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Scholarly Communication Institutions: Transforming Scholarship With History, Shawn Martin Oct 2015

Scholarly Communication Institutions: Transforming Scholarship With History, Shawn Martin

Shawn Martin

The current scholarly communication system has developed over centuries; yet, more recently it has been breaking down.  Different disciplines have diagnosed this as an economic breakdown between libraries and publishers, a social failure among academics, and as a technological disruption.  Of course, all of these answers are true to some degree.  By combining approaches from information science and history, it may be possible to understand scholarly communication system more clearly.  Historians such as Steven Shapin in A Social History of Truth (1994) have suggested that academic dialogue rests on “trust.”  As the number of people participating became larger, that trust …

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Slide Deck For "Fictions Of Purity: Puritans, 'Native' Americans, And 'American' Identity", Nancy Schultz Jul 2015

Slide Deck For "Fictions Of Purity: Puritans, 'Native' Americans, And 'American' Identity", Nancy Schultz

Nancy Lusignan Schultz

This is the slide deck the Keynote remarks delivered by Dr. Nancy Lusignan Schultz, Salem State University English Professor, at a July 31, 2015 education forum in Boston, the Friedman Legacy Day Symposium: "Know-Nothings’ Nativism, Catholic Education and School Choice.”

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World War I Pamphlets At Penn: German-Graduate-Conference-2015, Rebecca A. Stuhr Mar 2015

World War I Pamphlets At Penn: German-Graduate-Conference-2015, Rebecca A. Stuhr

Rebecca A Stuhr

Poster presentation for the Penn German Graduate Student Conference. Mapping, Mining – Redefining? The Digital Turn in the Humanities. April 23-25, 2015. Kislak Pavilion, Van Pelt Library, 6th Floor. University of Pennsylvania.

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Systematic Literature Review Methods For Topics In The Humanities, Paul Fehrmann, Michael Hawkins Feb 2015

Systematic Literature Review Methods For Topics In The Humanities, Paul Fehrmann, Michael Hawkins

Paul Fehrmann

“How one searches determines what one finds; and what one finds is the basis of the conclusions of one's integration of studies.” [See Glass, G. V. (1981). Meta-analysis in social research.]. Systematic review methods (SRM) offer possibilities for increasing the rigor of “reviews of the literature”. SRM have been widely adopted in the health and social sciences. What about SRM for topics in the humanities ? This PowerPoint was used for a presentation for the 2015 ACRL Virtual Conference.

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