What I’m Reading: If correlation doesn’t imply causation, then what does?
Michael Nielsen, author of Reinventing discovery: The new era of networked science wrote a great piece explaining, in part, the theory of …
What I’m Reading: Jailbreaking the PDF
Peter Murray-Rust has written a series of blog posts on Jailbreaking the PDF. The goal of this initiative is to break open …
Enhancing Efficiency and Fueling Economic Growth through Open Data
Today, May 09 2013, the White House issued an Executive Order outlining the rules for government data to be well managed and …
New Database Trial for the Sciences
Howdy, all! Check out our trial for Applied Sciences and Technology Index! Feel free to leave feedback here, or send me an …
Talkin’ about data management
The ever-awe-inspiring Carly Strasser recently published an article on managing data. Managing data is a huge discussion topic in many fields – …
Students! Interested in Open Access?
I am definitely not shy about my love and support for the Open Access movement. Interested in knowing how you can learn …
On Access to ScienceDirect
Greetings all, Thea here again. We are, as always, up to a lot here at the library. One thing that we wanted …
LibGuides and Subject Guides, oh my!
Hey all – Thea here, your local Interdisciplinary Science Librarian. I’ve been working hard to generate some science-specific LibGuides for you all, …
SAGE Open makes publishing Open Access a little easier…
Last week, SAGE announced that it has reduced the publication cost for one of its Open Access journals, SAGE Open, to $99 …