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 subscribed Elsevier ScienceDirect titles, however, the negotiating team worked to
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 share their thoughts about the text they chose.
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 featured remarks by President Bernstein, Dean Fazal, and Jon Heggestad,
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/ Researchers and other stakeholders are strongly encouraged to submit comments
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. Schwartz combines language and machine learning as modern survey to
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 learning at Stony Brook University. These are DRM (Digital Rights
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, 2019. Librarians from Shandong Normal University, Qilu University of Technology,
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 team of librarians. In the two hours, attendees edited 11
“Clothing holds memory.” That was one of the overriding themes of a talk by artist Sue Ferguson Gussow at the Southampton Library’s Art in Focus lecture series on Tuesday night. A Professor Emerita of The Cooper Union School of Architecture, Gussow presented a number of drawings from her series Unoccupied
Many thanks to Shinnecock artist, educator, and author David Martine who started off our fall Art in Focus lecture series with a fascinating look at Native American Art. David is a member of Amerinda, a New York-based organization promoting and supporting Native American artists. David described the history of the
