On February 2, the Health Sciences Library welcomed a new Librarian to our team – Molly Higgins. Molly was most recently a library fellow at the University of Massachusetts Medical School in Worcester, MA. Previously, she worked at the University…
Registration open for 2nd Annual Spy Hunt!
Be a part of history as the Library takes you back in time to the Revolutionary War Era. You will become a spy, forced to solve codes, puzzles, and clues to prove your research skills and assist in the rebellion. The…
Save the Date and Register – May 6: Food and China’s Silk Road
Food and China’s Silk Road: Influences to and from the West by Dr. Jacqueline M. Newman on Wednesday, May 6, 2015 at 1 PM in the Charles B. Wang Center Theatre. Dr. Newman will discuss the East-West cultural exchanges that…
Groundhogs as Scientists?
While dealing with the difficulties of a winter day, it seems hopeful to look for a positive prediction from a groundhog, but in actuality, groundhogs are not the most reliable forecasters of weather outcomes. The National Climatic Data Center has…
Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1600-2000
This is a veritable trove of thought-provoking, interpreted documents presented to the researcher with the goal of advancing scholarly debates by demonstrating historical analysis as an interpretive process. This is what you’ll find — 1270 full-text primary sources (go to…
Your Guides
Research and Instructional Services, the fine folks answering your reference desk, chat, and email questions, would like to announce the spring 2015 graduate intern, Thomas Maxheimer. Thomas is a Library and Information Science graduate student at Long Island University, and…
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New York “In a Blizzard’s Grasp”
That was headline of the New York Times, March 13, 1888, when a severe storm crippled New York City. Calling it “the worst storm the city has ever known,” the Times described the impact of of the blizzard, sharing the…
HSL Librarian Jennifer Lyon accepted to NLM Bioinformatics Course
Jennifer Lyon, HSL Biomedical and Translational Research Librarian will attend the Georgia Biomedical Informatics Course this Spring. The course is a National Libraries of Medicine (NLM) fellowship program directed at medical educators, medical librarians, medical administrators, clinical practitioners, and faculty,…
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Sunday, 1/25: Library website down for maintenance
The University Libraries website will be down for scheduled maintenance this Sunday, 1/25, from 8:00 PM – Midnight. Please use the library research guides at that time for continued access to our online resources and services http://guides.library.stonybrook.edu.
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Nature promotes read-only sharing of articles
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…
