Research

Macbeth Goes Digital: Folger Shakespeare Library Launches Digital Texts

Folger Shakespeare Library announces the release of its new Digital Texts, a free, online resource that offers twelve of Shakespeare’s most popular plays from Folger Editions. Try Folger Digital Texts. From the Folger press release: Folger Digital Texts offers meticulously edited, accurate texts—drawn from the Folger Editions, the leading Shakespeare texts

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Reader’s Advisory

Stony Brook University Libraries offers a helpful tool to assist you in researching a number of popular books and films found in our collection. Throughout the Main Stacks, patrons may find small signs posted on random aisles providing a title that can be located in that section.  Have you recently been assigned an essay on

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Researchers Boycott Elsevier

Publisher of scholarly  journals Elsevier is being boycotted by thousands of researchers who oppose Elsevier’s skyrocketing prices and support of ending open access publishing initiatives. As reported in science and technology blog the Singularity Hub, Researchers from around the world are banding together in boycotting Elsevier in an effort to

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Zotero Now Offers 100 MB of Free Storage for PDFs, Images, etc.

Zotero now offers 100 mb of cloud-based storage for PDFs, images, screenshots, and other files free of charge. Additional storage space can be purchased if needed. For more information check Zotero’s storage faq. If you are not already familiar with it, Zotero is a free bibliographic management tool for researchers.

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Firefox 3.5 Users: Updated Version of LibX Available

LibX has updated their codebase to work with Firefox 3.5 which resulting in a new version of the Stony Brook University Libraries Edition of LibX. Please note that this version will not update automatically. You must uninstall the old version and then install the new version. For more information about

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Browser Plug-ins for Academic Research: Zotero and LibX

Stop by Classroom A on the first floor of the Melville Library on May 28th at 3 PM to learn more about these free tools for your browser that can increase the effectiveness of your research. These workshops are offered as part of the Innovations in Education Colloquium 2009. For

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NIH Public Access Policy Now In Effect

Effective April 7th, 2008 the National Institutes of Health (NIH) made the dissemination of NIH-funded research results mandatory (NIH Public Access Policy, PL 110-161). Any peer-reviewed article or manuscript accepted for publication that results in whole or in part from research funded by an NIH grant or cooperative agreement active

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