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Assessment of Self-Archiving in Institutional Repositories: Depositorship and Full-Text Availability
No full textThis research evaluates the success of open access self-archiving in several well-known institutional repositories. Two assessment factors have been applied to examine the current practice of self-archiving: depositorship and the availability of full text. This research discovers that the rate of author self-archiving is low and that the majority of documents have been deposited by a librarian or administrative staff. Similarly, the rate of full-text availability is relatively low, except for Australian repositories. By identifying different practices of self-archiving, repository managers can create new strategies for the operation of their repositories and the development of archiving policies
Li Isotope Analysis And Experiments To Understand Fluid Exchange During Bay of Islands Ophiolitic Crust Formation And Dynamic Metamorphism Of Its Sole
No full textThree Li isotopic studies were conducted to understand: 1) hydrothermal alteration of crustal levels of the Bay of Islands Ophiolite (BOIC), 2) Li alteration during dynamic metamorphism of protoliths in the welded metamorphic sole, and 3) Li partitioning and isotope fractionation factors at 150 °C and 300 °C in basalt and gabbro during hydrothermal reaction. Compared to unaltered MORB (Li = 6.1 ug/g, d7Li = 3.4 ‰), the upper pillow lava and dike section (Li = 1.24 - 40.66 ug/g, d7Li = -2.97 – 20.69 ‰) and lower plutonic section (Li = 0.087 - 8.16 mg/g, d7Li = 0.79 - 18.83 ‰) show extensive hydrothermal alteration. Hydrothermal fluid penetration appears limited to ~2km depth in the region above axial magma chamber but circulates as brine fluids off-axis to deep levels that create a hybrid system of magma chamber cooling.
The HT-LP metamorphic sole subcreted to the base of BOIC ophiolite during subduction consists of 3 primary protoliths: sedimentary, altered basaltic, and altered gabbroic rocks. Amphibolite to granulite metabasites exhibit a high Li (10.55 -57.33 ug/g) and light d7Li (-1.39 - +2.80 ‰) compared with altered oceanic crust (AOC, Li = 14 ug/g, d7Li = 7.5 ‰). Metasediments have enriched Li (53.86 - 66.24 ug/g) but low d7Li (0.81 - 1.52 ‰), compared with Global Subducting Sediments (GLOSS- II, Li = 45 ug/g, d7Li = 2.42 ‰). Two-stage process during subduction and formation of BOIC sole includes: (1) dehydration of protoliths during subduction resulting in initial depletion of both Li and d7Li followed by (2) metasomatism by later retrograde Li-rich fluids derived from metasediments subducted and dehydrated at deeper levels of subduction interface resulting in Li enrichment and slight increase of d7Li compared to dehydrated values.
Laboratory hydrothermal experiments yielded new Li partitioning coefficients (Kd) and Li isotopic fractionation factors (a) to aid models presented. Gabbroic samples show higher Kd (12.41) and lower a (0.9816) compared to basaltic glass (Kd = 6.08, a = 0.9863) at 150 °C but show lower values of Kd = 1.53 and a = 0.9964 compared to basaltic glass which has Kd = 2.79 and a = 0.9908 at 300 °C.Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Department o
Information Literacy and Librarian-Faculty Collaboration: A Model for Success:
No full textIn the age of information explosion and technological advancement, issues of information storage, organization, access, and evaluation have become necessarily important in our societies. Addressing issues of information literacy and designing how they can be best integrated in students' learning process are of critical importance. Library professionals in the United States, particularly in the academia, have realized the importance of information literacy and have attempted in various ways to address these issues. The ultimate goal is to make information literacy an integral part of the academic curriculum, thus helping students to succeed not only during their years in college but also for their lifelong career choices. This article will look at ways of how information literacy can best be incorporated into students' academic experience, and how this process can make students' learning meaningful and successful. Specifically, the author will examine the model of librarian-faculty collaboration in integrating information literacy into the curriculum, as demonstrated in the Ohio Five Colleges' Information Literacy Program.Publisher version of this article is available at: http://www.white-clouds.com/iclc/cliej/cl24.ht
Factors to Assess Self-Archiving in Institutional Repositories
No full textThis paper proposes a group of factors that may be used to assess the success of open access self-archiving. It concentrates on self-archiving in institutional repositories. The authors emphasize the importance of examining content materials, particularly the availability of full text versus abstracts and the deposits archived by authors versus by others.Peer reviewe
Applying the NISO Metasearch Initiative Scheme to Enhance E-Resources Management at Rutgers University Library
No full textThis paper discusses problems in the management of library e-resources and attempts to identify potential solutions to the problems. By describing an e-resources enhancement project taken by Rutgers University Libraries, this paper points to the importance of providing contextually-rich metadata and reorganizing the accessibility of e-resources on a library’s website. It introduces how this Rutgers project adopted the National Information Standards Organization Metasearch Initiative to support the identification of appropriate e-collections for metaseaching. The outcomes of the project have facilitated a dynamic display of relevant e-resources to library users as an effective way of automatic access to library e-collections.Peer reviewe
A Metadata Manager's Role in Collaborative Projects: The Rutgers University Libraries Experience
No full textPurpose – This article discusses the roles and responsibilities of a metadata manager in collaborative digital projects.
Methodology – It describes the general requirements for metadata management, and introduces some scenarios in the practices of digital projects by the Rutgers University Libraries to support the generalized definition. A workflow of metadata management is illustrated.
Practical implications – With an explicit definition of the roles and responsibilities of the metadata manager, many other digital libraries that need to develop a new or optimize the existing workflow may find the Rutgers experience useful as reference.
Originality – Very few articles have explored this topic although the functions of metadata in the development of digital projects have been talked extensively.Peer reviewe
Macropsis zizhongi Li, Dai et Li
No full textMacropsis zizhongi Li, Dai et Li, nom. nov. Macropsis gracilis Li et Liang, 2005: 578 –579, nom. preocc. (nec Macropsis gracilis Dubovskiy, 1966: 97) Distribution. China (Heilongjiang prov.). Etymology. The species is named in honour of Prof. Li Zizhong, the first author of the original species name.Published as part of Li, Hu, Dai, Ren-Huai, Li, Zi-Zhong & Yu, Dmitri, 2012, Taxonomic study of Chinese species of the genus Macropsis (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Macropsinae): new species, new records, synonymy and replacement name, pp. 41-62 in Zootaxa 3420 on page 61, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.21216
Batch Loading in Metadata Creation: A Case Study the Rutgers University Libraries Experience
No full textPurpose – The purpose of this article is to describe a workflow of automated batch loading metadata from existing text to a database.
Methodology/Approach – It introduces a case for the experience of metadata creation at Rutgers University Libraries in a collaborative digital project with the Hoboken Public Library in New Jersey.
Findings – It is found that a well-designed workflow is crucial to the success of metadata batch loading. It is also found that the metadata manager needs to collaborate with people of different roles and work carefully with data reorganization and transferring.
Practical Implications – Metadata creation and management is an integrated component of any digital project. Our experience in metadata batch loading has practical significance that may be incorporated into the practice of other metadata projects. The workflow introduced in this article will provide valuable example for librarians and information professionals to consider or redesign their own digital efforts.
Originality – Based on our real exercise, this workflow has been proven to be unique and useful. It was, after the writing of this article, applied to a new collaborative digital project and once again fulfilled the requirements for another batch transferring process.Peer reviewe
An enhanced author name dataset for PubMed/MEDLINE
No full text<p>The incompleteness of author names is a well-known issue in the MEDLINE database. It was since 2002, the full author name has been systematically indexed in MEDLINE. Although many full author names have been added to MEDLINE, we still found a significant number of abbreviated names in papers published after 2002.</p>
<p>Here we built an enhanced author name dataset for MEDLINE, called EAN, achieved by linking the whole PubMed to other large literature databases and conducting a large-scale name comparison and restoration with obtained multi-sources author names. Our evaluation shows that more than 90% of author names in EAN are complete as compared to the ratio of ~60% in MEDLINE.</p>
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