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MIT Libraries launch gravitational wave resource guide
Two black holes merge into one. Image Credit: SXS, the Simulating eXtreme Spacetimes (SXS) project Last week, moments after researchers in the LIGO Scientific Collaboration announced the first direct...
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MIT Media Lab and MIT Press Launch Journal of Design and Science
The MIT Press issued the following release today: The MIT Media Lab and the MIT Press today announced the launch of the Journal of Design and Science (JoDS). This online, open access journal provides a...
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It’s Leap Year Day!
Common knowledge says we enjoy this extra day every four years, but is that really the frequency of February 29? Two online resources from the MIT Libraries answer this question and highlight the...
View ArticleUSGS releases Public Access Plan
The U.S. Geological Survey recently released its Public Access Plan in compliance with the White House Directive. The plan, which takes effect on October 1, 2016, builds upon the USGS’s existing...
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OA research in the news: Why Only Us?
Alfred Russel Wallace, a naturalist and co-discoverer of evolution by natural selection, once said he was confused about language because humans didn’t need it. People, he said, could get by with a...
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Electrochemical Society offers free credits to publish open access articles
The MIT Libraries now subscribe to ECS Plus, which includes access to all Electrochemical Society content and unlimited free credits to MIT authors who want to make their journal articles open access....
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Changes in Journal Citation Reports (JCR) improve analysis of journals
Perhaps you’ve used JCR from Thomson Reuters to find the “impact factor” of a journal, to compare journals, or to discover a new place to publish your work. Until now, this was a fairly tedious...
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“Water, Water, Every Where…” [1]
One of the most active areas of ongoing research and coursework at MIT is water: its technologies, policies, present resources, and future demands. The MIT Libraries acquire many new books, journals,...
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Synthesis eBooks: A great place to start in EECS
The MIT Libraries is pleased to announce access to the latest collection in the Synthesis Digital Library of Engineering and Computer Science. The Synthesis eBooks, or “lectures,” are 50-200-page...
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Brown Bag: The Visual Component
Join the Program on Information Science for our May Brown Bag with Felice Frankel, research scientist in the Center for Materials Science and Engineering here at MIT. She will discuss visual...
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How to get published in IEEE journals
Attention, would-be IEEE authors! Ruth Wolfish, IEEE client services manager, will present “How to get published in IEEE journals.” This overview of how to become an IEEE author and best practices for...
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Why not Ask Us? It’s April!
Let’s face it: the last half of the spring semester is here, papers are due, assignments need to be completed. The time seems right to highlight one of the best ways MIT Libraries supports teaching and...
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Looking to manage your active research and data? Try LabArchives
Looking for a more robust way to keep track of your research data, collaborate within a research group, and share resources across group members and devices? Electronic Lab Notebooks, or ELNs, expand...
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TAIR brings Arabidopsis Thaliana data to you
Many of you will already know the key plant Arabidopsis thaliana, the first plant to have its genome sequenced. But did you know MIT Libraries provides full access to TAIR, The Arabidopsis Information...
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Ripple Effect
Image: SXS, the Simulating eXtreme Spacetimes (SXS) project. More than one billion years ago, two massive black holes collided and merged, releasing energy in the form of gravitational waves, or...
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OA research in the news: A cheap, fast test for the Zika virus
Image: Wyss Institute at Harvard University Researchers at MIT and other universities have developed a cheap, fast test to diagnose the Zika virus, which is spread by infected mosquitoes and is...
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Can Computers be Feminist? Procedural Politics and Computational Creativity
Join the Program on Information Science for a brown bag talk, Can Computers be Feminist? Procedural Politics and Computational Creativity. Discussant Gillian Smith will examine how computers are...
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Even more IET eBooks
It’s always newsworthy when 37 years of a publisher’s books become available online to MIT, especially if the content is central to much of our research and teaching. The Institution of Engineering and...
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OA research in the news: MIT scientists ain’t afraid of no ghost
Photo: Sony Pictures Several MIT researchers had a hand in boosting the “geek cred” of characters in this summer’s Ghostbusters reboot. Physics faculty members Janet Conrad and Lindley Winslow, along...
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National Parks in the Libraries
Brink of the Lower Falls, Yellowstone The record numbers of visitors to our National Parks this summer reminds us that 2016 marks the centennial of the National Parks Service. Crowds will fill the Arch...
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