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Full-Text Articles in Social and Behavioral Sciences
Macro-Level Diffusion Of A Methodological Knowledge Innovation: Research Synthesis Methods, 1972-2011, Laura Sheble
Macro-Level Diffusion Of A Methodological Knowledge Innovation: Research Synthesis Methods, 1972-2011, Laura Sheble
School of Information Sciences Faculty Research Publications
Use of research synthesis methods has contributed to changes in research practices. In disciplinary literatures, authors indicate motivations to use the methods include needs to (a) translate research-based knowledge to inform practice and policy decisions, and (b) integrate relatively large and diverse knowledge bases to increase the generality of results and yield novel insights or explanations. This review presents two histories of the diffusion of research synthesis methods: a narrative history based primarily in the health and social sciences; and a bibliometric overview across science broadly. Engagement with research synthesis was strongly correlated with evidence-based practice (EBP), and moderately with …
Using Historical Interlibrary Loan Data And Oclc To Downsize Our Print Journal Collection, Mike Hawthorne, Andy Breeding, James E. Van Loon, Brittany Hill, Paul Beavers
Using Historical Interlibrary Loan Data And Oclc To Downsize Our Print Journal Collection, Mike Hawthorne, Andy Breeding, James E. Van Loon, Brittany Hill, Paul Beavers
Library Scholarly Publications
In 2014 Wayne State University closed its Science & Engineering Library (SEL) converting the building into a mediated storage collection. In 2017 the University received funding from the State of Michigan to convert the SEL into lab and classroom space intended to support our various STEM programs. This project would have a significant impact on our print journal collection, system wide, due to the 600,000 volumes housed in SEL and the limited available space to absorb them in other parts of the library system. This challenge required a radical downsizing of this collection in the most responsible way possible while …
Cultivating Legal Research Skills, Jan B. Bissett, Margi Heinen
Cultivating Legal Research Skills, Jan B. Bissett, Margi Heinen
Library Scholarly Publications
No abstract provided.
Introducing Altmetrics To The Journal Of The Medical Library Association, Katherine G. Akers
Introducing Altmetrics To The Journal Of The Medical Library Association, Katherine G. Akers
Library Scholarly Publications
The Journal of the Medical Library Association’s (JMLA’s) website now shows a range of article-level metrics (e.g., article views, online mentions, social media attention) for each published article. This editorial explains how ”altmetrics“ may be better than traditional citations in reflecting the impact of JMLA articles on the practice of health sciences librarianship and provides tips for how to increase the impact of your articles.
Who's Talking About Scholarly Communication? Poster Presented At Miala 2017, Clayton Hayes, Heidi Elaine Kelly
Who's Talking About Scholarly Communication? Poster Presented At Miala 2017, Clayton Hayes, Heidi Elaine Kelly
Library Scholarly Publications
This study analyzes gender dynamics on the ALA's SCHOLCOMM listserv. Utilizing the listserv archive, the presenters analyzed individual message metadata in order to create a list of participants along with their gender; this was then utilized to correlate the frequency of new messages and replies sent to the list with the gender identity of participants. The results of the study clearly show that male participation on the list is disproportionately large.
Let The Dodo Bird Speak: A Rejoinder On Diversity In Children's Books, Kafi Kumasi
Let The Dodo Bird Speak: A Rejoinder On Diversity In Children's Books, Kafi Kumasi
School of Information Sciences Faculty Research Publications
No abstract provided.
Who’S Talking About Scholarly Communication? An Examination Of Gender And Behavior On The Scholcomm Listserv, Clayton Hayes, Heidi Elaine Kelly
Who’S Talking About Scholarly Communication? An Examination Of Gender And Behavior On The Scholcomm Listserv, Clayton Hayes, Heidi Elaine Kelly
Library Scholarly Publications
INTRODUCTION This study analyzes the gender dynamics of the American Library Association’s SCHOLCOMM listserv in order to determine the accuracy of concerns expressed by participants in early 2016 regarding an overrepresentation of male voices on the listserv. METHODS Utilizing the SCHOLCOMM listserv archive, openly available online, the authors analyzed metadata related to individual messages in order to create a comprehensive list of participants, which was then analyzed to determine gender identity. The authors utilized this information to correlate the frequency of new messages and replies sent to the list with the gender identity of participants. RESULTS While men represented 35% …
Publishing Case Studies In Health Sciences Librarianship, Katherine G. Akers, Kathleen Amos
Publishing Case Studies In Health Sciences Librarianship, Katherine G. Akers, Kathleen Amos
Library Scholarly Publications
While most issues of the Journal of the Medical Library Association (JMLA) contain one or two case studies, the JMLA editorial team is pleased to note that the current issue contains six case studies, highlighting a wide range of library-driven initiatives to support health sciences research and education.
Flipped Out: Teaching New Pharmacy Students Drug Literature Searching And Evaluation Using Online Instruction, Mini Lecture, And Active Learning, Wendy Wu, Veronica E. Bielat
Flipped Out: Teaching New Pharmacy Students Drug Literature Searching And Evaluation Using Online Instruction, Mini Lecture, And Active Learning, Wendy Wu, Veronica E. Bielat
Library Scholarly Publications
This poster will discuss the efforts of liaison librarians to re-design and deliver a flipped class on drug literature searching and evaluation collaboratively with faculty so as to strengthen students’ ability to answer drug related inquiries and evaluate literature in a systematic manner, to develop core information competencies, and to actively engage students in classroom for better learning outcomes.
Collecting With A Plan: The Arthur S. Obermayer Personal Library, Alison M. Greenlee, Sarah J. Andrus
Collecting With A Plan: The Arthur S. Obermayer Personal Library, Alison M. Greenlee, Sarah J. Andrus
Library Scholarly Publications
This presentation describes the acquisition, conservation, cataloging, and classification of a personal library that was donated to The Henry Ford in 2016. The size of the collection, as well as the decision to preserve the donor’s numbering scheme, produced unexpected challenges.
Keeping The Channel Open: Building A Problem Reporting Tool, Cole Hudson
Keeping The Channel Open: Building A Problem Reporting Tool, Cole Hudson
Library Scholarly Publications
This presentation is a lightning talk given at the Mid-Michigan Digital Practitioners Spring 2017 meeting. It describes the process of creating a problem reporting module for the Wayne State University Digital Collections platform.
Using Course-Subject Co-Occurrence (Csco) To Reveal The Structure Of An Academic Discipline: A Framework To Evaluate Different Inputs Of A Domain Map, Peter A. Hook
School of Information Sciences Faculty Research Publications
This article proposes, exemplifies, and validates the use of course-subject co-occurrence (CSCO) data to generate topic maps of an academic discipline. A CSCO event is when two course-subjects are taught in the same academic year by the same teacher. 61,856 CSCO events were extracted from the 2010-11 directory of the American Association of Law Schools and used to visualize the structure of law school education in the United States. Different normalization, ordination (layout), and clustering algorithms were compared and the best performing algorithm of each type was used to generate the final map. Validation studies demonstrate that CSCO produces topic …
Reliability And Validity Of Michigan School Libraries For The 21st Century Measurement Benchmarks, Natosha Nicole Floyd
Reliability And Validity Of Michigan School Libraries For The 21st Century Measurement Benchmarks, Natosha Nicole Floyd
Wayne State University Dissertations
The purpose of this study was to examine the psychometric properties of the Michigan School Libraries for the 21st Century Measurement Benchmarks (SL21). The instrument consists of 19 items with three subscales: Building the 21st Century Learning Environment Subscale, Teaching for 21st Century Learning Subscale, and Leading the Way to 21st Century Learning Subscale. The sample consisted of 54 respondents who were administered the instrument in 2014 and 2015. Cronbach’s alpha for the total instrument was 0.807 (n = 19 items). Exploratory factor analysis (EFA) was used to measure construct validity. The findings derived from the EFA did not tend …
Quality Evaluation Of Data Management Plans At A Research University, James E. Van Loon, Katherine G. Akers, Cole Hudson, Alexandra Sarkozy
Quality Evaluation Of Data Management Plans At A Research University, James E. Van Loon, Katherine G. Akers, Cole Hudson, Alexandra Sarkozy
Library Scholarly Publications
With the emergence of the National Science Foundation (NSF) requirement for data management plans (DMPs), academic librarians have increasingly aided researchers in developing DMPs and disseminating research data. To determine the overall quality of DMPs at Wayne State University, the Library System’s Research Data Services (RDS) team evaluated the content of 119 DMPs from NSF grant proposals submitted between 2012 and 2014. The results of our content analysis indicate that, while most researchers understand the need to share data, many DMPs fail to adequately describe the data generated by the project, how data will be managed during the project, or …
Use Of The Research Readiness Self-Assessment (Rrsa) To Evaluate Medical Students’ Competencies In Finding And Evaluating Online Health Information (Poster Presented At Mhsla Annual Conference), Katherine G. Akers, Laventra E. Danquah, Ella Hu, Sandra Martin, Wendy Wu, Patricia Vinson
Use Of The Research Readiness Self-Assessment (Rrsa) To Evaluate Medical Students’ Competencies In Finding And Evaluating Online Health Information (Poster Presented At Mhsla Annual Conference), Katherine G. Akers, Laventra E. Danquah, Ella Hu, Sandra Martin, Wendy Wu, Patricia Vinson
Library Scholarly Publications
To maintain awareness of current medical evidence and clinical practice guidelines in order to provide the best possible patient care, physicians must be able to locate, critically evaluate, synthesize, and make clinical decisions based on health information from multiple digital sources. Concerningly, however, medical students and junior doctors have been found to exhibit poor information literacy skills, including an inability to conduct efficient literature searches, find randomized controlled trials and systematic reviews, or evaluate study quality. Here, we describe our medical library’s experience in administering the Health version of the Research Readiness Self-Assessment (RRSA) tool to two cohorts of first-year …
Being Critical And Constructive: A Guide To Peer Reviewing For Librarians, Katherine G. Akers
Being Critical And Constructive: A Guide To Peer Reviewing For Librarians, Katherine G. Akers
Library Scholarly Publications
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Teaching Race In Cyberspace: Reflections On The “Virtual Privilege Walk” Exercise, Kafi D. Kumasi
Teaching Race In Cyberspace: Reflections On The “Virtual Privilege Walk” Exercise, Kafi D. Kumasi
School of Information Sciences Faculty Research Publications
Teaching for Justice describes the efforts of LIS faculty and instructors who feature social justice theory and strategies in their courses and classroom practices
Their Eyes Are Watching Us: Serving Racialized Youth In An Era Of Protest., Kafi D. Kumasi, Sandra Hughes-Hassell
Their Eyes Are Watching Us: Serving Racialized Youth In An Era Of Protest., Kafi D. Kumasi, Sandra Hughes-Hassell
School of Information Sciences Faculty Research Publications
This article comes at a critical juncture in US's history as racialized people continue to fight for protection of their human and civil rights, many of which were legally gained only with passage of the 1964 Civil Rights Act and the 1965 Voter Rights Act. Despite decades of legislative promises to end discrimination in educational opportunities, employment, housing, and the judicial system, racialized youth are more likely to attend schools that lack quality resources, including credentialed teachers, rigorous courses, qualified guidance counselors, and extracurricular activities; to face harsher disciplinary actions; and to drop out of school. The unemployment rate for …
Shifting Lenses On Youth Literacy And Identity, Kafi D. Kumasi, Sandra Hughes-Hassell
Shifting Lenses On Youth Literacy And Identity, Kafi D. Kumasi, Sandra Hughes-Hassell
School of Information Sciences Faculty Research Publications
Racialized youth, especially those who attend chronically underperforming schools in US's poor and urban communities, can be likened to singing canaries. These young people risk their lives by entering educational institutions that are not equipped to properly prepare them for the future. Historically, the canary served to warn coal miners of the presence of dangerous gases. When the canary stopped singing or was found dead, the miners knew a serious problem required immediate attention. Like canaries, racialized youth in inner-city schools are a litmus test for the health of the entire educational system in the US. In this article they …