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NEW Dryad Digital Repository Workshop on April 13th

Are you looking for a place to store and share your research data? Then Dryad may be just the solution you need!  The Dryad Digital Repository provides a secure generalist platform for users to share their research data with the

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Stony Brook University Libraries is Partnering with Ithaka S+R on “Building Campus Strategies for Data Support Services.”

Stony Brook University Libraries is excited to announce that we will be partnering with Ithaka S+R in the second cohort of Building Campus Strategies for Data Support Services.  This partnership consists of a two-year research and consultation project.  The goal

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Stony Brook University Joins the Dryad Digital Repository!

In collaboration with the Office of the Vice President for Research, the Department of Information Technology, SBU’s researchers, Stony Brook University Libraries pleased to announce that the University is now a member of the Dryad Digital Repository, along with numerous

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Happy Match Day!

Stony Brook Libraries would like to wish all of our students a wonderful Match Day! We know you will all do great things in the next stage of your medical careers. Match Day is a day where medical students find

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Service Recognition

On March 2nd, the University celebrated significant milestones for those who have achieved 25 or more years of service. In the library’s we were honored to celebrate the achievements of several team members who have reached milestones of 25, 30,

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NEW NIH DATA MANAGEMENT AND SHARING POLICY

The National Institutes of Health’s (NIH) new Policy for Data Management and Sharing (DMSP) will go into effect on January 25, 2023. The policy, initially released in 2020, requires researchers to submit a plan for how the data from any

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Stony Brook’s Trial of Data Planet

Data Planet is a repository of harmonized and structured statistical data. With this dynamic tool, users can scan and search the contents of billions of datasets, compare and contrast variables of interest, and create customized views in tables, maps, rankings,

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Stony Brook’s Trial of Statista

Statista is a database with access to over a million statistics across 80,000+ topics and 170+ disciplines. All statistics are downloadable and presented in accessible and digestible articles and graphics. For more information, see their overview video here. Stony Brook

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Chancellor’s Award Celebration – Jessica Koos receives medal for Excellence in Librarianship

On November 9th, President McInnis awarded Jessica Koos with her medal and certificate for the Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Librarianship. Jessica has been a Health Sciences Librarian at Stony Brook since 2017 and has contributed to the research, teaching,

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Creating the Fourth Chapter of Human Genomics – Dr. Eric Green 10/3/22

The 2022 Antonija Prelec Memorial Lecture will be held on Monday 10/3/22. This year’s lecturer Dr. Eric Green, MD, PhD, Director, National Human Genome Research Institute. Dr. Green will present his lecture “Creating the Fourth Chapter of Human Genomics” at

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