Arkansas Related Civil War Holdings at Public Institutions of Higher Education in the State

An examination of a library collection using an existing comprehensive bibliography on a particular subject allows librarians to make collection development decisions. In this study, the collections of each public university in Arkansas is examined for Civil War related titles, compiled from two historiographical articles which appeared in the Arkansas Historical Quarterly. The results indicate that collections in the state contain a wide range of items included in the search. The data gathered in this project may help librarians at these institutions and others in the state determine what items need to be added to their respective collections in order to more fully support the curriculum offered

Language Documentation & Conservation 2009 Annual Report

National Foreign Language Resource Cente

Language Documentation & Conservation 2008 Annual Report

National Foreign Language Resource Cente

Please don't aim for a highly cited paper

Citation-based metrics are important in determining careers, so it is unsurprising that recent publications advise prospective authors on how to write highly cited papers. While such publications offer excellent advice on structuring and presenting manuscripts, there are significant downsides, including: restrictions in the topics researched, incentives to misconduct and possible detriments to motivation, innovation and collegiality. Guides to writing highly cited papers also assume that all citations are equal, ignoring new directions in bibliometric research identifying ‘quality’ and perfunctory citations. Rather than pursuing citations, with the uncertainty about their significance and the potential negative consequences, authors may fare better by following evidence from several disciplines indicating that persistence, a focused research program, good methodology and publishing in relevant journals are more important in career development and disciplinary influence than the odd star paper. Research administrators could encourage such steps by considering innovative new multivariate assessments of research productivity, including assessing social impact

The Value of an Academic Law Library in the 21st Century

Law school deans and university provosts may ask how law libraries can deliver value as new technologies, practices, and economic pressures inspire reassessment of legal education and of higher education more generally. The proliferation of information delivery systems, trends towards centralized management of higher education infrastructure, and changes in the law practice market suggest that the traditional law library may not meet current needs. But law libraries have the potential and opportunity to deliver strong value in this environment due largely to the sophistication of today\u27s law librarians. The law library can be a center for expertise that can advance law school and university goals with vision and efficiency. This chapter describes the benefits that law libraries can provide through four different, though intertwined, functions: (I) to provide access to legal and law-related information; (2) to curate and preserve information and materials; (3) to provide services for scholarship, teaching, learning, and administration; and ( 4) to provide a welcoming place for people. This discussion considers how law libraries might fruitfully intersect with campus libraries, information technology, and other university infrastructure and highlights the benefits of collaboration among law libraries at different institutions. Although local goals and conditions will vary, this chapter provides insights that can apply to any academic law library

Perspectives on Languages for Specifying Simulation Experiments

While domain specific languages are well established for describing the system of interest in modeling and simulation, the last years have seen increasingly domain specific languages also exploited for specifying experiments. This development, whose application areas range from computational biology to network simulation, is motivated by the desire to facilitate the reproducibility of simulation results. Thereby, the experimentation process is treated as a first class object of simulation studies. As the experimentation process contains different tasks such as configuration, observation, analysis, and evaluation, domain-specific languages can be exploited to specify experiments as well as individual sub-tasks or even the goal of the experiment, thus opening up new avenues of research. The focus of our discussion will be on what information to express, also based on existing approaches. Referring to how to express the required information, we will sketch some of the pros and cons of external and embedded domain specific languages

Virtual Excavations: Digital Repositories, Data Reuse, and Ethically Accessible Archaeology

Archaeological investigations produce massive amounts of data, yet these data are often sequestered by the original researchers or put behind paywalls that restrict access to academic publications. This inaccessibility makes it difficult to justify the destructive nature of archaeology. Open-access digital data management systems such as the Digital Archaeological Record (tDAR) provide archaeologists with new ways to preserve, share, and, most importantly, reuse archaeological data to combat this issue of data sustainability. The goal of this project is to investigate how these digital repositories allow for ethically responsible data access and reuse, thus mitigating the cycle of destruction, hoarding, and inaccessibility. Two tDAR-based case studies form the core of this research: the Mimbres Pottery Images Digital Database (MimPIDD) and the Salt River Project Digital Library (SRPDL). This study examines the structure, content, accessibility, and instances of reuse of the case studies as well as quantifiable interactions with their content, including view and download patterns. These analytics are discussed alongside the FAIR and CARE Principles of digital stewardship and the guidelines for data access and management established by stakeholders. By analyzing these factors alongside specific instances of data reuse in academic and public spheres, this project demonstrates how MimPIDD and SRPDL use digital dissemination platforms to create opportunities for meaningful interactions with their data. These accessible and reusable projects should serve as blueprints for the future of ethical and accessible data management in archaeological research and beyond

Searching the Biological Literature

Table of Contents. Chapter 1. Organization of the Scientific Literature and the Flow of Information in the Sciences. Chapter 2. Primary Sources. Chapter 3. Reference Sources. Chapter 4. Databases. Chapter 5. Basic Principles of Searching and Search Logic Chapter 6. Citation Indexes and Citation Searching . Chapter 7. The Citation Concept and its Impact on Society Chapter 8. Resources on the World Wide Web Chapter 9. U. S. Government Publications Chapter 10. Lessons Learned Inde