Blackwell-Synergy Scheduled Downtime 3/30

The Blackwell-Synergy site will be down for planned system maintenance on the 30th of March 2007 at 6:00pm EDT for two to five hours and will be unavailable during this time.

TRIAL thru 4/30: 850 Blackwell-Synergy titles

The library currently has trial access to the complete collection of 850 Blackwell-Synergy journals through April 30, 2007.

Note that the Blackwell-Synergy site will be down for planned system maintenance on the 30th of March 2007 at 6:00pm EDT for two to five hours and will be unavailable during this time.

ScienceDirect - Scheduled downtime on 3/11

ScienceDirect (but not Scopus) will be unavailable for a planned period of downtime on Sunday, March 11, 2007 for approximately 7 hours starting at 01:00 AM EST (06:00 AM MT). This is to adjust the system to take account the change to Daylight Savings Time in the United States.

3/3/07 Scheduled Downtime for Elsevier

Scheduled downtime from Elsevier and ScienceDirect...

Saturday March 3, 2007
app. 6:30a.m. to 3:30p.m.

The library has arranged for a trial of the IBISWorld Industry Intelligence product through 23 March '07.


“IBISWorld publishes the most comprehensive and up-to-date collection of US Industry Research covering 700 industries and 98% of GDP. Each IBISWorld Industry Market Research Report of about 35 pages in length contains analysis and data on key statistics, industry structure including supply/demand chain, market characteristics, product & customer segments, cost structure industry conditions, key drivers, major players & market share, recent performance & 5-year revenue forecasts. The database is further supplemented by 8000 US and Canadian publicly- traded company profiles and 400 Economic and Demographic Data Items which explain the meaning of an external sensitivity and the IBISWorld forecast of its meaning.”

A short Getting Started Manual is available via email. If you would like a manual please contact Susan Lieberthal, Business Librarian, at susan.lieberthal@stonybrook.edu or 631.632.9951.

Feedback, thoughts, and comments about IBISWord Industry Intelligence are encouraged, and should be sent to Susan as well. Please complete our Survey regarding IBISWorld Industry Intelligence.

ScienceDirect - Scheduled downtime on 2/24

ScienceDirect and Scopus
scheduled system downtime
February 24th (6am - 3pm)

Education Literature Databases

A reload and data format change for ERIC has been completed and the up-to-date version of the database is now available on the EBSCOhost platform. Records marked by ERIC as “peer-reviewed” can be easily accessed via a new check-box limiter. The thesaurus has been upgraded to include new terms and the database now contains more than 1,194,000 records and links to more than 100,000 full text documents from ERIC.

Also available on the EBSCOhost platform is Education Research Complete, the world’s largest and most complete collection of full text education journals. This resource offers bibliographic and full text for more than 800 education journals.

Rounding out the education literature databases, the library also provides access to Education Fulltext on the WilsonWeb platform.