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Predatory Journals Under Prosecution
The Chronicle of Higher Education recently reported that the U.S. Federal Trade Commission has filed charges against the online publisher of science journals, OMICS Group, Inc. For details on how to evaluate and identify predatory publishers and journals, see the Center…
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FLEXspace Awards New Learning Spaces at SBU Libraries
The new North and Central Reading Rooms at Stony Brook University Libraries were recently honored with an award from FLEXspace, an open access repository featuring images and data of learning spaces. FLEXspace and Herman Miller Education are sponsoring my travel…
Academic Commons: Your Global Audience Is Here
The Academic Commons is an open access scholarly repository and publishing platform for the Stony Brook University community. Works in Academic Commons are: *freely accessible online *easily discoverable via search engines *regularly backed up *assigned a permanent URL so they…
Academic Commons
About Academic Commons How to Add Documents to Academic Commons Collections Author Agreements and Copyright Withdrawing Content Related Readings/Links Contacts Notes 1. About Academic Commons What is Academic Commons? Academic Commons is the research, scholarly publications and academic creative works component of…
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JULIET & RoMEO: Find Open Access Permissions, Mandates
SHERPA is a scholarly communication partnership based at the Centre for Research Communications, University of Nottingham. SHERPA offers a number of web services, including JULIET and RoMEO. JULIET JULIET is a search tool for discovering research funders’ mandates for public access and…
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Elsevier Acquires Social Science Research Network (SSRN)
In April 2013, Elsevier acquired Mendeley which is an academic website that serves as a platform for researchers to work collaboratively on research projects, manage references and share their work. Researchers also can use Mendeley in storing their research papers,…
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Altmetric covers Books impact on scholarly community
In a previous post, we presented Altmetric as an innovative method of displaying research impact on the social media by tracing mentions on Facebook, twitter, blogs and downloads. Now, Altmetric is used to measure the impact of more than 8000…
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SBU Librarians Present at METRO Science Librarians Research Forum
Jennifer Lyon (Biomedical & Translational Research Librarian) and Clara Tran (Science Librarian) presented “Faculty Use of Author Identifiers and Researcher Networking Tools” at the METRO Science Librarians Research Forum on Wednesday, April 27, 2016. The research forum provided an excellent…
Digital Humanities Open Mic
Digital Humanities Open Mic featured the presentations: “The John Milton Digital Library” by Dana Haugh, Web Services Librarian. “Latino Long Island: A Cultural and Social Map” by Adrián Pérez Melgosa, Associate Professor Hispanic Languages and Literature; Sung-Gheel (Gil) Jang, Lecturer, Sustainability Studies Director of the…
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