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Beyond Access, Paul Peters

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

Advocates of open access have generally focused on the benefits that an open access publication model will have in terms of providing researchers with increased access to scholarly literature. However, there are equally important benefits that open access can have in creating a more economically efficient market for scholarly journals. A business model based on publication charges can potentially enable far greater competition between publishers, ultimately leading to a more functional market than currently exists in the subscription world. In evaluating the various business models that can provide open access, it is important to understand the impact that each model …

Driver: Supporting Institutional Repositories In Europe, Sophia Jones

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

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Engineers Australia Collection On Informit, Elena Vvedenskaia

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

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Science-Specific Search: Bridging The Gap In Dissemination Of And Access To Information, Joris Van Rossum

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

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Access To Global Information—A Case Of Digital Divide In Bangladesh, Anisur Rahman

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

ICTs can reduce communication costs and break down geographical borders. In the developed nations government policies are being established which attempt to ensure that all citizens will get the opportunity to access the effective use of ICTs in order to enable them to participate in the educational, social and economic activities and democratic processes. Developed countries are getting much benefit from the advancement of ICTs. There is digital divide between developed and developing countries. The term digital divide has been applied to the gap that exists in most countries between those with ready access to the tools of ICTs, and …

Not Just Quality Information: Hinari Drives Desirable Change In Teaching & Research, Tony Mcséan, Daviess Menefee

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

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Challenging Libraries In The Alternative Dissemination Of African Scholarly Communicastion, Hannie Sander

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

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A Theory Of Political Obligation: Membership, Commitment, And The Bonds Of Society By Margaret Gilbert (Book Review), David Lefkowitz

Philosophy Faculty Publications

Does membership in a political society, in and of itself, involve obligations to uphold that society’s political institutions? Margaret Gilbert offers a novel argument in defense of an affirmative answer to this question, which she labels the membership problem. Given a plausible construal of the concepts obligation, political society, and membership in a political society, Gilbert argues that it follows analytically that to be a member of a political society just is to have an obligation to uphold and support that society’s political institutions. The key to Gilbert’s argument is the idea of a joint commitment; those …

Lanthorn, Vol. 41, No. 62, June 14, 2007, Grand Valley State University

Volume 41, July 13, 2006 - June 14, 2007

Lanthorn is Grand Valley State's student newspaper, published from 1968 to the present.

Leading With Timeless Values In Turbulent Times (East Lansing, Mi), C. William Pollard

C. William Pollard Papers

Speaking at the 2007 Michigan Prayer Breakfast, Pollard argues that leadership requires certain moral and spiritual assets in order to be truly successful.

Investigation Of Gender And Upward Mobility Within Institutions, John Stadler

Theses and Graduate Projects

This thesis explores the impact of gender on upward mobility within both nonprofit and for-profit institutions selected from the Minnesota Book of Lists. The emphasis of the study is on women and leadership, and on the factors that influence upward mobility. The study seeks to identify ways in which institutions provide methods to promote upward mobility for women and to discover the ways in which women are limited in their ability to attain leadership positions. The research conducted within this study suggests that there is no adverse connection between gender and the ability to access leadership positions. Instead, the research …

The Nebraska Net Farm Income: Patterns And Trends, Bruce Johnson

Cornhusker Economics

Historical Perspective: The past decade of net farm income is one of considerable year-to-year volatility. According to recently revised United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) estimates, Nebraska’s aggregate income levels have ranged from $814 million in 2002, to a historical record high of over $3.5 billion in 2004 (Table 1 on next page). However, for the past four years, the annual totals have been considerably above the decade average, largely the result of a considerable surge in the dollar value of crop and livestock output.

Semantics To Empower Services Science: Using Semantics At Middleware, Web Services And Business Levels, Amit P. Sheth

Kno.e.sis Publications

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Crossroads, Connections, And Creativity: Musselman Library Strategic Plan, Musselman Library

All Musselman Library Staff Works

The Musselman Library Strategic Plan grew out of two all-staff meetings held in January 2007. During the first, library staff identified areas of strength and weakness, as well as opportunities for improvement and growth. Maureen Sullivan, an organization development consultant for libraries, led the next meeting. Ms. Sullivan helped to deepen the analysis begun during the previous meeting and encouraged the staff to begin envisioning the future of the Library.

In late January, Robin Wagner, Director of Library Services, formed the Strategic Planning Committee (see list of participants below). The committee’s initial tasks were to complete an environmental scan and …

2007 Multicultural Development Plan, Illinois Mathematics And Science Academy

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion: Resources

The appreciation, affirmation, and inclusion of multiple cultures is important to ensure that all students, faculty, and staff will be able to enjoy the educational benefits of a multicultural academic environment and that these various perspectives will also enrich the educational enterprise. From this perspective it is important that community members be effective at interacting across cultures, which is essential to IMSA’s mission of being “the world’s leading teaching and learning laboratory for imagination and inquiry , igniting and nurturing creative, ethical scientific minds that advance the human condition....” The multiple cultures that make up the IMSA community include individual …

Library Service-Oriented Architecture To Enhance Access To Science, Richard Akerman

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

In the digital world, library services need to be transformed to recognize that automation and machine-to-machine communication of information enables many advanced features. NRC CISTI, Canada's National Science Library, has addressed this challenge using Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA). Using SOA based on Enterprise Architecture, we have modeled services provided by the catalogue, services related to document delivery, and advanced services to provide more open data access. We will present a completed model of some library business functions, discuss the challenges of implementing an SOA within the library technology environment, and present our vision of how library SOA is an important enabler …

The New Geography Of Science, Jonathan Adams

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

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Support Service For Publication Of Open Access Journals, David Lawrence

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

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New Metaphors In Scientific Communication: Libraries And The Commons, John Wilbanks

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

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E-Research Infrastructures And Scientific Communication, Ralph Schroeder, Jennifer A. Debeer, Jenny Fry

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

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How Researchers Use The Electronic Library?, Helle Lauridsen

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

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Facilitating The Deposit Of Experimental Chemistry Data In Institutional Repositories: Project Spectra, Peter Morgan, Jim Downing, Peter Murray-Rust, Alan Tonge, Fiona Cotterill, Henry Rzepa, Lorraine Windsor

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

Institutional Open Access repositories are becoming established as an important part of the university library and information services infrastructure. While early efforts to populate them with content have concentrated on the deposit of peer-reviewed research papers, there is a growing awareness of their potential as repositories of data and other non-text materials, and consequently a need to develop strategies and procedures that can realise this potential. Chemistry as a discipline has been slower than the physical and biomedical sciences to adopt and exploit Open Access concepts in the handling of experimental data and research publications. Chemical information is essential to …

Interactive Activities Of Researchers Captured In Research Impact Assessment, Katarina Larsen

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

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Enabling International Access To Data Sets: The Distributed Data Curation Center (D2c2), James Mullins

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

The challenge of accessing, maintaining, sharing and preserving massive datasets, generally referred to as data curation, has been a direct result of computational e-science. Although scientists and engineers recognized the problem, the solution was not apparent. The principles that underlay library science are not widely understood or appreciated by those outside librarianship. The theory and principles behind librarianship are obscured by historical application primarily to print materials – books and journals – however, the same principles that apply to organization, retrieval, and preservation of print materials apply to the digital realm as well. The National Science Foundation (NSF) in the …

International Research Assessment Revisited - A Comparison Between The Research Performance Of Kth And Selected Uk Universities, Folke Snickars, Björn Marklund, Tom Letcher

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

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Upcommons: Global Access To Upc Knowledge, Roser Gómez Enrich, Marta López Vicancos

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

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Biomedical Literature Mining (And Why We Really Need Open Access), Lars Juhl Jensen

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

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The Interim Evaluation Method Of The National Project For Institutional Repositories In Japan, Yuko Murakami

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

The National Institute of Informatics (NII), Tokyo, Japan, was founded in April 2000 as an inter-university research institute. Its cyberscience infrastructure (CSI) initiative aims at providing industrial and social contributions as well as a base for international cooperation on scientific research. The initiative includes projects focusing on: networks, grid research, interuniversity public key infrastructure (UPKI), and scholarly content services. The project for institutional repositories (IRs), begun in 2004, is placed in the main focus of the CSI content project. In 2006, as the CSI initiative has put more emphasis on content services, NII began working with 57 universities to construct …

The Library As An Agent For Transforming Scholarly Communications, Wayne Johnston

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

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The Brazilian Model For Free Access To Scientific Publications, Pablo Ortellado, Jorge Machado

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

Although Brazil lacks a cohesive national policy for free access to scientific publications, local initiatives by universities, funding agencies and state and federal government make up the framework for a full policy for free access. The paper aims at putting together the pieces and presenting a general picture of what such policy might be: free access to all Brazilian theses and dissertations through digital repositories; institutional protection for the copying of books for academic purposes; fomenting publicly funded peer-reviewed non author fee free access journals; qualitative (instead of quantitative/ impact based) evaluation for scientists publishing in free access journals. The …