Filed on Jan 29th 2009 in Science
This month ScienceWatch.com released the highest-cited papers from 20 countries spanning the globe. The countries featured were selected based on their papers published in Thomson Reuters-indexed journals from January 1998 through August 31, 2008. The United States ranked number one with 2,959,661 papers and 42,269,694 citations. The most cited article comes from the field of...
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Filed on Jan 26th 2009 in Library News
The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) the world's largest educational and scientific computing society, recently introduced a new search capability to its digital library. This new technology enables users not only to explore existing data but also to discover unexpected information that goes beyond simple query results and helps to foster more research. The new guided...
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Filed on Jan 22nd 2009 in Tips & Tools
Over the winter break you should have received an email from NYU/ITS Client Services providing you with your new University ID number and NetID. While you might not be too excited about yet another login and password to remember, your NetID can make doing research a whole lot easier. After activating your NetID (go to: http://start.nyu.edu), you can now access many electronic resources...
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Filed on Jan 21st 2009 in Staff Picks
In the pre-World Wide Web days, I once believed that the only way to see prints, maps, photographs and other archival image collections in libraries was to make an appointment, sign in, move to a seldom visited room and wait for the material to be brought. I cannot say for sure if that is exactly what happened in most places, but I suspect that it is not far from the truth. Things have...
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Filed on Jan 14th 2009 in Events
In honor of Martin Luther King, Jr., Dibner Library has assembled a new MLK resource guide of books, videos, web sites, and speeches. In addition, the guide includes information on events happening on campus and around town.
As one of the most visible advocates of nonviolence, Martin Luther King, Jr. led to significant social change during the struggle for civil rights in this country...
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