MIT faculty voted unanimously to approve a resolution that allows MIT to freely and publicly distribute research articles they write. This makes MIT the first university to commit to making its faculty’s research papers available online to the public. Though the School of Education at Stanford and several departments at Harvard have already adopted these […]

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Do you work with raw data? Do you need help finding, accessing, understanding, manipulating, collecting, sharing and preserving data?
The Data Service Studio is a new service provided by NYU libraries and ITS that provides staff, software, statistical computing, and data collection resources to support NYU research and scholarship.
The facility features a 10-seat work and instruction […]

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The best time to start planning your future is right now.
No matter where you are in your education process, the earlier you start thinking about where you’d like to be after school the better. For great advice for job-seeking grads – and future job-seeking grads – read, Advice for Students: Start Planning Now for Life […]

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For those of you lucky enough to escape campus during Spring Break, here are some reminders for using the library remotely.
You have access to all the library’s article databases and other resources while you are home (or lounging on the beach).  Just remember, you will be prompted to login using your last name and Poly […]

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Zotero (a great open source tool for managing bibliographies) recently announced the latest version of its  Firefox plugin, making it even better and allowing it to compete with commercial products like RefWorks.  The new features synchronize your databases between different machines and automatically backup your library data on Zotero’s servers.  A number of other smaller […]

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The Coles Science Center at Bobst Library Presents the Coles Science Salon
“The General Circulation of the Atmosphere, from Colombus to Meteosat”
by Olivier Pauluis , PhD
Center for Atmosphere Ocean Science,
Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, NYU
Our day-to-day experience with the weather could lead us to believe that wind is unpredictable and chaotic. However, when looked upon on […]

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Does your brain feel sluggish at times? New research suggests computer use and video games could be blamed.  As technology plays a bigger role in our lives, our skills in critical thinking and analysis have declined according to research by UCLA professor, Patricia Greenfield (see: Is Technology Producing A Decline In Critical Thinking And Analysis?).
Luckily, […]

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