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Learn the basics for searching Web of Science, an article database covering a broad range of subjects. If you have questions or comments, please Ask Us!
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Learn the basics for searching Web of Science, an article database covering a broad range of subjects. If you have questions or comments, please Ask Us!
MIT Libraries
This video shows how to search two engineering and science literature databases: Compendex and Inspec. Compendex covers literature in all aspects of engineering, while Inspec focuses on electronics, computing, control, robotics, and physics ...
The Lewis Music Library's Music at MIT Oral History Project was established in 1999 to document the vibrant history of music at MIT.
Know you want to make/create a certain type of device but aren't sure what companies also make/create that device? This video shows you how to use the patent literature to figure out what companies do what you want to do. Then ...
This video will show you how you can use a company database, like Hoover's, to generate a list of competitors for a company. You can use this competitor list to generate a pool of companies to apply to, or to learn more about the company you ...
This video shows how you can use a company database, like Hoover's, to create a list of companies in a certain geographical area, by an industry code, or other criteria. If you have questions or comments about the MIT Libraries, Ask ...
This tutorial demonstrates how to track who has cited an article using the database Web of Science. If you have questions or comments about the MIT Libraries, Ask Us!
This tutorial demonstrates how to use Barton, the MIT Libraries catalog, to find journals that MIT subscribes to in print or electronically. If you have questions or comments about the MIT Libraries, Ask Us!
John Unsworth discusses the recent formation of large-scale, collaborative digital libraries and the challenges and opportunities they pose for researchers seeking to use and study their collections. He describes the various challenges facing ...
Paul N. Courant discusses the recent formation of large-scale, collaborative digital libraries and the challenges and opportunities they pose for researchers seeking to use and study their collections. He explains the interconnected genesis of the ...
With Paul N. Courant & John Unsworth. Recorded on 5/25/12 at the MIT Faculty Club.
In 2008, the Charles J. Connick Stained Glass Foundation generously donated its collection to the MIT Libraries.
This video demonstrates how to access a sampling of company-level environmental, social, and governance data using ThomsonReuters' Datastream.
Part of the MIT Libraries video tutorial series. This video explains how to search for a journal in Barton, the MIT Libraries catalog. Used in 3.091: Introduction to Solid State Chemistry.
Library Myths sets the record straight, debunking common misconceptions about libraries. The premiere episode reveals things you never knew you could check out of the MIT Libraries.
The eighth annual Prokopoff Concert honoring a gift of violin music to the Lewis Music Library from Lois Craig. Performed by MIT students.
A brief tour highlighting the collections, facilities, and services of the Lewis Music Library. Filmed by Gregory Perkins '10.
The Lewis Music Library hosted a concert of East Asian music by Oori and KIOKU on March 5, 2010. MIT student pungmul group Oori began the evening by performing traditional Korean music on a variety of percussion instruments, including the jang-goo, ...
Performance by the Chorallaries, MIT's student a cappella group, at the Institute Archives & Special Collections - February 2, 2010
Illustrated talk by Professor Jeffrey Ravel at the opening of Technology and Enlightenment: The Mechanical Arts in Diderot's Encyclopédie at the MIT Libraries' Maihaugen Gallery - February 2, 2010
Explains how you can employ the concept of "Fair Use" under US copyright law to legally reuse content; offers relevant tools to support your own fair use analysis; and shows how you can find images available for reuse without permission
Through this popular annual loan program, individual students and student groups may borrow original works of art from the collection for their private rooms and communal spaces.
Social phobias affect about 15 million adults in the United States, according to the National Institute of Mental Health, and surveys show that public speaking is high on the list of such phobias. For some people, these fears of social situations can be especially ...
Sharmila C. Chatterjee, senior lecturer in marketing at the MIT Sloan School of Management, explains how to create a smart content marketing strategy.
Tauhid Zaman, assistant professor of operations management at the MIT Sloan School of Management, explains how to predict the popularity of a Twitter post.
Dr. Angela Belcher received the 2013 $500,000 Lemelson-MIT Prize for applying lessons in nature to design environmentally-friendly batteries, solar cells and clean transportation fuel, among other inventions.
This 30-minute documentary features the March 2012 premiere of "Awakening: Evoking the Arab Spring through Music," by composer Jamshied Sharifi '83.
Five graduating seniors discuss their time at MIT and what they look forward to in the future.
Robot instrument builder and MIT alum Andy Cavatorta discussed the creative process as part of CAST's 2013 "Music and Technology" seminar series. For more information: http://arts.mit.edu/cast/sss-lecturedemonstrations/
Institute Professor Emeritus Noam Chomksy, MIT Professor of Linguistics; Flynt Leverett and Hillary Mann Leverett, authors of "Going to Tehran: Why the United States Must Come to Terms with the Islamic Republic of Iran"
On May 15, 2013, 3dim earned the grand prize at this year’s MIT $100K Entrepreneurship Competition.
The MIT Glass Lab is administratively co-sponsored by the Materials Processing Center and the Department of Materials Science and Engineering.
Learning the difference between kinetic and static friction.
Jesper Juul offered this lecture on Nov. 28, 2006. Juul is a video game theorist and assistant professor in video game theory and design at the Centre for Computer Game Research Copenhagen, where he also earned his PhD.
In a visit to the MIT campus on May 14, 2013, British Prime Minister David Cameron met with President L. Rafael Reif and Media Lab director Joichi Ito, faculty members and students, and a group of young MIT entrepreneurs.
Did you know that glaciers hold nearly two percent of Earth's water?
Speakers: Stephen Van Evera, Elizabeth Wood, Carol Saivetz, Bakyt Beshimov, Peter Krause, Jeanne Guillemin and Silvia Dominguez. Moderator: Richard Samuels
What message is your brain sending?
You can create your own mini flashlight.
Scenes from MIT's campus during the memorial ceremony for Officer Sean Collier on April 24, 2013.
Bicycle trick riding, no. 2 / Thomas A. Edison, Inc. CREATED/PUBLISHED United States : Edison Manufacturing Co., 1899. SUMMARY Opens with a man riding a bicycle in a backwards circle, on a stage with a painted backdrop of a city street. He dismounts, then remounts the ...
CREATED/PUBLISHED United States : Edison Manufacturing Co., [1896] SUMMARY From Maguire & Baucus catalogue: Showing "Herald" building, street and elevated railroad. NOTES Copyright: no reg. Camera, William Heise. Duration: 0:11 at 24 fps. MAVIS 214311. Filmed May 11, ...
OTHER TITLES Title in Maguire & Baucus catalogue: Paterson Falls CREATED/PUBLISHED United States : Edison Manufacturing Co., [1896] SUMMARY From Maguire & Baucus catalogue: A beautiful picture of the falls of the Passaic River, near Paterson, N.J. NOTES Copyright: no ...
CREATED/PUBLISHED United States : Thomas A. Edison, Inc., 1902. SUMMARY As early as 1874, passenger balloon flights were being made over San Francisco. San Franciscans - and Americans in general - were fascinated with the thrills and dangers of flight. Although ...
Photos of 2013 MechE grad students
The annual McGovern Institute symposium took place on May 8, 2013 and featured nine talks on the subject of motor control and the motor cortex. In this video, Bob Wurtz of the NIH presents his talk, entitled "Adding corollary discharge to motor computations for action ...
The annual McGovern Institute symposium took place on May 8, 2013 and featured nine talks on the subject of motor control and the motor cortex. In this video, Krishna Shenoy of Stanford University presents his talk, entitled "Motor cortical control and prostheses: a ...
The annual McGovern Institute symposium took place on May 8, 2013 and featured nine talks on the subject of motor control and the motor cortex. In this video, Tamar Flash of the Weizmann Institute presents her talk, entitled "Geometry, time and compositionality in ...
The annual McGovern Institute symposium took place on May 8, 2013 and featured nine talks on the subject of motor control and the motor cortex. In this video, Larry Abbott of Columbia University presents his talk, entitled "Network Models of Motor Cortex."
The annual McGovern Institute symposium took place on May 8, 2013 and featured nine talks on the subject of motor control and the motor cortex. In this video, Moshe Abeles of Bar-Ilan University presents his talk, entitled "Detecting the dynamics of binding amongst ...
The annual McGovern Institute symposium took place on May 8, 2013 and featured nine talks on the subject of motor control and the motor cortex. In this video, Sandro Mussa-Ivaldi of Northwestern University presents his talk, entitled "Geometrical aspects of modularity ...
Tom Donohue, President and CEO, U.S. Chamber of Commerce MIT CTL Global Leadership Lecture Series - April 11, 2013
The Chandra Astrophysics Institute is an opportunity for students in grades 9-11 from a wide range of academic backgrounds to train for and undertake astronomy projects. The students are mentored by MIT scientists and use observations from the Chandra X-Ray space ...
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