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 insights within the traditional humanistic media of texts, images, and
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 (H.W. Wilson). Readers’ Guide to Periodical Literature is a comprehensive
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 wide variety of popular topics. An essential resource for educators,
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 Witchcraft in Europe and America (Archives Unbound). Artemis also allows
Writing a paper in history, political science, economics or cultural studies? Try searching in SBU Libraries’ Making of the Modern World, 1450-1914 (Gale). Find searchable books, serials, pamphlets, and essays from around the world that tell the story of four pivotal centuries in the West. Special emphases include trade and
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, and more. Gain insight into issues related to social and
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 of many newspaper databases lets you customize your experience and
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 After: Beauty and Virtue in Catherine Durand Bédacier’s ‘La fée
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 ‘burbs, USA (New welcome mat from my parents) [CC BY-SA
The SBU Libraries are conducting a trial of Historic Map Works (ProQuest) until April 8, 2016. Give it a try, and let us know what you think! Please send comments to kathleen.kasten@stonybrook.edu. Historic Map Works offers over 1,593,454 searchable, full-color, digitized maps, with content from the 15th-20th centuries. This collection
