Electronic Reserves Research Articles

Predicting the electronic and mechanical properties of 2D diamond-like carbon and cubic boron nitride intercalated structures

Two-dimensional (2D) diamond-like (Diam) carbon (C) and cubic boron nitride (cBN) with different interface atoms named as BCB, BCN and NCN are investigated by first principal studies. The calculations reveal that the CB bond may be the most energetically favored bonding configuration in the Diam/cBN epitaxy. The electronic properties can be tuned not only by different interfacial atoms, but also by varying the number of intermediate C-layers. The application of negative stress transforms the 2D Diam/cBN intercalated structures from a semiconductor to a metal. The Young's and shear module indicate prominent mechanical properties for these intercalated structures, in particular for BCN that can be compared to bulk. The predicted 2D Diam/cBN intercalated structures presented here show that the stacking order, the number of intermediate C-layers, and the use of strain-induced structures can open new avenues for the application of novel ultra-thin and ultra-tough electronic reserve material devices.

A STUDY ON CUSTOMER’S SATISFACTION ON E-BANKING SERVICES

When each day may be a race against time in our frenzied lives, we search for ways to spare time as much as ready to. E-Banking is one of the innovation headways that offer assistance customers to perform their monetary exchanges on a secured stage from a retail or computerized bank, credit union, or any monetary institution. E-Banking, moreover known as electronic keeping money, is the computerized dispersion of modern managing an account administrations and products to customers specifically through electronic, intuitively contact systems. When restricted to customary keeping money, it offers numerous focal points and qualities to clients. E-Banking could be a straightforward and helpful way to get 24-hour get to to your bank employing a smartphone. E-Banking makes use of the web as a dissemination instrument for banking transfers. E-Banking administrations have made bank exchanges a thing of the past when it comes to ordinary errands. Since online banking is one of the foremost well known administrations given by banks, it is additionally an awfully steady stage. Encryption frameworks are frequently utilized by banks to guarantee that all client data is secure which no information breaches happen. It secures you from online extortion and account control within the end. Electronic keeping money, too known as electronic reserves exchange (EFT), is essentially the utilize of electronic International Scientific Journal of Engineering and Management ISSN: 2583-6129 Volume: 02 Issue: 04 | April – 2023 DOI: 10.55041/ISJEM00232 www.isjem.com An International Scholarly || Multidisciplinary || Open Access || Indexing in all major Database & Metadata © 2023, ISJEM (All Rights Reserved) | www.isjem.com | Page 2 means to exchange stores specifically from one account to another, instead of by cheque or cash. You can utilize electronic stores exchange to: • Have your paycheck kept specifically into your bank or credit union checking account. • Pull back cash from your checking account from an ATM machine with a personal identification number (Stick), at your comfort, day or night. • Educated your bank or credit union to naturally pay certain month to month bills from your account, such as your auto credit or your contract payment. • Have the bank or credit union exchange stores each month from your checking account to your shared support account. • Have your government social security benefits check or your charge discount deposited directly into your checking account. • Purchase basic supplies, gasoline and other buys at the point-of deal, employing a check card rather than cash, credit or a individual check.

Суверенная цифровая валюта – новая реальность

One of the most relevant and widely discussed trends in the financial sector is the development of a new payment technology – central bank digital currency (CBDC). CBDC is central bank-issued digital money denominated in the national unit of account, and it represents a liability of the central bank. It differs from electronic reserves (which cannot currently be accessed by individuals), physical cash, cryptocurrencies and other private digital tokens. Central banks around the world have been researching the concept and design of CBDC for several years and their work continues apace amid the COVID‑19 pandemic. This general trend encompasses large differences across jurisdictions and types of economies. Each country should make its own choice of the CBDC design, taking into account its particular circumstances. Over the last years, the share of central banks actively engaging in some form of CBDC work has increased significantly. Central banks are moving from conceptual research of CBDC to experimentation and pilot projects. CBDC projects differ starkly across countries, both in their motivations and their economic and technical design. Rising number of central banks are considering retail CBDC rather than wholesale, and “hybrid” or “intermediated” operational architectures where the CBDC is a direct claim on the central bank, but the private sector manages customer-facing activity. The paper reviews the recent advances in CBCD projects, and the experience of the countries in more advanced stages of CBCD engagement, namely the particularly advanced CBDC Chinese project of the e-yuan of the People’s Bank of China and Swedish e-krona project of Sveriges Riksbank.

Resource Sharing Resources during a Pandemic: A Review

Resource sharing professionals working in interlibrary loan, document delivery, and electronic reserves have created a plethora of reference resources available to fellow professionals since the early stages of the coronavirus pandemic in the United States, that began around mid-March 2020. We have delved through the plethora of currently available resources and offer this list of resources as example of the resource sharing community’s exemplary efforts to continue doing what we do best and to stay connected, during this public health crisis.

Course Reserves during the COVID 19 Pandemic: Pivoting Print to Electronic Reserves through a Data Driven Process

Libraries worldwide were physically shut down, although remotely quite active, for some or much of 2020 in reaction to the COVID-19 virus sweeping the globe. This happened mid-semester for many academic libraries, as the pandemic hit the U.S. and transmission rates started to rise in March 2020. Yale University needed to quickly pivot a heavily physical course reserves service - print books and physical video material held at library service points, - to all-electronic formats. Using data driven methods, Yale was able to match print holdings on physical reserve with digital items held in or able to be licensed through various fulfillment methods. This article outlines that process and provides suggestions for further development of Course Reserves services in remote learning environments.

Blended Learning and the Videoconferencing Modality for the Teaching and Learning Doctoral Candidate

This paper simply documents the changes to a foundations course for teaching and learning doctoral candidates at a Midwest university, required due to the recent pandemic conditions and subsequent healthcare precautions. The main change to this already blended modality course, Critical Policy Analysis, involved modifying three face-to-face (F2F), in person sessions, essentially transforming them into three videoconferencing sessions using the ZOOM application. My reflection provides what can only be considered to be a discussion of very basic findings, but amongst those findings are that digital tools often appear to ‘work’ very seamlessly and hence exceed our collective expectations. The breakout sessions structured into the course, for example, provided a real-time experience comparable in most ways to small group discussions held previously when the course was offered in a physical classroom. However, some of the students struggled with the online portion of the class (course modules, with electronic reserve readings, discussion posts, and crafting a white paper/report, all online) and felt at times less than proficient working online. A few indicated preference for classes in person.Also included in this paper are some of my observations as a long-time online instructor and researcher in the educational communications technology field. I argue that this latest iteration of blended learning is here to stay, and that this change will pose both promise and peril for education in the years ahead.

The Georgia State Litigation: Literal Copying in Education

AbstractThis case note examines the long‐standing litigation against Georgia State University in relation to the posting, by faculty and library staff, of unauthorised copies of book extracts on the University's electronic reserves and virtual learning environment. The central question in this litigation has been whether these acts of copying fall within the fair use doctrine in US copyright law. In answering this, a key question for the US courts – and one relevant to other jurisdictions with free exceptions for education, such as the UK – has been whether existing and potential licensing activity is relevant to the question of whether an exception applies. This case note discusses how market effect has been analysed in Georgia State, including the recent rejection by the Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit of a strongly empirical approach to market harm.

Significant improvement of styrene oxidation over mononuclear/binuclear carboxyl metal phthalocyanine-attapulgite composites

Novel tetrasubstituted carboxyl metal phthalocyanine-ATP composites (CoTCPc-ATP) and hexa-substituted binuclear carboxyl metal phthalocyanine-ATP (biCoTCPc-ATP) catalysts were prepared by an ultrasonic impregnation method. The as-prepared samples are characterized by UV-Vis spectroscopy (UV-Vis), X-ray diffraction (XRD), infrared spectroscopy (FT-IR), UV-vis diffuse reflectance spectroscopy (DRS), scanning electron microscopy (SEM) and transmission electron microscopy (TEM) techniques. The oxidation of styrene was examined by using tert-Butyl hydroperoxide (TBHP) as oxidant when CoTCPc-ATP/biCoTCPc-ATP composites are employed as catalysts. It was found that the biCoTCPc-ATP/composites exhibited more efficient catalysts comparing with CoTCPc-ATP in the styrene oxidation reaction. For the reason that the binuclear phthalocyanine had an enlarged π electron conjugated system, could provide more active sites and possessed the enhanced electronic reserve capacity compared with the mononuclear metal phthalocyanine contributing to the more prominent catalytic performance. Both composites can catalyze the oxidation of styrene to form styrene oxide as the main product along with benzaldehyde as the secondary product. Furthermore, the potential mechanism of the catalytic oxidation of styrene is also proposed.

The future of electronic reserves and the presence of librarians in content management systems: A case study at Manhattan College

ABSTRACTThis article addresses the development of electronic reserves within academic libraries. Libraries have been offering electronic reserve services on separate platforms since the 1990s (Austin, 2013). However, since the integration of campus-wide content management systems (CMSs), the need for a library reserves platform that is independent from an institution's CMS has decreased, and independent e-reserves systems have potentially become obsolete (Maddison & Kumaran, 2017). This article presents the steps taken between 2015 and 2017 by the O'Malley Library to streamline the electronic reserves services so that they are accessible through the college's CMS, Moodle. Through careful study, the library decided to eliminate electronic reserves services in the future. This will be replaced with encouraging faculty to add the course content traditionally placed on electronic reserves in Moodle while librarians provide guidance in avenues such as copyright and Fair Use.

Engaging Faculty and Reducing Costs by Leveraging Collections: A Pilot Project to Reduce Course Pack Use

INTRODUCTION Academic libraries have the privilege of serving many roles in the lives of their institutions. One role that is largely untapped is their ability to actively leverage their collections to support faculty teaching and to reduce student out-of-pocket costs by eliminating systemic double payment for course materials. DESCRIPTION OF PROGRAM/SERVICE This paper details a project by the Scholarly Communications and Copyright Office (SCCO) at the University of Toronto that aimed to reduce this systemic double payment by leveraging collections and electronic reserves to provide a new service, the Zero-to-Low Cost Courses. Building on existing relationships with faculty, SCCO staff reached out to potential candidates, identified library licensed materials in their printed course packs, and created digital course packs which students could use at no cost. NEXT STEPS This article shares the results of the project and explores next steps in using existing library resources to actively reduce student course costs.

Assessment of Undergraduate-Driven Acquisitions at a Small College Library Shows Both Costs and Benefits

A Review of:
 Waller, J. H. (2013). Undergrads as selectors: Assessing patron-driven acquisition at a liberal arts college. Journal of Interlibrary Loan, Document Delivery & Electronic Reserve, 23(3), 127-148. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1072303X.2013.851052 
 
 Abstract
 
 Objective – To examine the viability of an undergraduate-focused, patron-driven acquisitions strategy in a small college library and to evaluate the titles acquired through this program for collection appropriateness, patron satisfaction, and cost effectiveness. 
 
 Design – Case study.
 
 Setting – A small, Catholic college in the Eastern United States with 1,850 undergraduate students.
 
 Subjects – Acquisitions of 432 print monographs selected by students and 18,624 print monographs selected by librarians and faculty members. 
 
 Methods – The author compared purchases selected from a pool of undergraduate interlibrary loan requests acquired from 2004 to 2013 to purchases acquired during the same time period through traditional means, including collection development work by librarians and selections by academic departments. The author evaluated titles for use based on circulation figures, for suitability using overlap analysis with the collections of four peer libraries, for patron satisfaction based on turnaround time, and for cost compared to items obtained through interlibrary loan.
 
 Main Results – Student selection had some advantages, including moderately increased circulation. Traditionally acquired titles were less likely to circulate initially and only 20.46% of these titles circulated two or more times compared to 24.77% of student-selected titles. Student selections were less likely to be acquired by peer libraries, and 63.66% of student-selected titles were unique, though they had a similar subject distribution to traditionally acquired titles. Compared to interlibrary loan, student-selected purchases had similar turnaround times and in the most recent three-year period had an average turnaround time that was one day faster than interlibrary loan. However, student acquisitions were far costlier than interlibrary loan. Items acquired through this program cost the library $39.70 on average while borrowing cost $6.18 on average. 
 
 Conclusion – The student selection process was found to be moderately successful, and the library will continue the program. Based on the analysis of peer library holdings, the author suggests more librarian intervention in the selection process. Instead of purchasing any requests that meet the criteria for student selection, the author recommends an intermediary selection step of evaluation by librarians. Student selection did not show the dramatic advantages represented in studies conducted in larger academic libraries, and this disparity could potentially be due to a difference in selection quality between the undergraduate students at this college and the graduate and research populations of larger institutions.

Research on the Internet and Check the Status of E-Banking in Iran

E-banking is a special type of banking service to their customers to provide an electronic environment such as the Internet uses. This type of banking operations, including all of the bank receipt or deposit money, signature verification, inventory and other significant banking operations are conducted electronically. Internet Banking is a special kind of e-banking uses the Internet as a distribution channel. Two Popular models include electronic Reserve banks and branches electronics. Present age is communication and information technology age. One of the most important phenomena of this age is Revolutionizing of traditional banking. Development of electronic communication and access of large numbers of people to the Internet, has provided the conditions for establishing trade and economic exchanges. This subject led to increase of competition in the banking industry and creation of electronic banking services. With increasing demands for such services, something that should be considered is the barriers of electronic banking. In our research, we decided to check the status of e-banking in Iran. For this we have selected a number of banks. Questionnaire design and distribution between bank employees and its results interpreted.

Print vs. electronic readings in college courses: Cost-efficiency and perceived learning

We report surveys of 101 students in two undergraduate college courses about their use of required readings accessed via a university-administered electronic reserve system. About two-thirds of respondents printed at least some readings, although nearly half of the total pages were read online. Most students who printed incurred substantially lower total costs (in terms of both direct printing expense and time opportunity costs) than the projected price of a printed and bound coursepack with all of the readings—thus suggesting electronic provision to be cost-efficient for most students. Respondents reported an overall preference for electronically supplied readings. The advantage of electronic reserves was overwhelmingly perceived to be cost, but large majorities said they usually read more, and learned more, when printed readings are supplied. These findings suggest that university and student incentives to employ electronically supplied readings may be misaligned.

How Institutionalized Are Model License Use Terms? An Analysis of E-Journal License Use Rights Clauses from 2000 to 2009

This paper explored the degree to which use terms proposed by model licenses have become institutionalized across different publishers’ licenses. It examined model license use terms in four areas: downloading, scholarly sharing, interlibrary loan, and electronic reserves. Data collection and analysis involved content analysis of 224 electronic journal licenses spanning 2000–2009. Analysis examined how use terms changed over time, differences between consortia and site license use terms and differences between commercial and noncommercial publisher license use terms. Results suggest that some model license use terms have become institutionalized while others have not. Use terms with higher institutionalization included: allowing ILL, permitting secure e-transmission for ILL, allowing e-reserves with no special permissions, and not requiring deletion of e-reserves files. Scholarly sharing showed lower institutionalization with most publishers not including scholarly sharing allowances. Other use terms showing low institutionalization included: recommendations to avoid printing requirements related to ILL and recommendations to allow hyperlinks for e-reserves. The results provide insight into the range of use terms commonly employed in e-journal licenses.

Legal solutions in electronic reserves and the electronic delivery of Interlibrary Loan, Janet Brennan Croft

This book examines the philosophy and regulations behind the laws and guidelines that apply directly to library services to allow library staff and administration to better understand why these rules are needed. To stay within the boundaries of the law is vital for any academic institution and library. In this book, Janet Croft offers suggestions and advice to ensure that institutions abide by the Copyright Law in order to offer the best service possible to patrons.

A guide to Docutek, Inc.'s ERes software : A way to manage electronic reserves, (Ed) James M McCloskey

Electronic reserves is a critical academic library service which is still in its infancy stages in South African academic libraries but which is used by most, if not all, academic libraries internationally. If South African academic libraries want to compete globally, it is essential that they move away from the manual system and embrace the newer technologies available which will enable them to provide a better and more efficient reserve system. This book contains nine papers written by professionals who have firsthand experience of the Docutek ERes software package. This book is a practical hands-on guide to the use and performance of the Docutek ERes software package. Although all the authors are from universities in the USA, the book is a useful guide on how to convert from a manual system, what support is needed, and how best to implement the new system and interface it with other software used by the library service.

A guide to Docutek, Inc.'s ERes software : A way to manage electronic reserves, (Ed) James M McCloskey

A guide to Docutek, Inc.'s ERes software : A way to manage electronic reserves, (Ed) James M McCloskey

Effectively Managing Copyright Clearance: Electronic Reserves in a Large Distance Education University

This paper describes the automated copyright clearance process for electronic reserves materials by the electronic reserves staff at the Information and Library Services (ILS), at the University of Maryland University College (UMUC). Besides the standard practice to handle and post required course readings in digital format for UMUC's distance education online classes, a large portion of the electronic reserves process is devoted to obtaining copyright permissions. This is to ensure that UMUC is in compliance with all laws that control the use of copyrighted materials. The ILS's small team of electronic reserves staff takes the lead in managing a high volume of copyright requests each semester for the three UMUC geographic divisions: United States, Europe and Asia. The experiences and practices of the in-house copyright request management system for the electronic reserves services will be featured, including related data and statistics.

Copyright Policy and Practice in Electronic Reserves among ARL Libraries

This paper presents the results of a survey of 110 ARL institutions regarding their copyright policies for providing electronic reserves. It compiles descriptive statistics on library practice as well as coding responses to reveal trends and shared practices. Finally, it presents conclusions about policy making, decision making and risk aversion in ARL institutions.

Assessing Electronic Reserves at the University of Denver: A Faculty Satisfaction Survey

With the migration from Docutek to Ares Course Reserves management system, the University of Denver's Penrose Course Reserves department reached out to faculty at the university through a mixed methods survey to determine their level of satisfaction. The Ares system, reserve-related improvements, and communication results are discussed.