Browzine Now Has Health Sciences eJournals

BrowZine delivers thousands of academic journals to your iPad or Android tablet. BrowZine works by organizing the articles found in Open Access and University Libraries subscriptions (including Health Sciences Library subscriptions), uniting them into complete journals, then arranging these journals

Posted in About Us

GPO Name Change

Stop the presses! The GPO is now the Government Publishing Office, and no longer the Government Printing Office. The GPO has been providing free public access to government information since March 4, 1861, the day Abraham Lincoln was sworn into

Posted in Government Information, Libraries, Research

Library offers complimentary snacks to late night crammers

Songs on the radio might be joyously pronouncing that this is, in fact, “the most wonderful time of the year”, but students know better.  Before those currently enrolled in courses can begin taking part in any sort of holiday cheer,

Posted in Library Outreach

Flame Challenge: What is Sleep?

The Alan Alda Center for Communicating Science asks “What is Sleep?” Some Stony Brook University students seem to be already doing some head nodding experimentation in the library. If it’s your dream to take on this challenge, though, Stony Brook

Posted in Databases, Education, Research

Dissertations and Theses Full-Text

Dissertations and Theses-Full Text Contains 1.2 million full-text dissertations, including most dissertations added since 1997 and strong retrospective full text coverage for older graduate works. Includes 2.7 million citations to dissertation and theses from around the world from 1861 to

Posted in Databases, Spotlight

Dental Instruments Exhibit Opens at Health Sciences Library

Dental Instruments — Past and Present, an exhibit of early dental tools and practices, officially opened December 1st at 11 am. A reception was held in the entrance to the Health Sciences Library where the exhibit is located. Objects in

Posted in Health Sciences Library

Google Expectations and Interlibrary Loan

An article by librarians Colleen Kenefick and Jennifer DeVito titled “Google Expectations and Interlibrary Loan: Can We Ever Be Fast Enough?” has been featured in a special virtual issue on best practices in interlibrary loan in the Journal of Interlibrary

Posted in Interlibrary Loan

Dental Instruments — Past and Present

Travel back in time to see instruments used by dentists in the 19th and early 20th centuries. Objects from the personal collection of the late R. Sherman Mills, MD, the Baer Collection from the Stony Brook University School of Dental

Posted in Health Sciences Library

Welcome Shafeek Fazal!

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

Posted in Technology

Welcome Bob Tolliver!

Stony Brook University Libraries extend a warm welcome to  Bob Tolliver, who joined our team as the Head of Science and Engineering Library on October 6. Bob recently served 5 years as the Earth Sciences Librarian in the Earth & Mineral

Posted in About Us, Science and Engineering Library

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