complete list is below with links. We’re busy this year to promote […]
Johns Hopkins Open Access Policy
Johns Hopkins joins peer institutions, such as Harvard, MIT, and The University of California, by instituting a faculty open access policy. Many funders also require their researchers to make articles […]
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 […]
How to Avoid Predatory Journals
If you’ve heard horror stories about predatory journals or conferences and want to avoid them, we have a couple ways to help you out. A page about predatory journals, with […]
JHU Libraries Support Open Access
The first Open Access Week blog post looked at how and why individual researchers and groups within JHU make their research openly available. Now it’s time to tell you the […]
“Open in Order to” – Open Access Week 2017
“Open in Order to” is the theme of 2017’s Open Access Week. “Open in order to” invites us to share our reasons for making our research, data, journal articles, and […]