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Graduation 2013
No full textStaff and librarians at commencement, 2013. First row from left: ?, Miriam Lovin, ?, ?, Janice Burn. Second row from left: Valeri Craigle, Dan Burn, Ross McPhail, Matthew Pierce, Maggie Dwenger
Digital preservation of law reviews: Two ways
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Purpose
This paper will aim to explain two strategies for digital preservation of law reviews, informing law librarians of the options which might best suit their needs.
Design/methodology/approach
On November 7, 2008, the Durham Statement on Open Access to Legal Scholarship was released to the public. One of its main tenets – that law schools and libraries “stop publishing journals in print format and rely instead on electronic publication coupled with a commitment to keep the electronic versions available in stable, open, digital formats” – was an open call to law libraries to start thinking about digital preservation strategies for their law reviews. The Legal Information Preservation Alliance responded to the need by developing the Law Review Preservation Program, an initiative, which archives law reviews hosted on the Bepress Digital Commons (DC) platform in Controlled LOCKSS (Lots of Copies Keep Stuff Safe) or CLOCKSS.
Findings
For those law libraries without subscriptions to DC, there is an open-source, freely available alternative solution for ingesting digital law reviews into any preservation platform. This application, called the Submission Information Metadata Packaging, or SIMP tool was developed at the J. Willard Marriott Library at the University of Utah, initially as a solution for ingesting content into the Ex Libris Rosetta Digital preservation platform, as part of a CONTENTdm digital asset management workflow. Though the development of the SIMP tool was inspired by Marriott’s need to ingest digital files from CONTENTdm to Rosetta, they built it to work with any Digital Asset Management System and Digital preservation platform.
Originality/value
Digital Preservation of law reviews is in its infancy. This is one of the first articles of its kind to provide specific solutions and technical advice for law libraries.
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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
2007 UHSLC Goals
No full textThese are the goals for UHSLC for 2007Goals for UHSLC in 2007 1. Present a descriptive poster about UHSLC at ULA 2008 and/or MCMLA 2007 in Omaha; October 12-16 (joint meeting with Midwest Chapter) [Jeanne Le Ber, Joan Stoddart, Allyson Mower, Valeri Craigle] Completed. 2. Create a digital collection of historical UHSLC materials for inclusion in the University of Utah Institutional Repository or on the UHSLC website [Lynn Wilson, Joan Stoddart, Jeanne Le Ber, Allyson Mower, Lynda VanWagoner] Completed: the collection was created in ContentDM; the website design is in place; we have evaluated the record structure and developed the field guidelines; Krista is the point person for entering records; In process: Krista will receive training and begin the input process this coming week (December 6 at 10:00) 3. Formalize a Reference Continuity Service so that requests can be addressed in the event of a temporary library closure [John Bramble] a. Disaster plan [Mike Nielson - UVRMC] Completed: John has a committee formed In process: working through the issues. 4. Create a career fair campaign for Health Sciences Librarians [Marilyn Schwartz] Completed: Marilyn has exhibited at a Career Fair in November 2008. In process: Marilyn is working on this for this next year. 5. Ensure that all UHSLC members will be assisted and trained to update Serhold - 100% compliance [John Bramble and Camille Salmond with Laura Jones] 6. Sponsor professional development opportunities for UHSLC members and/or providers 4 times a year [UHSLC] Completed: March 19 - MedHome; Jeanne Le Ber June 4 - Institutional Repository: Allyson Mower August 6 - RML Services; Claire Hamasu October 22 - Identify Copyright issues for a future PD - Emily 7. Conduct a simple research project (do we want to do this; if yes, what would we do) Not done. 8. Write an Annual Report of the year\u27s accomplishments [Jeanne Le Ber] In process: JML 9. Updated the UHSLC Bylaws. Completed. 10. Redesigned the UHSLC website; new look Completed [Valeri Craigle
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
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