Policy Map And Medlineplus For Creating Visual Materials For Underserved Populations In Philadelphia, Daniel Verbit, Monique Chabot, Elizabeth Shirrell

TCLC Program Proceedings

Low health literacy has a direct impact on the health outcomes of non and low-English speaking Populations. This poster showcases the result of a collaboration between the Library, Visual Design Communication and Occupational Therapy to address specific health literacy and access issues in Philadelphia. These projects included traditional health literacy materials such as flyers and brochures, but also innovative materials such as phone applications, kit boxes for social support programs, graphic novels, advertising campaigns, and community interactive murals. These were created to address the needs of a variety of populations ranging from children with asthma, children living with trauma, teenagers …

Assessment Of Open-Access Institutional Repositories Of China On Directory Of Open Access Repositories (Opendoar), Satyajit Nayak, Binay Kumar Parhi

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

Present-day institutional repositories play a vital role in promoting higher education systems and research and development. Individual organisations showcase their intellectual works using the Open access institutional repository platform. The present study focuses on the current status of Chinese Open Access Institutional Repositories. Data were collected from the global Directory of Open Access Institutional Repositories (DOAR) website. And collected data have been analysed and represented in graphical and tabular formats to clearly understand the study results. The Authors also assessed the Chinese’ contribution to various parameters such as Year wise growth pattern, Nature of Institutional Repository, disciplines, Content, software and …

Peer Accountability & Connections (Pac) Alumni Event, Central Washington University, Elizabeth Brown

Brooks Library Events

Poster for an informal, virtual event for PAC program alums to reconnect.

The Baffling Disappearance Of Beall’S Blog (Www.Scholarlyoa.Com):Reasons Revealed, Rosy Jan, Sumeer Gul Dr.

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

The substandard, low quality or predatory journals are the real threat to the publishing industry. It is a challenge to the quality and ethics of publication. The problem grabs the attention of scholarly community when the publisher of an open access journal Gunther Eysenbach, identified a black sheep among open access publishers and journals, since then many experiments were conducted to identify the black sheep and guidelines were issued to avoid them. However, the most substantial work in the field of predatory publishing was performed by Jeffery Beall who came up with a blacklist of predatory OA publishers and journal. …

Student Success: Open Access Repository Work Impacts University Libraries' Student Employees, Kelly Visnak Dr., Yumi Ohira

Digital Initiatives Symposium

This presentation will identify new methods for in the libraries student employment program related to Open Access repository work. The hands on learning opportunities are focused on publishing production workflows, including: CV checking; author rights and permissions for depositing faculty papers in the UTA’s institutional repository; and creating a research metrics report to provide alternative impact measurements of the faculty’s publications in support of tenure and promotion packet of materials. Additional production processes include learning layout design and project management in publishing monographs and journals through a variety of publishing tools, such as: Open Journal Systems (OJS), Pressbooks, and InDesign. …

A Brief Bibliometric Survey Of Explainable Ai In Medical Field, Nilkanth Mukund Deshpande, Shilpa Shailesh Gite

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

_{^{Background: This study aims to analyze the work done in the field of explainability related to artificial intelligence, especially in the medical field from 2004 onwards using the bibliometric methods.}}

_{^{Methods: different articles based on the topic leukemia detection were retrieved using one of the most popular database- Scopus. The articles are considered from 2004 onwards. Scopus analyzer is used for different types of analysis including documents by year, source, county and so on. There are other different analysis tools such as VOSviewer Version 1.6.15. This is used for the analysis of different units such as co-authorship, co-occurrences, citation analysis …}}

Mapping Manuscript Migrations: Building And Using A Linked Open Data Environment For Medieval And Renaissance Manuscript Studies, Lynn Ransom, Toby Burrows

Digital Initiatives Symposium

“Mapping Manuscript Migrations” is a digital humanities project that brings together three distinct data sets about the histories of more than 215,000 medieval and Renaissance manuscripts for browsing, searching, and visualization. Four leading institutions from Great Britain, France, Finland, and the United States collaborated on this project, pooling their expertise in Semantic Web technologies and medieval manuscript curation and research, as well as contributing their own data from the three contrasting datasets. The Schoenberg Database of Manuscripts at the University of Pennsylvania, the Medieval Manuscripts Catalogue at the University of Oxford, and the Bibale database from the Institut de recherche …

A Study Of Reading Habits Among The Senior Secondary Students Of Kendriya Vidyalaya In Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh., Rohit Singh, Ashwani Singh

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

The purpose of this paper is to report the finding of the study of reading habits among the senior secondary student of three Kendriya Vidyalaya (KV) school of Varanasi district run by the Ministry of Education, Government of India. The study adopts the questionnaire tool & 300 questionnaires are distributed to collect the data from the student to examine the choice of reading material, preferred place, language & source of getting reading materials. Collected data indicates that the English language is the most preferred language for reading; textbook, newspaper magazines are the most preferred reading material. School is the most …

Research Trend And Productivity In Nanomedicine Research: The Indian Perspective, Sarangapani R Dr., Nidhisha P K Mrs.

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

The paper presents a scientometric analysis of the Nanomedicine research output of India during the year 2010-2019 collected from the Web of Science database. Publication pattern, Degree of Collaboration, Authorship pattern, Collaborative index, International collaboration, Relative Growth Rate, Doubling Time are some of the aspects considered for the study. The number of research publications in nanomedicine gradually increased during the studied period. Articles are the most published form of research output and the multi-author pattern is dominating. India is in third place in terms of the number of publications but almost last in terms of average citation per paper among …

Bibliometric Analysis Of Particle Swarm Optimization Techniques Used To Enhance Low-Energy Adaptive Clustering Hierarchy Protocol For Wireless Sensor Networks, Anupkumar M. Bongale Dr.

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) is a network of tiny wireless sensor nodes. The sensor nodes sense information and transmit the sensed information to a data collection point known as Base Station. WSNs have gained massive popularity due to their incredible benefits, and active research is ongoing for the past two decades. The primary concern with WSN is that the sensor operates on a limited power supply. Due to the nature of applications of WSNs and the hostile environment where the sensors are deployed, providing unlimited power or energy supply is not an option. Hence, the research work mainly focuses on …

Institutional Factors Variable As Determinants Of Lecturers’ Utilization Of Electronic Publications In Library Schools In Universities In Nigeria, Ada Uchenna Tony Okereke Phd

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

The study focused on the institutional factors variable as determinants of lecturers’ utilization of electronic publications in library schools in universities in Nigeria. The study was guided by one research questions and one null hypotheses. Correlational design was adopted for the study, while rating scale titled ‘Computer Utilization Variables and Lecturers Utilization of Electronic Publications’ (CUVLUEP) was used to elicit data for the study. A sample of 378 library and information science lecturers from the 24 public universities in Nigeria were used for the study. The reliability of the instrument was determined through the Cronbach Alpha statistical method which gave …

Maintaining Publishing Standards And Global Visibility: Essential Tips For Nigerian Library And Information Professionals, Juliana Akidi, Onyinye Alexander Osedo, Chukwuemeka Chukwueke

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

The paper examined the essential requirements for maintaining publishing standards as well as global visibility of research scholars, using Nigerian Library and Information Science (LIS) professionals as a focus. The paper x-rayed the basic concepts of the study, extensively looked into the state of publishing and maintaining global visibility by LIS professionals in Nigeria and proffered the key elements for positively changing the scenario, which among others involve using standard numbers in publishing like International Standard Book Number (ISBN), International Standard Serial Number (ISSN) and Digital Object Identifier (DOI), among others, being mindful of what is published, where it is …

Downstream Relationship Analysis Psa 591x, Andree Rathemacher

Library Impact Statements

No abstract provided.

Using Myvita - Activities, James Roger Weaver

myVITA Materials

This tutorial discusses the Activities form.

This tutorial is part of a series of tutorials produced by Library and Learning Resources to assist Faculty with their scholarly communications needs. Information on how to receive additional help and assistance can be found at the end of this tutorial.

Please note that this tutorial is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution‐NonCommercial‐ ShareAlike 4.0 International License. This means that you are free to download, share, and use this tutorial so long as your use is non‐commercial and you give appropriate attribution.

Affordable Learning Kentucky: Strategies For Affordability And Success, Kelly Smith, Cristen Ross, Lori Werth, Ilona Burdette

EKU Faculty and Staff Scholarship

Kentucky Virtual Library’s Affordable Learning Steering Committee, an initiative of the Kentucky Council on Postsecondary Education (CPE), is a working group of librarians from universities around Kentucky exploring ways to advance Kentucky in the Open Educational Resource (OER) / Affordable Textbook movement.

The panel presentation included an overview of their work to date and a discussion with the audience about Kentucky’s needs and strategies related to affordable courseware for students on topics including working with campus bookstores, adding course resources to library collections, using e-reserves dynamically, promoting faculty use and creation of open content, and campus textbook initiatives.

Panelists included …

Spotlight On Open Educational Resources: Promoting Low-Cost Solutions For Student Course Materials, Central Washington University, Maura Valentino, Sterling Quinn

Brooks Library Events

Poster for event where CWU Professor Sterling Quinn and Librarian Maura Valentino discuss incorporating OERs into course materials.

When Does Substance Use Become Abuse? Psy 275, Julia Lovett

Library Impact Statements

No abstract provided.

Social Tags And Controlled Vocabulary: A Comparative Study Of Documents In Chemistry And Literature, Dr Indira B

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

The online information retrieval process enables users to assign keywords for easy access of documents. These keywords popularly known as social tags have now become a popular trend in the information organization. Many online library catalogues has provided provision which allows users to add tags to documents. These social tags has many similarities and variations with the controlled vocabularies used in libraries. Moreover the usage of social tags varies in each subject. The present study tries to compare the social tags and controlled vocabularies in literature and chemistry. The analysis have proved that social tags that exactly match with the …

Diversity, Equity, And Inclusion - Library Audit Report, Michele Gibney, Veronica Wells, Mickel Paris, Lisa Cooperman, Mike Wurtz, Munachimso Aghasili, Diego Bustamante, Angelique Michelle Doty, Camryn Love, Apollo Parish Mitchell, Xitlali Pacheco, Corey Pfitzer, Vivian Pham, Molly Westlake

Research Tuesdays

In Fall 2020, President Callahan announced several Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) projects that the university would commence, including a DEI Audit of the Library’s collections. We formed a planning group, did initial research on equivalent DEI audits at other institutions, and decided to involve students in the process by hiring 9 as Interns in Spring 2021. The students will meet weekly with the planning group to discuss the project, audit specific portions of the collection (based on disciplinary interest), and provide recommendations for collection diversification. This presentation will cover the initial results of hiring students, finalizing methodology for the …

Social Media As An Open Educational Practice Tools And Challenges, K.Sathish Kumar, M. Mahendraprabu, G. Kalaiyarasan, R. R.Ramnath, N.Sasi Kumar, Mani Mookkiah

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

More than traditional learning methodology, the present generation focuses on smart learning technology. We can use social media for many purposes but, communication and learning should be the primary purpose. Many open educational resources are already available in social media in different formats like audio, visual, Text, etc. This research aims to characterize the researcher’s essential quality; how the use of open educational resources and the challenges faced through social/digital media have influenced their future research. The 350 research scholars from the state universities of Tamil Nadu have participated in this study, and they have been practice OER. The respondents …

Study Culture Among College Graduate Students In Electronic Era, Sanila Aslam, Muhammad Rafiq Awan, Nusrat Ali

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

Reading is the basic step for learners in education and it plays a key part in literacy and language gaining. It increases intellectual aptitude through giving new thoughts, notions and enhances vocabulary. This study attempts to examine students 'reading behavior in the electronic age and the reason for the decline towards reading. The population of the study was based on graduates’ students of public sector colleges of Lahore vicinity. A well-structured questionnaire for the survey was used for data collection. A sample of 334 students of graduate program was sampled employing proportionate random sampling technique from public sector colleges (6 …

Bibliometric Review Of Digital Archive Research: Contemporary Status, Research Hotspots And Future Trends, Abu Ks

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

Digital archiving has been practised more and more in recent years, because of its significant potentials and long-term benefits. Bibliometric based review was applied to examine the digital archive research publications from the web of science from 1989 to 2019. A total of 639 publications were obtained with a steady increase of publications every year. There were diversified research topics, which were categorized as computational aspects of digital archiving, libraries role in digital archiving and digital archiving practices in medicine. Keyword analysis highlighted the interdisciplinary approach of digital archiving practices. The study also aids in summarizing the status quo and …

Growth Of Indian Research In Science And Technology: A Scientometric Analysis, Abbas S. M, Jayaprakash G. Hugar

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

This article carried out a Scientometric analysis of research publications published in various science and technology journals from 2011 to 2020 from India. Required data was retrieved from WoS database during the study period it provides information about the science and technology related publications from India. Especially, scientific data on the top research areas and distribution of publication collaborations in different dimensions of geography, authors, funding agencies, subjects and others.

It examines the year wise publications, annual distribution of publications, most prolific authors, authors and organisations productivity, etc. Analysis found that, highest research publications are published in the year 2019 …

Making A Place At The Table: A Guide For Small, Rural, And Suburban Libraries, Laura C. Collins

South Carolina Libraries

This article serves as resource for libraries in rural and suburban areas that are serving communities experiencing changes to their ethnic diversity, particularly an influx of immigrants from one central location with English as a second language (i.e. India, China, Syria, etc.). Within, resources include: research supporting the benefits of having a multilingual collection; common missteps and pitfalls in serving minority communities; examples of how to determine the community’s needs; provides recommendations for finding community partners; and shares resources from the American Library Association and other organizations to find grants, develop collections, and conduct outreach services.

University Students’ Readiness For E-Learning During The Covid-19 Pandemic: An Assessment Of The University Of Health And Allied Sciences, Ho In Ghana, George Tesilimi Banji Phd, Mabel Frempong, Stephen Okyere, Abdul Sakibu Raji

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

The main goal of this paper was to investigate the university students’ readiness for E-learning during the Covid-19 Pandemic. The rationale was to explore students’ readiness for the various E-learning platforms, examine the challenges faced by students in the use of the E-learning platforms (module) during Covid-19 Pandemic and also investigate the benefits of the use of the E-learning platforms. This study adopted a survey research design. From the 2019/2020 academic year of the University of Health and Allied Sciences, 345 students were selected by convenient sampling method. Their readiness for E-learning during the Covid-19 pandemic was assessed by a …

Conference Critique: An Analysis Of Equity, Diversity, And Inclusion Programming, Brittany Paloma Fiedler, Brittani Sterling

Library Faculty Presentations

You are a person interested in equity, diversity, and inclusion (or EDI), so you are excited to attend conference sessions that have the words equity, diversity, and inclusion in the titles and descriptions. However, these panels are not always what you expect. They mean all learning styles are equal. They mean the participants come from a diversity of places. They mean libraries should include more civility between colleagues. If you are a librarian whose professional interest is firmly rooted in EDI, you wonder how conference presenters can use these words without realizing that they have scholarly significance to those who …

Metadata Remediation Of Legacy Digital Collections: Efficient Large-Scale Metadata Clean-Up With A Sleek Workflow And A Handy Tool, Marina Georgieva

Library Faculty Research

Metadata remediation of digital collections is inevitable. At some point, each repository faces the need to clean-up digital collections legacy metadata so that it conforms to new standards. Typically, this need emerges either as a response to an updated metadata application profile, or as preparation for migration to a new digital asset management system (DAMS). Normalized metadata is critical for an improved search experience and easy discovery of digital objects.

This case study focuses on the University of Nevada, Las Vegas’ (UNLV) experience of cleaning up and preparing non-MARC metadata for migration to a new DAMS. The author shares her …

No Publication Favelas! Latin America's Vision For Open Access, Monica Berger

Publications and Research

Open access was intended to be the great equalizer but its promise has not come to fruition in many lower-income countries of the Global South. Under-resourcing is only one of the many reasons why these scholars and publishers are marginalized. In order to examine inequality in our global scholarly communications system, we can compare a negative and a positive outgrowth of this imbalance. Predatory publishing represents a a weak imitation of traditional, commercial journal publishing. In contrast, Latin America’s community-based, quality scholarly infrastructure is anti-colonial. It can be argued that Latin America’s publishing infrastructure represents one solution to predatory publishing. …

Implementation Of Rda In Cataloguing And Classification In 21st Century: Issues Challenges And Prospects, Chiegonu Bridget Nwachi, Emmanuel Ihekwuaba Dr, Michael C. Nwafor (Corresponding Author)

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

Abstract

Purpose: The primary goal of each librarian and cataloger is to organize library services to satisfy the users' information-seeking needs, such as searching, locating, selecting, and obtaining the necessary information resources from the users within a limited period of time. With the implementation of the Resource Description and Access (RDA) on 4 April, 2013 in the United States and other nations, catalogers and qualified librarians face difficulties in gaining access to the training and preparation needed. Against this context, the study examined an overview of the implementation of RDA in cataloging and classification in the 21st century: concerns and …

Research Output On Ict During The Period 2016-2020: A Scientometric Analysis, Victoria P

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

The purpose of this study was to measure the number of contributions and highlight the contributions made by the researchers in the field of ICT (Information and Communication Technology) and published on the Web of Science database during 2016-2020 using scientometric analysis. Data were interpreted by using software such as Bibexcel, Vosviewer, and tabulated using MS Excel. The results indicated that 8103 papers were published during 2016 - 2020 and the highest number of publications 2067 (25.51%) was produced in 2020. The trends in multi-authored papers have tremendously increased (90.40%) compared to (09.60%) single-authored papers. The relative growth rate (0.84) …