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Using Cases To Teach Research Data Management, Donna Kafel Nov 2013

Using Cases To Teach Research Data Management, Donna Kafel

Donna Kafel

Presentation on using the research cases in the New England Collaborative Data Management Curriculum to teach data management best practices. Demonstration of how a biomedical research engineering case could be presented to students to teach research data management concepts in a disciplinary context.

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Library Services For Creating And Publishing Student Research Journals, Adrian K. Ho Aug 2013

Library Services For Creating And Publishing Student Research Journals, Adrian K. Ho

Adrian K. Ho

Theme: Planning and implementing student research journals
Highlighted Services: Journal consulting, publishing and technical support
Resources: Sample journal staff organization models, checklists to support planning, staffing, and production

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Library As Open Access Publisher: An Overview For Technical Service Librarians, Adrian K. Ho, Mary Beth Thomson May 2013

Library As Open Access Publisher: An Overview For Technical Service Librarians, Adrian K. Ho, Mary Beth Thomson

Adrian K. Ho

There is a growing trend within libraries to provide publishing services in direct support of open access to scholarly communication. Technical service librarians have a long and rich history of acquiring, providing access to and preserving a variety of resources from publishers, societies, governments and individuals. This session will provide an overview of the activities, processes, rights issues, and systems involved in a library published or hosted open access journal. Adrian Ho, Director of Digital Scholarship, and Mary Beth Thomson, Associate Dean for Collections, Digital Scholarship, and Technical Services for the University of Kentucky Libraries will share their experiences with …

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Himalayan Collections At Yale, Sarah D. Calhoun, Andrew Quintman, Mark Turin Feb 2013

Himalayan Collections At Yale, Sarah D. Calhoun, Andrew Quintman, Mark Turin

Sarah D Calhoun

From February 4 - March 31, 2013, a small exhibition showcasing Yale’s rich Himalayan holdings was open to the public in the Memorabilia Room of the Sterling Memorial Library, across the hall from Manuscripts and Archives near the Wall Street entrance of the library. From art to archives, publications to personal correspondence, manuscripts to religious artefacts, Yale’s rich Himalayan holdings are located across the University, in the Sterling Memorial Library, the Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, the Divinity School, the School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, the University Art Gallery, the Center for British Art and the Peabody Museum …

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Asian Top Universities In Six World University Rankings, Mahmood Khosrowjerdi Jan 2013

Asian Top Universities In Six World University Rankings, Mahmood Khosrowjerdi

Mahmood Khosrowjerdi

There are a variety of ranking systems for universities throughout the different continents of the world. The majority of the world ranking systems have paid special attention toward evaluation of universities and higher education institutions at the national and international level. This paper tries to study the similarities and status of top Asian universities in the list of top 200 universities by these world ranking systems. Findings show that there are some parallelisms among these international rankings. For example it was found some correlations between QS-Webometrics rankings (R= 0.78); QS-THE rankings (R= 0.53); and Shanghai-HEEACT rankings (R= 0.58). The highest …

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The Ranking Of Iranian Universities Based On An Improved Technique, Mohammad Reza Ghane, Zahra Azizkhani, Mahmood Khosrowjerdi Jan 2013

The Ranking Of Iranian Universities Based On An Improved Technique, Mohammad Reza Ghane, Zahra Azizkhani, Mahmood Khosrowjerdi

Mahmood Khosrowjerdi

Current competitive environment has forced higher education authorities to rank the scientific performance of their universities. The results of the university rankings have been used in strategic planning of research affairs. Focal point behind the university ranking is the methodological issues. Previous university rankings have relied on the conventional methods that are accompanied by some drawbacks. Therefore, the present study aims to evaluate Iranian universities based on the Crown indicator. The performance of fourteen Iranian universities was evaluated based on the data gathered from Essential Science Indicators (ESI) database. Results of the world university rankings do not indicate the true …

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Three Presentations At The Boston Conference That Taught Me New Approaches, Immigration And Naturalization Service Citizen Records: Beyond The Basics, James Gross Jan 2013

Three Presentations At The Boston Conference That Taught Me New Approaches, Immigration And Naturalization Service Citizen Records: Beyond The Basics, James Gross

James Gross

Brief review of a talk by staff employee, Mr. Wilske, of the US Immigration and Naturalization Service. Lecture was held during the annual Jewish Genealogy Conference held in Boston, Mass.

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A Critical Analysis Of The Serials Crisis In Scholarly Publishing: A Gramscian Perspective, Paul G. St-Pierre Jan 2013

A Critical Analysis Of The Serials Crisis In Scholarly Publishing: A Gramscian Perspective, Paul G. St-Pierre

Paul G. St-Pierre

This paper examines the LIS literature pertaining to the serials crisis, evaluating its dominant theoretical perspective. It then explores the problem using the theoretical lens of the Marxist writer Antonio Gramsci in an attempt to obtain a deeper critical understanding of the power dynamics that exist in the arena of scholarly publishing. A program of research is outlined with examples of several issues that could be further explored from a Gramscian perspective.

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Availability Of Information Resources For Research Output: Perception Of Academic Staff Members In Nigerian Federal Universities, Olatokunbo C. Okiki Jan 2013

Availability Of Information Resources For Research Output: Perception Of Academic Staff Members In Nigerian Federal Universities, Olatokunbo C. Okiki

Olatokunbo C OKIKI

The volume of information resources potentially available in the globe is massive; hence it becomes necessary to examine available information resources for academics research activity in the academia. This study, therefore, examined the perception of academics on availability of information resources for research productivity in federal universities in Nigeria. Descriptive survey research design was adopted. The Multistage sampling technique was used to select 1,057 academic staff members from twelve federal universities in the six geo-political zones of Nigeria. The categories of academic staff covered in the study were from professorial cadre to graduate assistant. The instruments used for data collection …

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Research Productivity Of Teaching Faculty Members In Nigerian Federal Universities: An Investigative Study, Olatokunbo C. Okiki Jan 2013

Research Productivity Of Teaching Faculty Members In Nigerian Federal Universities: An Investigative Study, Olatokunbo C. Okiki

Olatokunbo C OKIKI

This study assessed the level of research productivity of teaching faculty members in Nigerian federal universities. The findings of the study show that the research productivity of the teaching faculty members in Nigerian federal universities is high in journal publications, technical reports, conference papers, working papers, and occasional papers. The research productivity is higher in Northeast (M=22.53; SD=25.73), and Southwest (M=21.74; SD=87.28), and North Central (M=20.69; SD=31.24) Nigeria. Also, the mean score of information resources availability (M=2.41; SD=0.90) indicates that information resources are readily available to teaching faculty members in Nigerian federal universities. The barriers to research productivity by teaching …

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