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RoMEO Studies 6: Rights metadata for open-archiving
Full text linkThis is the final study in a series of six emanating from the UK JISC-funded RoMEO Project (Rights Metadata for Open-archiving) which investigated the Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) issues relating to academic author self-archiving of research papers. It reports the results of a survey of 542 academic authors showing the level of protection required for their open-access research papers. It then describes the selection of an appropriate means of expressing those rights through metadata and the resulting choice of Creative Commons licences. Finally it outlines proposals for communicating rights metadata via the Open Archives Initiative’s Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH)
Big Stone and Rain. Artist Residency at Tidworth Garrison
No full textThis video film documents a workshop undertaken by Steve Pratt with a tank crew from The Royal Tank Regiment, Tidworth Garrison, Wiltshire. The workshop was part of an artist residency commissioned by the Young Gallery, Salisbury, Wiltshire, as described in the article ‘Working with Uncertainty: The Soldier’s Nightmare’ by Steve Pratt in this issue. The title of the film comes from the John Piper watercolour landscape painting ‘Maen Bras’ (Big Stone and Rain, 1943) owned by the Young Gallery, which formed a focus and point of reflection for the project.Mark Edmondson is the Digital Media Manager at Goldsmiths, University of London. He has a Diploma in Filmmaking and Photography from the London College Of Printing (now LCC) and a BA Hons in Anthropology & Communication. Other activities include sound recording/engineering and photography
Improving Turnaround Times for Routine Antimicrobial Sensitivity Testing Following European Committee on Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing Methodology in Patients with Bacteraemia
No full textBackground/Objectives: Bacteraemia can be fatal without antibiotic intervention. Antibiotic Susceptibility Testing (AST) provides the necessary information for targeted antibiotic therapy; however, the traditional method using disc diffusion can take over two days from a positive blood culture. Inappropriate empiric therapy is associated with increased mortality and increased antibiotic resistance, highlighting the need for more rapid turnaround times for AST. By making changes to an established method, turnaround times can be reduced. Methods: Eighty-two patient positive blood culture samples were collected from January to April 2022, representing the range of common bacteria causing sepsis. This followed the normal methodology in the laboratory of inoculating agar from positive blood cultures in preparation for European Committee on Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing (EUCAST) disc diffusion AST method. EUCAST methodology outlines that disc diffusion should be performed on isolates from an overnight culture of 16–24 h. This study looked at comparing disc diffusion results from cultures with 6 h of incubation to those with incubation times of 24 h, after organism identification by MALDI-ToF. Results from 6-h and 24-h cultures were compared by disc zone sizes and by interpreted susceptibility reading following EUCAST guidelines of sensitive, resistant, susceptible with increased exposure, or an area of technical uncertainty. Results: A total of 99.65% interpreted susceptibility readings matched across all organisms to all relevant antibiotics, with an average zone size difference of 1.08 mm between results from 6 h versus 24 h cultures. Conclusions: This method offers a non-automated way of using the traditional disc diffusion method, reducing turnaround times while still producing reliable and accurate results. This would mean validated ASTs can be set up in the same day as a blood culture flags positive rather than waiting for a longer culture. As this method is widely used within the laboratory already, it would mean that additional training is not required, as the process is the same, and only incubation time varies. This would positively impact patient outlook due to the shorter use of empiric therapy, and benefit antimicrobial stewardship (AMS)
Drew Edmondson
No full textPhotograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "At right, Karen Luke visits with Attorney General Drew Edmondson, his wife Linda, and Jeanette Gamba at the special donors reception held prior to the Inaugural Ball at the Cowboy Hall.
Steve Stockman, Workshop
No full textSteve Stockman is the author of Walk On: The Spiritual Journey of U2. He is also a pop culture critic and weekly radio host on BBC Radio Ulster. Stockman is the Presbyterian Chaplain of Queens University in Belfast, Ireland
RoMEO Studies 5: IPR issues for OAI Data and Service Providers
No full textThis paper is the fifth in a series of studies emanating from the UK JISC-funded RoMEO Project (Rights Metadata for Open-archiving). It reports the results of two surveys of OAI Data Providers (DPs) and Service Providers (SPs) with regards to the rights issues they face. It finds that very few DPs have rights agreements with depositing authors and that there is no standard approach to the creation of rights metadata. The paper considers the rights protection afforded individual and collections of metadata records under UK Law and contrasts this with DP and SP’s views on the rights status of metadata and how they wish to protect it. The majority of DP and SPs believe that a standard way of describing both the rights status of documents and of metadata would be usefu
Steve Stockman, Keynote Session 1
No full textKeynote speaker Steve Stockman is the author of Walk On: The Spiritual Journey of U2. He is also a pop culture critic and weekly radio host on BBC Radio Ulster. Stockman is the Presbyterian Chaplain of Queens University in Belfast, Ireland
Steve Almond, 32nd Annual ODU Literary Festival
No full textSteve Almond is the author of two story collections, My Life in Heavy Metal and The Evil B.B. Chow, the novel Which Brings Me to You (with Julianna Baggott), and the non-fiction book Candyfreak. His new book is a collection of essays, (Not That You Asked). He lives outside Boston with his wife, two children, and mounting debt. His online home is www.stevenalmond.com
1999-2000 Steve Yarbrough
No full textSteve Yarbrough is the author of eleven books, most recently the novel The Unmade World, published in January 2018. His other books are the nonfiction title Bookmarked: Larry McMurtry’s The Last Picture Show, the novels The Realm of Last Chances, Safe from the Neighbors, The End of California, Prisoners of War, Visible Spirits and The Oxygen Man, and the short story collections Veneer, Mississippi History and Family Men. His work has been published in several foreign languages, including Dutch, Japanese and Polish, and it has also appeared in Ireland, Canada, and the U.K. and is scheduled to appear in Italian translation. He is the recipient of numerous awards, including the Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters Award for Fiction, the California Book Award, the Richard Wright Award and the Robert Penn Warren Award. He has been a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award and is a member of the Fellowship of Southern Writers. The Unmade World won the 2019 Massachusetts Book Award for Fiction. The son of Mississippi Delta cotton farmers, Steve is currently a professor in the Department of Writing, Literature and Publishing at Emerson College. He has two daughters—Lena Yarbrough and Antonina Parris—and is married to the Polish writer Ewa Hryniewicz-Yarbrough. They divide their time between Boston and Krakow. Steve is an aficionado of jazz and bluegrass music, which he plays on guitar, mandolin and banjo, often after midnight. (text from https://www.steveyarbrough.net/about; photo credit: Antonina Yarbrough)https://egrove.olemiss.edu/grisham_res/1020/thumbnail.jp
RoMEO Studies 4: An analysis of Journal publishers' Copyright Agreements
Full text linkThis article is the fourth in a series of six emanating from the UK JISC-funded RoMEO Project (Rights Metadata for Open archiving). It describes an analysis of 80 scholarly journal publishers’ copyright agreements with a particular view to their effect on author self-archiving. 90% of agreements asked for copyright transfer and 69% asked for it prior to refereeing the paper. 75% asked authors to warrant that their work had not been previously published although only two explicitly stated that they viewed self-archiving as prior publication. 28.5% of agreements provided authors with no usage rights over their own paper. Although 42.5% allowed self-archiving in some format, there was no consensus on the conditions under which self-archiving could take place. The article concludes that author-publisher copyright agreements should be reconsidered by a working party representing the needs of both partie
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