Yewno is a next gen discovery system that works with the full text of libraries’ licensed content to return sophisticated results based on ideas rather than metadata and keywords. The system draws on a huge corpus of materials drawn from research universities, publishers, and aggregators and focuses on the relationships
Visible Body has traditionally been a desktop application that allows students to view and manipulate different parts of the human anatomy to help them focus on specific organ systems and learn at their own pace. Recently, Visible Body has gone mobile! Students can now download the App using the institutional
Before… and Beyond! As we approach the beginning of the Fall 2016 semester, we come ever closer to the completion of the large scale renovation project in the Melville Library. Already re-opened is the all new North Reading Room, which you can see here in 360°
The dog days of summer include working like a dog for many Stony Brook scholars. Here are some of the best technologies to keep your writing and research game hot while the temps rise: White Noise Time away from your quiet office can be productive too! These white noise generators
Fabula Maps is a digital humanities teaching tool that makes it easy to create interactive maps. The action of the map is similar to Storymap JS, but Fabula is aimed at users who might need a technology assist and more robust customer service. Fabula really shines when visualizing datasets that
Is it a learning technology? Is it a major tech event? Is Stony Brook all about it right now? This week, Niantic Labs (of Ingress fame) and the Pokémon Company released Pokémon Go, a location-based augmented reality iteration of the popular Pokémon game franchise. Pokémon Go uses your phone’s GPS
Amazon Inspire is a search engine for open educational resources aimed at K-12 teachers. Much like Amazon’s other functions, the power of Inspire is in the review infrastructure. Teachers will be able to rank and review educational resources through the portal to help their peers quickly assess quality resources. Inspire
On Wednesday, June 22, SBU Librarians Jennifer Lyon, Jamie Saragossi, and Sally Stieglitz presented Consumer Health Resources for the Public Librarian to an engaged audience of public librarians at the Suffolk Cooperative Library System (SCLS) in Bellport, NY at an event co-sponsored by SCLS Outreach Services and the Health Concerns Committee of the Suffolk
Open SUNY Textbooks, an initiative that has been active since 2012 and has saved SUNY students over $840,000, recently announced a new component to its efforts to produce and distribute open educational resources (OER). SUNY OER Services will help support OER initiatives at SUNY campuses by partnering with Lumen Learning
Special Collections has acquired an extremely rare 1860 nautical chart or maritime map of Long Island by Brooklyn-based publisher Charles Copley. Copley’s chart covers Staten Island to Montauk, inclusive of the Connecticut coast, Long Island Sound, Long Island, New York City, and parts of adjacent New Jersey and Rhode Island.
