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Open Access Federation For Library And Information Science, Anita Coleman, Joseph Roback Dec 2005

Open Access Federation For Library And Information Science, Anita Coleman, Joseph Roback

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Self-archiving, the practice of depositing one's works in an OAI-compliant archive, is a key strategy for innovating scholarly communication and achieving open access. DL-Harvest, a subject service for Library and Information (LIS), based on the aggregation of OAI-PMH compliant metadata from both institutional and disciplinary digital repositories, including dLIST, is described. Additionally, results from two studies that explored LIS journal publishers' stances towards self-archiving as expressed in copyright transfer agreements (CTAs) and the scholarly communication behaviors of LIS scholars, with regard to self-archiving and searching, are presented and some implications for the development of federated subject services are highlighted.

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Synergies Sparked: A Research Agenda For Practicing Professionals, Anita Coleman Nov 2005

Synergies Sparked: A Research Agenda For Practicing Professionals, Anita Coleman

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This is a presentation (of 50 slides) at the University of California, Irvine sponsored by the Libraries' Department of Education and Outreach and by the LAUC-I (Librarians Association of the University of California, Irvine) Professional Development Committee. The title is picking up on the 2005 ASIS&T Annual Conference theme of Sparking Synergies: Bringing Research and Practice Together. Coleman discusses her research agenda which spans both sides of the information coin - she tries to examine representations of information and information usage in a unified program of inquiry. The research goal is to expand and integrate knowledge about uses and users …

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Dlist, Anita Coleman Nov 2005

Dlist, Anita Coleman

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This is a presentation at the ASIS&T 2005 Annual Meeting session on Progress in the Design and Evaluation of Digital Libraries: Implications for Research and Education (moderator: Kyung-Sun Kim). The presentation discusses the creation, design, and management of dLIST, an open access archive for the Information Sciences, and the affiliated DL-Harvest, an open access aggregator and federated search engine. As an Eprints-based open access archive, dLIST is a digital repository but it is a cross-institutional and interdisciplinary repository built on the concept of "sustainable information behaviors." Elements such as openness, transparency, information quality and interoperability are critical components along with …

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Building [Virtual] Communities, Anita Coleman Oct 2005

Building [Virtual] Communities, Anita Coleman

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This is a presentation of 21 slides at the Leadership Development session of the ASIST 2005 Annual Meeting at Charlotte, N.C. on October 30. It discusses the 2002 virtual community building experiment undertaken by the Arizona Chapter of ASIST. The chapter experimented with three different pieces of software, a wiki, a content management system, and slashcode. This presentation was also video-taped and may become available through the ASIST website, http://www.asis.org/.

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Open Access In Library And Information Science: Dlist 2005 Survey, A Scholarly Communication Study, Anita Coleman Oct 2005

Open Access In Library And Information Science: Dlist 2005 Survey, A Scholarly Communication Study, Anita Coleman

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D-Lib Magazine readers were invited to contribute to a study on scholarly communication behavior by completing the dLIST 2005 survey.

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Collaboration, Anita Coleman Oct 2005

Collaboration, Anita Coleman

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This is a presentation (15) slides at the 2005 ASIS&T Annual Meeting, Charlotte, N.C. on October 31, session on Collaboration in Digital Libraries: Luminous Ideas from Health Informatics, Academic Libraries, and Historical Archives

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Dlist And Dl-Harvest: Open Access For Lis, Anita Coleman Sep 2005

Dlist And Dl-Harvest: Open Access For Lis, Anita Coleman

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This is a 30-slide presentation sponsored by the University of Arizona, School of Information Resources & Library Science, Library Student Organization (LSO) on Sept. 26, 2005 from 6 - 7:30 pm. This is essentially the story of DLIST from inception in 2002 and includes the establishment of an advisory board, the open access aggregator DL-Harvest in 2005, the unfolding of the goals, objectives and vision, and the people who have been involved including internships. The context of the Open Access movement is briefly explored. References and notes help increase understanding of the importance of open access and DLIST to LIS.

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Librarians As Disciplinary Discourse Mediators: Using Genre Theory To Move Toward Critical Information Literacy, Michelle H. Simmons Jul 2005

Librarians As Disciplinary Discourse Mediators: Using Genre Theory To Move Toward Critical Information Literacy, Michelle H. Simmons

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Civil-Military Relations In A Civilized State: Panama, Ronald D. Sylvia, Constantine P. Danopoulos Jul 2005

Civil-Military Relations In A Civilized State: Panama, Ronald D. Sylvia, Constantine P. Danopoulos

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This article traces and analyzes civil-military relations in Panama. After a brief overview of the role of the National Guard in the country politics, the article concentrates on political developments since the 1989 U.S. invasion to overthrow the Noriega regime and the subsequent elimination of the Panamanian military. The study seeks to shed light on political life in an armyless and politically and socially fractionalized country occupying a sensitive strategic location. The concluding part of the study speculates on the possibility that terrorism, domestic security concerns, and regional considerations may prompt Washington and Panamanian leaders to reverse the decision to …

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Beyond Interdisciplinarity, Interactivity, And Interoperability: Some Options For Digital Libraries Education, Anita Coleman Jun 2005

Beyond Interdisciplinarity, Interactivity, And Interoperability: Some Options For Digital Libraries Education, Anita Coleman

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This is a presentation delivered at the Developing a Digital Libraries Education Program Workshop on June 7th held in conjunction with the Joint Conference on Digital Libraries 2005, June 7-11 at Denver, CO. It is based on Coleman's paper titled Beyond Interdisciplinarity, published in D-Lib Magazine, 2002. The D-Lib paper discussed how interdisciplinarity was used as the primary strategy to develop a Knowledge Organization track at the School of Information Resources & Library Science at the University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ. Besides highlighting some aspects of the paper, the presentation also draws on two other papers published in D-Lib Magazine …

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Two Hundred Years Of Young Adult Library Services: A Chronology, Anthony Bernier, M. K. Chelton, C. A. Jenkins, J. B. Pierce Jun 2005

Two Hundred Years Of Young Adult Library Services: A Chronology, Anthony Bernier, M. K. Chelton, C. A. Jenkins, J. B. Pierce

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Information Technology, Cognition, And Communication, Anita Coleman May 2005

Information Technology, Cognition, And Communication, Anita Coleman

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This is a Microsoft PowerPoint presentation of about 27 slides used in conjunction with a talk at UCI-CRITO on 18 May 2005, and the research reported is from a previously published study of mine. Information technology is varied and human use and impact can be examined at different levels. I report on a study that examines the ubiquitous hyperlinks as instruments of cognition in e-learning.

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Is Seeing Believing? A Survey Of Magazine Professionals' Practices And Attitudes Towards Ethical Standards For Photographs, Shahira Fahmy, Scott B. Fosdick, Thomas J. Johnson Apr 2005

Is Seeing Believing? A Survey Of Magazine Professionals' Practices And Attitudes Towards Ethical Standards For Photographs, Shahira Fahmy, Scott B. Fosdick, Thomas J. Johnson

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Geo-Rent: A Plea To Public Economists, Fred Foldvary Apr 2005

Geo-Rent: A Plea To Public Economists, Fred Foldvary

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This paper presents an analysis of what is termed “geo-rent,” what the plot-devoid-of-improvements would rent for in an auction. Most of the public finance literature and current thought has disvalued and misunderstood the actual and potential role of land and its rent for public revenue. The qualities of land value that make it a superior source of revenue—having little or no deadweight loss, and capitalizing civic infrastructure and services—are recognized but compartmentalized, ignored in the broader policy discussions. That the “producer surplus” is in reality mostly land rent is little recognized. The “Henry George Theorem” that rent can optimally equal …

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Reviewed Work: The Parable Of The Plums By Brian Fleming, Raymond Keane, Bisi Adigun, Matthew Spangler Mar 2005

Reviewed Work: The Parable Of The Plums By Brian Fleming, Raymond Keane, Bisi Adigun, Matthew Spangler

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No Business Like Show Business: Tracking Commodification Over A Century Of Variety, Scott B. Fosdick Jan 2005

No Business Like Show Business: Tracking Commodification Over A Century Of Variety, Scott B. Fosdick

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This baseline survey of 517 executives examined relationship management within business-to-business (B2B) e-commerce. Companies that employed B2B e-commerce evidenced communication and public relations tenets of relationship management. They allowed consumers to order and pay online, to access online support, to contact the company or sales staff, and to get product information. Engendering loyalty, by tracking customer satisfaction, was weak. Commitment to B2B e-customers was high, evidenced through personnel dedicated to B2B e-commerce and stated organizational commitment.

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The A B C’S Of Graphic Novels, Gail De Vos Jan 2005

The A B C’S Of Graphic Novels, Gail De Vos

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I have highlighted twenty-five concerns that I address when talking about the graphic novel in the many recent presentations I have conducted on this topic.

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Copyright Transfer Agreements In An Interdisciplinary Repository, Anita Coleman, Cheryl Malone, Jingfeng Xia, Shawn Nelson Jan 2005

Copyright Transfer Agreements In An Interdisciplinary Repository, Anita Coleman, Cheryl Malone, Jingfeng Xia, Shawn Nelson

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Copyright Transfer Agreements (CTA) are a rich source of rights information related to self-archiving. According to the Eprints Self-Archiving FAQ, "To self-archive is to deposit a digital document in a publicly accessible website, preferably an OAI-compliant Eprint Archive." (1) This poster describes a study undertaken by DLIST whereby the CTAs of selected LIS journals were analyzed for publisher statements on the rights of authors related to self-archiving. The study differs from efforts such as the SHERPA/RoMEO database (2) that resulted from the large open access studies of Project RoMEO (3). The main differences are: 1) our focus on LIS journals …

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Book Review: The Lawyer’S Guide To Fact Finding On The Internet, Michele Lucero Jan 2005

Book Review: The Lawyer’S Guide To Fact Finding On The Internet, Michele Lucero

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Do you ever want or need to find research information on the Internet, but feel as if you don't know where to begin? The Lawyer's Guide to Fact Finding on the Internet by Carole A. Levitt and Mark E. Rosch is just the resource. Two distinctive individuals have come together to create this useful tool. Levitt is no stranger to the legal research field being an attorney and former law librarian. Rosch is a marketing expert who certainly knows the Internet from his web developing skills.

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Use Of Heavier Drinking Contexts Among Heterosexuals, Homosexuals And Bisexuals: Results From A National Household Probability Survey., K Trocki, Laurie A. Drabble, L T. Midanik Jan 2005

Use Of Heavier Drinking Contexts Among Heterosexuals, Homosexuals And Bisexuals: Results From A National Household Probability Survey., K Trocki, Laurie A. Drabble, L T. Midanik

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Objective: Extensive use of specific social contexts (bars and parties, for instance) by homosexuals and bisexuals is thought to be a factor in the higher rates of drinking among these groups. However, much of the empirical evidence behind these assumptions has been based on studies with methodological or sampling shortcomings. This article examines the epidemiological patterns of alcohol contexts in relation to sexual identity, using a large, national, probability population survey. Method: We used the 2000 National Alcohol Survey for these analyses. The prevalence of spending leisure time in each of two social contexts (bars and parties) that are associated …

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Reports Of Alcohol Consumption And Alcohol-Related Problems Among Homosexual, Bisexual And Heterosexual Respondents: Results From The 2000 National Alcohol Survey, Laurie A. Drabble, L T. Midanik, K Trocki Jan 2005

Reports Of Alcohol Consumption And Alcohol-Related Problems Among Homosexual, Bisexual And Heterosexual Respondents: Results From The 2000 National Alcohol Survey, Laurie A. Drabble, L T. Midanik, K Trocki

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Objective: Few population-based studies have explored differences in alcohol consumption by sexual orientation. This study examined the prevalence of abstinence, drinking, heavier drinking, alcohol-related problems, alcohol dependence and help-seeking among homosexual and bisexual women and men compared with heterosexuals. Method: Data are from the 2000 National Alcohol Survey, a national population-based survey of adults (N = 7,612), a Random Digit Dialing telephone survey of all 50 states of the United States and Washington, DC. Four categories of sexual orientation were created using questions on both sexual orientation self-identification and behavior: homosexual identified, bisexual identified, heterosexual identified with same sex partners …

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Racial And Ethnic Attitudes And Individual Relatedness Among Greek-Americans, Constantine P. Danopoulos, Anna Karpathakis Jan 2005

Racial And Ethnic Attitudes And Individual Relatedness Among Greek-Americans, Constantine P. Danopoulos, Anna Karpathakis

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The article looks at the self-identity of Greek immigrants in the U.S. and incorporation of American racial ideologies into their racial repertoires. It recognizes Greek Americans for creating a national and racial framework that blends elements of both home and host society institutions and ideologies. It recalls the arrival of thousands of Greek immigrants in the U.S. in the 20th century. The increasing inter-marriage rates between Greek immigrants and Greek Americans are also noted.

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An Early Mathematical Presentation Of Consumer’S Surplus, Yeung-Nan Shieh Jan 2005

An Early Mathematical Presentation Of Consumer’S Surplus, Yeung-Nan Shieh

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The Ethical, Governmental, And Economic Elements Of Secession, Fred Foldvary Jan 2005

The Ethical, Governmental, And Economic Elements Of Secession, Fred Foldvary

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Behavioral And Psychological Symptoms Of Dementia: The Effects Of Physical Activity At Adult Day Service Centers, Erin L. Woodhead, S. H. Zarit, E. R. Braungart, M. J. Rovine, E. E. Femia Jan 2005

Behavioral And Psychological Symptoms Of Dementia: The Effects Of Physical Activity At Adult Day Service Centers, Erin L. Woodhead, S. H. Zarit, E. R. Braungart, M. J. Rovine, E. E. Femia

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Adult day services (ADS) are an increasingly popular option for caregivers of people with dementia, but there is little research on the effects of activities on the behavior and mood of the client. This study examines participation by 94 individuals in different types of adult day-care activities and their association with changes in behavior and psychological symptoms of dementia (BPSD) for the client during a three-month span. Three domains of BPSD were examined: restless behaviors, mood behaviors, and positive behaviors. Using growth curve modeling, results show that the restless and mood behavior domains, on average, were stable over three months, …

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Crisis, Farming And Community, Christine Hagar, C Haythornthwaite Jan 2005

Crisis, Farming And Community, Christine Hagar, C Haythornthwaite

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In 2001, the UK was hit by Foot and Mouth Disease (FMD) precipitating one of the biggest crises ever to affect the UK farming system. The crisis unfolded as a series of information and communication problems, from government to farmers and from farmers to farmers, with consequences for action in a time of crisis, social support, and the maintenance of community. What happens to a farming community during such a crisis? When the countryside shuts down, and no one can enter or leave the farm, how can information be disseminated? As methods of dealing with the disease change rapidly, as …

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What Is Usability In The Context Of The Digital Library And How Can It Be Measured?, Judy Jeng Jan 2005

What Is Usability In The Context Of The Digital Library And How Can It Be Measured?, Judy Jeng

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Little Sisters: An Exploration Of Agency, Cultural Borderlands, And Institutional Constraints In The Lives Of Two Teenage Girls, Rosemary C. Henze Jan 2005

Little Sisters: An Exploration Of Agency, Cultural Borderlands, And Institutional Constraints In The Lives Of Two Teenage Girls, Rosemary C. Henze

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Part of a special issue on challenging corporate control of schools and communities. The writer discusses her experience with the Big Brothers and Big Sisters organization in Oakland, California, of mentoring two teenage girls who live in poverty and encounter crises and hardship almost daily. She examines the concepts of agency and social and cultural borderlands to help explain the divergent school performances of the two girls and investigates the concepts' utility in the pursuit of social justice for young women. She conducts her exploration within the broader context of dynamic change.

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His Story/Her Story: A Dialogue About Including Men And Masculinities In The Women’S Studies Curriculum, B. Berila, J. Keller, C. Krone, Jason A. Laker, O. Mayers Jan 2005

His Story/Her Story: A Dialogue About Including Men And Masculinities In The Women’S Studies Curriculum, B. Berila, J. Keller, C. Krone, Jason A. Laker, O. Mayers

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The article discusses the issue of inclusion of men and masculinities in the Women's Studies curriculum. Women's Studies programs were started to compensate for the male domination in the academics. Women's Studies presented a platform where scholarship for women was produced and taken seriously, female students and faculty could find their say or voice, and theoretical investigations required for the advancement of the aims of the women's movement could take place. If the academy as a whole does not sufficiently integrate Women's Studies into the curriculum, integrating Men's Studies into Women's Studies might end up further marginalizing Women's Studies by …

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When The Trumpet Call Is Unclear: A Rhetorical Analysis Of The Speech That Launched The Jesus Seminar, Mathew A. Cabot Jan 2005

When The Trumpet Call Is Unclear: A Rhetorical Analysis Of The Speech That Launched The Jesus Seminar, Mathew A. Cabot

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Since the Jesus Seminar has become almost iconic in religious media coverage, it merits academic scrutiny. This article focuses on the Seminar's inaugural address given by founder Robert Funk on March 21, 1985, at the Pacific School of Religion in Berkeley, California. In that address, Funk set forth the Seminar's mission and method that has guided the association ever since. The main thesis of this article is that clues to the Seminar's successes and failures may be found in Funk's inaugural address, which may be uncovered through a "text-in-context" analysis of the speech.

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