Janet Clarke

Spotlight: Project MUSE

Project MUSE is a leading provider of digital humanities and social sciences content; its electronic journal collections support a wide array of research. MUSE is a source of complete, full-text versions of scholarly journals from many of the world’s leading university presses and scholarly societies, with over 120 publishers currently participating. Go

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The Write Stuff

Aspiring authors, if you aren’t able to attend this year’s Southampton Writers Conference,  Stony Brook’s annual summer program of stellar writing workshops taught by world class novelists, playwrights, and poets, do not despair….you can still avail yourself of the University Library’s rich collection of resources for creative written expression.  A

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Farewell Thomas, Hello Congress.gov

In 2015, government researchers will say goodbye to Thomas.gov, the congressional research website of the Library of Congress that was launched back in 1995. Its successor, Congress.gov, currently available in beta format, will be the new official website for U.S. federal legislative information. Like Thomas before it, Congress.gov will offer

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19th Annual Stony Brook Film Festival

July 17 marks the start of the annual  Stony Brook Film Festival at the Staller Center for the Arts, where moviegoers will enjoy ten days of terrific short and feature length independent films. Opening night kicks off with the U.S. premiere of feature film Back on Track  (Sein letzes Rennen), about an

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Interlibrary Loan on the move

The Interlibrary Loan department at the Melville Library has moved!  Interlibrary Loans is now located on the 3rd floor of the Melville Library – in the Main Stacks/Circulation area. New contact information:Frank Melville Jr. Memorial Library S-3410 Stony Brook University Stony Brook, NY 11794-3339 Phone: 631.632.7133 Fax: 631.632.9194  

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The ILLiad and the Article

Need a certain research article, but can’t find it through Stony Brook University?   Do not despair!  SBU’s interlibrary loan can help!  ILLiad, or InterLibrary Loan internet accessible database, is the online system used to request material through interlibrary loan for SBU. Need help getting started?  Librarians Jennifer DeVito and Elizabeth Trapasso created a handy tutorial

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Looking for Law in All the Wrong Places? Try WestlawNext

Stony Brook University Libraries are now offering access to the WestlawNext legal research system from two dedicated terminals in the Central Reading Room of the Melville Library. Fulltext primary law coverage includes state and federal caselaw, statutes and regulations. West’s KeyCite feature provides history and citing references to help determine

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Dean Constantinou Presents at Shanghai Normal University

Constantia Constantinou, Dean of University Libraries, was invited to present “The future of research libraries: Challenge, collaboration, opportunity” at the Shanghai Normal University Library, Shanghai, China on June 6, 2014. Michael Huang, Librarian from the SBU Health Sciences Library served as a consecutive translator from English to Mandarin and vice

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Digital National Security Archive

The Digital National Security Archive contains the most comprehensive set of declassified government documents available. The resource now includes 42 collections consisting of over 103,000 indexed documents, with more than 719,000 total pages. Each of these collections, compiled by scholars and experts, covers the most critical world events, countries, and

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