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Open SUNY Textbooks

It’s Open Education Week, and a time to consider and advocate for the resources, tools and practices that employ a framework of open sharing to improve educational access and effectiveness worldwide.  The Open SUNY Textbook initiative is a model example

Posted in Open Access, Scholarly Communication

Your Copyright: Increase the Impact of Your Research

Information for SBU authors Why retain rights? Many publishers create significant barriers for authors who want to reuse or share their work, and for access to that work by others. Negotiating changes to standard publisher agreements can help authors avoid

Posted in SC, Scholarly Communication

Congratulations Discovery Fund Prize Winner & Finalists

University Libraries congratulates the inaugural Discovery Fund Prize winner, Laurie T. Krug, Assistant Professor, Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, and the three Prize finalists: Gabor Balazsi, Associate Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering; Eden Figueroa, Assistant Professor of Physics, Department of Physics and

Posted in Library Outreach, Scholarly Communication, Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics

Welcome Emily Warren!

We are happy to welcome Emily Warren, who will be an intern for Library Technology, Discovery and Digital Initiatives during the Spring 2015 semester.  Emily is a student in the Master of Library and Information Sciences program at the University

Posted in Discovery and Digital Initiatives, Scholarly Communication

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

NARA Launches Founders Online

The National Archives, through its National Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC), has entered into a cooperative agreement with The University of Virginia Press to create Founders Online and make freely available the historical documents of the Founders of the United States

Posted in Databases, Electronic Resources, History, Manuscripts, New and Notable, Open Access, Scholarly Communication, Special Collections & University Archives

Recent Publications

University Archivist and Head of Special Collections, Kristen Nyitray, has had an article recently published relating to the William A. Higinbotham Game Studies Collection.  Kristen’s article,  “William Alfred Higinbotham: Scientist, Activist, and Computer Game Pioneer,” was published in IEEE Annals

Posted in Scholarly Communication

Open Up Video Contest, Call For Open Access

Is open sharing of ideas and information important to you? Form a team or go it alone and make a video to demonstrate the value of information sharing as you see it. Deadline for entry: 05.26.11 For more information see

Posted in Open Access, Scholarly Communication

New Music Librarian Publication

Music Librarian Gisele Schierhorst has authored an article appearing in the current double issue of the Music Reference Services Quarterly. “The Lives of Professional Classical String Players:  A Selective Annotated Bibliography,” Music Reference Services Quarterly, 13, issues 3 & 4,

Posted in Scholarly Communication

Two New Publications By Librarians!

Both Dana Antonucci-Durgan, Head of the Chemistry Library and Biology & Chemistry Librarian, and Cynthia Dietz, Science/ Map Librarian, have published separate articles in the Spring 2010 issue of the refereed journal Issues in Science & Technology Librarianship. Dana’s article,

Posted in New and Notable, Scholarly Communication