On Wednesday, April 11, SBU Libraries teamed up with SBU Resident Life and SBU DoIT (Division of Information Technology) to host Evan Doubleday, lead programmer analyst on the Southampton campus, for an “ask anything” session that included questions ranging from technical issues to the sublime. Evan is mainly responsible for:
Unpaywall is a Chrome and Firefox browser extension that discovers and links to green open access manuscripts of published research and scholarly articles. Unpaywall taps into content from thousands of open-access repositories worldwide. It utilizes a number of data sources, including PubMed Central, the DOAJ, Crossref (particularly their license info),DataCite, Google Scholar,
We’ve installed a new tabletop display in the Southampton campus library, highlighting just some of the things you can do with 3D printing. The technology is truly amazing, having made tremendous strides in the last decade to the point where you see it being applied in a myriad of fields.
On April 19, the final lecture of the spring 2017 University Libraries STEM Speakers Series, Dr. Anurag Purwar engaged audiences with his talk, “Innovating and Inventing Mechanical Motion Generating Devices” in the Special Collections Seminar Room, second floor of the Melville Library. Dr. Purwar discussed how task-driven mechanical motion
The University Libraries is proud to announce its second lecture of the spring 2017 STEM Speakers Series presented by Dr. Anurag Purwar, Department of Mechanical Engineering at Stony Brook University. His talk, “Innovating and Inventing Mechanical Motion Generating Devices” will be given on Wednesday, April 19 from 1pm-2pm in the
Did you know that you can access eBooks at Stony Brook University Libraries whenever you’d like, even when you’re off campus? Simply log in with your NetID and password to read eBooks chosen to support the wide variety of academic disciplines represented at Stony Brook University. Advantages of eBooks include
Margaret Schedel, Associate Professor of Composition and Computer Music, and Patrice Scanlon, Multimedia Resources Specialist for the Library’s Technology, Discovery and Digital Initiatives, collaborated on an interactive work entitled “A Train of a Thousand Wings,” which allows the listener to manipulate and experience the inner works of the Hammond organ through
ELN is a program that allows scientists, engineers, and researchers to digitally document lab notes, data, and procedures of experiments. These systems are designed to replace paper laboratory notebooks. Electronic lab notebooks are fairly new technology but offer many benefits for users inside organizations. The presentation will be held on
The Stony Brook University Libraries community extends congratulations to Mr. Uday Karki in his new role as Supervising Programmer Analyst. Uday has been a longtime member of the SBU Libraries family, previously serving in various positions as Senior Programmer, Web Programmer, and Lab Coordinator. In his new role, he will
On October 28, Stony Brook University Libraries welcomed Shafeek Fazal, who has joined us as the Associate Director for Library Technology, Discovery and Digital Services. Shafeek comes to SBU from SUNY Maritime, where he had been the Library Director of the Stephen B. Luce Library since 2004. Prior to his
