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Michael Bailou Huang Elected to IFLA Standing Committee on the Health and Biosciences Libraries Section

Nominated by the American Library Association (ALA), Michael Bailou Huang was elected as a Standing Committee member on the IFLA Health and Biosciences Libraries Section for the term 2015-2019. The International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) is the

Posted in Global Initiatives, Health Sciences Library

Public Access to NSF-funded research

Of interest to Stony Brook University researchers, the National Science Foundation (NSF or Foundation) has developed a plan outlining a framework for activities to increase public access to scientific publications and digital scientific data resulting from research the foundation funds.

Posted in Health Sciences Library, Open Access, Scholarly Communication

Workshop – Introduction to Bioinformatics Databases

There are a vast number of bioinformatics databases, software tools, and resources available on the web covering a wide range of biological data including genes, genomes, sequences, molecular structures, proteins, gene expression and genetic variation. This workshop will help you

Posted in Health Sciences Library

Spring Break 2015 Hours

What’s more fun than being in the library during Spring Break? The Libraries hours for Spring Break 2015: Spring Break Hours:  Friday, March 13, 2015 – Sunday, March 22, 2015 Friday March 13 Saturday March 14 Sunday March 15 Monday

Posted in About Us, Health Sciences Library, Hours

Systematic Reviews Workshop March 5

Considering doing a systematic literature review, but not sure how to get started or what is involved? The Health Sciences Library is offering a one-hour Introduction to Systematic Reviews workshop this Thursday, March 5, 1-2pm in Classroom 1. The session

Posted in Health Sciences Library

SBU Libraries Research Tips Pinterest

Hi Everyone!  I’m your library intern Emily and this week I want to introduce SBU Libraries Research Tips Pinterest page! Pinterest is a useful tool for students because it links them right to the information source webpage and the specific article

Posted in Health Sciences Library, Information Literacy, Libraries, Library Outreach, Stony Brook University

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

Posted in Health Sciences Library