On Saturday, May 17, the Library’s George Washington letter, written in 1779, made its first trip off-campus for a public viewing. The occasion was the designation of The Brewster House (c.1665) in Setauket being placed on the New York State…
Yearly Archives: 2008
News from Project MUSE
Project MUSE introduces linked subject headings (reproduced from Project MUSE’s recent email announcement) Users of Project MUSE articles and Tables of Contents in our recently-launched new format may have noticed an additional feature – “clickable” subject headings for each article,…
Gallica Digital Library
The Gallica Digital Library from the Bibliothèque nationale de France provides free access to thousands of digital books as well as 18th and 19th century journals. The collection includes material from various subject areas including chemistry, philosophy and history. The…
Posted in French
A Wok Through Chinese Culinary History
A 3,000-course cultural feast… with no calories! Save and digest the history of Chinese cuisine at a dramatic new exhibition of the Jacqueline M. Neiman Chinese Cookbook Collection. Stony Brook University’s collection includes more than 3,000 cookbooks – from the…
Oxford Music Online
Grove Music Online is now part of the Oxford Music Online database. Grove Music Online includes the full texts of The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, 2nd Edition (2001), The New Grove Dictionary of Opera (1992), and The…
Oxford Art Online
Grove Art Online is now part of the Oxford Art Online database. Grove Art Online includes more than 23,000 subject entries, 21,000 biographies, 500,000 bibliographic citations, 40,000 image links and 5,000 images. In addition to Grove, Oxford Art Online includes…
NIH Public Access Policy Now In Effect
Effective April 7th, 2008 the National Institutes of Health (NIH) made the dissemination of NIH-funded research results mandatory (NIH Public Access Policy, PL 110-161). Any peer-reviewed article or manuscript accepted for publication that results in whole or in part from…
Posted in Research, Scholarly Communication
Digitized Collections Document the History of Stony Brook University
In celebration of the Stony Brook University’s 50th Anniversary, there is a new website for the University Archives. The site includes a history and timeline of the University, information about print, photographic, and multi-media collections, and links to newly digitized…
Authors: Check your H-index in the Web of Science
The H-index measures the productivity of a researcher and the impact of their work. The Web of Science offers a calculation of an author’s H-index based on all of an author’s publications that are indexed by the Web of Science.…
Summary of ARTstor’s 2007 additions
In 2007 ARTstor added 29 new collections, and added content to 11 existing collections. See the full release of information from ARTstor about the collections they added, enhanced, and updated in 2007.
