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Building a better book widget: Using Alma Analytics to automate new book discovery

open access: yesCode4Lib Journal, 2019
Are we doing enough to market newly acquired book titles? Libraries purchase and subscribe to many new book titles each year, both print and electronic. However, we rely on the expectation that users will periodically search our systems to discover newly
Travis Clamon
doaj  

Preparing LIS Students for a Career in Metadata Librarianship [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
This study examines the field of metadata librarianship and its emergence from the field of traditional MARC cataloging. Through a survey distributed to academic librarians, public librarians, digital librarians, special librarians, corporate librarians,
Mooney Gonzales, Brighid
core   +1 more source

Harnessing Phase Separation for the Development of High‐Performance Hydrogels

open access: yesAdvanced Science, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Hydrogels are indispensable for the development of next‐generation bioelectronics, soft robotics, and biomedical devices, where their mechanical properties determine performance and reliability. Among strategies to enhance hydrogel mechanics, phase separation enables controlled heterogeneity resulting in gel networks that are reinforced by ...
Yue Shao   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Using ISI Web of Science to Compare Top-Ranked Journals to the Citation Habits of a "Real World" Academic Department.

open access: yesIssues in Science and Technology Librarianship, 2012
Quantitative measurements can be used to yield lists of top journals for individual fields. However, these lists represent assessments of the entire "universe" of citation.
Jeremy Cusker
doaj   +1 more source

A new model for procuring e-books [PDF]

open access: yes, 2005
This paper draws on a recent ground-breaking tender for e-books for higher education libraries in the UK. The strategy for the tender was informed by standard procurement practice and by the experience of acquiring other e-resources, particularly ...
Armstrong C.   +3 more
core   +1 more source

Bidirectional Photoswitching of a Tailored Azobenzene with Red and Far‐Red Light Involving Triplet Sensitization in an Aqueous System

open access: yesAdvanced Science, EarlyView.
The action spectrum of a tailored azobenzene is shifted toward bio‐optical window through the chemical modification of its singlet and triplet energy levels. Consequently, the bidirectional photo‐switching of azobenzene in physiological conditions is achieved when excited by red and far‐red light, which offers greater tissue penetration.
Mila Miroshnichenko   +11 more
wiley   +1 more source

Patron-Driven Acquisition Optimization and Workflows at Liberty University Jerry Falwell Library [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
In the spring of 2010, the Liberty University Jerry Falwell Library began a pilot patron-driven acquisition program with the e-book aggregator ebrary. In the fall of 2012, the program had been active for two years, and the librarians sought to optimize ...
Crane, Erin, Snyder, Lori
core   +2 more sources

Sustainable Productivity Growth in Agriculture: The Role of Shifts in R&D Investments and Technology

open access: yesApplied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The objective of the paper is to evaluate the long‐term prospects of sustainable productivity growth linked to plausible assumptions on public agricultural R&D investments as the key productivity driver. Second, it investigates the role of changing R&D focus from yield maximization to input saving technologies (fertilizers and pesticides). The
Zuzana Smeets Křístková   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

When is Research Localized? Eurocentrism in Research on Sexual(ized) Violence in Higher Education. Drawing on the Indonesian Context

open access: yesOpen Gender Journal
Research on sexual(ized) violence in higher education has largely focused on cases from the United States and the United Kingdom. These are often presented as globally transferable best-practice models, while research from the Global South is framed as ...
Lina Knorr
doaj   +1 more source

Reports Of Conferences, Institutes, And Seminars [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
This quarter\u27s column offers coverage of multiple sessions from the 2016 Electronic Resources & Libraries (ER&L) Conference, held April 3–6, 2016, in Austin, Texas.
Blythe, K.   +6 more
core   +3 more sources

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