Publishing solutions for contemporary scholars: The library as innovator and partner

Purpose: To review the trend in academic libraries toward including scholarly communication, and by extension, electronic publishing, as part of their core mission, using the Cornell University Library as an example. Design/methodology/approach: The paper describes several manifestations of publishing activity organized under the Library’s Center for Innovative Publishing, including the arXiv (http://arxiv.org/), Project Euclid (http://projecteuclid.org), and DPubS (http://DPubS.org). Findings: Libraries bring many competencies to the scholarly communications process, including expertise in digital initiatives, close connections with authors and readers, and a commitment to preservation. To add publishing to their responsibilities, they need to develop expertise in content acquisition, editorial management, contract negotiation, marketing, and subscription management. Originality/value: Academic libraries are making formal and informal publishing a part of their core activity. A variety of models exist. The Cornell University Library has created a framework for supporting publishing called the Center for Innovative Publishing, and through it supports a successful open access repository (arXiv), a sustainable webhosting service for journals in math and statistics (Project Euclid) and a content management tool (DPubS) to enable other institutions (libraries,scholarly societies, presses) to engage in similar ventures to increase the dissemination of scholarship and to lower the barriers to its access

Publishing solutions for contemporary scholars: The library as innovator and partner

Purpose: To review the trend in academic libraries toward including scholarly communication, and by extension, electronic publishing, as part of their core mission, using the Cornell University Library as an example. Design/methodology/approach: The paper describes several manifestations of publishing activity organized under the Library’s Center for Innovative Publishing, including the arXiv (http://arxiv.org/), Project Euclid (http://projecteuclid.org), and DPubS (http://DPubS.org). Findings: Libraries bring many competencies to the scholarly communications process, including expertise in digital initiatives, close connections with authors and readers, and a commitment to preservation. To add publishing to their responsibilities, they need to develop expertise in content acquisition, editorial management, contract negotiation, marketing, and subscription management. Originality/value: Academic libraries are making formal and informal publishing a part of their core activity. A variety of models exist. The Cornell University Library has created a framework for supporting publishing called the Center for Innovative Publishing, and through it supports a successful open access repository (arXiv), a sustainable webhosting service for journals in math and statistics (Project Euclid) and a content management tool (DPubS) to enable other institutions (libraries,scholarly societies, presses) to engage in similar ventures to increase the dissemination of scholarship and to lower the barriers to its access

APEX/SABOCA observations of small-scale structure of infrared-dark clouds I. Early evolutionary stages of star-forming cores

Infrared-dark clouds (IRDCs) harbor the early phases of cluster and high-mass star formation and are comprised of cold (~20 K), dense (n > 10$^4$ cm$^{-3}$) gas. The spectral energy distribution (SED) of IRDCs is dominated by the far-infrared and millimeter wavelength regime, and our initial Herschel study examined IRDCs at the peak of the SED with high angular resolution. Here we present a follow-up study using the SABOCA instrument on APEX which delivers 7.8" angular resolution at 350 micron, matching the resolution we achieved with Herschel/PACS, and allowing us to characterize substructure on ~0.1pc scales. Our sample of 11 nearby IRDCs are a mix of filamentary and clumpy morphologies, and the filamentary clouds show significant hierarchical structure, while the clumpy IRDCs exhibit little hierarchical structure. All IRDCs, regardless of morphology, have about 14% of their total mass in small scale core-like structures which roughly follow a trend of constant volume density over all size scales. Out of the 89 protostellar cores we identified in this sample with Herschel, we recover 40 of the brightest and re-fit their SEDs and find their properties agree fairly well with our previous estimates ( ~ 19K). We detect a new population of "cold cores" which have no 70 micron counterpart, but are 100 and 160 micron-bright, with colder temperatures ( ~ 16K). This latter population, along with SABOCA-only detections, are predominantly low-mass objects, but their evolutionary diagnostics are consistent with the earliest starless or prestellar phase of cores in IRDCs.Comment: accepted to A&A. 28 pages, 27 figures. For full-resolution image gallery, see http://www.mpia.de/~ragan/saboca.html (v2 includes only minor typographical corrections, changed to agree with published version

Planning CUL?s Digital Future: A Report of the January 10, 2000 Meeting

This is a PDF Web Archive of http://www.library.cornell.edu/staffweb/DigitalFuture.htmlThis is a report of the Library's Goals and Objectives for the Future

Using the Portal for the Discovery of Discipline-Based Electronic Resources [English version presented at the International Conference] = L'impiego del portale per l'individuazione di risorse elettroniche specialistiche [Versione italiana presentata alla Conferenza internazionale]

The increasing volume of information in all formats creates a need for new approaches in organization. The subject-based portal is one means of providing access to electronic resources. The portal provides a convenient and efficient way for readers to locate information. Libraries and other organizations have begun to adopt the compelling features of the Internet portal and are merging them with traditional value-added services provided by libraries to build a new tool for information and knowledge management. Underlying the development is a drive to ride the wave of technological innovation to accomplish more at a lower unit cost. Presently, this area is highly transitional, and there are many interpretations of the portal concept. Librarians have much to contribute to improvements in access to electronic resources in terms of their expert understanding of organization and of the importance of the need for enduring access, but they will employ new means to accomplish these goals. New standards and practices will emerge. Through experimentation and collaboration they will advance the state of the disciplinary-based portal for the benefit of information-seekers and knowledge creators around the globe

From Shadwell to Monticello: The Material Culture of Slavery, 1760-1774

Some people view Thomas Jefferson as a demigod of a founding father. In the last decades of the twentieth-century, however, scholars have begun to think about Jefferson in a different light - as a slave owner. With my thesis, I will examine the everyday lives and material culture of the slaves that Thomas Jefferson inherited from his father, Peter Jefferson, and how their lives changed from 1760 to 1774. Using archaeological evidence, account books, inventories, correspondence, and other primary documents, I will paint the world of Jefferson\u27s slaves at Shadwell and Monticello. I will research the transformation of the main plantation from Shadwell to Monticello and how that change affected the slaves that the Jeffersons owned

Feminist and masculine values and their effects on female managerial positions in nonprofit and corporate public relations

This study examines the rise of executive women in public relations in both the nonprofit and corporate sectors. The focus of this study was on feminist and masculine values and their effects on female executives. A survey of 121 female executives from the corporate, nonprofit, and agency settings was conducted to analyze their views on feminist and masculine values in public relations and their effects on managerial positions. Results indicated that women who place greater value on masculine traits are more likely to obtain management positions in the corporate sector. Those who place greater value on feminist values do not necessarily elevate to positions of leadership in the nonprofit sector. Also, women believe men are lacking feminist traits, whole women contain both masculine and feminine traits

Down the Great Wagon Road: The Ironworking Pennybackers of Shenandoah County, Virginia

In the early Virginia backcountry, a diverse group of individuals lived, worked, and interacted every day at furnaces and forges. Redwell Furnace, north of Luray, and Pine Forge, north east of New Market, in Shenandoah County were the earliest and largest operations oftheir kind in the county. At these ironworking communities, people of Irish, African, and Germanic descent interacted on a daily, if not hourly, basis, making iron stove plates,andirons, plates, utensils, and other utilitarian objects. This diverse furnace population gradually developed in the shadow of the Massanutten Mountain during the late eighteenth century as more settlers migrated down the Great Wagon Road through the Shenandoah Valley. Ironworking became a dominant industry in the county, but also was prevalent throughout the Valley. While the Pennybackers began their ironworking venture solely relying on white workers, they soon took cues from other Shenandoah County residents and bought several enslaved African Americans. Not only were the Pennybackers purchasing and hiring enslaved African Americans to work at Redwell Furnace and Pine Forge, but they also altered the design oftheir stove plate patterns from German scenes to more Anglo inspired republican imagery. Several members of the family also constructed homes that fit perfectly in the surrounding Shenandoah Valley landscape. Built with symmetrical facades with hall and parlor plans, the exterior of these homes had no hint whatsoever of the German origins of their inhabitants. Through the ownership of slaves and the changing design of the stove plates that they produced and sold, the Pennybacker quickly adapted to Shenandoah Valley society

Policy Implications of Crop Yield and Revenue Variability at Differing Levels of Disaggregation

Revenue variability at different levels of aggregation has been the focus of several proposals to reform U.S. commodity programs with the 2007 farm bill. In this paper, we estimate revenue variabilityyear-to-year deviations from expected revenuefor corn, soybeans, and cotton at four levels of aggregation: national, state, county and farm. We examine the factors that cause revenue variability and how differences across crops and regions would affect producers risks. We find that national-level revenue variability is nearly double national-level yield variability. Spatial disaggregation increases price and yield variability, but yield variability increases more rapidly than price and revenue variability. A hypothetical national-level revenue program would reduce risk at the average farm-level by slightly more than 8 percent for corn, about 7 percent for soybeans and about 21 percent for cotton. If one integrates farm-level revenue coverage with the national-level program the percent risk reduction more than doubles for both corn and soybeans. Although the increase in risk reduction between the simple national and the integrated program is proportionately less for cotton, the total risk reduction for cotton is the greatest among the three crops.Agricultural and Food Policy,

Chronology: MSFC Space Station program, 1982 - present. Major events

The Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC) maintains an active program to capture historical information and documentation on the MSFC's roles regarding Space Shuttle and Space Station. Marshall History Report 12, called Chronology: MSFC Space Station Program, 1982-Present, is presented. It contains synopses of major events listed according to the dates of their occurrence. Indices follow the synopses and provide additional data concerning the events listed. The Event Index provides a brief listing of all the events without synopses. The Element Index lists the specific elements of the Space Station Program under consideration in the events. The Location Index lists the locations where the events took place. The indices and synopses may be cross-referenced by using dates