Searching for current international geoscience literature

Keeping up with the literature, efficiently finding the most relevant literature, and conducting comprehensive geoscience literature searches in today’s changing world of publication and accessibility is challenging. How well do the geoscience information tools meet this challenge? A comparison study of two geoscience databases, one science database and one Internet search engine looked at the geographic coverage, subject content, source material indexed, formats included, and currency of each in an attempt to be better able to recommend information tools to researchers. The databases included in the study were: GeoRef, produced by the American Geological Institute and GEOBASE, produced by Elsevier; Science Citation Index Expanded, produced by the Institute for Scientific Information; and Scirus a comprehensive science-specific Internet search engine

Institutional Repositories: Preserving and Organizing What You Create Today for Tomorrow’s Researchers

What are you creating, sticking on a shelf, dumping in a storage room, filing in a black hole, and losing? Where are your slides, digital images, poster session products, field notebooks, and data from the last year, the last five years? What about senior theses, student research projects, specimen collection inventories, or finding guides? The DSpace institutional repository system developed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Libraries and the Hewlett Packard Corporation is one of several open source software packages being used by research institutions around the world to organize, preserve, and provide access to knowledge created at their institutions in a digital form. While the number of institutional repositories is increasing, content addition is slow, particularly geoscience content. The Ohio State University Libraries, in partnership with the Office of the Chief Information Officer, has developed the OSU Knowledge Bank. The Department of Geological Sciences and the Byrd Polar Research Center are two of approximately 31 communities established so far in the Knowledge Bank. This paper describes the philosophy of institutional repositories and the role of the subject librarian in identifying repository content

GeoRef, ISI Web of Knowledge, Google Scholar - What is the future for abstracting and indexing services in the geosciences?

Access to previous results of research is basic to all research. Recent articles on information resources in high-energy physics and engineering have raised questions about the relevance of commercial abstracting and indexing services in those fields. do the same questions apply to the geosciences? What is the first choice for students and researchers for searching today? Preliminary results from a survey of faculty and students suggest that GeoRef is not the first place they look.Publisher allows immediate open acces

Clarifying the Gettier Objection to Plantinga’s Theory of Knowledge

In “The Inescapability of Gettier Problems,” Linda Zagzebski provides a specific Gettier case to Plantinga’s proper function theory of knowledge. However, her objection fails to understand Plantinga’s cognitive environment criterion. Specifically, a cognitive environment must be assessed alongside the faculties being used in the formation a belief. Zagzebski’s example is then adapted accordingly. This paper ends with a dilemma: either Plantinga’s theory adopts a dangerously strong condition for warrant, or admits that it cannot escape Gettier cases

Annotated bibliography of the geology of North Dakota, 1806-1959

References to the literature on North Dakota geology published between 1805 and 1960 are listed in this annotated bibliography. Published bibliographies on North American geology, bibliographies on geological subjects important to North Dakota, unpublished lists of references, and references cited in each entry herein were used to compile the bibliography. Each reference is provided with an annotation of its contents. A subject and geographical index and a list of serials cited are included

Ethical dilemmas in college campus victim advocacy

Includes bibliographical references.2016 Summer.This dissertation examines ethical dilemmas in college campus victim advocacy. Dilemmas were identified by experts in the field of college campus victim advocacy. A Grounded Theory approach was used to identify categories of dilemmas, and interviews were conducted with experts in the field. Ultimately, dilemmas were identified that led to participants experiencing significant institutional trauma. These dilemmas related, not to working with individual survivors, but rather to working within broken systems and navigating complicated relationships with other professionals. Participants’ own and survivors’ identities were also explored, and ultimately also related back to systems and the “bad” professionals working within them. Based on these findings, implications for future research are discussed

Exploring Research Metadata Governance with Design Thinking

If you want great research analytics, you’re going to need great data governance for your research metadata. That’s a tall order when the best information often spans incompatible systems, departments, policies, and mindsets. Research metadata governance is a great illustration of how research analytics is not just a technology problem. It happens at the intersection of technology, policy, process, and culture. Do any of us feel like our organization is “nailing” metadata governance? What level of research analytics could you achieve if there could be more alignment and cooperation around this kind of governance? In this session, you will join your fellow attendees in a facilitated design thinking workshop around the culture and organizational patterns of research metadata governance. We will explore the problem space and the solution space together. And we’ll highlight the group’s best findings. Whether you’re at the technical implementation level or the VP level, you will have seen and experienced good and bad patterns of how research metadata is being governed at your institution. These experiences are valuable to your fellow community members. Using design thinking, we will explore the collective intelligence on this complex topic, shoulder to shoulder. You’ll leave with a better understanding of how the patterns and struggles of data governance at your institution correlate with those of others. You’ll gain new ideas on how to address the hard cultural and organizational problems of governance. And you’ll meet new colleagues who you can stay connected with. Finally, you’ll gain an appreciation of how design thinking techniques themselves can be useful for these types of challenges at your own organization, and how they help to create understanding and alignment