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Adoption of NISO’s Shared Electronic Resource Understanding (SERU) at US Academic Libraries
Get PDFFollowing the emergence of electronic resources (e-resources), librarians developed licensing guidelines, standards, models, and understandings to educate, increase efficiencies, and retain rights afforded by copyright law. To reduce licensing burdens, the National Information Standards Organization (NISO) released the Shared E-Resource Understanding (SERU) in 2008, a set of “understandings” created and agreed upon by libraries and vendors. The author conducted a survey in 2017 of licensing practices and SERU use at libraries. The survey analyzed 108 responses from US academic libraries signing at least one license in the twelve months preceding the survey.Carter, Sunshine J. (2019). Adoption of NISO’s Shared Electronic Resource Understanding (SERU) at US Academic Libraries. Retrieved from the University Digital Conservancy, 10.5860/lrts.63n4.185
Troubleshooting Fundamentals: A Beginner's Guide
No full textLibraries have been troubleshooting unexpected problems affecting access to content for as long as libraries have
provided online content. Library systems and access models have matured as the volume of content delivered via those
systems has grown. Thus, finding and fixing the causes of electronic resource access problems has become a complex, time-consuming, and often
specialized task.This article describes three fundamental areas -- content, authentication models, and library systems -- with which a new troubleshooter should acquaint themselves in order to become an effective solver of e-resource access problems.Carter, Sunshine J; Traill, Stacie. (2018). Troubleshooting Fundamentals: A Beginner's Guide. Retrieved from the University Digital Conservancy, https://hdl.handle.net/11299/211523
Subscribe to Open: Modelling an open access transformation, Table 2
No full textTable 2. Impact of a 10% loss of subscribers in a subscribe-to-open model, considering original pricing practices and revenue. Published in Allison Langham-Putrow and Sunshine Carter, "Subscribe to Open: Modelling an open access transformation," College & Research Libraries News 81, no. 1 (2020).Langham-Putrow, Allison; Carter, Sunshine J. (2020). Subscribe to Open: Modelling an open access transformation, Table 2. Retrieved from the University Digital Conservancy, https://hdl.handle.net/11299/208737
Subscribe to Open: Modelling an open access transformation, Table 1
No full textTable 1. Publisher four-year financial outlook for a phased subscribe-to-open model. Published in Allison Langham-Putrow and Sunshine Carter, "Subscribe to Open: Modelling an open access transformation," College & Research Libraries News 81, no. 1 (2020).Langham-Putrow, Allison; Carter, Sunshine J. (2020). Subscribe to Open: Modelling an open access transformation, Table 1. Retrieved from the University Digital Conservancy, https://hdl.handle.net/11299/208736
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
Developing staff skills in e-resource troubleshooting: training, assessment, and continuous progress
Get PDFElectronic resource troubleshooting is complex, sophisticated work that often falls to a very small number library staff, even in large institutions. Seeing a need to expand the group of staff capable of diagnosing and resolving e-resource access issues, librarians at the University of Minnesota Libraries developed a training program for E-Resource Management staff. The training program comprised a ten-part workshop, a post-workshop troubleshooting project using real-world examples drawn from user activity logs, ongoing meetings for continuous skill development, and assessment of participant knowledge levels at various stages of the training program. As a result, staff participants demonstrated an increased familiarity in troubleshooting skills and knowledge. This chapter describes the planning, design, and implementation of the training program and offers suggestions for how others might create their own training programs.Carter, Sunshine J; Traill, Stacie. (2018). Developing staff skills in e-resource troubleshooting: training, assessment, and continuous progress. Retrieved from the University Digital Conservancy, https://hdl.handle.net/11299/197963
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
Understanding the new wave of the open access movement
No full textMomentum for the open access movement has increased over the past few years. The presenters review the basic tenets of open access, discuss characteristics of transformative open access agreements, and highlight a few global and national attempts to move towards a fully open access world.Carter, Sunshine J; Carlson Grebinoski, Jodi; Langham-Putrow, Allison. (2019). Understanding the new wave of the open access movement. Retrieved from the University Digital Conservancy, https://hdl.handle.net/11299/217180
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