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Bel Jour: a discipline-specific portal to periodicals
No full textConvenient, subject-based access to current periodicals can be difficult to achieve in today’s mixed and changing journals environment. This paper describes the creation of a web-accessible database of journals in business and economics, using Microsoft Access and ColdFusion. Bel Jour, the Business and Economics Locator for Journals at Rutgers, provides value-added descriptive information about a specific subject-based journal collection, along with convenient access to content from this collection. Although the actual journal collection is dispersed among many physical and online locations, Bel Jour provides a single, virtual point of access for researchers in the discipline.Published in print as Womack, Ryan. “Bel Jour: a discipline-specific portal to periodicals.” Information Technology and Libraries, Volume 21, Number 2, June 2002, pp. 81-86.Peer reviewe
Data Visualization and Information Literacy
No full textThis Pecha Kuchka discusses the relationship between data visualization and information literacy, and makes recommendations for which aspects of data visualization are valuable for general inclusion in information literacy goals.Presented at IASSIST 40th Annual Conference, "Aligning Data and Research Infrastructure", Toronto, Canada, June 5, 2014.Womack, Ryan (2014 June). Data visualization and information literacy. Pecha Kuchka presented at the IASSIST conference, Toronto, ON
High Speed, High Price, High Demand: Business Internet Resources and Databases in American Academic Libraries [presentation]
No full textPresentation from Central Asia 2002 conference. Cite as
Womack, Ryan. “High Speed, High Price, High Demand: Business Internet Resources and Databases in American Academic Libraries.” Central Asia 2002: Internet and Library, Information Resources in Science, Culture, Education, and Business, Bukhara, Uzbekistan, October 16, 2002
Bonds Online
No full textReview of the website Bonds Online.This is a preprint of "Bonds Online", published in the Journal of Business and Finance Librarianship, vol. 5, issue 4, pp. 59-65. The article is available at http://dx.doi.org/10.1300/J109v05n04_0
The Rutgers Experience: Building Data Management and Repository Services
No full textDescribes the development and status as of 2014 of efforts to archive research data in RUcore, the Rutgers University Community RepositoryPresented to NN/LM MAR Research Data Management Symposium, New York, NY, April 28, 2014.Womack, Ryan (2014 April). The Rutgers Experience: Building Data Management and Repository Services. Presented at National Network of Libraries of Medicine, Middle Atlantic Region, Research Data Management Symposium, New York, NY
Basic Business Dictionaries Compared
No full textThis article compares the relative merits of five business dictionaries addressed to a general business audience. The distinctive features of each dictionary are described, and definitions and range of coverage are compared in order to discover the distinctive strengths and weaknesses of each dictionary.This is an Author's Original Manuscript of an Article whose final and definitive form, the Version of Record, has been published in the Journal of Business and Finance Librarianship (2005), available online at: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1300/J109v10n04_02Peer reviewe
Data Visualization and R
No full textThis workshop focuses on principles and techniques for the visualization of data, with an equal emphasis on theory and implementation. Drawing on classic works by Cleveland (Visualizing Data), Tufte (The Visual Display of Quantitative Information), and Wilkinson (The Grammar of Graphics), a range of best practices for visualization are illustrated. Recently developed techniques for large-scale, 3D, and interactive visualization are also discussed. For each of these approaches, methods for creating similar graphics in the R open-source statistical language are demonstrated, using packages such as ggplot2, lattice, and others. Interactive visualization packages such as playwith, shiny and others are also explored.Presented at IASSIST 40th Annual Conference, "Aligning Data and Research Infrastructure", Toronto, Canada, June 3, 2014.Womack, Ryan (2014 June). Data visualization and R: Theory and Implementation. Workshop presented at the IASSIST conference, Toronto, ON
Information intermediaries and optimal information distribution
No full textInformation intermediaries collect, organize, and distribute information to their clients. This study examines three institutional forms of information intermediary: the for-profit firm, the nonprofit organization, and the government agency. Using results from the economics and information science literature, five tests are proposed that characterize particular information markets. For a given information market, these characteristics determine the institutional form of information intermediary that will maximize the total social and private benefit from information consumption. Although many kinds of information can be effectively delivered by for-profit information intermediaries, socially beneficial information often requires subsidized provision from government or nonprofit intermediaries in order to encourage consumption up to socially optimal levels. Applications to current topics in information distribution are also discussed.Author’s version of paper published as Womack, Ryan. “Information intermediaries and optimal information distribution.” Library and Information Science Research. Volume 24, Issue 2, 2002, pp. 129-155. The published version is available at http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0740-8188(02)00109-3Peer reviewe
Career Exploration Resources
No full textBibliography of career resourcesAuthor’s version of paper chapter published as
Ryan Womack, “Career Exploration Resources”, pp. 32-37, in Gary W. White (Ed.), Help Wanted: Job and Career Information Resources, RUSA Occasional Paper, no. 26 (2003
Economist.com
No full textReview of the website of the Economist magazineThis is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis Group in Journal of Business and Finance Librarianship on 23/09/2008, available online: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1300/J109v10n02_06
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