The Open Educational Resources Grant is funded by SUNY and will award funds of $2500 to instructors of record (faculty, instructors, TAs) for the development of Open Educational Resources or integration of OER into their courses. Proposals will be accepted…
Instructors: Apply for a 2020-1 Open Educational Resources (OER) Grant
Posted in Open Access, Scholarly Communication
Important Changes to PubMed Coming Soon
A new version of PubMed has been in the works for some time now, and as of May 18, 2020, this new database will be the default. Users will still be able to access what is now being referred to…
Posted in Health Sciences Library, Medicine, Nursing, Research, School of Dental Medicine Tagged with: PubMed, research, systematic reviews
Christopher Larson wins Stony Brook University Supervisor of the Year Award
Christopher Larson is the Manager of the Health Sciences Library. He is a valuable member of the Libraries team, always looking for ways to improve library services and resources for our students, faculty, and clinicians. He is a well-respected and generous student supervisor who…
Posted in About Us, Health Sciences Library
Stony Brook University Libraries Annual Open Access Symposium 2020.
On March 6, 2020, Stony Brook University Libraries held its annual Open Access Symposium. The event drew a wide array of panelists, presenters and audience members from numerous institutions throughout the United States. This year’s event included two keynote speakers,…
Posted in Open Access, Scholarly Communication
SSO 102.23 students explore online collections: Look what they found!
This semester, Science and Society 102.23 first-year seminar students practiced using a variety of databases and digital collections to explore questions related to new technologies. One project was to delve into the past and investigate how society reacted to emerging…
Information Literacy & the Ethics of Data Visualizations
As part of my internship with the Center for Digital Humanities, I’ll be working on my own project centered around data visualizations. In my last blog post, I provided an introduction to this branch of study, highlighting the explanatory and…
Posted in Digital Humanities Tagged with: Data Visualization, Digital Humanties, information literacy
Extended Virtual Chat Service
There are many virtual ways you can connect to librarians for research assistance; chat service is one of them. To support student research, the library since March 28, 2020 till further notice will have these extended reference chat service hours:…
Virtual Thursdays with the Libraries
Every Thursday for the rest of the semester, SBU Libraries will virtually open its doors to give any updates on library services and answer your library-related questions. Do you need help navigating library resources? Do you need tips for effectively…
SUNY – Elsevier (ScienceDirect) Negotiations and Impact to SBU
SUNY ends “big deal” agreement with Elsevier, moves to reduced subscription package focused on core titles Following extensive negotiations, SUNY and Elsevier could not reach mutually acceptable terms on renewing our license to ScienceDirect. Rather than canceling access to all…
My Research Life: Anna Mueller
My Research Life is a blog series of interviews with Stony Brook people about how and where they do their research. Today librarian Jennifer Devito talks with Anna Mueller, currently a junior double majoring in Business Management and Philosophy. She…
