Two Dimensional Velocity Fields of Low Surface Brightness Galaxies

We present high resolution two dimensional velocity fields from integral field spectroscopy along with derived rotation curves for nine low surface brightness galaxies. This is a positive step forward in terms of both data quality and number of objects studied. We fit NFW and pseudo-isothermal halo models to the observations. We find that the pseudo-isothermal halo better represents the data in most cases than the NFW halo, as the resulting concentrations are lower than would be expected for LCDM.Comment: 2 pages, 1 figure, to appear in the XXIst IAP Colloquium "Mass Profiles and Shapes of Cosmological Structures", Paris 4-9 July 2005, (Eds.) G. Mamon, F. Combes, C. Deffayet, B. Fort, (EDP Sciences

What’s used to gauge when engaging?: Determining academic librarian roles in research assessment reporting services

Abstract: Academic librarians play a key role in assisting faculty with assessing the impact of their research. In the rapidly changing environment of scholarly communication, librarians must stay abreast of emerging tools and metrics in order to effectively and reliably support and promote the research and creative activities at their institution. A recent survey administered to over 13,000 librarians at Carnegie-classified R1 institutions offers insight into the usage of research impact metrics and usage data among academic librarians when advising university faculty and when compiling evidence of research impact for faculty and administration. In particular, this poster examines the rates at which academic librarians are providing impact metric reporting services for faculty, departments, and administrators; the most popular tools used to prepare reports; and how disciplinary liaison responsibilities and job duties affect one’s likelihood to perform such services. Engaging with faculty and administration at the university is a crucial responsibility of academic librarians, and this poster presents a portrait of how academic librarians are leading the discussion in research impact

Is What’s “Trending” What’s Worth Purchasing?: Insights From a National Study of Collection Development Librarians

Citation: Sutton, S., Miles, R., & Konkiel, S. (2017). Is What’s “Trending” What’s Worth Purchasing?: Insights From a National study of Collection Development Librarians. The Serials Librarian, 72, (1-2). http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/0361526X.2017.1297593New forms of data like altmetrics are helping librarians to make smarter decisions about their collections. A recent nationwide study administered to librarians at R1 universities shines light on exactly how these metrics are being applied in academia. This article is based on a presentation from the NASIG 31st Annual Conference. It includes survey results addressing previously unknown rates of technology and metrics uptake among collection development librarians, the most popular citation databases and altmetrics services being used to make decisions, and surprising factors that affect attitudes toward the use of metrics

Indigenous Home Ownership and Community Title Land: A Preliminary Household Survey

Home ownership is currently not an option for Indigenous people living outside of urban centres. This paper presents the results of a household survey conducted in four community settlements in Queensland revealing diverse understandings, aspirations and concerns for Indigenous home ownership. Discussion concludes that the development of a home ownership scheme will require rigorous policy analysis and innovative economic and cultural solutions

Health Literacy and Women's Reproductive Health: A Systematic Review

Background: Health literacy is thought to impact women's reproductive health, yet no comprehensive systematic reviews have been conducted on the topic. Our objective was to systematically identify, investigate, and summarize research on the relationship between health literacy and women's reproductive health knowledge, behaviors, and outcomes

Could a Local Group X-Ray Halo Affect the X-Ray and Microwave Backgrounds?

Suto et al. (1996, astro-ph/9602061 and ApJ, 461, L33) have suggested that an X-ray halo in the Local Group might explain both the observed low-energy excess in the X-ray background and the quadrupole anisotropy in the cosmic microwave background. Recent observations of poor groups of galaxies by the ROSAT PSPC set reasonable limits on how extensive and dense such a halo could be. The poor groups most similar to the Local Group do not have a detectable halo, and the upper limits of these observations suggest that any Local Group halo would be nearly two orders of magnitude too tenuous to produce the effects Suto et al. (1996) discuss. In particular, the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect cannot contribute significantly to the quadrupole anisotropy measured by COBE.Comment: 8 pages, to appear in The Astrophysical Journal Letters, paper can also be obtained at http://hea-www.harvard.edu/~pildis/smio.htm

Altmetrics in Practice: Librarian and LIS Faculty Views

Sutton, Sarah, Konkiel, Stacy, and Miles, Rachel. "Altmetrics in Practice: Librarian and LIS Faculty Views," Electronic Resources & Libraries Conference. (Austin, TX). 4 April 2016. Presentation.Altmetrics measure the impact of scholarship via mentions in social media and other non-traditional venues. For librarians and faculty, altmetrics are also a new area for research. The focus of this presentation is the results of surveys of academic librarians’ and LIS scholars’ awareness and use of altmetrics

Scholarly Communication Librarians’ Relationship with Research Impact Metrics

Miles, Rachel, Sutton, Sarah, and Konkiel, Stacy. (2016). "Scholarly Communication Librarians’ Relationship with Research Impact Metrics," Panel Presentation: Finding Meaning in Metrics at the Association for Library Collections & Technical Services Scholarly Communications Interest Group and CRS Standards Committee Co-sponsored Session, American Library Association Annual Conference. (Orlando, FL). 25 June 2016. Presentation.As academia moves towards increasing concern with "real world" research impact, new measures of impact like altmetrics offer a more immediate picture of the broader impact of scholarship. Scholarly communication is also evolving rapidly thanks to technological advances, and with that change, questions arise surrounding the efficacy of using usage statistics and traditional citation-based metrics to understanding research impact. To understand the effect of these changes upon academic librarians, a nationwide survey was recently administered to over 13,000 academic librarians from Carnegie-classified R1 institutions. This presentation will examine differences in the awareness of various research impact metrics among scholarly communication librarians and their practices pertaining to using usage data and metrics for both job-related tasks and professional advancement.