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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

Posted in Databases, Libraries, News Literacy, Research

HSL Librarian Jennifer Lyon accepted to NLM Bioinformatics Course

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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

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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

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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

Posted in Health Sciences Library, Open Access, Research, Scholarly Communication, Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics

NSF Integration with NCBI SciENcv

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Users of NCBI Science Experts Network Curriculum Vitae (SciENcv) will soon be able to create profiles in the National Science Foundation (NSF) biographical sketch format. This newly added format will be available to download in PDF, MS Word or XML, and

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Dr. King Remembered

As our nation, state, and campus observe Martin Luther King, Jr. Day on January 19, SBU Libraries invite you to explore our resources on Dr. King’s life and message. From biographies on Dr. King to full text scholarly articles on

Posted in Libraries, Melville Library, Political Science

New Guide to Congressional Research

Interested in finding out more about Congress? SBU Libraries can help with our new guide to Congressional Research and Documents. Whether you are interested in Directories and Biographies on members of Congress or tracking down an elusive CRS report, we’ve

Posted in Databases, Government Information, Melville Library

African American Newspapers (1927 – 1998)

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African American Newspapers (1927 – 1998) is a full-text research database providing access to approximately 270 U.S. newspapers from more than 35 states—including many rare and historically significant 19th century titles. Beginning with Freedom’s Journal (NY)—the first African American newspaper published in

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And…we’re back!

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Some recent enhancements to ILLiad software did not go as planned and you may have experienced some frustration in attempting to access your ILLiad account.  For that we truly apologize. The good news is that ILLiad is back with a

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