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 …

Academic Libraries, Science And Technology Development And The Nigerian Smart City Initiative (Nsci): Issues, Roles And Challenges, Emmanuel Okwu

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

This paper sought to unravel the contributions of academic libraries in Nigeria towards science and technology development for the building of smart Nigerian cities basedon the Nigerian Smart City Initiative (NSCI). The paper proposed a new model that shows the linkage between academic libraries, science and technology development and smart city development. A review of the state of the art of academic libraries in Nigeria indicated their failings in their expected rolesin stimulating science and technology development for the building of smart Nigerian cities. To revitalize Nigerian academic libraries, the paper advocated for developmental efforts by the government, university 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.

Implementation Of The Cognitive Apprenticeship Model For Enhancement Of Advanced Searching Skills In A Pharmacy Academia Rotation: Appendices 1-4, Hilary Jasmin Msis, Kenneth Hohmeier Pharmd, Christina Spivey Pharmd, Phd

Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

“Information Has Value” In Business Library Instruction: Approaching The Frame Three Ways, Grace Liu, Lumarie Guth, Ilana Stonebreaker

University Libraries Faculty Publications

This article explores business information literacy applications of the “Information Has Value” frame from the ACRL Framework for Higher Education. The authors share three approaches with the corresponding lesson plans to integrate the frame from three distinctive perspectives: (a) information has value as a commodity, (b) information has value in decision-making, and (c) different voices have their unique value.

Wcu Business Students' Attitudes And Perceptions Towards Information Literacy, Grace Liu

University Libraries Faculty Publications

This presentation is a preliminary report for the Provost Research Grant sponsored project “Bridging Information Literacy Gaps in Business Students: A Case Study from West Chester University.” The purpose of the project is to build a sustainable library service model to help over 3,800 WCU business students develop well-rounded information literacy knowledge and skills to be able to confidently meet business research challenges in class and at workplace, and make informed decisions as a student, a business professional, and an active citizen. A business student survey was conducted in fall 2020 semester to understand students’ perceptions and attitudes towards information …

The Tacit Knowledge Dilemma In Open Science, C. Sean Burns

Information Science Presentations

A talk about the role that knowledge management (and sub areas) might play in open science. The open science movement has the goal of making transparent as much of the scientific process as is possible. This entails making publicly available (open source, access, etc.) the parts of the scientific workflow, such as the data, the software code, the manuscripts, that are used or generated in the process of doing research. However, Michael Polanyi's theory of tacit knowledge raises a dilemma that knowledge management researchers might be able to address. Specifically, if we accept the theory of tacit knowledge, the idea …

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. …

Open Educational Resources (Oer) In Nigerian Universities: Promotion And Awareness Opportunities For Academic Libraries For A Path To Higher Education Success, Ngozi Maria Nwaohiri Mrs

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

Cost of scholarly and educational publications has escalated and necessitates the shift from teaching, learning and research materials that are not easily accessed because of restrictive copyright laws and high cost to an opportunity of using the World Wide Web which helps institutions, students and faculty members meet equity of access missions, a platform for everyone to share, use and reuse teaching and learning materials with the resultant effect of increasing both student and faculty member achievement and educational goals. The study investigated promotion and awareness opportunities for academic libraries on the imperativeness using Open Educational Resources (OER) in Nigerian …

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. …

Mapping Renewal: How An Unexpected Interdisciplinary Collaboration Transformed A Digital Humanities Project, Elise Tanner, Geoffrey Joseph

Digital Initiatives Symposium

Funded by a National Endowment for Humanities (NEH) Humanities Collections and Reference Resources Foundations Grant, the UA Little Rock Center for Arkansas History and Culture’s “Mapping Renewal” pilot project focused on creating access to and providing spatial context to archival materials related to racial segregation and urban renewal in the city of Little Rock, Arkansas, from 1954-1989. An unplanned interdisciplinary collaboration with the UA Little Rock Arkansas Economic Development Institute (AEDI) has proven to be an invaluable partnership. One team member from each department will demonstrate the Mapping Renewal website and discuss how the collaborative process has changed and shaped …

Featured Speaker: Facilitating Oa Transformation Through Publisher Engagement: The Uc Experience, Ivy Anderson

Digital Initiatives Symposium

Libraries across the globe have been pursuing open access for decades, but until recently, progress has continued to be painfully slow. Transformative open access agreements with publishers have begun to change this, as institutions in Europe and increasingly in the US as well are now negotiating open access agreements with major publishers. By transitioning major journal license expenditures from ‘read access’ to support open access publishing, we can begin to achieve open access at scale, supporting our authors in all of the journals in which they choose to publish. This talk will discuss UC’s experience in negotiating transformative open access …

Crowdsourcing Metadata: The Revolutionary Cataloging Interface And How It Can Help Your Library Expose And Promote Hidden Collections, Samuel T. Barber

Digital Initiatives Symposium

The crowdsourcing of metadata to expose and promote hidden collections is a significant and growing development in libraries, archives and museums, and offers hitherto unparalleled mass-collaborative potential for digital humanities projects. Originating from the field of citizen science, the online Zooniverse platform has been successfully utilized for this purpose by institutions including the Imperial War Museum, the Folger and the Huntington. This session presents recently published original research¹ in order to analyze and explain the automated quality control features of this major metadata crowdsourcing digital platform. The results, it is argued, are truly revolutionary. We conclude with a brief …

Beprexit To Nowhere: The Institutional Repository Platform Landscape From The Perspective Of Small-To-Mid Sized Private Institutions, Shannon Kealey, Jennifer Beamer

Digital Initiatives Symposium

Is your institution planning or hoping to plan a beprexit? If so, you are not alone. Many colleges and universities are seeking alternatives to Digital Commons since the August 2017 acquisition of bepress by Elsevier. The Statewide California Electronic Library Consortium (SCELC) Institutional Repository (IR) Subcommittee formed in late 2017 to perform an environmental scan of current and emerging institutional repository platforms and the ways in which they meet the needs and match the values of SCELC member institutions, the majority of which are small to midsize private colleges and universities that do not have the staff or infrastructure to …

Deans' Panel: Digital Collections And Institutional Repositories, Jennifer L. Fabbi, Maggie Farrell, Larry Alford

Digital Initiatives Symposium

Three library deans/chief directors from public universities representing different sizes and missions will address how their unique places in their communities have influence the choices they make around digital collections and institutional repositories. Each panelist will share contextual information and an example of an initiative that reflects the needs of the defined community and furthers the libraries’ goals and values.

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 …}}

Artificial Intelligence Investing In Academic Libraries: Reality And Challenges, Hanan Ahmed Farag, Sameh Nour Mahfouz, Samia Alhajri

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

This study deals with the changes that occur because of the artificial intelligence techniques in academic libraries, using the survey method (descriptive and analytical) in describing and analyzing the reality of employing and using artificial intelligence technology in Saudi academic libraries, and the extent of the libraries' readiness to invest this technology and the challenges they face. The study concludes that there is a lack of physical equipment that is available inside the headquarters of academic libraries for technological development, and this explains the result related to the weak awareness of the concept of artificial intelligence among the majority of …

Supporting Faculty In Digital Landscapes, Elaine Thornton, Joel B. Thornton

Digital Initiatives Symposium

Faculty endeavors in digital landscapes continue to broaden as interests in research methods and teaching modalities expand. The library can play an important role in introducing these digital voyagers to pertinent information, tools, and resources that will help them meet their goals. In this session, the presenters detail their roles in guiding and supporting faculty seeking to access digital publishing approaches and tools as open educational resources (OER) creators and researchers venturing into text and data mining using library subscribed content. Sharing knowledge of available resources and platforms with faculty and applying focused project management strategies will also be discussed.

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 …

Systematic Literature Review On Islamic Endowment Funds (Waqf) Between Years 2016 To 2020, Ramdani Ramdani

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

This study presents a Systematic Literature Review (SLR) related to the Islamic Endowment Fund (Waqf) contained in reputable journals indexed by the Australian Business Dean Council (ABDC). The choice of articles began with a search for articles related to waqf and found 538 articles related to waqf. After a series of the selection process was carried out, there were only 20 articles. The research stages divide into three parts, namely planning, conducting, and reporting. SLR research in this waqf is interesting because we will know where the research position is currently developing.

Importance Of Web Based Services During The Pandemic: A Critical Analysis Of The Content Of College Library Website, Bala Mandrekar, Maya Carvalho E Rodrigues

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

Library websites are instrumental in the promotion and disseminating of information to all users. Academic and research activities are web-based services that play an important role. The present study was carried out to examine the extended library services over the internet by the college libraries in Goa (India) to their user community during the covid-19 Pandemic. The web pages of all the college libraries were analysed to see if the contents of the library meets the standards. Forty college libraries were chosen for the study but only Twenty nine college library websites were found to have their existence felt on …

Availability Of Current Awareness Services In Public Libraries In Katsina State Nigeria, Akor Solomon Obotu, Ikani Joshua Adaji, Okechukwu Obedia Chukwuka, Sadiq Omeneke Fauziyat

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

No abstract provided.

Security Challenges In Central University Libraries In India, Anam Jamal Ansari, Pm Naushad Ali

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

Safety and security are substantial issues for all kinds of libraries in the present time. It is an ever-evolving subject that should be discussed coherently.

This paper attempts to scrutinize security challenges faced by two major funded university libraries in India, i.e., Maulana Azad Library, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, and Dr. B.R. Ambedkar Central Library, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. It looks at the measures adopted by these libraries to ensure their collection's safety and explores the reasons and methods of theft, mutilation, and misplacement of the library collection. The survey research method was employed. Two separate questionnaires were used …

Documenting University Life During Covid-19, Eric L. Milenkiewicz

Library Faculty Publications & Presentations

This presentation focuses on my efforts to launch and administer a community-centered documentation project to capture and collect first-hand accounts, personal narratives, and reflections from members of the CSUSB campus community detailing the direct impact of COVID-19 on their daily lives. Attention is also given to the resulting digital collection that was created from the content submitted as part of this project.

Visualizing Impact With Publication Data, Yimin Geng Msis, Ms, Tracy Stafford, Laurissa Gann Msls, Ahip

Education Week Poster Showcase 2021

Research Medical Library

Division of Education and Training

Library Publishing Curriculum Textbook, Katherine Skinner, Melanie Schlosser, Peter Berkery, Meredith Baab, Jasmine Mulliken, Friederike Sundaram, Dennis Lloyd, Mary Rose Muccie, Brenna Mclaughlin, John W. Warren, Laurie N. Taylor, Brian W. Keith, Sara Benson, Harriet Green, Merinda Hensley, Janet Swatcheno, Nancy Maron, Sarah Lippincott

Library Publishing Curriculum

In the original, modular curriculum (2018) on which this textbook is based, each unit of the Library Publishing Curriculum contained an instructor’s guide, narrative, a slideshow with talking notes, bibliographies, supplemental material, and activities for use in a physical or virtual classroom for workshops and courses. This textbook version, produced in 2021, adapts the original narrative as the primary content (with very little additional editing) and incorporates the bibliographies, appendices, and images from the slideshow into a linear reading and learning experience for use by librarians or students learning on their own or as part of a classroom learning experience. …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Organizational Commitment Among University Library Personnel: A Demographic Analysis, Sarah Irherhimena Adegbaye Phd, Idayat Odunola Agboola Phd, Olayinka Buraimo

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

Employee commitment is considered an important factor in determining the continuing existence of any organization. However, the discourse on whether employee commitment is a derivative of the individual characteristics has remained resolute with limited empirical evidence in the education sector especially with reference to librarianship. This study, therefore, assessed the organizational commitment (affective, continuance, and normative) based on employees’ demographic profiles (age, gender, marital status, and years of experience) in public university libraries in South-South, Nigeria. A cross-sectional survey research design was adopted for this study. Validated and reliable copies of a questionnaire were used to gather data from four …