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Introducing Covidence

SBU researchers now have access to an institutional subscription to Covidence, a web-based platform designed to make conducting evidence synthesis projects more manageable. Most commonly used for systematic or scoping reviews, Covidence can support and streamline any sort of knowledge synthesis project. The platform allows you to do your citation

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2025 Antonija Prelec Memorial Lecture Recap

The annual Antonija Prelec Memorial Lecture took place in the Wang Center Theater on March 27th, 2025. This event celebrates the life and accomplishments of the founding Director of the Stony Brook University Health Sciences Library, Antonija Prelec. The lecture is open to all, and typically features a high-profile speaker

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Join Us on the Art Crawl!

Friday, April 4 from 11am to 2pm | Free guided tours of campus art galleries – join at any point on the tour! Stony Brook University hosts a variety of renowned art galleries that provide unique spaces and opportunities for cultural and artistic exchanges and collaborations. Our Art Crawls unite our university’s galleries

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Pardon the Disruption – Health Sciences Library

Exciting Updates in Progress Please pardon our appearance and any noise as we update our collections. Currently, we’re in the process of general maintenance and assessing our collection to ensure it remains relevant, well-curated, and accessible. These updates are in preparation for a space renovation that will create better study

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NAXOS Music Library Essay Contest!

Greetings Stony Brook University Students! The following is an announcement for the NAXOS Student Essay Contest. NAXOS is a database which contains classical, jazz and world music from the NAXOS label catalog and other labels as well! To access our unlimited simultaneous user subscription, click on “Databases,” and then click

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Two New Hires in Content Services

We’re excited to introduce two new team members who have joined the Content Acquisitions department!  Annette Mims is our new Content Acquisitions Manager Annette will be contributing to collection development, maintaining vendor relationships, overseeing external accessibility and information security reviews, and managing workflows related to resource acquisition. She has been

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Match Day 2025: Good luck to all!

Stony Brook Libraries would like to wish all of our students a wonderful Match Day! We know you will all do great things in the next stage of your medical careers. Every March, fourth-year medical students in the Stony Brook University Renaissance School of Medicine receive the news as to

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Art of the Violin Offers Dynamic Program

Listeners were treated to an enjoyable program presented by Professor Jennifer Frautschi’s violin students in the Galleria on March 12. Hudson Young and Professor Frautschi played movements from Gabriel Fauré’s Sonata for Violin and Piano, with accompaniment by Muli Yu. A cycle of Five Western Chinese Folk Songs, arranged by

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Do You Know Your Music History?

Before there was Spotify and streaming and endless digital catalogs, listening to music was a physical experience. You bought something flat and round that you held in your hands and then you put it into or onto a device and played it. You might have to turn a few knobs

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