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Welcome Molly Higgins!

On February 2, the Health Sciences Library welcomed a new Librarian to our team – Molly Higgins. Molly was most recently a library fellow at the University of Massachusetts Medical School in Worcester, MA.  Previously, she worked at the University

Posted in Health Sciences Library

HSL Librarian Jennifer Lyon accepted to NLM Bioinformatics Course

Jennifer Lyon, HSL Biomedical and Translational Research Librarian will attend the Georgia Biomedical Informatics Course this Spring. The course is a National Libraries of Medicine (NLM) fellowship program directed at medical educators, medical librarians, medical administrators, clinical practitioners, and faculty,

Posted in Health Sciences Library

Nature promotes read-only sharing of articles

Nature will make its articles back to 1869 free to share to be read online but not to be printed or downloaded. All research papers from Nature will be made free to read in a proprietary screen-view format that can

Posted in Health Sciences Library, Open Access, Research, Scholarly Communication, Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics

NSF Integration with NCBI SciENcv

Users of NCBI Science Experts Network Curriculum Vitae (SciENcv) will soon be able to create profiles in the National Science Foundation (NSF) biographical sketch format. This newly added format will be available to download in PDF, MS Word or XML, and

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New ILLiad log in!

Thank you for your patience.  The new ILLiad log in page is now available.  Users with a NetID can now log in using the NetID.  This change will help expedite requests by new users. Some current users may be prompted

Posted in Health Sciences Library, Interlibrary Loan

Updated Health Sciences Website

  The Health Sciences Library website has been updated! Enhancements include a more streamlined graphical interface, prominent links to top research guides, easy to find links to top resources and quick links to most used services. All of the former

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Dental Instruments Exhibit Opens at Health Sciences Library

Dental Instruments — Past and Present, an exhibit of early dental tools and practices, officially opened December 1st at 11 am. A reception was held in the entrance to the Health Sciences Library where the exhibit is located. Objects in

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Dental Instruments — Past and Present

Travel back in time to see instruments used by dentists in the 19th and early 20th centuries. Objects from the personal collection of the late R. Sherman Mills, MD, the Baer Collection from the Stony Brook University School of Dental

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Colleen Kenefick Visits the John Radcliffe Hospital Cairns Library, University of Oxford

On Friday, November 21, 2014, I (Colleen Kenefick, Health Sciences Librarian) spent the day at the John Radcliffe Hospital Cairns Library. This visit was very graciously coordinated in advance between Dr. Hagan Bayley (Department of Chemistry, University of Oxford Chemistry

Posted in Global Initiatives, Health Sciences Library

Welcome Jennifer Lyon!

Jennifer Lyon joined Stony Brook University Libraries on November 6 as the new Biomedical and Translational Research Librarian. Jennifer formerly was a Clinical Research Librarian at the University of Florida where she was liaison to the Clinical and Translational Research

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