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 of an open educational resource that supports teaching and learning
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 these obstacles, thus increasing options for authors as well as
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 Astronomy; Emre Salman, Assistant Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering. To
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 at Buffalo, and she received her Bachelor of Arts degree
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 be annotated but not copied, printed or downloaded, the journal’s
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a cooperative agreement with The University of Virginia Press to create Founders Online and make freely available the historical documents of the Founders of the United States of America. Through this website, you can read and search
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 of the History of Computing, vol. 33, no. 2, pp.
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 Sparky Awards. See videos from past awards. From the Scholarly
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, 2010. Gisele Schierhorst is the head of the Stony Brook
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, “Synthetic Biology Resources on the Internet,” highlights synthetic biology web
