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Tech Spotlight: EndNote
With the end of the semester coming it is time for students to start getting citations for final projects and papers. EndNote is a bibliographical tool that helps students find citations and organize them into documents. EndNote also allows users to…
Tech Spotlight: Jeopardy Labs
Jeopardy Labs is a website where users can create and customize their own jeopardy game templates for free. Instructors can use this tool to create jeopardy-style games for reviewing material with students during classes, which may be helpful before a test. They can have students play…
SBU Libraries hosts a Women’s History Month STEM panel
To wrap up the Women’s History Month celebrations at Stony Brook University Libraries, a panel discussion was hosted yesterday to highlight the past, present and future of women in the STEM fields. Our panelists including members of the SBU community…
Tech Spotlight: Purdue OWL
Purdue Online Writing Lab, or “OWL” for short, is an online writing resource and instructional guide for students who wish to improve their writing techniques. Purdue OWL offers help in writing for essays, citations, Job search writing, English as a…
Tech Spotlight: Duolingo
Duolingo is a foreign language learning app that breaks down languages into easy to learn segments. Using elements of games and scoring points, Duolingo makes learning languages fun and more interesting than trying to make it through a full language…
Special Collections Highlights the Papers of Naturalist Mary Fletcher
Naturalist and educator Mary Fletcher (1899-1989) authored “A Survey of the Algae Found in the Brooklyn Botanic Garden” in 1936. In honor of her accomplishments and Women’s History Month, Special Collections is featuring her papers, which are open and available…
Tech Spotlight: JoVE
JoVE stands for, Journal of Visualized Experiments, and is a way for scientific researchers to easily access videos on experiments for the purpose of reproducing the experiments accurately. JoVE is the world’s first peer-reviewed scientific video journal. JoVE helps to significantly…
Tech Spotlight: Coursera
For those who don’t know, Coursera is a free online educational resource that offers courses in many different subjects. The website allows for full interation with a subject, from quizzes and video learning. Coursera has access to around 2000 courses from schools…
Green Open Access
Open Access is the free, unrestricted sharing of scholarly articles and other works online. Open Access removes access barriers making research and scholarship available to all. On February 6,2017, Stony Brook University Senate adopted an Open Access Policy for SBU…
