That was headline of the New York Times, March 13, 1888, when a severe storm crippled New York City. Calling it “the worst storm the city has ever known,” the Times described the impact of of the blizzard, sharing the…
Yearly Archives: 2015
HSL Librarian Jennifer Lyon accepted to NLM Bioinformatics Course
Jennifer Lyon, HSL Biomedical and Translational Research Librarian will attend the Georgia Biomedical Informatics Course this Spring. The course is a National Libraries of Medicine (NLM) fellowship program directed at medical educators, medical librarians, medical administrators, clinical practitioners, and faculty,…
Posted in Health Sciences Library
Sunday, 1/25: Library website down for maintenance
The University Libraries website will be down for scheduled maintenance this Sunday, 1/25, from 8:00 PM – Midnight. Please use the library research guides at that time for continued access to our online resources and services http://guides.library.stonybrook.edu.
Posted in Alert
Nature promotes read-only sharing of articles
Nature will make its articles back to 1869 free to share to be read online but not to be printed or downloaded. All research papers from Nature will be made free to read in a proprietary screen-view format that can…
NSF Integration with NCBI SciENcv
Users of NCBI Science Experts Network Curriculum Vitae (SciENcv) will soon be able to create profiles in the National Science Foundation (NSF) biographical sketch format. This newly added format will be available to download in PDF, MS Word or XML, and…
Posted in Health Sciences Library
Dr. King Remembered
As our nation, state, and campus observe Martin Luther King, Jr. Day on January 19, SBU Libraries invite you to explore our resources on Dr. King’s life and message. From biographies on Dr. King to full text scholarly articles on…
New Guide to Congressional Research
Interested in finding out more about Congress? SBU Libraries can help with our new guide to Congressional Research and Documents. Whether you are interested in Directories and Biographies on members of Congress or tracking down an elusive CRS report, we’ve…
African American Newspapers (1927 – 1998)
African American Newspapers (1927 – 1998) is a full-text research database providing access to approximately 270 U.S. newspapers from more than 35 states—including many rare and historically significant 19th century titles. Beginning with Freedom’s Journal (NY)—the first African American newspaper published in…
And…we’re back!
Some recent enhancements to ILLiad software did not go as planned and you may have experienced some frustration in attempting to access your ILLiad account. For that we truly apologize. The good news is that ILLiad is back with a…
Posted in About Us
News 12 features Special Collections
Special Collections is currently featured in the News 12 series “Long Island’s Hidden Past” (January 2016). Hosted by journalist Danielle Campbell, the program showcases collections and historic sites throughout Long Island to highlight our region’s history. Rare documents shown and discussed include…
