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Grow your knowledge! Research guides for any topic
Start cultivating a garden of knowledge with MIT Libraries’ research guides. Our guides dig deeper than Google to uncover the best sources for information on your research topic. Each guide contains...
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OA research in the news: Atomic collapse seen for the first time
Scanning tunneling microscope image shows an artificial atomic nucleus on graphene. Courtesy of Michael Crommie A team of researchers from MIT and other institutions have shown atomic collapse, a...
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Royal Society of Chemistry offers vouchers to publish articles open access...
The Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) has announced an experimental program for 2013 that will provide vouchers to authors, allowing them to publish their RSC articles open access without paying the...
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Comprehensive Physiology is now online!
Once upon a time when librarians got questions about the human body, they’d walk to the colorful, well-worn, reference volumes of Handbook of Physiology. The Libraries is pleased to announce this...
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Earth Week Film Screening: Chasing Ice, Friday April 26
MIT Libraries in cooperation with the MIT Earth Day Committee present a film viewing of Chasing Ice on Friday, April 26. The film will be introduced by Kerry Emanuel, Professor of Atmospheric Science...
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OA research in the news: Boyden honored for optogenetics work
Ed Boyden, an associate professor of Biological Engineering and Brain and Cognitive Sciences, has won Brandeis University’s Jacob Heskel Gabbay Award in Biotechnology and Medicine. Boyden shares the...
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ASME engineers a new interface
Looking for a paper from ASME? (What IS ASME, you say?) MIT Libraries has subscribed to The American Society of Mechanical Engineers digital library for several years. Now it has a new interface! ASME...
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OA research in the news: Modern dance meets robotics
Umbrella Project performance premiere, fall 2012 Earlier this month, more than 250 members of the MIT community gathered on Jack Berry Field carrying specially made umbrellas that lit up with red,...
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OA research in the news: Tracking bird flu
Ram Sasisekharan New studies coauthored by biological engineering professor Ram Sasisekharan show that two bird flu strains could become highly infectious among humans with just a few genetic...
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OA research in the news: Bertschinger appointed as Community & Equity Officer
Edmund Bertschinger Last week, MIT Provost Chris Kaiser announced that physics department head Edmund Bertschinger will take on a newly created role as Institute Community and Equity Officer....
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SciFinder: Same great content, slightly new look
Many at MIT and thousands around the globe are well acquainted with SciFinder, the most comprehensive discovery tool for chemical information. Now it sports a new interface designed to save you time...
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OneMine helps you dig deeper
Although today you won’t find a Course called “Mining Engineering” at MIT, people have been interested from the Institute’s beginning in 1865 (Course 3, geology and mining) through the present day: see...
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By JoVE, we’ve got it!
You might be one of the many researchers at MIT enjoying the resource JoVE. It’s a way to “read” and see science in motion! Best explained on its website, “Journal of Visualized Experiments (JoVE)...
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OA research in the news: Programming with natural language
Regina Barzilay Researchers in MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory have demonstrated it’s possible to use English instead of specialized programming languages to complete some...
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What we did on your summer vacation!
Welcome Back! The MIT Libraries have been working hard during your summer vacation. Here are some of the new things you can look forward to this fall: New Resources New search tool Finding library...
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OA research in the news: Faculty win “genius grants”
Dina Katabi Two MIT professors are among two dozen nationwide recipients of the 2013 MacArthur Fellowships, known as the “genius grants.” Dina Katabi, a computer scientist, works on wireless data...
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Panel discussion on “New Frontiers in Open Access Publishing” Tuesday,...
The MIT Faculty Open Access Working Group and the MIT Libraries are cosponsoring a panel discussion of “New Frontiers in Open Access Publishing.” The session will be held on Tuesday October 22, from...
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OA research in the news: Nanoparticles attack aggressive tumors
Schematic drawing of a new nanoparticle developed at MIT. Graphic courtesy of the researchers. MIT chemical engineers have developed a new treatment for an aggressive form of breast cancer whose tumors...
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OA research in the news: New way to monitor induced-coma patients
Emery N. Brown Brain injury patients are sometimes deliberately placed in a coma with anesthesia drugs to allow swelling to go down and their brains to heal. Comas can last for days, during which...
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Do you use statistical software packages, such as R, Stata, SAS, or SPSS? Want to be more effective with statistical analysis, research technology, or social science research methods?...
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