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Lean Library: Your library in a browser.: Experiences from the University Medical Center Groningen and University of Groningen
Get PDFIntroduction Accessing the collection of your university, or using tools made available by the library is not always easy if you work off-campus. When working off-campus a login in for example a proxy-server or VPN is needed to work as if you were at your office or at the library. This is where our students, staff and researchers had troubles, they were not starting on the library website with the right links to the licensed content. To make working off-campus a lot easier the University Medical Center and University of Groningen started a pilot with the browser extension Lean Library. The pilot started in September 2018 and will run until February 2019. The main functionalities of Lean Library are providing users with 1-click access to our e-resources, communicating tailor-made messages to our users on, by the library specified, websites and providing users with alternative routes to full texts if they are available. Aim To make working off-campus just as easy as working at university computer, and to bring library services to the users in an easy way in their browser. By doing so the aim is to see more use of our collection and have a greater presence of the library in the workflow of students, staff and researchers. Also better use of the universities’ open access deals and better insight in the use of our collection are an important aim of our pilot. Method For the implementation, it was important that the library had control of what and when exactly Lean Library would show. Therefore, we gave Lean Library our holdings information and the access to our proxy-domains. By doing so, the user has immediate access to scientific publications and is not stopped by a paywall. Another important aspect of the implementation was that the library is control. Lean Library gives the library staff the possibility to tweak and change the messages that are shown to the users of extensions when they are on certain websites. Results The pilot has a duration of six months, September until February. During this time we promote the use of Lean Library, but also ask users for feedback. With a single click the users go to a survey in which they can give us their opinion or suggest improvements. Next to the user feedback, Lean Library also offers many statistics concerning the use of the extension. By using these statistics over the course of the pilot and comparing statistics like the proxy-server use before and after we started the pilot, we can determine if it is a success. Conclusion : While this is an ongoing project, the initial results are looking promising. We see an increase in the use of our proxy-server and we see an increasing number of users every month. A full analysis if the pilot is a success can be given after February, when the pilot period ends. However, for now Lean Library is helping our students, researchers and staff to work comfortably from home, with the library in their browser
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe 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
Get PDF“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
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Get PDFWe 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
Get PDFWe 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
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
Lean Library: Your library in a browser.:Experiences from the University Medical Center Groningen and University of Groningen
Get PDFIntroductionAccessing the collection of your university, or using tools made available by the library is not always easy if you work off-campus. When working off-campus a login in for example a proxy-server or VPN is needed to work as if you were at your office or at the library. This is where our students, staff and researchers had troubles, they were not starting on the library website with the right links to the licensed content. To make working off-campus a lot easier the University Medical Center and University of Groningen started a pilot with the browser extension Lean Library. The pilot started in September 2018 and will run until February 2019. The main functionalities of Lean Library are providing users with 1-click access to our e-resources, communicating tailor-made messages to our users on, by the library specified, websites and providing users with alternative routes to full texts if they are available.AimTo make working off-campus just as easy as working at university computer, and to bring library services to the users in an easy way in their browser. By doing so the aim is to see more use of our collection and have a greater presence of the library in the workflow of students, staff and researchers. Also better use of the universities’ open access deals and better insight in the use of our collection are an important aim of our pilot.MethodFor the implementation, it was important that the library had control of what and when exactly Lean Library would show. Therefore, we gave Lean Library our holdings information and the access to our proxy-domains. By doing so, the user has immediate access to scientific publications and is not stopped by a paywall. Another important aspect of the implementation was that the library is control. Lean Library gives the library staff the possibility to tweak and change the messages that are shown to the users of extensions when they are on certain websites.ResultsThe pilot has a duration of six months, September until February. During this time we promote the use of Lean Library, but also ask users for feedback. With a single click the users go to a survey in which they can give us their opinion or suggest improvements. Next to the user feedback, Lean Library also offers many statistics concerning the use of the extension. By using these statistics over the course of the pilot and comparing statistics like the proxy-server use before and after we started the pilot, we can determine if it is a success.Conclusion :While this is an ongoing project, the initial results are looking promising. We see an increase in the use of our proxy-server and we see an increasing number of users every month. A full analysis if the pilot is a success can be given after February, when the pilot period ends. However, for now Lean Library is helping our students, researchers and staff to work comfortably from home, with the library in their browser
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