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Dissertations Content Analysis Data Set, "Diving Deep Into Dissertations" Article, College & Research Libraries, Mandy J. Swygart-Hobaugh M.L.S., Ph.D., Raeda Anderson, Denise George, Joel Glogowski
Dissertations Content Analysis Data Set, "Diving Deep Into Dissertations" Article, College & Research Libraries, Mandy J. Swygart-Hobaugh M.L.S., Ph.D., Raeda Anderson, Denise George, Joel Glogowski
University Library Faculty Publications
We present findings from an exploratory quantitative content analysis case study of 156 doctoral dissertations from Georgia State University that investigates doctoral student researchers’ methodology practic es (used quantitative, qualitative, or mixed methods) and data practices (used primary data, secondary data, or both). We discuss the implications of our findings for provision of data support services provided by the Georgia State University Library’s Res earch Data Services (RDS) Team and subject liaison librarians in the areas of instructional services, data software support and licensing advocacy, collection development, marketing/outreach, and professional development/expansion.
Data And Graduate Students: Less Naked And Less Afraid, Or Giving Graduate Students The Clothes And Confidence For Data Success, Mandy J. Swygart-Hobaugh M.L.S., Ph.D.
Data And Graduate Students: Less Naked And Less Afraid, Or Giving Graduate Students The Clothes And Confidence For Data Success, Mandy J. Swygart-Hobaugh M.L.S., Ph.D.
University Library Faculty Publications
This chapter from Transforming Libraries to Serve Graduate Students focuses attention on graduate students’ data needs, presenting the following: (1) an overview of the services the Georgia State University Library’s Research Data Services Team provides to help social science graduate students with their data needs; and (2) an examination of one year’s data services consultations with graduate students that further elucidates their pressing data needs and how the Georgia State University Library is endeavoring to meet those needs. This close look at Georgia State University Library's experience of providing data services demonstrates the potential for academic librarians to push the …
An Investigation Of Etds As Prior Publications: Findings From The 2011 Ndltd Publishers’ Survey, Gail Mcmillan, Marisa L. Ramirez, Joan Dalton, Max Read, Nancy H. Seamans
An Investigation Of Etds As Prior Publications: Findings From The 2011 Ndltd Publishers’ Survey, Gail Mcmillan, Marisa L. Ramirez, Joan Dalton, Max Read, Nancy H. Seamans
University Library Faculty Publications
Do publishers and editors of scholarly journals view theses and dissertations that are readily available on the Internet and through convenient Web browsers as prior publications? This has been a topic of discussion for well over a decade in the ETD community, not only of concern to graduate schools and libraries but also among research faculty and their graduate students. At the same time that a growing number of universities worldwide are requiring ETDs and making the research and scholarship of their graduate students publicly available, many faculty advise their students to restrict online access to their theses and dissertations …