Halloween, which dates back to Celtic rituals thousands of years ago, has long been associated with witches, ghosts and vampires. Today, Halloween has become a celebration characterized by child-friendly activities such as costumes, trick-or-treating and carving pumpkins into jack-o'-lanterns. To help celebrate the holiday, we have compiled a few interesting... Read the rest of this entry »

Just in time for Halloween, our library is going through an amazing transfiguration! If you have been into the Pickering Library lately, you may have noticed a lot of action going on.  The regular deliveries three times a week from the Wheelock Library storage collection are bringing wonderful material into our... Read the rest of this entry »

Add to Wikipedia’s Content about Africa or Contribute to African-Language Wikipedias November 13, 2018, 1-4pm Boston University, 745 Commonwealth Ave. School of Theology, Room B24 (Oxnam Room)  Please RSVP using the form below   Edit Wikipedia in African Languages Did you know there are active Wikipedias in 292 languages, including more than 30 African languages? Yet... Read the rest of this entry »

Did you know that the Pardee Management Library has Business FAQs containing answers to hundreds of commonly asked business research questions? The Business FAQs can be searched by keyword or you can browse by general topics such as Bloomberg, Careers, Companies, Corporate Finance, Economics, Investing, and Marketing and Advertising. Here are... Read the rest of this entry »

Boston University Libraries and Boston College Libraries are pleased to announce OpenCon 2018 Boston on Friday, November 9th. OpenCon is an annual global event that helps educate and drive culture change around open access. Participants learn about open access, open education, open data, and hear from colleagues regarding the important work they... Read the rest of this entry »

Have you seen What's New in BU Libraries Search? This great new section within our Search interface keeps you up to date with all of the latest innovations to our system.  For instance, did you know our system is capable of "Search Term Expansion", which finds variants of keywords entered, as... Read the rest of this entry »

If you want to learn more about financial databases provided by the Pardee Library, a brief description is available through the Financial Databases Overview research tutorial. These databases include company financials, historical prices, financial ratios and market data. A complete list of all Pardee Library databases is available through the Business... Read the rest of this entry »

Pardee Library recently received the 2017 and 2018 GuideStar Nonprofit Compensation Report. The latest report summarizes and analyzes the compensation of 159,000 positions at approximately 112,000 charitable nonprofit organizations. The report is based on GuideStar’s database of digitized IRS 990 Forms and is available at the Pardee Library Circulation Desk. The library... Read the rest of this entry »

Access World News provides full-text current and archived articles on issues, events, people, government and more. This resource includes local news, editorials, announcements and other sections from more than 10,000 sources. Access World News is grant funded through August 2020. If you need any assistance with this resource, please contact a reference librarian. 

When 500 scientists from around the globe were assessed by the Nature Index and the League of Scholars Whole-of-Web (WoW), based on their curiosity, their initiative, their flexibility, their published research, and their links to industry, and the top names surfaced, Boston University’s Sahar Sharifzadeh was chosen one of 11 Rising... Read the rest of this entry »