Same Question, Different World: Replicating an Open Access Research Impact Study

To examine changes in the open access landscape over time, this study partially replicated Kristin Antelman’s 2004 study of open access citation advantage. Results indicated open access articles still have a citation advantage. For three of the four disciplines examined, the most common sites hosting freely available articles were independent sites, such as academic social networks or article sharing sites. For the same three disciplines, more than 70% of the open access copies were publishers’ PDFs. The major difference from Antelman’s is the increase in the number of freely available articles that appear to be in violation of publisher policies

Copyright for Creators: Bridging Law and Practice

Everyone is a publisher, a maker, or a creator in the digital age, and understanding copyright is a foundational skill. Artists, designers, and arts scholars need acute awareness of the legal landscape and fair use. To help meet this need, Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) Libraries, in concert with the VCU School of the Arts, created a series of programs on the nuances of copyright for artists, designers, and art scholars

Senior Recital:Hillary Miller, Bassoon

Kemp Recital Hall Saturday Afternoon December 3, 2005 3:00p.m

DEDICATION & REMEMBRANCE

Professor Anne Proffitt Dupre passed away on June 22, 2011,following a hard-fought battle with cancer. She attended lawschool at the University of Georgia where she graduated first inher class in 1988 and served as the editor in chief of the GeorgiaLaw Review. She clerked for U.S. Supreme Court Justice Harry A.Blackmun following a clerkship with Judge J.L. Edmondson of theU.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit. In 1994, she returnedto Georgia Law and joined the faculty as a professor specializing ineducation law and contract law. Prior to her passing, ProfessorDupre served as faculty advisor for the Georgia Law Review. Forthose reasons and many, many others, it is our honor to dedicateVolume 46 of the Georgia Law Review to Professor Anne ProffittDupre. In doing so, we will honor Professor Dupre with a shortremembrance in each issue

Compliance: Data Management Plans and Public Access to Data

Three years ago, the Office of Science and Technology Policy released the memo “Increasing Public Access to the Results of Federally Funded Research.” So far, 16 agencies have released plans. These new requirements relate to information access so librarians are well placed to help researchers and grants administrators comply. Many librarians have previous experience with NIH Public Access Policy and/or NSF data management plan requirements, so the transition to the new mandates should be easy. This breakout session will help you focus your efforts on the most important aspects of public access and data management plans when helping researchers with compliance. Margaret Henderson is Director of Research Data Services and Hillary Miller is Scholarly Communications Outreach Librarian, Virginia Commonwealth University Libraries

S12, E20: Music Catalogs and Copyright Law

Scholarly communications librarian Hillary Miller joins Aughie and Nia to discuss the copyright ownership of musical products by writers, singers, and potentially hedge funds.https://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/civil_discourse/1183/thumbnail.jp

Regulation of Stress-Induced Longevity

Rapid advances in aging research have identified several stressful stimuli (e.g. food/oxygen availability, temperature) that can enhance health and longevity across taxa. Many of these longevity pathways act through cell non-autonomous signaling mechanisms. These pathways utilize sensory cells, frequently neurons, to signal to peripheral tissues and promote survival during the presence of external stress. Importantly, this neuronal activation of stress response pathways is often sufficient to improve health and longevity in the absence of stress. Multiple studies, including our own, implicate serotonin (5-HT) as a signal within several longevity pathways. 5-HT is one of the best studied neuromodulators with numerous drugs targeting its actions, yet our understanding of the complex actions of 5-HT signaling is still incomplete. 5-HT is released upon food perception, therefore we posited that a decrease in 5-HT release during dietary restriction (DR) may also result in downstream signaling changes. This hypothesis is bolstered by data showing that the perception of food is sufficient to abrogate DR-mediated longevity. Using an intestinal reporter for a key gene induced by DR but suppressed by attractive smells, we identify three compounds that block food perception, thereby increasing longevity as DR mimetics. These compounds clearly implicate serotonin and dopamine in limiting lifespan in response to food perception. We further identify an enteric neuron in this pathway that signals through the serotonin receptor 5-HT1A/ser-4 and dopamine receptor DRD2/dop-3, and critically, aspects of this pathway are conserved in the vinegar fly D. melanogaster and in mammalian cells. These studies present compelling evidence that reward circuitry is tied to the perception of food across taxa and may be a viable area of research to discover pro-longevity treatments. Similar to our food availability experiments, we find temperature can modulate longevity interventions outside the laws of thermodynamics. Our data suggest that genetics play a major role in temperature-associated longevity and are consistent with the hypothesis that while aging in C. elegans is slowed by decreasing temperature, the major cause(s) of death may also be modified, leading to different genes and pathways becoming more or less important at different temperatures. These data shed light on the complex interplay of stress response signaling and suggest some act in a temperature-dependent manner. Collectively, the findings in this thesis enhance our understanding of conserved signaling pathways that modify aging while advancing the fields long-term goal to develop therapeutics that increase human health/lifespan.PHDCellular & Molecular BiologyUniversity of Michigan, Horace H. Rackham School of Graduate Studieshttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/169956/1/millhill_1.pd

Securing Text and Data Mining Rights for Researchers in Academic Libraries

This study describes the results of an online survey of librarians involved in license negotiations at academic institutions in the United States. The survey sought to discover the approaches taken by academic librarians to secure text and data mining rights through licensing of electronic resources.Master of Science in Library Scienc