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Scholarly Communications Annual Report, Fy 2011, Paul Royster, Sue Ann Gardner
Scholarly Communications Annual Report, Fy 2011, Paul Royster, Sue Ann Gardner
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The Office of Scholarly Communications continued to recruit and manage content for the UNL DigitalCommons institutional repository (IR) and to expand its outreach to campus, regional, and national constituencies.
Word 2010 Fonts Embedding Issues Resolved, Paul Royster,
Word 2010 Fonts Embedding Issues Resolved, Paul Royster,
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Earlier this week I was “upgraded” from MS Office 2007 to MS Office 2010. In addition to the annoyance of hours spent reconstructing my former settings and toolbars for Word, I also discovered another issue: Word files saved as PDF refused to embed some fonts, specifically those deriving from Excel or other charts and graphs inserted into Word documents.
Previously, Word 2007 had interoperated with an Adobe Acrobat plug-in to properly convert such files and embed all fonts according to Acrobat’s preference settings. But for Word 2010, there is no working Acrobat plug-in, and Microsoft has proudly included their own …
March 2011 Download Summary & Most Downloaded Articles
March 2011 Download Summary & Most Downloaded Articles
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Number of articles = 47,914
Open Access = 36,464
Other (ProQuest ETD's) = 11,450
Articles downloaded = 29,750
pct of OA articles downloaded = 82%
Number of Downloads = 309,579
avg per OA article = 8.5
Number of hits (OA articles) = 429,844
avg per OA article = 11.8
download/hit ratio = 72%
A list of 235 articles with 100 or more downloads is included.
The Art Of Scanning, Paul Royster
The Art Of Scanning, Paul Royster
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Yes, it is presumptuous to call scanning an “art,” when it is really more of a craft, but “The Craft of Scanning” doesn’t sound as sexy, so we will consider it for the time being as one of the fine arts, like music, or painting, or dance. This short treatise derives from work done in the process of scanning published and original materials to create PDF files for online publication or deposit in our institutional repository. This approach assumes you have a scanner and software to drive it, and also three software programs from Adobe (sold together as their Creative …