I’m not planning to post on this blog during June-July 2017. If you miss the news summaries or want to make your own choices, I recommend these sources for keeping yourself informed. These compilations are very much my personal choices about stories, so you may find whole areas of “sc...
This report is receiving many comments: What might peer review look like in 2030?, a report from BioMed Central and Digital Science, May 2017, available on Figshare CC-BY. This was a report from a one-day conference in November 2016, SpotOn London. Article titles in the report: Artificial Intelli...
A selected list of new books on the history of German literature (call number range PT1 to PT937). Click on the link for the call number and availability. For additional new books relevant to Germanistik/German Studies, see the other posts in New Books in German Studies. Dingk...
A selected lists of new books (PN1-PN1040) especially relevant for Comparative Literature in call number order. Click on the link for the call number and availability. For additional new books relevant to Comparative Literature, see the other posts in New Books in Comparative Literature. If you’...
Georg Büchner : contemporary perspectives / edited by Robert Gillett, Ernest Schonfield, Daniel Steuer. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2017. SUMMARY: “Examines the continuing relevance of Büchner in the early twenty-first century in terms of politics, science, philosophy, aesthetics, cultural st...
CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, and the American Physical Society (APS) announced that they entered into an agreement for SCOAP3. Under this agreement, high-energy physics articles published in three APS journals – Physical Review C, Physical Review D and Physical Rev...
Join us to celebrate WU Trailblazers tonight at 6:00pm at Washington University in St. Louis, Clark-Fox Forum, Hillman Hall, Brown School of Social Work The purpose of Washington University Trailblazers is to acknowledge, commemorate and celebrate the contributions that Black alumni, faculty and...
The East Asian Library’s latest monthly new book list (covering titles added to the collections in June, 2017) is now available. Check it out at http://libguides.wustl.edu/c.php?g=46908&p=301372.
