Your Brown University Library will be conducting a study to assess how the Library’s services, collections, and other resources are used in order to better understand and document the Library’s impact on research, teaching, and learning at Brown, and to help us improve library services. We appreciate your survey responses! When and how will the survey … Complete a Survey, Help Shape the Library’s Future
New EBSCOhost Interface Launching August 5, 2025 EBSCOhost’s user interface (UI) will be changing on August 5, 2025. If you currently have saved searches, folders, or articles in your EBSCOhost account, some, but not all, of this content will migrate automatically. Essential Deadlines Your EBSCOhost Account Your EBSCOhost account contains several types of saved content. … Migrating Your Data to the New EBSCOhost User Interface
Daniel P. O’Mahony, formerly Director of Library Planning and Assessment, has been named Associate University Librarian for Resource Strategy at the Brown University Library. As AUL for Resource Strategy, Dan will be part of the Library’s senior executive team, and he will assume oversight for cross-departmental and cross-functional coordination of academic and budgetary strategy. In … Daniel P. O’Mahony Appointed Associate University Librarian for Resource Strategy
What is PubMed? Most researchers in the health and life sciences are familiar with PubMed, a free database maintained by the National Library of Medicine, part of the National Institutes of Health. It currently contains over 37 million citations and is made up of three components. The largest is MEDLINE, a dataset of references from … Beyond PubMed: Resources for Searching the Biomedical Literature
Divided America: Religious Dissent & FreedomOn view starting October 21, 2024 in the Harriette Hemmasi Exhibition Gallery at the John Hay Library20 Prospect St., Providence, RIHours Online exhibition Through The Divided America Project, the John Hay Library is digitizing and making freely available the bulk of the Hall-Hoag Collection, the country’s largest research compilation of … Divided America: Religious Dissent and Freedom Exhibition
April is Jazz Appreciation Month! The Brown University Library is highlighting Qwest TV for education, a video resource that includes a wide range of music content with particular strengths in rare jazz performances and jazz festival documentaries. Created by Quincy Jones and curated by his team, Qwest maintains an archive of more than 1,300 videos; Qwest also commissions … Qwest TV: April Eresource of the Month
We are pleased to announce that the Brown University Library now offers access to the research database Scopus. Scopus provides access to over 90 million references to scholarly and trade journal articles, books and book chapters, conference abstracts, and patents. Of its interdisciplinary coverage, about 23% is in the health sciences, 15% in the life … Announcing Scopus
We are pleased to announce that your Brown University Library is now providing access to STAT+ for all students, faculty, and staff. You can now activate an account at no cost to you. STAT+ provides access to exclusive journalism written by health care, business, and financial reporters. Over the last few years, STAT has continued … Announcing STAT+
Soojeong Herring will join the Library as the new Cataloging and Metadata Librarian, an integral member of the Scholarly Resources team. Soojeong brings valuable experience in cataloging both general and special collections items, managing the acquisition and cataloging of print and electronic serials, and using ExLibris’s Alma library management system. She previously served as the … Soojeong Herring: Cataloging and Metadata Librarian
Congratulations to Leslie Varrecchia, who has been promoted to the position of Senior Library Expert -Electronic Resources. Previously, Leslie served as the Senior Library Specialist – Cataloging in Scholarly Resources since June 1, 2022. Leslie came to Brown from the Newport Public Library where she worked as a cataloger performing cataloging and database management. She also helped maintain the library’s … Leslie Varrecchia: Senior Library Expert – Electronic Resources
