Filed on Oct 31st 2008 in alert
Enjoy these fun Halloween bookmarks - they won't give you cavities!
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Filed on Oct 27th 2008 in Library News
Lexis Nexis Academic, a powerful tool for finding both current and historical news has been added to the collection of databases accessible through the Dibner Library web site. Unlike many of our other databases, its focus is not on scholarly journals. However, if you want to search newspaper articles from past or present, research company performance, or find legal information, it is hard to...
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Filed on Oct 21st 2008 in Technology, Culture & Society
Imagine legally reading books, watching movies, listening to music -- all for free. Many public libraries now make this possible. Collections vary in size, but we are fortunate to be living in a area with easy access to three of the largest and best public library systems in the country:
The New York Public Library
The Brooklyn Public Library
The Queens Library
You need a card, but...
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Filed on Oct 15th 2008 in Mathematics
Cornell University Libraries recently announced that arXiv, the free online repository for articles in physics, math, computer science, quantitative biology and statistics, now contains over half a million articles.
arXiv was developed in 1991 and is the oldest online article repository in existence. Researchers upload their own articles to arXiv, and they are usually made available to the...
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Filed on Oct 10th 2008 in Scholarly Publishing
If you think textbooks are expensive, you might be shocked to find out how much scholarly journals cost. For example, a subscription to the Journal of Fluid Mechanics costs the library $3,250 each year - and that's just for one journal! Fortunately, the internet allows alternative publishing options for scholars which can help research become more accessible by removing price barriers...
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