Redefining the Institutional Repository

Institutional Repositories have grown in importance over the last 10 years to offer a core University and Library service, however, their role is developing faster now than it has ever done. Funder Open Access requirements, internal reporting, research data. Ref2020 and more are increasing the demands on the traditional repository, putting pressure on staff resources and challenging the underlying software. This webinar will outline these issues as well as look at how the needs and use of repositories may change in the future

The Effect of Socio-economic Status and Related Stress on Physical Health

This review is designed to investigate how socioeconomic status, and the stress related to it, can impact physical health. Much of the research relating to this topic focuses on how low socioeconomic status effects health. However, it is very important to understand the different ways that all classes effect health outcomes. An important mediating factor in the relationship between socioeconomic status and health is chronic stress. The presence of chronic stress can produce serious negative health outcomes. High stress appears on all levels of the social hierarchy, but formulates for unique reasons within the different classes

The Effects of Working for Pay during the School Year on Academic Achievement

Are college students who hold paying jobs systematically disadvantaged in terms of academic achievement? This study draws on a sample of 340 undergraduate students at a large public university to examine the relationship between socioeconomic status and academic achievement. Socioeconomic status was measured by the presence of a paid job during the school year, and achievement was measured using GPA. The findings indicate that students who worked during the school year were less likely to be “A” students than students who did not work during the school year. This relationship was more pronounced for female college students than for male college students. Future research on this topic should use a larger sample that is more representative of the population, in order to generalize these results. The results of this study show possible reproduction of inequality present in post-secondary education

Discovery services: next generation of searching scholarly information

The new breed of resource discovery services is an evolutionary step forward in providing library users with a ‘one-stop shop’ where they can find information sources for their research. They provide a single search box that can search a library’s online and physical content including articles, books, journals, newspaper articles, e-books, specialist collections and more. These discovery services have built on the concepts of both federated searching and next-generation catalogues

CI, CII, and CO as tracers of gas phase carbon

In the dense interstellar medium, we find that about 20 percent of the total carbon abundance is in the form of CO, about 3 percent in C(sub I), and 100 percent in C(sub II) with uncertainties of factors of order 2. The abundance of other forms of gaseous carbon is negligible. CO is widespread throughout molecular clouds as is C(sub I). C(sub II) has only been observed near bright star-formation regions so far because of its high excitation energy. Further from ultraviolet sources it may be less abundant. Altogether we have accounted for about 1/3 of the total carbon abundance associated with dense molecular clouds. Since the other gaseous forms are thought to have negligible abundances, the rest of the carbon is probably in solid form

A compact density condensation around L1551-IRS 5: 2.7mm continuum observations with 4" resolution

The dark cloud L1551 contains the best known examples of bipolar molecular outflow. Such outflows are assumed to be driven by winds from young stars embedded in a cloud but the mechanism for collimation of the outflows is still in doubt, though it has been much debated. Among the possibilities put forth to date are intrinsically anisotropic stellar winds, isotropic stellar winds collimated by interstellar toroidal shaped clouds on the order of 10(17) cm in size, or circumstellar disks of order 10(15) cm in size. Because the outflow in L1551 as revealed by the Very Large Array (VLA) cm continuum observations is collimated even at the arc second level it seems as though the stellar wind powering the outflow must either be initially anisotropic or be collimated by something very close to the star, such as a circumstellar disk. We have observed L1551 in the continuum at 2.7 mm with the OVRO millimeter-wave interferometer in the winter of 1983-4 and again, more extensively, in 1985-6. The resulting map shows for the first time direct evidence for a density condensation capable of collimating an initially isotropic flow from IRS 5. This map made from data taken in 1985-6 with projected baselines up to 100 m in length (37k lambda). It has been cleaned and reconstructed with a 4'' gaussian beam. It shows a nearly unresolved source with a suggestion of extension at the 3'' level (assuming a gaussian source shape). The integrated flux density in this map is 170 mJy. A composite spectrum of L1551 is presented which shows that the flux at 2.7 mm is due to the thermal radiation from dust that is also seen at shorter wavelengths. Very little of it can be due to the continuation of the nearly flat cm wavelength spectrum which is assumed to be from thermal bremsstrahlung radiation. The map and spectrum provide strong constraints on the size, temperature, and optical depth of the density condensation surrounding IRS 5

Collections for people: museums' stored collections as a public resource

Collections in UK museums grew enormously in the latter half of the 20th century yet museum collections, mostly maintained at public expense, are perceived as an underused resource. The Museums Association’s 2005 report, Collections for the Future1, together with press comments and books such as Treasures on Earth (2002)2 and Fragments of the World (2005)3, brought this issue into sharp focus. Collections for People set out to understand the scale of museum stored collections, and the main parameters of their access and use: • What is the size and nature of collections as a resource? How are they distributed, geographically and among different types of museum? • How much are different types of collection used by people other than museum staff? What sort of people use collections? What do they use them for: research, teaching and learning, creative activities, visits for enjoyment such as store tours? • How do users perceive this service? Do museums actively market collections access? Do they publicise what is in their collections? • How do museums facilitate collections use? What are the factors associated with greater use of collections? What do museums see as the barriers to more use