Indianapolis Arts and Culture in the Late Twentieth Century: The Origins, Activities, and Legacy of the Pan American Arts Festival

Indiana University--Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI)The purpose of this thesis is to discuss and explain the commitment to arts and culture in Indianapolis from the mid-1960s to the end of the 1980s by focusing on the origins, activities, and legacy of an extraordinary event in the history of Indianapolis’ arts community: the 1986-1987 Pan American Arts Festival. Early efforts by the City Committee, a local growth coalition comprised of several civic leaders, focused on the physical revitalization of downtown Indianapolis’ cultural landscape. The group’s work in this area, which was part of a larger downtown revitalization project, played an important role in the creation of the Pan American Arts Festival. Ultimately, the planning and administration of this festival had a significant impact on the city’s arts community as it shifted the arts and culture commitment from Indianapolis’ physical structures to the actual livelihood of the organizations housed within them

Building a COVID-19 Web Archive with Grant Funding

Recording available at: [LINK]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mk3HM8lteGc[/LINK]Grant funding can be a mixed blessing for archivists, and as the economic effects of COVID-19 reduce budgets for libraries and archives nationwide, our profession will see even greater reliance on “soft” money. While there are issues with the damaging effect of grants on the future of the profession, a more pressing concern is the burden that ongoing maintenance costs from former grant projects place upon archival budgets. However, due to the Internet Archive’s forward-thinking subscription model, web archiving is one project that can be completed with a one-time grant, even a small one, with little ongoing cost to the hosting archives. This makes creating a web archive around a current event an attractive and practical project within the limitations of grant funding. This poster will show how we created a web archive documenting COVID-19 in Central Indiana, covering how to pitch web archiving to a grantmaker, how to make appraisal decisions when gathering URL seeds, how to manage crawling within a limited data budget, and tools and techniques for managing this work between several people working remotely. We will also discuss certain pitfalls that we encountered and what other archivists can do to avoid them in the future

The Open Access Policy Citation Advantage for a Medical School

The open access citation advantage has been studied across several disciplinary and in large, multidisciplinary analyses. The potential citation advantage of making an article open access (OA) may be a contributing factor to the increasing number of universities where faculty have adopted OA policies. If authors participate in these policies, one might expect an increase in citations to works authored at OA policy institutions. Do OA policies increase citation rates for a medical school? This study seeks to answer that question by measuring the comparative citation impact of articles made OA by Indiana University School of Medicine (IUSM) authors in the implementation of an OA policy (OAP). Methods: We use a random selection of articles by IUSM faculty from 2016 to compare the citation profiles of OA policy articles to paywalled articles. We used two sources to count citations received from 2016 to the present, Web of Science (WoS) and Google Scholar (GS). Results: IUSM OA Policy 2016 articles receive 63% (GS) - 72% (WoS) more citations than do paywalled articles across nearly five years of citations. The citation advantage of OAP articles is also reflected in an 18% (GS) - 33% (WoS) increase in the median citation rate. Conclusion: The Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) OA Policy was adopted in October 2014 and fully implemented beginning with the year 2016. Annually, a majority of the articles authored by IUPUI faculty (inclusive of the School of Medicine) are made openly available in the institutional repository. The benefits of this policy to the public include free access to scholarly information. If the benefits to the authors and to the institution include an increase in citation rates, other institutions may wish to explore OA policy adoption

Finishing the euchromatic sequence of the human genome

The sequence of the human genome encodes the genetic instructions for human physiology, as well as rich information about human evolution. In 2001, the International Human Genome Sequencing Consortium reported a draft sequence of the euchromatic portion of the human genome. Since then, the international collaboration has worked to convert this draft into a genome sequence with high accuracy and nearly complete coverage. Here, we report the result of this finishing process. The current genome sequence (Build 35) contains 2.85 billion nucleotides interrupted by only 341 gaps. It covers ∼99% of the euchromatic genome and is accurate to an error rate of ∼1 event per 100,000 bases. Many of the remaining euchromatic gaps are associated with segmental duplications and will require focused work with new methods. The near-complete sequence, the first for a vertebrate, greatly improves the precision of biological analyses of the human genome including studies of gene number, birth and death. Notably, the human enome seems to encode only 20,000-25,000 protein-coding genes. The genome sequence reported here should serve as a firm foundation for biomedical research in the decades ahead