Because Stony Brook's Health Sciences Library subscribes to Cell online, any current member of the University can order his or her own free print subscription. The print version of the journal includes advertising about new products and services, conference announcements, and job opportunities. [Free Subscription Order Form]

Faculty, Management Confidential and Professional staff who currently have borrowed library material from the Main, Music and Science/Engineering Library, with a due date of 12/17/04 are urged to renew at this time. The new due date, after properly renewing, will be 5/18/05. Please remember that library material can only be renewed three times. For information on how to renew via STARS/OPAC, and other renewal information click here. To renew in person, please present your ID card to service desk staff. It is not necessary to bring the material into the library in order to have them renewed. There are no phone renewals. Thank you.

SBU Libraries, West Campus, is pleased to announce a new Electronic Reserves service option for the Spring 2005 semester. Documents selected by faculty will be digitized by library staff, in accordance with Fair Use and other copyright guidelines, and centrally managed through the Blackboard system.
Faculty must first request an E-Reserves course in Blackboard. Once the course has been created, documents are requested through an on-line form on the Reserves webpage, and library Reserve staff will add them to your E-Reserves Blackboard course.
Details are available on the Libraries' Course Reserves webpages.

The catalog portions of the production system will be reindexed on the July 4th weekend. The production library catalog will not be available during this period. Circulation services will be available through the Windows based client, but the response time may be degraded. Patrons will not be able to view the Magellan's catalog though the STARS while this is underway and they will not be able to renew books through the Web OPAC. STARS requests will be redirected to the PYXIS version of STARS during the period of the outage. The reindexing will begin after system backups on the evening of Friday, July 2nd. The reindexing to be complete by the start of business on Tuesday, July 6th.

Due to budget constraints, the Library was unable to renew the contracts which provided us online access to the complete collections of journals available from Wiley and Springer Verlag. Only those journals to which we directly subscribe will now be available online. If there are individual titles that you feel should be added to our online collection, please contact the appropriate library selector for your department.