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Transfer 2.0 and Beyond! An Update
Get PDFe-Journals often get transferred between publishers, whether because of change in commercial ownership (by acquisitions
and disposals) or because the owner (frequently a society) takes the opportunity to partner with a different publisher.
Many such transfers go smoothly, but in a significant percentage of cases there can be lengthy, inconvenient and often
unexplained interruptions in access for the end-user.
The UKSG-sponsored Transfer initiative was launched some years ago to better understand these problems and propose
guidance on how they could in future be minimized, so that libraries would have confidence in secure and uninterrupted
access to the valuable resources they purchase. Based around a cross-sectoral working group, representing leading
publishers, librarians, agencies and other intermediaries, Transfer is now increasingly accepted as a source of information
and best practice in this area.
There are three strands to Transfer’s current activities. First of all, The Transfer Code of Practice, now in an extended
Version 2.0, describes Transfer’s objectives and a set of practical steps that can be used by publishers to foster
communication and actively work to prevent avoidable or unannounced interruptions in service. Secondly, an emailing
service is in place to alert the community to specific journal transfers that have been notified. And finally, we are working
to “spread the word” and encourage more publishers to endorse the Code.
Publisher endorsement of Transfer is entirely voluntary, but it works! Thirty-six major publishers have so far signed up and
others are considering doing so. And frequently throughout the year, there are active notifications of journals “on the
move”, helping avoid unpleasant surprises
An Edgeless, Honest Kid: A Collage of Memoir, Manifesto, and Other Musings
No full textThis is a collage project that uses multiple genres of creative writing to express my emotional and psychological arc while at Miami University
The Delay of Gratification in Latina Mother/ Child Dyads
No full textThe aim of this study is to explore the relationship among parental attitudes, parental teaching techniques and maternal level of acculturation and how these influence their child’s ability to delay gratification. This study is an extension of the one conducted by Mauro and Harris (2000), whereas the current study focuses solely on Latina mothers. The task consisted of a mother/ child patience teaching session and a contrived gift scenario, in which the child was instructed to wait to open a tempting gift. A modified assessment, excluding the mother/ child interaction and the child-waiting task, was used to learn more about the connection between parental attitudes and maternal level of acculturation. For the delay of gratification task, behavioral distractions were the strategy used most frequently. Overall the results showed that there was a significant correlation between restrictive parenting behaviors and the maternal level of acculturation
Usage Statistics in the Real World: Two Perspectives
Get PDFPresentation given at the Great Lakes E-Summit on October 11, 2012. Managing e-resource usage statistics
AFTER THE PARADIGM OF CONTEMPORARY PHYSICS IN ARCHITECTURE: SPATIAL POSSIBILITIES AND VARIATIONS
Get PDFLiving in the age of scientific, technological and digital revolution changes our attitude towards information. It is inevitable to start approaching information not only as a product of fashionable digital media behavior, but also as a particular accumulation of facts and activities, transferable bits of matter, which influence our environment. Architecture not only exerts spatial influence on our environment, but also it structures its processes. Acting as such, architecture is involved into direct representation of informational flows via organizing spatial systems. Therefore, in the digital era, design gets more related to transforming different informational modes into spatial structures. Transformations of information provide rich possibilities for conceptualizing space; such transformations could be achieved by different methodologies. This paper uses the concept of space in contemporary physics, namely the self-organizational behavior of the spacetime framework, in order to explore various ways of coding information in design. Analyzing String theory and its follower M – theory, the research derives a method for spatial organization of cause-and-effect activities resulting in a unified approach towards design methodology. This paper explores the concept of movement in the space-time framework, namely the movement in various dimensions and in non-Euclidean geometry, in order to develop a system for achieving a particular design control over informational activities. Using the topology of spacetime in String heory and M-theory, a topology produced as an outcome from that particular movement behavior, the research proposes a way to handle an informational status in the environment spatially. Such a design approach, becoming more and more necessary in the age of the digital, opens room not only for mere spatial variations, but also for a direction towards new design morphology; a morphology in which architecture obtains new spatial value, reaching beyond the label of visionary desig
Sharing Knowledge: Using the Wiki Tool to Instruct and Inform
No full textThis presentation will discuss how wiki can be used as an interactive teaching tool and will also
briefly highlight how the wiki page can be used as a dynamic staff training resource, allowing
technical services staff to create an interactive archive of job-related information, strategies,
and helpful links
