Yesterday afternoon faculty and students gathered in the Center for Scholarly Communications at Melville Library to discuss the digital humanities and to explore new possibilities for research. Emphasizing practices and tools, scholars presented projects which used technology to reveal new…
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Trial Access Added to Readers’ Guide Retrospective: 1890-1982 (H.W. Wilson)
Stony Brook University Libraries will trial Readers’ Guide Retrospective: 1890-1982 (H.W. Wilson) until October 22, 2016. Please let us know what you think! This trial is being run simultaneously with our trial of Readers’ Guide to Periodical Literature: 1983- present…
Posted in Database Trials, History
SBU Libraries Trial: Readers’ Guide to Periodical Literature (H.W. Wilson)
Stony Brook University Libraries will trial Readers’ Guide to Periodical Literature (H.W. Wilson) until October 22, 2016. Please let us know what you think! Readers’ Guide to Periodical Literature is a comprehensive tool which provides trusted, broad information on a…
Posted in Database Trials, Reference
Get in Touch with the Past with Artemis: Primary Sources (Gale)
Make connections and gain greater insight into your research by searching three primary source databases at once. Artemis: Primary Sources provides access and simultaneous cross searching of three Gale primary source databases: Sabin Americana, 1500-1926, Eighteenth Century Collections Online, and…
Get Inspired with Making of the Modern World, 1450-1914
Enhance Your Research with Sabin Americana (ProQuest)
The Sabin Americana database offers searchable, full-text access to thousands of archival documents from North, South, and Central America, as well as the Caribbean, from 1500 to 1926. Use it to enhance your research in history, cultural studies, religion, literature,…
Need some inspiration for your research? Consider SBU Libraries’ “Old News” Databases
Primary sources are endlessly fascinating and can add value to research in a variety of disciplines. Newspapers from another time add perspective and help the modern researcher to better understand the events, ideas, and preoccupations of the past. The searchability…
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SBU Librarian Presents at Northeast Modern Language Conference & Mid-Atlantic Regional Archives Conference
Kate Kasten, Head of Humanities & Social Sciences at SBU Libraries, presented papers at the Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA) convention and at the Mid-Atlantic Regional Archives Conference (MARAC) this spring. At NeMLA, Kate presented a paper entitled, “(Un)happily Ever…
Posted in Arts & Humanities
End-of-semester Reference in the Humanities Building, May 2nd 2-3
Join us for an end-of-semester, on-site reference hour in the Humanities Building lobby on Monday, May 2nd from 2 to 3. Librarians will be available to answer questions about research, collections, and library services. Image: By The McClouds from Chicago…
