On the evenings of November 19 and November 21, librarians and writing tutors offered drop-in consultations with students who wanted extra support on their research papers. The North Reading Room Learning Lab buzzed with activity as students conversed with tutors…
Originally from the Bronx, at the age of fourteen Jennifer and her family relocated to Brooklyn, NY. Jennifer had attended Frank McCourt High School, a small school located on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. Her long commute to school…
SUNY – Elsevier (ScienceDirect) Negotiations and Impact to SBU
SUNY ends “big deal” agreement with Elsevier, moves to reduced subscription package focused on core titles Following extensive negotiations, SUNY and Elsevier could not reach mutually acceptable terms on renewing our license to ScienceDirect. Rather than canceling access to all…
Students, faculty, and staff gathered at the library yesterday to honor Veterans Day and Military Appreciation Month with a literary karaoke event. Participants were invited to read texts written by or about veterans or members of the military, and to…
At a November 7th ribbon cutting event, Stony Brook University Libraries officially opened its Center for Digital Humanities as a space for research, teaching, and learning in all disciplines related to the practice of the digital humanities. The ribbon cutting event…
On November 6, 2019 the National Institutes of Health (NIH) released a draft of the NIH Policy for Data Management and Sharing. The draft and supporting documentation can be found here on the NIH Office of Science Policy website: https://osp.od.nih.gov/scientific-sharing/nih-data-management-and-sharing-activities-related-to-public-access-and-open-science/…
On October 29, Dr. Andrew Schwartz presented “AI Language Analyses for Mental Health: Digital Words as a Powerful Marker of Well-Being” at the University Libraries. Traditionally, surveys, interviews, and observations are commonly used for assessments. For the first time, Dr.…
The University Libraries has recently launched a Science and Engineering Springer Nature ebook collection that includes graduate and advanced undergraduate textbook, German textbook, research and professional level of monographs, proceedings, PhD thesis and reference work to support for research and…
Distinguished Librarian Michael Bailou Huang was invited to present “Collection development for the 21st century academic library: Experience from the Stony Brook University Libraries” at Number 852 Social Science Forum of Shandong Normal University in Jinan, China on October 17,…
In celebration of Open Access Week, the University Libraries hosted a Wikipedia Edit-a-thon: “Open for Whom? Equity in Open Knowledge.” The event was lead by Lane Raspberry, Wikimedian-in-residence at the Data Science Institute at the University of Virginia and a…