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The UCAR Open Access Mandate: A Community-Centered Model of Action
Get PDFIn its role of managing the US federally-funded National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), the non-profit University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR) has a strong history of supporting and promoting the atmospheric sciences and related fields. In September 2009, UCAR joined a growing number of other institutions worldwide in passing an Open Access mandate requiring that all peerreviewed research published in scientific journals by its scientists and staff be made publicly available online through its institutional repository, OpenSky. The new policy and accompanying repository will enable UCAR to compile, preserve and share a complete record of its intellectual output; increase its community visibility and impact; and advance research in the atmospheric sciences by providing free, worldwide access to UCAR and NCAR scholarship. The passage of the UCAR Open Access policy was especially noteworthy as it marked the first instance of a National Science Foundation-funded national laboratory to mandate Open Access. Also noteworthy was the broad community-driven process that the NCAR Library, as the leader in this initiative, employed. This presentation will outline the three-phase process adopted by the Library in its effort to reflect both institutional and disciplinary community values and needs through OpenSky services and policies
Translating rhymed poetry - Thomas Hardy's Neutral Tones
Get PDFAmong the many approaches towards translating rhymed metrical poetry from English into German, the probably most challenging approach aims to create a poem that, aspiring to poetic art in the target language, integrates as far as possible the meaning and formal features of the original. Drawing upon the example of Neutral Tones by Thomas Hardy, my paper will analyse the process of translation and suggest ways of structuring it. What to prepare, where to begin, and how to proceed: these are questions that will be tackled and tentatively answered. The paper will not provide a ready-made solution but open up new avenues towards a better awareness and understanding of the translational process
PubMan - one Repository with multiple Usage und Re-Use Possibilities
Get PDFPubMan is an application which allows members of research organizations to store, manage and enrich their publications. The app is based on the eSciDoc infrastructure, a joint project run by the Max Planck Digital Library (MPDL) and the Fachinformationszentrum (FIZ) Karlsruhe.
Presenting scholarly work in the World Wide Web has become an important and common procedure for research communities seeking to enhance the visibility of their research results as well as to initiate scientific collaboration and information exchange. In response to that trend much emphasis has been put on the possibility of providing multiple re-use options for metadata, full texts and supplementary material during the conception and development of PubMan. Our repository software facilitates the integration of user-defined publication lists in local websites as well as in personal and topic-centered WordPress blogs. The paper will depict these two reuse possibilities with examples of operational usage scenarios after giving an overview of the basic concepts and functionalities of PubMan
Ready or not here it comes: Australian institutional research repository data readiness surveys 2010
Get PDFAustralian institutional research repositories are now facing a new challenge: datasets and associated metadata. With prior focus predominantly on research outputs, repository managers are now involved in a new phase of repository re-purposing - curation of datasets and associated metadata, and provision of this metadata to a national data commons through ANDS (Australian National Data Service). Through a series of surveys conducted by the national repository support service, CAIRSS (the CAUL Australian Institutional Repository Support Service), this paper examines the research data challenges facing research repository managers, levels of institutional research data identification, and the readiness of traditional institutional research repositories to either curate or work alongside this data
Research-based learning in the linguistics classroom
Get PDFThe present paper discusses benefits and challenges of implementing classes with a focus on research-based learning (Healey 2005) into the linguistics curriculum. Having sketched relevant connections between research, teaching and learning, a concrete illustration of the approach in the context of applied linguistics is discussed. Strengths and weaknesses of the implementation are assessed and implications for curricular improvement are considered
Building a DDC Annotated Corpus from OAI Metadata
Get PDFA frequently overlooked benefit of open access publications is that they are an easy accessible and cost-effective data source for research disciplines like text mining, natural language processing or computational linguistics. In those fields, linguistic data is usually managed in the form of corpora, i.e. machine readable bodies of texts that represent a particular variety of language
Interactive Multi-Submission Deposit Workflows for Desktop Applications
Get PDFOnline submission and publishing is the norm for academic researchers. With the pressure on these authors to submit their work to conferences, journals and Institutional Repositories, this leads to demands on the author to go through multiple web based interfaces, filling in forms with the same information multiple times before they can submit. At the same time, each of these services in turn will have made policy decisions on what types of format they allow and what templates the content has to conform to. The amount of work expected of the author does not adding up to the potential gain, thus most authors will only submit into the repository or publication where they foresee the most benefit. In this paper we propose a solution to this problem that embeds the workflow for multiple submissions into the desktop application of the author, most commonly Microsoft Word. We also propose extending the work done on the Microsoft Word Author Add-in tool to allow two-way negotiation between each repository and the desktop application
Influence of Biographical Factors on Individual Success in Second Language Acquisition
Get PDFThis paper is concerned with the question whether or not biographical factors such as sex, age, contact with the target language, stays in a target-language-speaking environment or native speaker teachers actually have a measurable influence on individual success in second language acquisition (SLA). These factors are often assumed to have an influence, and serve as a basis for many prejudices against L2 speakers that are held by potential employers but also by the public. One example for these prejudices would be the assumption that an individual who has stayed in a target-language-speaking environment for a few months, will be fully proficient or "perfect" in the target language. Based on this assumption, we can observe a rising popularity of foreign-exchange programs in high school and university and a positive discrimination of applicants who claim such a stay in their CV by employers. Within this work, we have tested most of these "common-sense" assumption in a study, using English as an L2 as an example
The Diffuse Library Revisited: Aligning the Library as Strategic Asset
Get PDFPurpose: Originally a keynote speech to the 9th International Bielefeld Conference exploring the shifts in roles evident in the research library community, with illustrative case studies from the University of Minnesota Libraries.
Design/methodology/approach: A review of environmental forces that are fueling changes in research methodologies and scholar behavior. Changes in research library roles are explored in the context of three case studies, highlighting new forms of engagement with the scholar community.
Findings: Three University of Minnesota Libraries' initiatives illustrate: the use of behavioral data to design a customized discovery environment for scholarship, new organizational constructs to engage the community in issues related to control of scholarship, and strategies to develop a virtual community in the field of bioethics.
Originality / value: The paper presents the original perspective of a University Librarian of a large research library and draws on earlier analyses of research behaviors, technology, and research library roles