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Expanding Video Findability and Accessibility through Student Engagement: Building the Nosotros Video Collection
No full textStudents + Instructors + Library = Win-Win Situation. Engaging students in the information creation process of enhancing the findability and accessibility of a video collection reinforces the value of information and the students' own role as information creators. The Nosotros video collection projects involved: Two courses in Spanish Cinema and English-Spanish Translation, The University of Alberta Libraries as a community partner in a community service learning (CSL) course project, Upper-level Spanish students who worked in groups to provide video metadata, and video transcription and translation, Videos as objects of study in the courses, Sensitizing students to advanced information literacy topics, like information management, preservation, and access, Precise guidelines and explanations given to students as contributors, who provided a minimum of 20 hours of work on the project
Library Public Service Assistants as Instructors: A Survey of Needs
No full textThis meta-narrative highlights some challenges, reminders, and solutions around collecting usable information for training library support staff as scripted information literacy instructors. The poster describes survey and focus group design considerations to yield useful results (some of which are highlighted). The poster also illustrates how mandatory participation (for internal program use) and public research dissemination intentions interacted to create ethical challenges around anonymity/confidentiality/informed consent, mandatory/voluntary participation, and research ethics board approval
Review of Cántabros en América del Sur : diccionario histórico-biográfico de cántabros en América del Sur en los siglos XVI, XVII y XVIII
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Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
No full textThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
No full text“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Assessment of a One-Credit Course for Humanities Graduate Students: A Phenomenological Approach to Identify Thresholds and Impacts
No full textIn the fall of 2016, three librarians from the Humanities and Social Sciences Library at
the University of Alberta (UofA) took on the challenge of teaching a one-credit scholarly
communication course to new graduate students in the department of Modern Languages
and Cultural Studies (MLCS). Three librarians delivered the five two-hour MLCS795 weekly
classes from late October through November. The Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) movement provides the context and impetus for analyzing the effectiveness of the course through the lens of student learning and evaluation. Student feedback obtained in early spring 2017 through a survey and interviews has provided an understanding of student opinion of scholarly communication and how the course met their expectations. Findings have provided the authors with plans for course improvements
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
No full textWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
No full textWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
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