Connecting researchers and research

Libraries have long held an established role in the scholarly research process; however the process of scholarly communication is evolving. Citation management software, institutional repositories, open access and open data mandates have opened up new opportunities and new challenges. Researchers have more responsibility for managing their work, but less time to do it. Libraries are struggling to remain an active part of the scholarly communication process. It has become increasingly difficult for institutions to identify their scholarly output. This presentation will show how MBLWHOI is attempting to meet this challenge with the implementation of, Bibapp, an open source tool to manage campus research

Winning the Talent War, for Good: A Call to Engage, Retain, and Build the Market for Top Talent in Impact Careers

Today, there remains a striking disconnect between talented people and careers of social impact. There is little data on how and why young people choose their careers and limited understanding of what it would take to encourage a greater share to commit themselves to advancing the public interest. This makes it difficult for impact organizations, those organizations striving to achieve an explicit social mission, to effectively identify, recruit, and retain great talent -- and for service-minded young people to find opportunities to make a difference. Ensuring that the best talent is working to solve these critical social challenges is a shared responsibility. However, it is ultimately our responsibility as Millennials to create and commit to impact careers. Winning the Talent War, for Good includes a range of strategies created by and for impact practitioners and young talent alike to address this challenge. In addition to underscoring the need for top talent in this field, this Aspen Institute Impact Careers Initiative (ICI) report seeks to help practitioners better understand the drivers of career choices among top talent and undertake key strategies for engaging, retaining, and building the market for the next generation of top talent in impact careers

A Model for Measuring the Academic Achievement of Student-Athletes

Colleges and universities that actively recruit and accept young men and women as athletes have responsibilities to these young people. One responsibility is to provide these young people with comparable academic achievement data regarding both the student-athlete and the general student population. To assist in meeting the challenge of this responsibility a method, or model, for measuring academic achievement is proposed for national acceptance

Transnational law making and EC product policy: the WEEE-example

Content: 1 Introduction; 2 Cross Border Product Responsibility as a New Challenge; 3 Interface problems on different levels; 3.1 Practical Interfaces: The Monitoring System (Art. 12 (1) WEEE); 3.1.1 Data to be notified when EEE is put on the Market; 3.1.2 Data to be notified when EEE is given back as WEEE; 3.2 Conclusions with Respect to the Different Interfaces; 3.3 Requirements for an appropriate legal and institutional framework; 4 Reciprocal transnational legal obligations; 5 Recommendations concerning the legal and institutional framework; 6 Prerequisites of transnational producer responsibility; 7 Bibliograph

ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY OF FINANCIAL AUDIT - IN NEW DIMENSION

We think that financial institutions have a greater social responsibility to develop theircustomers’ financial culture than to support a football team. We assert that nowadaysfinancial institutions have a responsibility to be able to continue to operate banks withoutauxiliary state support. We believe that auditors, who for decades certified the financialreports of banks whose balance sheets were fictitious and whose depositors’ andshareholders' money was not safe, played no small role in the development of the recentfinancial crisis. Consequently we hold that the auditors’ greater social responsibility isunavoidable. On the other hand, after the crisis, due to the fact that social responsibility hascome to the fore, auditors also have to prepare for the challenge that corporate reports areincreasingly integrated reports which, in addition to mandatory economic information, alsovoluntarily impart data on social and environmental impact and activities

The role of young users in determining long term care expenditure in Norway

<i>Aims</i>: In Norway, it is the responsibility of the country's 429 municipalities to provide long term care (LTC) services to their residents. Recent years have seen a sharp rise in the number of LTC users under the age of 65. This paper aims to explore the effect of this rise on LTC expenditure. <i>Methods</i>: Panel data models are used on data from municipalities from 1986 to 2011. An instrumental variable approach is also utilised to account for possible endogeneity related to the number of young users. <i>Results</i>: The number of young users appears to have a strong effect on LTC expenditure. There is also evidence of municipalities exercising discretion in defining eligibility criteria for young users in order to limit expenditure. Conclusions: The rise in the number of young LTC users presents a long-term challenge to the sustainability of LTC financing. The current budgeting system does not appear to fully compensate municipalities for expenditure on young LTC users. This may put strain on the financing of services for older users

Behaviour and Climate Change: Consumer Perceptions of Responsibility

This paper explores the under-researched notion of consumer responsibility, a potentially significant influence on consumer behaviour that marketers and policymakers may be able to harness as they attempt to respond to environmental challenges such as climate change. The paper uses data derived from a commercially motivated survey (n = 1513) to explore domestic consumption behaviours most closely associated with the issue of disruptive climate change. A measure of 'General Environmental Responsiveness' (GER) is used to test: (1) the effects of consumers both taking responsibility for their actions and placing responsibility on others for the consequences of their consumption behaviour; and (2) whether sociodemographic variables can aid the targeting of consumers by the level and type of responsibility and pro-environmental behavioural intentions expressed. The study's findings demonstrate clear, if not strong, relationships between consumer conceptions of responsibilities for causing and tackling climate change and environment-related consumer behaviour. The study's implications both challenge accepted wisdom about environment-related consumer behaviour and suggest avenues for future research

The underestimation of threats to patients data in clinical practice

Issues in the security of medical data present a greater challenge than in other data security environments. The complexity of the threats and ethics involved, coupled with the poor management of these threats makes the protection of data in clinical practice problematic. This paper discusses the security threats to medical data in terms of confidentiality, privacy, integrity, misuse and availability, and reviews the issue of responsibility with reference to clinical governance. Finally. the paper uncovers some of the underlying reasons for the underestimation of the threats to medical data by the medical profession