COS Pivot Tutorials

This is a tough question to answer, especially if you're researching a topic new to you. And it's an important question since you're considering citing this website in your presentation.

Trouble in Mind is a new text written by a Johns Hopkins psychiatric clinician, educator, and researcher, aimed to answer fundamental questions about mental illness.

This website serves as an introduction to the book and to the author.

RefWorks is an online personal database where you can store and organize citations, as well as generate easy bibliographies and citations. It is free to use since JHU has an institutional subscription.

Digital Collections, Friedheim Library  
Digital collections drawn from the rare, special and archival holdings of the Arthur Friedheim Library, Peabody Institute.

Use this guide to find information and research about computer science and information security, and related topics.

PsycINFO is a library database that covers a LOT of ground. Subject-wise, it includes (but isn’t limited to) the following topics:

psychology
psychiatry
animal behavior
neuroscience
social psychology
educational psychology
history of psychology
It covers different types of literature:

peer-reviewed journal articles
periodical articles
book chapters
dissertations

To mark the end of 2011, CCSS staff have gathered eleven of the most interesting and illuminating findings and ideas generated by our work during the year. While you’re here, please be sure to explore our brand new website, including a searchable publications database, and expanded sections for each of our research projects. We invite you to sign up for our mailing list or follow us on Twitter or Facebook to keep up to date on the ideas to come in 2012!

To make sure that you don’t miss out on any e-books that the library has purchased, configure Google Scholar so that you’re connected to the libraries’ holdings. Now, the next time you search Google Scholar, you will see links that say FINDIT@JHU.

PsycINFO is the database to use for literature searches about psychology, psychiatry, behavioral science (including animal behavior), and mental health. The things you already know how to do probably include keyword searching and using FindIt to link to the full text of articles. Using the limits can make your search more precise.

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NEUROSCIENCE COMMUNITY NEWS

Intellectual output of the university including content from collaborative projects with other institutions (such as research papers, conference proceedings, faculty sponsored student design projects or undergraduate honors theses)
Unique, unusual, or particularly important library, research, or teaching collections
Publications and public records of Johns Hopkins

JScholarship is designed to gather, distribute, and preserve digital materials related to the Johns Hopkins research and instructional mission.

Copyright basics for faculty, students, and library visitors

Scientists at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine claim to have determined the proper dose levels needed to create positive changes in attitudes, mood, life satisfaction, and behavior that persist for more than a year with the psychoactive substance in so-called "magic mushrooms."

The psychedelic drug in magic mushrooms may have lasting medical and spiritual benefits, according to new research from Johns Hopkins School of Medicine.

Geoffrey Corb, IT Director, Johns Hopkins University

Procurement Card Program

4 Ways to Catalog Your Books at Home

e-Libris is the online publication of the Friends of the Johns Hopkins University Libraries. In addition to offering the twice-yearly issues of Ex Libris online, e-Libris publishes updates several times each month with news and events of interest to the Friends and the Hopkins community.

Physicians, nurses and other health care providers can have some of the most up-to-date information on the growing diabetes epidemic at their fingertips, thanks to the release of a new Johns Hopkins guide to the disease now available on all smart phone devices.

Our annual video shout out in gratitude to the many thousands of alumni and friends whose support makes Johns Hopkins all that it is. Thank you!

Ten distinguished cognitive neuroscientists, cognitive psychologists and linguists from top institutions across the country will gather at Shriver and Mason halls this week to discuss what promise to be the most exciting new developments in the study of the mind and brain over the coming decade. Sponsored by the departments of Cognitive Science and Psychological and Brain Sciences and the Zanvyl Krieger Mind/Brain Institute, this seminar will do more than stimulate discussion: It will create a blueprint for the future of cognitive and brain sciences at The Johns Hopkins University

http://proclus.gnu-darwin.org/
http://biophysics.med.jhmi.edu/love/

Neuroethics & Law Blog
An interdisciplinary forum for legal and ethical issues related to the mind and brain.

Google Scholar lets you search broadly for scholarly publications.  Now it can tell you whether the JHU Libraries subscribe to an article online and can link to the full text.  If your search results include books, Google Scholar can also indicate whether they're in the JHU Libraries collection.

The Johns Hopkins School of Medicine’s Brain Science Institute (BSi) brings together both basic and clinical neuroscientists from across the Johns Hopkins campuses. The BSi represents one of the largest and most diverse groups in the University.

Project MUSE is a unique collaboration between libraries and publishers, providing 100% full-text, affordable and user-friendly online access to a comprehensive selection of prestigious humanities and social sciences journals. MUSE's online journal collections support a diverse array of research needs at academic, public, special and school libraries worldwide.

baltimore opensource group

Meet other baltimore people who love computers, love software, and love open source. Talk free software and open source projects. Programmers and designers welcome. If you'd like to start working on an open source project: come. If you've got a project you're working on: share it. If you're working on some other sort of technical project in/around baltimore: come.

we've also got a website:
www.baltimoreopensource.com

The Johns Hopkins University Procurement Card Program is one of the University's two recommended methods for making small dollar purchases of urgently needed supplies and services. The Procurement Card Program is designed to provide authorized faculty and staff with a cost-effective and convenient method of procuring and paying for small dollar purchases of regularly consumed supplies and services

Looking for an authoritative introduction to a country, era or historical event? Need to know more about the history of literature, politics, religion or philosophy? Look no further than Cambridge Histories Online. This resource contains over 650 volumes covering 15 subjects, and offers comprehensive and authoritative scholarly content.

No one can know exactly what Finn M. W. Caspersen, a prominent philanthropist and the heir to the Beneficial Corporation fortune, was thinking when he decided to take his life on Labor Day. Although Mr. Caspersen, 67, was battling kidney cancer, his suicide shocked his family and friends.

More than half of adult Americans report they have had a spiritual experience that changed their lives. Now, scientists from universities like Harvard, Pennsylvania and Johns Hopkins are using new technologies to analyze the brains of people who claim they have touched the spiritual — from Christians who speak in tongues to Buddhist monks to people who claim to have had near-death experiences. Hear what they have discovered in this controversial field, as the science of spirituality continues to evolve.