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2016 Convocation Program And Video, Portland State University

Convocation

Convocation program and video of the event.

The video is available online: https://youtu.be/nqFARFmpaXI

Incorporating Etds In The Ir, One Department At A Time, Kristen Hoffman

Northwest IR User Group

How do you add student work to an IR when there is no centralized graduate school? At Seattle Pacific University, each department or school sets their own policy and has their own unique workflow, which has both challenges and benefits. Kristen worked with five individual departments to establish workflow solutions; consider if one of these options may work for you as you incorporate student work.

The Only Thing We Have To Fear Is Migration Itself: Dspace To Hydra, What Could Go Wrong?, Steve Van Tuyl

Northwest IR User Group

Oregon State University (OSU) is in the process of migrating from Dspace to a Sufia/Hydra platform, but this move is not without challenges. Developer needs, timeline estimation, metadata cleanup and migration, and working closely with a distributed community of users and developers all present challenges. In this talk, I’ll address why we’re migrating, what benefits we’re expecting from the migration, and what challenges we’re experiencing.

Copyright Issues And Student Works In The Ir, Donald Taylor

Northwest IR User Group

Student works pose an interesting copyright challenge for IR managers due to the student's lack of understanding of differences between regular academic assignments/projects and works made available via the IR. Graduate students who have not yet published, and undergraduate students, often apply the same copyright rules they use on class assignments to works destined for the IR. Conversations between faculty and the IR manager can help avoid the student misapplication of fair use / fair dealing and infringements and provide suitable licenses. IR manager must also consider risk management and ensure that the institution respects the copyright of the student.

Supporting Activity And Assignment Design Through An Ir, Ryne Leuzinger

Northwest IR User Group

This lightning talk will detail the development of an activities and assignments collection within Digital Commons @ CSUMB, the institutional repository at Cal State Monterey Bay. This collection provides access to exemplary assignments and activities so that they may be used by instructors across campus (and beyond) as a professional development resource. The talk will detail the genesis of the collection including how stakeholders from across campus came together to provide input on the collection’s scope and design. Additionally, the talk will provide information on how the collection has been promoted and how it has been aligned with institutional goals.

Making Collections, Making Connections: Using Ir Metrics To Guide Ir Promotion, Maurice R. Blackson, Sean Lind

Northwest IR User Group

I will share examples of how we present the data from bepress regarding use of our collections and downloads with examples from our ScholarWorks reports. I will include examples of the various ways we parse the data and display it for use by faculty and staff. By presenting the information in the easily understandable reports we can show scholars how easily we can share their work with a worldwide audience.

Examples of our ScholarWorks reports can be found here.

The New Selectedworks, And What's Next, Irene Kamotsky

Northwest IR User Group

This lightning talk will offer a quick overview of bepress's new SelectedWorks system for faculty profile pages, with a focus on new tools that make it easier for libraries to collaborate with faculty on their profiles. Then we'll take a sneak peek at two major enhancements in the works for SelectedWorks: an expert finder and faculty reporting.

Arca: British Columbia's Collaborative Digital Repository Network, Brandon J. Weigel

Northwest IR User Group

A quick overview of Arca, a consortially-operated multisite Islandora repository with 12 member sites (and growing). The talk outlines how a consortial repository works, including governance, consortial planning and management, challenges of meeting the needs of multiple very different kinds of members, our relationship with our vendor, and how much it costs (and how costs are shared). It will also touch on challenges related to storage, including restricted options due to Canadian privacy legislation.

See the repositories as they grow at http://arcabc.ca.

Adding Digital Inventory To Alma, The Easy Way, Kyle Banerjee

Northwest IR User Group

Alma offers powerful digital inventory capabilities, but the interface is clunky bulk imports of large files -- particularly when multiple representations and complex permissions are involved.

Alma's rich API is a powerful tool for inventory management, but it's difficult for nonprogrammers to use. This session demonstrates a method to securely import thousands of large files and associated metadata in a single file copy operation.

Yours, Mine, And Ours: Leveraging Individual And Community Metrics To Measure Success, Morgan Ziontz, Nancy Kerr

Northwest IR User Group

How do you know when your repository initiative is successful? Over the course of this session, Morgan Ziontz, Senior Outreach Associate at bepress, will highlight some of the tools and initiatives available to help the community measure and share the success of their goals, including repository benchmarking and the new administrator dashboard. Morgan will also discuss how your benchmarking numbers and data from your dashboard can be used to gauge your progress over time.

Celebrating Publication And Authorship At Pacific University, Johanna Meetz

Northwest IR User Group

Every year the Pacific University Library plans Celebrations on two of its campuses to honor all faculty, staff, and students who have published anything, like a book, book chapter, or article, in the past calendar year. The goal of the Pacific Authors Celebration is to acknowledge the published scholarly successes of those affiliated with Pacific and to create awareness of Common Knowledge (Pacific’s IR) as well as the newly-founded Pacific University Press. This year marked the 17^th anniversary of the Celebration, which traditionally includes a campus-wide gathering where food/drinks are served, people are invited to give brief lightning talks …

Using Citation Collection To Encourage Ir Deposits: The Celebration Point Method, Leila Belle Sterman

Northwest IR User Group

At Montana State University – as at many institutions– we spend a great deal of time counting research in dollars. What we did not spend much time doing was tracking and celebrating the research itself. Last year, in order to better understand our University’s research, the library began to collect research publication citation data. This data is used to publicly congratulate our researchers to promote a culture that values publications (in addition to grant moneys) and for gaining institutional repository submissions. The data has also proved useful for accreditation, outreach, and encouraging data sharing.

Once we discovered that no one …

Birds Of A Feather, Northwest Ir User Group

Northwest IR User Group

Attendees examined the following topics: Copyright, Marketing, Journal Publishing, Preservation, Student Research, and Workflow. The outcome from each table discussion were shared with the group at the end of the session.

Introducing Undergraduates To Research Datasets, Bill G. Kelm, John Repplinger

Northwest IR User Group

This spring semester at Willamette University we had our first course on campus integrate research dataset deposits in an Environmental Science senior thesis class. To help with this process, the library worked with the faculty member to create a metadata template for a README file, provided instructions to the students on how to fill out the README file, and then created a customized submission process for the new collection in our Academic Commons (DSpace institutional repository) specifically for Student Research Datasets.

In our session we will go over, the creation of the template file and instructions, the creation of the …

Institutional Repositories And Research Development - Capitalizing On Points Of Intersection, Michelle Armstrong

Northwest IR User Group

Many institutional repositories (IRs) have assumed responsibility for capturing information about their university’s scholarly outputs. Publications, presentations, curriculum resources, research data, and multimedia materials are ingested as part of the institution’s research profile. Although great progress has been made to establish repositories as core parts of the research environment on many university campuses, IRs are often not utilized in the research development and grant proposal processes. Collaborating on research dissemination plans, assisting in data management, maintaining researcher profiles, and assisting in developing biosketches are all potential partnership opportunities for repository and research development staff. Yet, these groups usually do not …

The User-Centered Repository: Foundational Conversations And Services, Maija Anderson, Kyle Banerjee, David Forero, Kate Thornhill

Northwest IR User Group

Launching a successful digital repository takes more than selecting the right software and hiring the right staff. How do libraries know that they’re developing repository services that their users want? How do you lobby administration for the funding and staff needed for a new program? How do you ensure a digital initiative's success? OHSU Library’s DAM/IR Task Force share their experiences developing relationships, getting administrative support, and implementing a marketing and communications digital assets management system, which is now in the implementation phase.

From the beginning of this process, the library took the opposite of the "If we build they …

Getting Out Of The Ir Comfort Zone: Vivo As An Institutional Repository, Annie M. Gaines

Northwest IR User Group

In 2012, the University of Idaho Library began implementing VIVO, an open-source Semantic Web application, both as a database to describe, visualize, and report university research activity as well as a discovery layer for its fledgling institutional repository.

Since VIVO was not designed to be used as an institutional repository, the University of Idaho Library has encountered unique difficulties, challenges, and opportunities. This talk will detail some of those challenges, discuss tools and techniques, and encourage others to take the untrodden path.

http://vivo.nkn.uidaho.edu/vivo/

Nwirug Welcome, Isaac P. Gilman

Northwest IR User Group

Conference opening remarks

Geography Of Gender And The Gender Of Geography In The Roman Imagination, Austin Howard

Student Research Symposium

This paper argues for a profound link between gendered stereotypes and geography in the Graeco-Roman imagination focusing on the early Roman Empire. Hitherto, this link has been mentioned, sometimes assumed, and almost never treated as a venture worthy or deeper study or unifying themes, apart from questions of “proto-racism.” Notwithstanding, the links can be drawn comparing how the peoples living in different parts of the empire are described and how stereotypes of gender also appear in historical and literary texts. By careful examination (including cross-examination) of Strabo, Tacitus, Livy, Julius Caesar, and others, I seek the argue for a strong …

The Sensorimotor Approach To Color Perception And The Necessity Of Socio-Cultural Considerations For Color Naming, Matthew Watts

Student Research Symposium

In this paper I argue against Kevin O’Regan’s claim that the “biological reflectance function” and its notion of “simple” colors naturally lead to a biologically consistent standard for species wide color naming. Although the simplicity of these colors may allow for easier apprehension, the notion that color simplicity will naturally lead to a consistent standard for the naming of basic color hues across a species is inconsistent with the idea of objective colors in the way that he portrays it. While it fixes many of the traditional explanatory issues surrounding color perception, it opens up new explanatory issues surrounding color. …

Math And Sudoku: Exploring Sudoku Boards Through Graph Theory, Group Theory, And Combinatorics, Kyle Oddson

Student Research Symposium

Encoding Sudoku puzzles as partially colored graphs, we state and prove Akman’s theorem [1] regarding the associated partial chromatic polynomial [5]; we count the 4x4 sudoku boards, in total and fundamentally distinct; we count the diagonally distinct 4x4 sudoku boards; and we classify and enumerate the different structure types of 4x4 boards.

Thiophene Based Molecular Sensors Towards Mercury Detection, Austin K. Shigemoto, Carolyn N. Virca, Sam Underwood, Lauren Shetterly, Theresa M. Mccormick

Student Research Symposium

Toxic heavy metals such as mercury have increased in concentration in the environment due to pollution. Inorganic mercury in the environment can be later converted to a more toxic form: methylmercury. Regular consumption of fish containing methylmercury can lead to several cognitive and motor disorders as well as Minamata disease. The current methods used to detect both methylmercury and inorganic mercury in sea life and drinking water involve long sample preparation and cost. In order to more efficiently track this toxic metal in the environment and identify contaminated food and water sources, a cheaper and faster method of detection is …

Comparing Mode Shares For Non-Residential Destinations In Urban And Suburban Environments, Tasnia Subrin

Student Research Symposium

To ensure facility for multimodal transportation is one of the most important concerns in today’s transportation sector, with initiatives being taken to make multimodal transportation popular. The built environment variables have a strong relationship with transportation mode choice, but whether that relationship holds true in urban and suburban neighborhoods in the same manner has not been considered. Using data for three non-residential land uses, this research explores whether the built environment variables in suburban areas influences mode share like it does in urban areas. We used survey data conducted at the establishments regarding respondents’ travel characteristics from a previous study, …

Then And Now: Vegetative Change Detection On Mount St. Helens 2000-2015, Douglas S. Thalacker, Andrés Holz

Student Research Symposium

The 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens (MSH) proved a dramatic event with many important socio-economic consequences. In addition, this eruption resulted in an array of ecological consequences with subsequent studies and profound theoretical ramifications. The eruption created a complex gradient in disturbance severity on the northern aspect of MSH3, promoting successional processes from varying starting points and change rates. This study uses a landscape-scale approach to quantify spatio-temporal trends in vegetative responses to the eruption from 2000-2015, relying on Landsat TM and ETM+ imagery focusing on the primary and (i.e. no biological legacies) secondary (i.e. with biological legacies) succession …

From Street To Home: Using Photovoice To Better Understand Homelessness In Portland, Maximilian West, Greg Townley Phd, Nicole Cerra Mph, Ted Amann Rn, Mph

Student Research Symposium

Homelessness remains a pressing concern in Portland. The homeless-to-housed transition requires more than access to shelter: some individuals have trouble adapting to the change in social contact that accompanies solitary living (indoors); others may face difficulty setting boundaries associated with property (e.g., endangering their lease by having too many guests) or other community-living norms. This study used photovoice, a community-based participatory research method, to explore the dynamics experienced by homelessness survivors.

A total of 13 participants were recruited through HEARTH, a research collaborative including researchers from OHSU, PSU, and NCNM along with staff, consumers, and volunteers at Central City Concern, …

Listening To Lasers: Photoacoustic Gas Sensing, Michael Hopkins

Student Research Symposium

Herein lies the makings of a sensor for gaseous materials due to the technique known as photo-acoustic spectroscopy. Whereby a gas filled metallic tube of known resonance has an impingement to its open aspect a beam of photons of known colour and at a specified rate such that the rate of incoming light corpuscles matches the natural standing wave frequency for the column of gas within said tube, to wit resonance. Through foresight of the molecular orbital theory and historic datums on the subject of infrared spectroscopy one naturally comes to the employment of absorbance transfiguring energy to kinetic motions …

How Calculus Students At Successful Programs Talk About Their Instructors, Annie Bergman, Dana Kirin, Ben Wallek

Student Research Symposium

Over the past decade, numerous reports point to the need for national efforts to increase the number of students pursuing and professionals with degrees in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields (see for example NSB, 2007; PCAST, 2012; Thomasian, 2011). According to the PCAST report (2012) increasing the retention rate of the students who enter college intending to major in a STEM field has the potential to significantly decrease the gap between the number of STEM degrees produced and the projected number of STEM degrees needed to sustain the United States position in the global market. While there are …

Analytic Thinking Predicts Vaccine Endorsement: Cognitive Style As An Antecedent Of Vaccine Attitudes, Daniel A. Anderson

Student Research Symposium

Relationships between cognitive style (CS) and affective orientation toward childhood vaccines (AO) were tested in a sample of US adults, controlling for known covariates. Findings suggest an analytic cognitive style predicts greater likelihood of endorsing childhood vaccination (higher AO). Results highlight relationships between individual cognition and cultural influences upon vaccine-beliefs.

Curriculum Impact On Educational Philosophy Identification, Rebecca Tuttle

Student Research Symposium

An educator’s teaching philosophy represents their personal beliefs regarding the purpose of classroom instruction and the methods used to facilitate learning. While an individual’s educational philosophy often transforms over time, more research is needed to characterize influences on evolving theory and practice. This survey-based study was conducted to determine if the curricular content has an impact on teaching methodology despite a teacher’s philosophical identification. The study population comprised of adult learner-educators enrolled in a graduate educational philosophy class. The subjects were surveyed after completing a term examining the main tenets of five main educational philosophies (Liberal, Behavioral, Progressive, Humanist, Radical). …

Advocacy Campaign For Women's Reproductive Health And Access On Social Media, Rachel Crist, Jules Montes, Lauren Frank

Student Research Symposium

Advocacy organizations increasingly rely on social media (e.g. Twitter hashtags) to foster issue awareness. Social media platforms can be promising communication channels to reach diverse audiences; however, it is unclear how effective these campaigns are at reaching audience members whose views do not align with the campaign. Using diffusion of innovations as a theoretical framework, this study examines the #BirthControlHelpedMe campaign to better understand the response to an advocacy campaign promoted via Twitter. Focus groups were conducted separately for men and women. The moderator led participants in a semi-structured discussion of perceptions of birth control. Participants were then shown example …