Institutional Repositories (IR) in Higher Education – A Panel Discussion, Summary

Theresa McManus, the moderator, introduced the panel and opened with her own concerns about IRs. She finds herself caught between faculty advocating for mandating e-print repositories, priorities in a context of budget reductions, and faculty who view repositories sometimes with trepidation and doubt in regard to them being mandated to put materials in them. ..

Digital Archiving: A FEDORA-based Infrastructure to Preserve Electronic Journal Articles, Summary of a Presentation by Ronald Jantz

Ronald Jantz, is Data Librarian at Rutgers University Libraries. He spends a good deal of time working on digital libraries, digital repositories and digital preservation. ..

Going in Reverse to Go Forward: Institutional Repositories and The New York Public Library, Summary of a Presentation by Stewart Bodner and Eric Neubacher

Stewart Bodner opened his talk giving background information on institutional repositories (IR). He also spoke of the idea of NYPL as “an institution that collects for the historical record.” His quote from former director James Wood Henderson reminds us that the ideal research library should not select its collection based on “what the librarian or the contemporary public regards as good or important,” but rather it should “record life as it passes, its evil, vulgarity and triviality, as well as its more agreeable aspects.” ..

Designing for the Discipline: Open Libraries and Scholarly Communication, Summary of a Presentation by Thomas Krichel

Thomas Krichel speaks about the RePEc (Research Papers in Economics) system (http://RePEc.org). RePEc is a large digital library Krichel founded. Krichel says he is “bringing the world of economics into the world of computing and live information.” ..

The Dilemma of Access: Describing Open Access Journals with MARC and [Other] Metadata Schemes, Summary of a Presentation by Monica Berger and Gloria Rohman

Monica Berger and Gloria Rohmann bring to the open access discussion the librarian’s point of view, both from the standpoint of the cataloger (Berger) and of the position of the public access librarian (Rohmann). ..

Induction of dark-adaptive retinomotor movement (cell elongation) in teleost retinal cones by cyclic adenosine 3,5-monophosphate.

In the teleost retina, the photoreceptors and retinal pigment epithelium (RPE) undergo extensive movements (called retinomotor movements) in response to changes in light conditions and to an endogenous circadian rhythm. Photoreceptor movements serve to reposition the light-receptive outer segments and are effected by changes in inner segment length. Melanin granule movements within the RPE cells provide a movable melanin screen for rod outer segments. In the dark (night), cones elongate, rods contract, and pigment granules aggregate to the base of the RPE cell; in the light (day), these movements are reversed. We report here that treatments that elevate cytoplasmic cyclic adenosine 3,5-monophosphate (cAMP) provoke retinomotor movements characteristic of nighttime dark adaptation, even in bright light at midday. To illustrate this response, we present a quantitative description of the effects of cyclic nucleotides on cone length in the green sunfish, Lepomis cyanellus. Cone elongation is induced when light-adapted retinas are exposed to exogenous cAMP analogues accompanied by phosphodiesterase (PDE) inhibitors (either by intraocular injection or in retinal organ culture). Cone movements is not affected by cyclic GMP analogies. Dose-response studies indicate that the extent, but not the rate, of cone elongation is proportional to the concentration of exogenous cAMP and analogue presented. As has been reported for other species, we find that levels of cAMP are significantly higher in dark- than in light-adapted green sunfish retinas. On the basis of these observations, we suggest that cAMP plays a role in the light and circadian regulation of teleost cone length

SEEING BEYOND PLAY: THE IMMERSIVE WITNESS IN VIDEO GAMES

Ian Bogost\u27s 2011 book How to Do Things with Video Games seeks to reveal a small portion of the many uses of video games and how together they make the medium broader, richer, and more relevant (p. 7). I aspire to join Bogost\u27s conversation by offering another use for video games--the video game as a site of immersive witnessing. To showcase how witnessing can be meaningfully utilized in video games, I present case studies of two vastly disparate games: commercial entertainment game Telltale\u27s The Walking Dead and not-for-profit game Half the Sky Movement: The Game. My method of analysis traces rhetorical and design forms (including narrative, duration, immersion, choice, and reflection) that contribute to my conception of an immersive witnessing experience. Achieved through games\u27 immersive and agentic properties, witnessing through games involves different emotional and thought processes than other media. This model not only potentially appeals to new audiences but also engages those audiences in a distinctly different way from media of the past

Introduction

The editors revies the historic contributions to LACUNY\u27s peer-reviewed journal, Urban Library Journal

Global North and South in Scholarly Publishing: The Affiliations of Authors and the Situating of Journals

An important goal of the open access movement in scholarly publishing has been to broaden access to research globally. Electronic delivery and removing paywalls has allowed published, open access research to flow more readily across borders. Furthermore, although subscription publishing platforms continue to be maintained as they have been historically in the Global North (GN), new publishers, often located in the Global South (GS), have seen an opportunity to offer platforms of their own that publish in an open access environment. Journals situated in the GS, nonetheless, have often been suspected as being predatory, in part, because of their unfamiliar origins. The authors ask a number of questions including: •Would a GN situated scholar consider publication in a GS situated journal •Would an examination of the institutional affiliations of the contributors to GS and GN situated journals reveal any imbalances in participation? This research shows limited evidence of the avoidance of GS titles by GN authors, but further research could determine more conclusively if there is a significant reluctance among GN authors to publish in GS journals. Reluctance to cross economic, geographic and psycho-socially constructed boundaries may stand in the way of open access scholarship becoming truly accessible to all