List Of Titles Research Articles

Using Copac data to benchmark collections

Purpose – The Copac Collections Management (CCM) project has been underway since 2011 with the goal of exploring how Copac can make a real difference for collection managers. By making Copac data work harder and building prototype collection analysis features on its extensive database, the collections management tools can provide valuable information from the catalogues of the UK’s major research libraries. The paper aims to discuss these issues. Design/methodology/approach – Developed to support staff in collection management activities the CCM tools offer a web-based collection management support service. It is a “grass roots” project designed to meet the needs of library practitioners and its development has been a community-based collaboration with extensive design input, consultation, feedback and support from the wider library community. Findings – This paper presents a case study showing how the tools are now embedded into “business as usual” at the University of York library. The case study reflects on how York is using the tools to assist: identify collection strengths and contribute to the identification of “unique and distinctive collections”; identify collection gaps and produce lists of potential titles for purchase; inform stock editing policies; review and prioritize work on “hidden collections”. The paper outlines the benefits of using the tools and considers lessons learnt. Originality/value – The paper offers an overall view of the tools and the potential uses by the UK higher education community. The case study will be of interest to libraries in exploring new ways to approach collection management issues, with a view to making efficient use of available resources.

Making the Unseen Seen: Discovering Discrepancies and Shedding Light on Automated E-Resource Reconciliation

ABSTRACTTwo characteristics that seemingly define electronic resources now are their dynamic, unstable nature and their overwhelming abundance. To address these issues, The North Carolina State University (NCSU) Libraries Acquisitions & Discovery Department created two databases to facilitate and automate e-resource reconciliation processes. The first, our ebook reconciliation database, ensures that all purchased content from our ebook packages is discoverable and creates title lists that definitively describe the entitlements for those packages. The second, our ejournal reconciliation database, automates matching integrated library system title lists with publisher and knowledgebase title lists in order to easily generate and distribute work tasks. Both databases help manage the abundance of titles and discrepancies that arise from the varied sources of metadata used during the reconciliation process.

In Search of Useful Collection Metadata: Using OpenRefine to Create Accurate, Complete, and Clean Title-level Collection Information

ABSTRACTUniversity of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG), like many libraries, recently migrated to a new knowledgebase and integrated library system (ILS) and found they had to clean up a great deal of messy serial title list data. In their search for solutions, they discovered the free, open source tool OpenRefine, a software program specifically designed for data normalization, transformation, and cleaning. This article describes the steps that UNCG used to take a publisher's title list file and transform it into a file format usable by their ILS. In doing so, this article will discuss major types of functionality in OpenRefine: downloading the software, importing data correctly, using the interface, transforming data on a column and cell level, exploring and normalizing data, and exporting files out of OpenRefine. At the end of this article, the readers should understand how to use OpenRefine on a basic level and be able to begin to use it on their own data.

Beyond Journal Impact and Usage Statistics: Using Citation Analysis for Collection Development

This article outlines a methodology to generate a list of local core journal titles by doing a citation analysis and details the process for retrieving and downloading data from Scopus. It analyzes correlations among citation count, journal rankings, and journal usage. The results of this study reveal significant correlations between journal rankings and journal usage. No correlation with citation count has been found. Limitations and implications for collection development and outreach are also discussed.

Influence of increased patient age on longitudinal outcomes of root canal treatment: a systematic review.

To conduct a systematic review of longitudinal endodontic outcomes in elders. Negative opinions about the prognosis of non-surgical root canal treatment (NSRCT) in elders affect decisions made by patients and dentists. Patient, caregiver and dentist attitudes and behaviours may interact to decrease the provision of NSRCT. Critical examination of the available evidence through systematic review could provide objective data to assist patients, caregivers, healthcare providers and third-party payers in making decisions about the efficacy of NSRCT in elders and provide a robust foundation for the health promotion of NSRCT in elders. Inclusion/exclusion criteria were used for defined searches in MEDLINE and Cochrane CENTRAL. Title lists were scanned, and abstracts read to determine utility; articles meeting inclusion/exclusion criteria were analysed. Data were extracted and compiled into a table of evidence. Defined searching produced 3605 titles; 24 articles were included, nine prospective and 15 retrospective. Overall study quality was good. Patient samples mostly represented modern populations from countries with very high human development indices. Over 17 430 teeth were included. Meta-analysis was not attempted due to heterogeneity in reporting. All 24 included papers demonstrated that increased patient age did not decrease the success or survival rates of NSRCT. This systematic review of longitudinal NSRCT outcomes demonstrated that increased patient age did not decrease the success of NSRCT. Patient age is not a prognostic factor for NSRCT. Age should not be considered by dentists or patients when making NSRCT decisions.

Data matching, integration, and interoperability for a metric assessment of monographs

This paper details a unique data experiment carried out at the University of Amsterdam, Center for Digital Humanities. Data pertaining to monographs were collected from three autonomous resources, the Scopus Journal Index, WorldCat.org and Goodreads, and linked according to unique identifiers in a new Microsoft SQL database. The purpose of the experiment was to investigate co-varied metrics for a list of book titles based on their citation impact (from Scopus), presence in international libraries (WorldCat.org) and visibility as publically reviewed items (Goodreads). The results of our data experiment highlighted current problems related citation indices and the way that books are recorded by different citing authors. Our research further demonstrates the primary problem of matching book titles as `cited objects' with book titles held in a union library catalog, given that books are always recorded distinctly in libraries if published as separate editions with different International Standard Book Numbers (ISBNs). Due to various `matching' problems related to the ISBN, we suggest a new type of identifier, a `Book Object Identifier', which would allow bibliometricians to recognize a book published in multiple formats and editions as `one object' suitable for evaluation. The BOI standard would be most useful for books published in the same language, and would more easily support the integration of data from different types of book indexes.

Journal usage at department and research group level

ABSTRACTJournal usage in the Department of Polymer Science at the University of Akron from 2006 to 2011 was determined by counting citations within faculty-supervised dissertations and faculty publications. Ranked title lists were created and correlations between journal usage in faculty publications and faculty-supervised dissertations were measured using Kendall's rank-correlation coefficient. Dissertations and faculty publications were also organized by research group and correlated within groups. Dissertations and faculty publications were found to have a much stronger positive correlation within the group than within the department. Individual groups were found to have highly variable correlation with one another. Examining journal usage at the group level gives a more nuanced view of serials usage for faculty and graduate students than the departmental level. Implications for collection development are discussed.

Why Reviewing Manuscripts for JMCQ and Posting Full Research Materials Online Are Smart Things to Do

More and more refereed scholarly journals in the science and social science fields today require that research protocols and other supplementary research materials of the articles they publish are uploaded online. Such materials can be the complete list of article titles used in a bibliometric study, the experiment stimuli in an experiment, the coding scheme in a content analysis, and the survey questionnaire in a survey or even data sets. This is to ensure full transparency of the research they publish to allow for replication and checking. In our summer editorial board meeting at the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC) conference, the attending board members agreed that this can be a good practice; one that can encourage research replication, use of the coding scheme or scales. However, to avoid too much burden on the authors, we made it an opt-in process on a trial basis and will not require data posting. Effective October 1, 2015, we informed authors of our accepted manuscripts that they have the option of providing research materials as supplementary information, by posting them online alongside the research article. They would continue to have the copyright on those materials. We then posted two of our OnlineFirst articles with these supplementary materials: (a) Mapping the Social Capital Research in Communication: A Bibliometric Analysis by Chul-joo Lee and Dongyoung Sohn and (b) Are Newspapers' Online Discussion Boards Democratic Tools or Conspiracy Theories' Engines? A Case Study on an Eastern European Media War by Vera Slavtcheva-Petkova. Readers need to go to the online version to retrieve the supplementary materials.I would love to hear feedback from our readers on the full research material posting practice, and encourage authors of accepted manuscripts to post their materials. Without the print constraint of space, I hope this will provide readers interested in a topic a more complete experience in consuming the research produced by the authors, facilitate students and junior scholars to learn how to prepare research materials, and promote more follow-up studies.The increase in new submissions to Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly (JMCQ) has almost doubled in the past year. Hence, the Publications Committee and AEJMC board approved the inclusion of a fifth associate editor. Sei-Hill Kim of University of South Carolina joined our editorial team to help handle the influx of manuscripts.As we begin 2016, on behalf of our entire editorial team, I would like to express my greatest gratitude to our hard-working reviewers who generously volunteered their time and shared their insights and advice in their reviews to the authors last year. A total of 519 ad hoc reviewers completed reviews for us, in addition to our 80 board members. The list of reviewers and the number of manuscripts they reviewed for us are listed at the end of this essay. As more and more universities would like evidence of the review service for merit and other purposes, I encourage our reviewers to track their review record with dates in the Reviewer Center of the Manuscript Central/Sage Track system.Last year, I sent the individualized commendation letters to the supervisors of our 28 outstanding ad hoc reviewers who completed at least two reviews (including reviewing for a revised manuscript), accepted all of our invitations with a perfect score on timeliness in submitting their reviews and review quality. I was very touched when I received this note from Michael Bugeja, Director of the Greenlee School of Journalism and Communication of Iowa State University:Thank you for your gracious letter about Gang Han's professional academic service to JMCQ. As you can see below, we have shared your kind words with the faculty, staff and Advisory Council. Please know how much we appreciate a busy editor and scholar such as yourself taking time out to commend exemplary service. …

The Eudora Welty Collection: Mississippi Department of Archives and History

The Eudora Welty CollectionMississippi Department of Archives and History Forrest Galey, Special Projects Officer The materials transferred to the Archives and Records Services Division (A&RS) from the Museum Division since March 2011, along with those transferred to the Mississippi Department of Archives and History (MDAH) upon the settlement of Eudora Welty’s estate, continue to be incorporated into the Eudora Welty Collection. Currently, no series are closed for reprocessing but some series are undergoing substantial revisions. There are also new series being added. We suggest researchers contact MDAH, refdesk@mdah.state.ms.us, to verify the [End Page 149] availability of series that are of particular interest to them prior to visiting the archives. Readers are invited to visit the MDAH website where the home page mdah.state.ms.us/new/ features Welty information with some regularity and provides a portal to the online catalog where new series and series revisions may be posted. The A&RS division continues to use Koha, an open source system, for its online catalog. An instruction sheet, The Eudora Welty Collection: Collection Research and Access via the Online Catalog, has been prepared to aid researchers in readily locating catalog records for the Eudora Welty Collection and other Welty-related materials in the division’s holdings. The document concludes with a current series list. Researchers interested in obtaining publication rights for, and/or reproductions of, material in the Eudora Welty Collection may benefit from information provided in The Eudora Welty Collection: Contacts for Use Permission and Reprographic Services. The 2016 Eudora Welty Research Fellowship, co-sponsored by the Eudora Welty Foundation and the Mississippi Department of Archives and History, has been awarded to Boosung Kim, a PhD candidate in English at Texas A&M University. On-site research at the William F. Winter Archives and History Building, supported by the $2,000 stipend, will be conducted during the summer. The Eudora Welty Collection Mississippi Department of Archives and History Archives and Records Services Division Reviewing the Mississippi Department of Archives and History (MDAH) website, www.mdah.state.ms.us/new/, and links within the Research menu may help you learn about our operations and become accustomed to the online catalog before you visit the William F. Winter Archives and History Building in Jackson, Mississippi. When you are visiting the archives or at home using our online catalog you may go directly to the Eudora Welty Collection, Manuscript Number Z/0301.000/S. This is our principal collection of Welty papers, photographs, manuscripts, etc. donated or bequeathed to MDAH by Eudora Welty. [End Page 150] Off-site review of the Eudora Welty Collection catalog record and finding aid • From http://mdah.state.ms.us/new/ select “Online Catalog” • Method 1: On the Online Catalog opening page screen, under “Search”: select “Call number as phrase” in the drop down menu; type “Z/0301” in the adjacent blank box; and click the “Go” button. This method will take you to the catalog records for the Welty (Eudora) Collection directly. • Method 2: On the Online Catalog opening page screen select the tab marked “Advanced Search.” On the “Advanced Search” screen, under “Search for”: select “Keyword” and select “Title” in the drop down menu; type “Eudora Welty” in the adjacent blank box; scroll down the screen to “Limit to any of the following:” and check the box for “Manuscript Collection”; and click the “Search” button. This method may be used to search for the Welty (Eudora) Collection as well as *other resources. • On the “Catalog Record” screen for the Eudora Welty Collection there is a link to “Online Resources: Collection description”: click this link to see the Series list. (If clicking the “Search” button in the previous step yielded a list of multiple titles instead of going directly to the Eudora Welty Collection catalog record, then look for “Welty (Eudora) Collection” on the results page and click the title to open the “Catalog Record.”) • On the Series list: click any of the Series’ titles to see the respective Series descriptions. (Box and folder numbers appear in Series descriptions. Make a note of the box and folder number(s) for reference...

Administrative Reach and Documentary Coverage in Ancient States

This article uses two concepts developed by Nicolas Postgate, administrative reach and documentary coverage, to make a general argument about writing and statecraft in the ancient world. It emphasizes that the comparative study of bookkeeping practice in ancient states is vulnerable to differences of preservation, and it suggests two empirical ways to identify gaps in the evidentiary record. One is to deduce administrative needs from archaeological remains that bear the imprint of social engineering. The other is to sift display inscriptions for evidence of administrative documents and document formats. Taking the latter approach, it argues that the emblems cast in Shang ritual bronzes are official titles that denote spheres of administration. The emblems contain ranking terms that suggest that there was a hierarchy in Shang bureaucracy, comparable to the hierarchies evident in lists of official titles in ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia. The article ends with an appeal for comparative study and briefly discusses its values and challenges.

Observations on the Education of China by Zhu Yongxin

Reviewed by: Observations on the Education of China by Zhu Yongxin Hal Swindall (bio) Zhu Yongxin. Observations on the Education of China. Works by Zhu Yongxin on Education. New York: McGraw-Hill Education, 2015. ix, 384 pp. Hardcover $106.00, isbn 978-0-07-183821-4. The author of this volume is a major Chinese commentator on the educational situation of his country, as well as a leading advocate of reform. His list of titles includes deputy secretary of the standing committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference, known by its bulky CPPCC initials; chairman of the China Association for Promoting Democracy (CAPD), a democratic party composed mainly of educators; vice president of the Chinese Society of Education (CSE); and professor at Suzhou University. In these capacities, Zhu travels endlessly around the PRC inspecting schools, interviewing teachers and administrators, attending conferences, and giving speeches. His book is actually a travelogue, obviously based on detailed diary entries, recounting his trips to struggling schools [End Page 90] in distant rural areas where he advocates his ideas of educational reform as a panacea to their problems. Really, this volume is just as much about what a magnificent guy its author is as about how to fix China’s school system: we read dozens of times how its author got up before 7 a.m. to give a speech at 8, for example. Nonetheless, Zhu makes significant remarks about the current state of Chinese educational thinking, especially about the government’s support for private schools, even if it still hampers them in many ways. Zhu’s narrative starts in 2000 with a trip to northern Shaanxi Province, the first of many remote places with underserved schools that he visits; others are in Gansu, Guizhou, Heilongjiang, and similarly suffering outposts. Each episode of school inspection by him and his CAPD colleagues includes exhaustive statistics on the history of the school; the number of students and how far away they live; the number of teachers and staff, plus their qualifications; the area of the school in square meters, including how much is classroom space; the size of the library; the budget and how it is allocated; and the local socioeconomic situation. It is clear from all this data that Zhu takes extensive notes, although he is no doubt furnished with official documents listing much of his information. Zhu tries to return to areas he has inspected after some years have elapsed, so many of his entries contain “revisited” appendixes telling of the progress these schools have made by taking his advice. Schools are not the only places Zhu inspects, however; he also finds time to investigate local economic enterprises, as well as historic sites. One surprising one, given Zhu’s strident Party nationalism, is Stone Gateway in Yunnan Province, where in 1905 the English missionary Samuel Pollard built a church, school, and hospital for the Miao minority, who had always lived in servitude to the Yi minority and Chinese landowners. Pollard’s coeducational school set a precedent for girls’ education in China, and he encouraged the Miao to become literate to defend themselves from exploitation. He invented the first Miao written language to make them bilingual, and sent bright Miao students to study in cities; many returned to help their native area. Pollard became beloved of the Miao by living like one of them and enduring severe hardship until his death from typhoid in 1915. Zhu extols him as “a Bethune for the education sector of China and a Bethune for the Miao territory” (pp. 120–123). His conflation of a missionary with a Red Army doctor is revealing, mainly because it assumes that all foreigners who give their lives for China are serving the Party. The most revealing thing about this book, however, is Zhu’s stance on private education as essential to educational reform and the overall development of the country. This lesson was absorbed some time ago by the Chinese government, but there have always been obstacles to growth in the private education sector, as documented by Jing Lin and Spring Su, both of whose books I have reviewed in this journal. Zhu is even more adamant about the need to...

Recent Chronologically Organized Reference Books Concerning Chinese Indigenous Theater (Xiqu)

RESEARCH NOTE: RECENT CHRONOLOGICALLY ORGANIZED REFERENCE BOOKS CONCERNING CHINESE INDIGENOUS THEATER (XIQU) DAVID L. ROLSTON University of Michigan A recent phenomenon is the increasingly frequent appearance of reference books dealing with indigenous Chinese theater (xiqu 戲曲) that are arranged chronologically . This phenomenon probably relates both to the increasing growth of this field of study and the number of reference books published every year in China (it appears that there is a pretty steady market for them and they can be sold for relatively high prices).1 The titles of these texts have terms such as xinian 繫年 (arranged by year), biannian 編年 (chronological), and nianpu 年譜 (typically refers to chronological biographies). Chronological compilations of material concerning xiqu are not that new,2 and some of the more comprehensive nianpu of Ming Qing playwrights took care to present chronologically material not only on the playwright but also on his contemporaries ,3 but such works were few in number and tended to be fairly limited in scope until recent decades. Below I present a list of titles known to me, arranged according to their time scope. Nianpu of playwrights or actors are not included.4 1 Two separate encyclopedias of Jingju 京劇 (Peking opera), one selling for almost 900 RMB and another for almost 1,000 RMB, were published in 2011. The print run for the first printing of one of them was 5,000 copies (the other did not provide information on the print run). 2 For instance, Zhou Mingtai 周明泰 (1896–1994) published Wushi nian lai Beiping xiju shiliao 五十年來北平戲劇史料 (Historical material on theater in Beiping in the last 50 years), which lists theater programs by year, and Dao Xian yi lai Liyuan xinian xiaolu 道咸以來梨園繫 年小錄 (A small annalistic record of theater from the Daoguang and Xianfeng reign periods to the present) in 1932. 3 Zhang Peiheng 章培恒, Hong Sheng nianpu 洪昇年譜 (Chronological biography of Hong Sheng; Shanghai: Shanghai guji, 1979) is an early and well regarded example. 4 Particularly worthy of mention are those collected in Xu Shuofang 徐朔方 (1923–2007), Wan Ming qujia nianpu 晚明曲家年譜 (Chronological biographies of late Ming playwrights; Hangzhou: Zhejiang guji, 1993). Recent nianpu for xiqu artists include Li Shiqiang 李世強, Ma Lianliang yishi nianpu, 1901–1951 馬連良藝事年譜 (An annal of the artistic activities of Ma Lianliang , 1901–1950; Beijing: Zhongguo xiju, 2012); Jiang Peiyi 江沛毅, Yu Zhenfei nianpu 俞振飛年 譜 (Chronological biography of Yu Zhenfei; Shanghai: Shanghai wenyi, 2011); Wang Changfa 王 長發 and Liu Hua 劉華, Mei Lanfang nianpu 梅蘭芳年譜 (Chronological biography of Mei Lanfang; Nanjing: Hehai daxue, 1994; revised version included in vol. 4 of Mei Lanfang quanji 梅蘭芳全集 [Complete works of Mei Lanfang; Shijiazhuang: Hebei jiaoyu, 2001]); and Xie Sijin 謝思進 and Sun Lihua 孫利華, Mei Lanfang yishu nianpu 梅蘭芳藝術年譜 (Chronology of Mei Lanfang’s Art; Beijing: Wenhua yishu, 2009). CHINOPERL: Journal of Chinese Oral and Performing Literature 34. 2 (December 2015): 185–187© The Permanent Conference on Chinese Oral and Performing Literature, Inc. 2015 DOI 10.1080/01937774.2015.1096569 Besides being a convenient resource, these works have the advantage of making you look at incidents and other types of material in reference to other things going on in that same year rather than isolated from them. Some of these works are also provided with indexes. Of all the different types of xiqu, Jingu (Peking opera) gets the most attention. Although this note is about ‘‘chronologies’’ published as separate works, it should not be forgotten than many reference works on xiqu contain different types of chronologies (nianbiao 年表) in their appendices.5 Shorter works of this kind have also been published as separate articles in journals.6 Wang Yongkuan 王永寬 and Wang Gang 王綱. Zhongguo xiqu shi biannian 中國戲曲史編年 (Chronology for the history of xiqu). Zhengzhou: Zhongzhou guji, 1994. Cheng Huaping 程華平. Ming Qing chuanqi biannian shigao 明清傳奇編 年史稿 (Draft chronological history of chuanqi drama in the Ming and Qing dynasties; Jinan: Qi Lu shushe, 2008). Wang Hanmin 王漢民 and Liu Qiyu 劉奇玉. Qingdai xiqu shi biannian 清代戲曲史料編年 (History of Qing dynasty xiqu arranged according to year). Chengdu: Ba Shu shushe, 2008. Ding Shumei 丁淑梅. Qingdai jinhui xiqu shiliao biannian 清代禁毁戲曲 史料編年 (Material on the prohibition and destruction of xiqu in the Qing dynasty arranged according to year). Chengdu: Sichuan daxue, 2010.7 Zhao Shanlin 趙山林. Zhongguo jindai xiqu biannian (1840–1919) 中國 近代戲曲編年 (Chronology of Chinese xiqu in the modern period, 1840– 1919). Shanghai: Huadong shifan daxue, 2008. _____, Tian...

Using an electronic journal availability study to measure access to electronic journals by academics and researchers in the Faculty of Agriculture at the University of Zimbabwe

This article examines the use of an electronic journal availability study as a means of measuring access to subscribed journal collections that are needed by faculty members for their teaching and research. As in other disciplines, academics in agriculture are dependent on articles in electronic journals to obtain recent information and to build upon their own research. Empirical evidence is needed to select specific databases, to justify subscriptions, and to meet the research needs of academics. This article presents findings from an electronic journal availability study, which was used to determine the extent to which electronic journal collections met teaching and research needs at the University of Zimbabwe. The study took place between September 2013 and February 2014. A core journal titles list, simulating faculty’s research needs, was retrieved from a library’s electronic journals databases to establish the electronic journals availability rate: a measurement of the availability of the journals from the library’s electronic collections. This study showed an 85.5% availability rate across local collections, with the following results for the donated journal schemes: 63% in Access to Global Research in Africa (AGORA); 47% in Access to Research for Development (ARDI); 51% in Health Internet Access to Research Initiative (HINARI), and 53.5% in Online Access to Research in the Environment (OARE). This electronic journal availability study demonstrates that librarians need continuously to evaluate their collections and to assess whether these meet the needs of their users.

Graduate Students Reference Open Access Content in Literature Review Assignments

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 Allen, E. J., & Weber, R. A. (2014). The library and the web: Graduate students’ selection of open access journals for empirical literature searches. Journal of Web Librarianship, 8(3), 243-262. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/19322909.2014.927745 
 
 Abstract
 
 Objective – This study seeks to understand to what degree education graduate students cite open access, peer-reviewed journals in their coursework and whether patterns of open access referencing change over time.
 
 Design – Longitudinal reference list analysis.
 
 Setting – Public university in the United States of America.
 
 Subjects – Reference lists collected from final literature review papers in a graduate-level education class (n = 382).
 
 Methods – The authors collected reference lists from final literature review papers in a graduate-level education class for a nine-year time frame from the 2005 to 2013 academic years. The authors analyzed 2,594 reference entries from the 382 reference lists in the sample.
 
 The authors organized reference entries into spreadsheets for analysis, creating one spreadsheet per class section and sorting references by type (e.g., book, journal article, website, etc.) and source. The authors also created a cumulative list of journal titles that they analyzed for open access status and how often the journals appeared in the sample. Other information collected about each journal included "ISSNs, national origin, journal sponsorship, frequency and years of student usage, presence of empirical research, [and] peer review status" (p. 249). Finally, the authors organized open access journals into the following four categories based on their access method:
 
 • Category A "OA Platform and Publisher"
 • Category B "Publisher Only"
 • Category C "Delay or Hybrid from Host or Publisher"
 • Category D "Subscription Based, but Self Archived" (p. 249)
 
 Main Results – A total of 594 unique journals appeared in reference lists over the study period, and 11.5% (n=68) of the total were open access journals. Of the open access journals, 96% (n=65) included original research articles, and the majority (n=51) fell into Category A "OA Platform and Publisher." Nine, six, and two journal titles fell into categories B, C, and D, respectively. The authors found no pattern or change in the use of open access titles during the nine-year study period. Open access journals appeared in reference lists an average of 14 times per year with the highest usage observed in 2009.
 
 Conclusion – The results show that graduate students in the sample used a range of open access journals. The presence of open access resources in reference lists signals that students may use both library subscription databases and open web search tools to complete their literature review assignments. The authors suggest potential reasons why open access use did not grow during the study period, including a possible mismatch between student research interests and the topics present in open access titles, the lack of discussion about open access publishing during library instruction, or student satisfaction with the resources provided through library-sponsored subscriptions. Librarians are encouraged to include high-quality open access resources within their catalogues or other electronic resources to increase open access discoverability and to include popular open web search tools as a means to retrieve open access materials during information literacy instruction.

Clinical Relevance Commentary in Response to: First dorsal interosseous muscle contraction results in radiographic reduction of healthy thumb carpometacarpal joint

As Clinical Relevance Commentary Editor, I am sent a list of all papers to appear in each issue and asked to either pick one to write about or solicit another author to write a commentary. For this issue, I decided to send the list of titles to four clinicians (two Hand Therapists and two general OT's) to ask them what article they thought had the most clinical impact. Two of the four therapists picked this article. When I asked them why, considering this article focused on normal subjects, their general consensus was that it helps validate what they are doing with their thumb carpometacarpal osteoarthritis patients. First dorsal interosseous muscle contraction results in radiographic reduction of healthy thumb carpometacarpal jointJournal of Hand TherapyVol. 28Issue 4PreviewHand therapists selectively strengthen the first dorsal interosseus (FDI) to stabilize arthritic joints yet the role of the FDI has not yet been radiographically validated. Full-Text PDF

Selected List of Michigan-Related Titles Found in the Angling Library at the Clarke Historical Library, Central Michigan University

Selected List of Michigan-Related Titles Found in the Angling Library at the Clarke Historical Library, Central Michigan University

A typology of Urban Design theories and its application to the shared body of knowledge

This article consists of two parts. The first part suggests a typology for urban design theories in order to provide a new way of understanding the nature and function of the, seemingly opposing, debates existing in the field. This typology is based on distinguishing between subjects, object and knowledge of urban design. In the second part, the typology is applied to the shared body of knowledge. In order to do so, this article attempts to give an overview of the current shared body of knowledge in the field of urban design. The reading lists of urban design theory courses, drawn from different universities in the United States, United Kingdom and Australia, are analysed to identify common texts. These texts are then considered to be one reading of what constitutes the shared body of knowledge. A comparison is made between this list of titles and those texts offered in various urban design readers to provide a better overall picture of the shared body of knowledge. Finally, a chronological analysis is made to illustrate the development of the three types of urban design theory.

Job title of recent bachelor's degree recipients

Physics bachelor's degree recipients work in all kinds of professions—science writing, medicine, law, history of science, acting, music, healthcare and more. Since very few of these employees have the word “physics” in their job titles, it can be hard for new graduates to know where to look for jobs and how to find other recent physics graduates in the workforce. The American Institute of Physics and the Society of Physics Students joined forces on an NSF-funded grant to create career tools for undergraduate physics students.1 One of the tools available to students in the Careers Toolbox is a listing of common job titles of physics bachelors degree recipients working in various fields; some of the job titles are listed below.

Evaluation of academic library collection using a check-list method

The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the quality of the ILS library collection of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences (FHSS) in Osijek, Croatia and its congruence with the curriculum.The quality of the collection is measured using the check-list method. The required and optional reading lists of the Department of Information Sciences at the FHSS (academic year 2011/2012) are used as standard lists that the library holdings are compared to.The results found that the library does not have 30.8 per cent of the titles on the reading lists. The remaining 33.9 per cent of the titles are accessible in the library, 28.5 per cent are free electronic resources, and 6.8 per cent of titles are accessible for students through the Department’s Moodle, Learning Management System.The study provides data about the titles available and not available in the FHSS library. However, it does not differentiate between the titles on the required and optional reading lists.This study provides the FHSS librarians with the list of titles that should be obtained in the near future.In Croatia, very few papers on collection assessment have been published so far, and this is the first study about the quality of a library collection at the University of Osijek. The paper attempts to fill that gap and contribute to a deeper understanding of the quality of library collections in the Croatian academic setting.

Professor Harry Smith (1935-2015).

Professor Harry Smith (1935-2015).