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Stanford Now Accepts Digital Dissertations
Stanford graduate students can now submit their dissertations digitally. This new program, which began November 9, means less effort and expense for students and improved access to the documents' content... Read more
IT Open House Focuses on Efficiencies
Please join us for the 2010 IT Open House, where IT Services teams up with Campus Wide Agreements to explore how we can leverage technology to do more with less in these economic lean times... Read more
SearchWorks Adds Advanced Search
SearchWorks is the next generation search engine offered by Stanford University Libraries and Academic Information Resources (SULAIR). It has all the same records as Socrates (SULAIR's online library catalog), but an enhanced interface, additional features, and better search results... Read more
Just Say "No" to Phishing Emails
Have you received what looks like an official Stanford email message asking for your SUNet ID, password, Social Security number, or other personal identification information? These "phisher" emails come from the Internet, sent by scammers trying to pry confidential information from members of the Stanford community... Read more
Fast Cloud Computing with Amazon Web Services: New Developments at Stanford
A review of the campus network logs suggests that Amazon Web Services' (AWS) Infrastructure Services is a very popular destination for Stanford campus traffic. These types of services are often referred to as "cloud computing", which is the "Internet-based development and use of computer technology"... Read more
Life Magazine Now in Google Books
At the end of September, Google announced that Life magazine is now available in Google Book Search. You can browse over 1,860 issues, covering the years from 1936 to 1972... Read more
RefWorks: Lifelong Access for Students
RefWorks is an online research management tool that helps researchers easily gather, manage, store and share information and generate citations and bibliographies. RefWorks recently announced that it now offers perpetual access to any current or past students of universities that subscribe to RefWorks, as long as that institution continues to subscribe.... Read more
Stanford Instant Messaging Is Here
On September 11, IT Services rolled out the new Stanford Instant Messaging service. This is a centrally funded service provided free-of-charge to the Stanford community... Read more
PubMed's New Look
PubMed's home page has a new interface and some new features... Read more
Engineering Library Has Kindles
The Engineering Library has joined the ranks of campus libraries with Kindles (wireless reading devices) for checkout to the Stanford community... Read more
