L. Ohler, Leigh Ann DePope, Karen Rupp-Serrano, Joelle Pitts
Canceling the Big Deal is becoming more common, but there are still many unanswered questions about the impact of this change and the fundamental shift in the library collections model that it represents. Institutions like Southern Illinois University Carbondale and the University of Oregon were some of the first institutions to have written about their own experience with canceling the Big Deal several years ago, but are those experiences the norm in terms of changes in budgets, collection development, and interlibrary loan activity? Within the context of the University of California system’s move to cancel a system-wide contract with Elsevier, how are libraries managing the communication about Big Deals both internally with library personnel as well as externally with campus stakeholders? Three R1 libraries (University of Maryland, University of Oklahoma, and Kansas State University) will compare their data, discuss both internal and external communication strategies, and examine the impact these decisions have had on their collections in terms of interlibrary loan and collection development strategies. The results of a brief survey measuring the status of the audience members with respect to Big Deals, communication efforts with campus stakeholders, and impacts on collections will also be discussed.
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Entrepreneurship is growing as a cross- and inter-disciplinary area of focus for higher education. From patent and tech transfer offices to business, science, and engineering programs, the demand for entrepreneurship resources and support delivered via libraries is booming. Building library collections to help patrons design, launch, and run successful businesses is challenging: Market research and private equity/venture capital resources arrive at premium prices. Increasingly, these resources must interoperate with software used to clean, analyze, and visualize data. This data is often difficult to find and deploy. Restrictive, corporate-style licenses reflect that new vendors are not yet acclimated to the academic market’s access requirements and licensing constraints. This paper will share a framework for how to understand entrepreneurship in higher education and explain the types of information commonly requested by users. Such information often exists in disciplinary silos, emphasizing the importance of collaborative collection development across subject lines. The authors will explore the unique challenges to building collections that serve patrons developing new ventures. This includes collaborating with external stakeholders to fund resources that have not been traditionally purchased by libraries. Strategies for licensing data and other e-resources in this space will be discussed, including the central complications arising from universities as incubators for for-profit startups. The authors will suggest best practices for building relationships with stakeholders, developing relevant collections and services, and marketing these resources to support communities.
{"title":"Pain Points and Solutions: Bringing Data for Startups to Campus","authors":"Kelly LaVoice, Daniel Hickey, Mark Williams","doi":"10.5703/1288284317163","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5703/1288284317163","url":null,"abstract":"Entrepreneurship is growing as a cross- and inter-disciplinary area of focus for\u0000 higher education. From patent and tech transfer offices to business, science, and\u0000 engineering programs, the demand for entrepreneurship resources and support delivered\u0000 via libraries is booming. Building library collections to help patrons design, launch,\u0000 and run successful businesses is challenging: Market research and private equity/venture\u0000 capital resources arrive at premium prices. Increasingly, these resources must\u0000 interoperate with software used to clean, analyze, and visualize data. This data is\u0000 often difficult to find and deploy. Restrictive, corporate-style licenses reflect that\u0000 new vendors are not yet acclimated to the academic market’s access requirements and\u0000 licensing constraints. This paper will share a framework for how to understand\u0000 entrepreneurship in higher education and explain the types of information commonly\u0000 requested by users. Such information often exists in disciplinary silos, emphasizing the\u0000 importance of collaborative collection development across subject lines. The authors\u0000 will explore the unique challenges to building collections that serve patrons developing\u0000 new ventures. This includes collaborating with external stakeholders to fund resources\u0000 that have not been traditionally purchased by libraries. Strategies for licensing data\u0000 and other e-resources in this space will be discussed, including the central\u0000 complications arising from universities as incubators for for-profit startups. The\u0000 authors will suggest best practices for building relationships with stakeholders,\u0000 developing relevant collections and services, and marketing these resources to support\u0000 communities.","PeriodicalId":287918,"journal":{"name":"\"The Time Has Come . . . to Talk of Many Things\"","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128736567","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
In 2019, MIT Press and University of Michigan Press launched their own ebook collections for direct sale to libraries. Nearly a year has gone by. In that year, three basic truths have emerged and continue to guide them on this journey: 1. Establish Principles - Our principles must be our central reference point. We must innovate by taking a “values-based” approach not just a solely “value-based” selection process. 2. Embrace Exploration, Agility and Humility - We are perpetual searchers and seekers, always novices and beginners. Transformation comes from discovering the right questions more than having the right answers. 2. Take Action - We cannot think ourselves into new ways of acting, rather we act ourselves into a new way of thinking. Impactful change will only happen when we take risks, focus on people, and shift from monologue to dialogue when engaging with the communities we serve. How did they come to these truths? What are the prospects for each of their individual endeavors? Why should libraries care? In this paper, representatives of the two presses will tell their respective stories about this last year’s adventures. We they share why they chose to work directly with libraries, what they expected after launching their new collections, as well as divulge what reality actually dealt them.
{"title":"MIT Press Direct and University of Michigan Press Ebook Collection: First Year\u0000 Lessons Learned and Future Prospects","authors":"E. Farrell, Lanell White, Sharla Lair","doi":"10.5703/1288284317198","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5703/1288284317198","url":null,"abstract":"In 2019, MIT Press and University of Michigan Press launched their own ebook\u0000 collections for direct sale to libraries. Nearly a year has gone by. In that year, three\u0000 basic truths have emerged and continue to guide them on this journey: 1. Establish\u0000 Principles - Our principles must be our central reference point. We must innovate by\u0000 taking a “values-based” approach not just a solely “value-based” selection process. 2.\u0000 Embrace Exploration, Agility and Humility - We are perpetual searchers and seekers,\u0000 always novices and beginners. Transformation comes from discovering the right questions\u0000 more than having the right answers. 2. Take Action - We cannot think ourselves into new\u0000 ways of acting, rather we act ourselves into a new way of thinking. Impactful change\u0000 will only happen when we take risks, focus on people, and shift from monologue to\u0000 dialogue when engaging with the communities we serve. How did they come to these truths?\u0000 What are the prospects for each of their individual endeavors? Why should libraries\u0000 care? In this paper, representatives of the two presses will tell their respective\u0000 stories about this last year’s adventures. We they share why they chose to work directly\u0000 with libraries, what they expected after launching their new collections, as well as\u0000 divulge what reality actually dealt them.","PeriodicalId":287918,"journal":{"name":"\"The Time Has Come . . . to Talk of Many Things\"","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116608469","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Academic libraries across North America are restructuring to meet user needs in an e-preferred environment, resulting in major changes to traditional collection development roles and workflows. Responsibility for collection work is increasingly assigned to functional librarians dedicated to collection development activities across a broad range of subject areas, often serving an entire faculty or college. This paper discusses the history, process, and outcomes of the transition to functional collection development roles at two mid-sized universities. Both Carleton University and the University of Guelph support a wide range of undergraduate and graduate research needs from a single central library, but have implemented a different type of organizational design and are at different stages in the restructuring process. One year into their new functional roles, Carleton’s librarians are preparing to assess the state of change around collection development in their organization, and identify next steps for the restructuring process. By contrast, the University of Guelph has worked with a functional team model for ten years, and is undertaking a 10-year review to assess whether the original goals of the reorganization were met. How does collections work compare under a functional team model, compared to a traditional liaison model? Both perspectives offer strategies for consultation and change management that may be helpful to other institutions restructuring their collection development activities.
北美各地的学术图书馆正在进行重组，以满足用户在电子首选环境中的需求，导致传统馆藏开发角色和工作流程发生重大变化。收集工作的责任越来越多地分配给功能性图书馆员，他们致力于跨广泛学科领域的收集开发活动，通常为整个学院或学院服务。本文讨论了两所中等规模大学向功能性馆藏发展角色转变的历史、过程和结果。卡尔顿大学和圭尔夫大学都通过一个中央图书馆来支持广泛的本科生和研究生的研究需求，但实施了不同类型的组织设计，并且在重组过程中处于不同的阶段。卡尔顿图书馆的图书馆员在担任新职能一年后，正准备评估其组织中馆藏发展的变化状况，并确定重组过程的下一步。相比之下，圭尔夫大学(University of Guelph)已经用职能团队模式工作了10年，并且正在进行为期10年的审查，以评估重组的最初目标是否实现。与传统的联络模式相比，集合在职能团队模式下的工作如何?这两种观点都为协商和变革管理提供了策略，可能有助于其他机构调整其馆藏发展活动。
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Literacy, until recently, was defined as the ability to read printed text and to understand the nuances of both the form and content of that printed text. More recently there has been a focus on subsets of literacy – data literacy, numeracy, visual literacy, media literacy, etc. – that recognizes the means of communicating ideas and facts are not limited to the printed text and that there are multiple means which may be more powerful ways of communicating in our world. In recent years, higher education has been redefining what it means to be educated – from a focus on specific bodies of knowledge, or disciplines, to a focus on developing and mastering skills for varying modes of inquiry. Simultaneously, there has been a growing focus on expanding how students and faculty communicate knowledge – what was once strictly the term paper approach is being replaced by the oral presentation, the poster session, or the artistic response. In a world where ideas are more readily communicated via social media such as YouTube, Instagram, Facebook and Twitter, the ability to accurately assess additional modes of communication is critical. This paper will explore different subsets of literacy, describe a method for developing mastery of those literacies in higher education, and advocate for academic library professionals to become specialists focused on literacies as much, if not more, than on content.
{"title":"Reconsidering Literacy","authors":"A. Powers, M. Powers","doi":"10.5703/1288284317184","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5703/1288284317184","url":null,"abstract":"Literacy, until recently, was defined as the ability to read printed text and to\u0000 understand the nuances of both the form and content of that printed text. More recently\u0000 there has been a focus on subsets of literacy – data literacy, numeracy, visual\u0000 literacy, media literacy, etc. – that recognizes the means of communicating ideas and\u0000 facts are not limited to the printed text and that there are multiple means which may be\u0000 more powerful ways of communicating in our world. In recent years, higher education has\u0000 been redefining what it means to be educated – from a focus on specific bodies of\u0000 knowledge, or disciplines, to a focus on developing and mastering skills for varying\u0000 modes of inquiry. Simultaneously, there has been a growing focus on expanding how\u0000 students and faculty communicate knowledge – what was once strictly the term paper\u0000 approach is being replaced by the oral presentation, the poster session, or the artistic\u0000 response. In a world where ideas are more readily communicated via social media such as\u0000 YouTube, Instagram, Facebook and Twitter, the ability to accurately assess additional\u0000 modes of communication is critical. This paper will explore different subsets of\u0000 literacy, describe a method for developing mastery of those literacies in higher\u0000 education, and advocate for academic library professionals to become specialists focused\u0000 on literacies as much, if not more, than on content.","PeriodicalId":287918,"journal":{"name":"\"The Time Has Come . . . to Talk of Many Things\"","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129560388","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Negotiations connected with database renewals are sharply critical and ultimately impact renewal decisions. Today, academic libraries face an ever-consolidating marketplace, often accompanied by disruptive cost increases that toss sound reasoning aside. Instances of super-exponential cost increases transfigure once reasonable practices based on sound criteria to unsustainable subscriptions and inappropriate access models. Most troubling is that libraries have seldom been asked to participate in stakeholder discussions before these models and decisions were made. The paper reviews University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point Libraries struggle with these changing metrics. In context, the paper looks at how recent political upheaval in Wisconsin has overturned Wisconsin’s progressive heritage and contributed to a rapid dismantling of state funding for public higher education and its’ associated services. Wisconsin has been known as a ‘laboratory for democracy’ with its’ Wisconsin Idea, publicly championing higher education’s mission and expertise in service of the common good. Times are changing. Today, not only does Wisconsin’s public higher education confront losses of state funding, it faces changing demographics, reduced FTE’s, all equating to even less budget dollars. In turn, budget shortfalls have made it nearly impossible to address declining infrastructures, needs for academic program reorganization and institutional restructuring, much less maintain and enhance existing services.
{"title":"Reason minus zero/no limit: Trying to bring it back home","authors":"T. Reich","doi":"10.5703/1288284317174","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5703/1288284317174","url":null,"abstract":"Negotiations connected with database renewals are sharply critical and ultimately\u0000 impact renewal decisions. Today, academic libraries face an ever-consolidating\u0000 marketplace, often accompanied by disruptive cost increases that toss sound reasoning\u0000 aside. Instances of super-exponential cost increases transfigure once reasonable\u0000 practices based on sound criteria to unsustainable subscriptions and inappropriate\u0000 access models. Most troubling is that libraries have seldom been asked to participate in\u0000 stakeholder discussions before these models and decisions were made. The paper reviews\u0000 University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point Libraries struggle with these changing metrics. In\u0000 context, the paper looks at how recent political upheaval in Wisconsin has overturned\u0000 Wisconsin’s progressive heritage and contributed to a rapid dismantling of state funding\u0000 for public higher education and its’ associated services. Wisconsin has been known as a\u0000 ‘laboratory for democracy’ with its’ Wisconsin Idea, publicly championing higher\u0000 education’s mission and expertise in service of the common good. Times are changing.\u0000 Today, not only does Wisconsin’s public higher education confront losses of state\u0000 funding, it faces changing demographics, reduced FTE’s, all equating to even less budget\u0000 dollars. In turn, budget shortfalls have made it nearly impossible to address declining\u0000 infrastructures, needs for academic program reorganization and institutional\u0000 restructuring, much less maintain and enhance existing services.","PeriodicalId":287918,"journal":{"name":"\"The Time Has Come . . . to Talk of Many Things\"","volume":"20 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129767165","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
For many years, librarians and industry experts predicted that electronic books would surpass print books as the format of preference. The advantages that digital books provide seemed to all but guarantee the demise of print. But something happened along the way. Numerous studies during the last decade have demonstrated that print still has a place for libraries, vendors and most importantly, end users. So what’s happened – why hasn’t that time come like it has for journals? And will the “tipping point” for books ever arrive? One explanation is that eBooks have not met user expectations, but optimizing user experience when users range from students, to faculty, to librarians is a big challenge! This session included a lively discussion about the user experience for eBooks from multiple perspectives. Gabrielle Wiersma from the University of Colorado Boulder shared findings from an eBook usability study with students and asked the audience to consider the reasons why people prefer one format over another. Two graduate students shared their perceptions and format preferences and answered questions from the audience. Finally, Leigh Beauchamp, Vice President of Product Development discussed how ProQuest is making patrons the center of Ebook Central platform development and how eBooks are evolving to bring the most important elements of the print experience to digital book research.
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Managing access to subscribed services in an era of abundance is a major challenge for libraries. Users have come to expect a seamless, personalized experience on their mobile devices, but traditional approaches to access management force librarians to choose between the anonymous ease of onsite IP authentication or the access friction experienced by users authenticating across multiple resources with Single Sign-On. Building on the work of the RA21 initiative, a recent NISO Recommended Practice on Improved Access to Institutionally Provided Information Resources charts a way forward. It will enable libraries to provide seamless, privacy-preserving and one-click access to its subscribed content from any device, any location, and from any starting point in the research process. The implementation of these recommendations will be led by SeamlessAccess.org, starting with a beta phase implementation in the fall of 2019. But how is user and data privacy protected? How is access simplified? How will numerous library use case scenarios be accommodated, and will current accessibility standards be implemented and supported? This paper discusses how these concerns are being addressed by a consortium of industry partners including librarians, access providers, publishers, and standards organizations. It also discusses how the coalition will manage this service for publishers and libraries while continuing to improve this user experience, provide governance on data policy and privacy issues, and maintain core web services specific to this initiative.
{"title":"Introducing SeamlessAccess.org: Delivering a Simpler, Privacy-Preserving Access\u0000 Experience","authors":"John W. Felts, Tim Lloyd, Emily Singley","doi":"10.5703/1288284317205","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5703/1288284317205","url":null,"abstract":"Managing access to subscribed services in an era of abundance is a major challenge\u0000 for libraries. Users have come to expect a seamless, personalized experience on their\u0000 mobile devices, but traditional approaches to access management force librarians to\u0000 choose between the anonymous ease of onsite IP authentication or the access friction\u0000 experienced by users authenticating across multiple resources with Single Sign-On.\u0000 Building on the work of the RA21 initiative, a recent NISO Recommended Practice on\u0000 Improved Access to Institutionally Provided Information Resources charts a way forward.\u0000 It will enable libraries to provide seamless, privacy-preserving and one-click access to\u0000 its subscribed content from any device, any location, and from any starting point in the\u0000 research process. The implementation of these recommendations will be led by\u0000 SeamlessAccess.org, starting with a beta phase implementation in the fall of 2019. But\u0000 how is user and data privacy protected? How is access simplified? How will numerous\u0000 library use case scenarios be accommodated, and will current accessibility standards be\u0000 implemented and supported? This paper discusses how these concerns are being addressed\u0000 by a consortium of industry partners including librarians, access providers, publishers,\u0000 and standards organizations. It also discusses how the coalition will manage this\u0000 service for publishers and libraries while continuing to improve this user experience,\u0000 provide governance on data policy and privacy issues, and maintain core web services\u0000 specific to this initiative.","PeriodicalId":287918,"journal":{"name":"\"The Time Has Come . . . to Talk of Many Things\"","volume":"93 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131957519","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
It is a byword of the study of academic research that disciplines mean differences. The series of studies underway at Ithaka S+R (with library partners) shows how scholars and scientists understand “Changing Research Practices.” The project’s goal is to guide libraries toward the most fruitful forms of support for research, enhancing the scholarly workflow according to disciplinary routines and innovations. Launched in 2012, nine reports have been published thus far, with others planned or anticipated. The disciplines range from history to public health, from chemistry to Asian Studies. The interview-based studies show how scholars manage their methods, and the opportunities and obstacles they face as the availability of resources in several media expand and research technologies evolve. The Ithaka S+R studies represent a unique collective portrait of scholars at work, loyal to research conventions but encountering new tools for inquiry. The reports help us understand how disciplinary habits shape expectations and experience, and what might be done to serve scholars working at change in research practices, particularly the introduction of new technologies. The reports are seen against the backdrop of views among library leaders and librarians themselves about the evolution of the liaison role, including how it can be fitted to the needs of scholars in an evolving research environment.
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It is well recognized that one of the hardest problems in the Open Access arena is how to ‘flip’ the flagship society journals in the humanities and social sciences. Their revenue from a flagship journal is critical to the scholarly society. On the one hand, it is true that the paywall which guards the subscription system from unauthorized access is marginalizing whole categories of scholars and learners. On the other hand, “flipping”to an APC based model simply marginalizes some of the same people and institutions on the authorship side. Various endowment or subsidy models of flipping create the idea of Samaritans and “freeloaders” which bring into question their sustainability. I propose re-thinking the relationship between publisher and author. The publisher should act as the experts in dissemination and should take on the responsibility of maximizing the dissemination of the author’s work by providing the author’s accepted manuscript (AAM) to an appropriate repository and taking down the paywall. When requests for an article come to the publisher instead of presenting non-subscribers with a paywall, they instead direct the request to the repository in which the AAM has been archived. This walk-through of Maximum Dissemination is followed by: A statement from Princeton’s Professor Stanley Katz, president emeritus of the American Council of Learned Societies A youtube video by Associate Professor of Sociology Smith Radhakrishnan which is attached to this submission, is available at http://youtu.be/sPO66vuTFJ0.
{"title":"Maximum Dissemination: A possible model for society journals in the humanities and\u0000 social sciences to support \"Open\" while retaining their subscription\u0000 revenue","authors":"J. Dove","doi":"10.5703/1288284317197","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5703/1288284317197","url":null,"abstract":"It is well recognized that one of the hardest problems in the Open Access arena is\u0000 how to ‘flip’ the flagship society journals in the humanities and social sciences. Their\u0000 revenue from a flagship journal is critical to the scholarly society. On the one hand,\u0000 it is true that the paywall which guards the subscription system from unauthorized\u0000 access is marginalizing whole categories of scholars and learners. On the other hand,\u0000 “flipping”to an APC based model simply marginalizes some of the same people and\u0000 institutions on the authorship side. Various endowment or subsidy models of flipping\u0000 create the idea of Samaritans and “freeloaders” which bring into question their\u0000 sustainability. I propose re-thinking the relationship between publisher and author. The\u0000 publisher should act as the experts in dissemination and should take on the\u0000 responsibility of maximizing the dissemination of the author’s work by providing the\u0000 author’s accepted manuscript (AAM) to an appropriate repository and taking down the\u0000 paywall. When requests for an article come to the publisher instead of presenting\u0000 non-subscribers with a paywall, they instead direct the request to the repository in\u0000 which the AAM has been archived. This walk-through of Maximum Dissemination is followed\u0000 by: A statement from Princeton’s Professor Stanley Katz, president emeritus of the\u0000 American Council of Learned Societies A youtube video by Associate Professor of\u0000 Sociology Smith Radhakrishnan which is attached to this submission, is available at\u0000 http://youtu.be/sPO66vuTFJ0.","PeriodicalId":287918,"journal":{"name":"\"The Time Has Come . . . to Talk of Many Things\"","volume":"34 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124808031","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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