E-Journals and the Big Deal: A Review of the Literature

Faced with shrinking budgets and increased subscription prices, many academic libraries are seeking ways to reduce the cost of e-journal access. A common target for cuts is the “Big Deal,” or large bundled subscription model, a term coined by Kenneth Frazier in a 2001 paper criticizing the effects of the Big Deal on the academic community. The purpose of this literature review is to examine issues related to reducing e-journal costs, including criteria for subscription retention or cancellation, decision-making strategies, impacts of cancellations, and other options for e-journal content provision. Commonly used criteria for decision-making include usage statistics, overlap analysis, and input from subject specialists. The most commonly used strategy for guiding the process and aggregating data is the rubric or decision grid. While the e-journal landscape supports several access models, such as Pay-Per-View, cloud access, and interlibrary loan, the Big Deal continues to dominate. Trends over the past several years point to dwindling support for the Big Deal however, due largely to significant annual rate increases and loss of content control

One in mission - a compassionate church

Historical series, 1. Delivered at the 1st biennial convention, Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada, Ottawa, Jl 8 1987

Have no fear

Sermon preached at the fourth biennial onvention of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada, Vancouver, 4 Jl 1993. Historical series, no 4. Matt 10:24-33

Modelling the temperature, maturity and moisture content in a drying concrete block

In this paper we continue work from a previous Study Group in developing a model for the maturation of concrete. The model requires equations describing the temperature, moisture content and maturity (or amount of cement that has reacted with the water). Non-dimensionalisation is used to simplify the model and provide simple analytical solutions which are valid for early time maturation. A numerical scheme is also developed and simulations carried out for maturation over one day and then two months. For the longer simulation we also investigate the effect of building the block in a single pour or two stages

Bioenergetic analysis of female volleyball

Volleyball is a demanding sport typified by repeated high intensity bouts of activity consisting of jumping, spiking, diving, and running. Practice sessions for collegiate level play generally last from two to three hours. The total energy requirement for extended practice sessions has not been directly measured and compared to dietary intake to assess whether collegiate athletes’ energy intake meets the energy demand of the sport. The purpose of this study was to establish the energy balance of female collegiate volleyball athletes during typical team training days. A bioenergetic analysis was conducted by directly measuring oxygen consumption (V 02) during actual training sessions, analyzing detailed records of the energy cost of all other activities throughout training days, and comparing the total kcal cost of activity to the dietary intake of athletes. Twelve female collegiate volleyball athletes (20.5 ±1.2 years of age) were asked to wear a portable metabolic measurement device for approximately 45 min during their regularly scheduled team practice sessions under the direct supervision of team coaches; data from one athlete was excluded due to illness on data collection days. Athletes kept detailed records of all physical activity and dietary intake for three 24 hour periods on three regular team training days. The mean V 0 2 during on-court data collection was 25.03 ±3.12 ml/kg/min during approximately 47.1 ± 3.7 min of volleyball play. The mean energy cost during on-court data collection was 419 ± 85 kcal. Analysis of activity records of the three 24 hour periods on team training days revealed a mean daily energy cost of 3630 ± 442 kcal. The mean daily kcal intake from dietary records was 1861 ±516 kcal. There was a significant difference (p = 0.001) between the energy expenditure (EE) and the energy intake (El) revealing a negative 1769 ± 507 kcal balance which represented a 48.7% negative energy balance. In conclusion, this study revealed greater EE on training days compared to El and pointed to a need for further research to investigate nutritional supplementation and/or education to help athletes attain an optimal energy balance essential for health, training, and performance

Gender, the State, and War Redux:Feminist International Relations across the ‘Levels of Analysis’

In her recent article, ‘Women, the State, and War,’ in a special issue of this journal honoring Kenneth Waltz, Jean Elshtain explores the question of what if anything it does to ‘put gender in’ to analysis of Waltz’s three ‘images’ of International Relations, and determines that gender is not definitive or causal in war theorizing. This article suggests that, while the question is an important and appropriate one to ask, the evidence that Elshtain brings to bear and the tools she uses to answer the question are inadequate to the task and not reflective of the current ‘state of the field’ of feminist International Relations. Addressing the question of if gender ‘alters in significant ways’ ‘man, the state, and war,’ this article provides theoretical and empirical examples from the young but rich field of feminist International Relations to present readers with the substance of feminist claims and the warrants behind feminist arguments. It urges International Relations to decide on the question of the relevance of gender by taking work in the area seriously, and suggests that the discipline might be convinced that acknowledging gender is crucial if scholars engage with the literature that sees ‘man, the state, and war’ as gendered. </jats:p