This article provides a case study about an institutional ORCID initiative at Florida State University. The authors describe how they launched the initiative with minimal resources and staff time at their disposal. The authors also describe specific strategies that can be replicated at other institutions, including identifying the right partners and most compelling use cases, and taking advantage of high-impact outreach strategies that provide the most exposure for the least time invested.
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This study is an examination of the databases, websites, journals, and monograph titles most frequently included in the library resource guides of 65 well-regarded research institutions. Through an analysis of library resource guides, this study enumerates the resources most frequently recommended to the physics community for study and research. Open access resources, such as arXiv, SAO/NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS), and INSPIRE, are among the most included titles. Notably, websites of professional organizations and governmental agencies are also frequently named. The study is meant to assist librarians in developing and maintaining collections to recommend to the physics community.
{"title":"Collection Development for Librarians in a Hurry: A Survey of the Physics Resources of the Libraries of the Association of American Universities","authors":"A. McCormick","doi":"10.29173/ISTL68","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.29173/ISTL68","url":null,"abstract":"This study is an examination of the databases, websites, journals, and monograph titles most frequently included in the library resource guides of 65 well-regarded research institutions. Through an analysis of library resource guides, this study enumerates the resources most frequently recommended to the physics community for study and research. Open access resources, such as arXiv, SAO/NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS), and INSPIRE, are among the most included titles. Notably, websites of professional organizations and governmental agencies are also frequently named. The study is meant to assist librarians in developing and maintaining collections to recommend to the physics community.","PeriodicalId":39287,"journal":{"name":"Issues in Science and Technology Librarianship","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47831603","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}
Abstract The study examined the research impact of gold open access (OA) journals in engineering and technology. A total of 37 gold route journals that request article processing charges (APC) and 66 other OA journals without APC in the field were found in the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) and used for the study. The publishers, APC charges and the year each journal was added to DOAJ were identified and included in this study An informetric approach was used to extract research impact indicators (citations, paper productivity, cite/paper, cite/journal and h-index) of journals. Findings revealed that the publishers of the APC journals were dominated by commercial publishing companies producing over 60% of the journals. Article processing charges ranged from 7.6 USD to 3471.5 USD while the average article processing charges for APC journals was 727 USD. Gold route open access (APC) journals performed better than open access non-APC OA journals since they produced 51.2% of the papers, 71.8% of the total citations and 65.1% of the total h-index. However, findings showed a weak positive correlation between articles processing charges (APC) of the gold route journals and their research impact; while there is high significant positive correlation between research impact of gold route (APC journals) and non-APC open access journals.
{"title":"Gold Route Open Access Journals in Engineering and Technology: Analysis of Research Impact and Implications for Scholarly Communication","authors":"I. Ezema","doi":"10.29173/ISTL43","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.29173/ISTL43","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract \u0000The study examined the research impact of gold open access (OA) journals in engineering and technology. A total of 37 gold route journals that request article processing charges (APC) and 66 other OA journals without APC in the field were found in the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) and used for the study. The publishers, APC charges and the year each journal was added to DOAJ were identified and included in this study An informetric approach was used to extract research impact indicators (citations, paper productivity, cite/paper, cite/journal and h-index) of journals. Findings revealed that the publishers of the APC journals were dominated by commercial publishing companies producing over 60% of the journals. Article processing charges ranged from 7.6 USD to 3471.5 USD while the average article processing charges for APC journals was 727 USD. Gold route open access (APC) journals performed better than open access non-APC OA journals since they produced 51.2% of the papers, 71.8% of the total citations and 65.1% of the total h-index. However, findings showed a weak positive correlation between articles processing charges (APC) of the gold route journals and their research impact; while there is high significant positive correlation between research impact of gold route (APC journals) and non-APC open access journals.","PeriodicalId":39287,"journal":{"name":"Issues in Science and Technology Librarianship","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48034516","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}
This viewpoint aims to present the important role of liaison librarians and their relationship with teaching staff in STEM academic programs. The work provides a detailed explanation of the role of the four components of liaison librarians in the STEM higher education environment, each with the best practice proposed. The closing remarks emphasize the importance of liaison librarians, which are absent in academic libraries in most nations of the world, but in this case especially in Indonesia.
{"title":"Virtual Learning and the Role of Liaison Librarians in STEM Academic Programs","authors":"Retno Sayekti","doi":"10.29173/ISTL2580","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.29173/ISTL2580","url":null,"abstract":"This viewpoint aims to present the important role of liaison librarians and their relationship with teaching staff in STEM academic programs. The work provides a detailed explanation of the role of the four components of liaison librarians in the STEM higher education environment, each with the best practice proposed. The closing remarks emphasize the importance of liaison librarians, which are absent in academic libraries in most nations of the world, but in this case especially in Indonesia.","PeriodicalId":39287,"journal":{"name":"Issues in Science and Technology Librarianship","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42265843","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}
J. Kenyon, R. Attebury, Jylisa Doney, Marco Seiferle-Valencia, Jessica Martinez, Bruce Godfrey
Investigations on the help-seeking behavior of academic library patrons have to date primarily focused on the undergraduate experience, most often in the context of reference interactions. This study seeks to explore the help-seeking behaviors of a different audience - faculty in the natural and physical sciences at an R2 land-grant university. Eighteen faculty in the natural and physical sciences at the University of Idaho were individually interviewed using an in-depth qualitative interview format and all transcripts were coded and analyzed using an open transcript data visualization tool created at the University of Idaho Library. Responses revealed that faculty are seeking help from colleagues; peers outside the university, via connections formed in graduate school or professional circles; and through DIY solutions like "just googling it," but less often through university resources and programs. Using the results of this project as a starting point, we will explore how libraries might better understand the help-seeking behavior of research faculty, with an eye towards developing services and sources that better meet faculty research needs.
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Author reviews the Microsoft Academic search engine, addressing aspects of its history, and focusing on current features.
作者回顾了微软学术搜索引擎，解决了它的历史方面，并侧重于当前的功能。
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Jeffra D. Bussmann, I. Altamirano, Samuel Hansen, Nastasha E. Johnson, Gr Keer
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It is challenging to identify the needs of researchers and students at any satellite campus, a situation that is exacerbated when the satellite library is a research laboratory. The users are not taking classes, but still have library support needs. This article discusses the difficulties in properly identifying a population of students at this type of institution, as well as the associated challenges that come with developing a series of library workshops for different groups of users.
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Open Educational Resources (OER) represent a small but growing portion of the educational resources market, but the use of OER in engineering is limited. This study seeks to identify the current adoption patterns of OER in engineering mechanics courses and barriers to adoption. Research questions are examined through the lens of Rogers' Diffusion of Innovation model. A survey of mechanics instructors across the United States, combined with publicly available data from college and university websites, were used to identify instructor practices and opinions regarding OER. During the 2017-2018 academic year, widespread OER usage was found at only a handful of institutions. However, knowledge of OER among mechanics instructors was high, and many instructors reported an interest in OER for their courses. A lack of quality OER content for engineering mechanics courses seems to be the primary barrier to more widespread adoption. Background and Introduction This study aims to explore the current state of Open Educational Resources (OER) use in introductory engineering mechanics courses. According to the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation: Open Educational Resources (OER) are teaching, learning, and research resources that reside in the public domain or have been released under an intellectual property license that permits their free use and repurposing by others. OER include full courses, course materials, modules, textbooks, streaming videos, tests, software, and any other tools, materials, or techniques used to support access to knowledge (2019). While an increasing amount of data exists on the use of OER in higher education, there is very little research on the use of OER in engineering specifically. This study examines the current use of OER in engineering education and identifies barriers to adoption in the engineering curriculum through a survey of mechanics instructors and analysis of publicly available data from college and university websites. Using OER in the Classroom When used in place of traditionally published commercial content, OER can have several advantages. First, OER are free to use. In a study of five large institutions pushing to utilize more OER in their classes, researchers found that OER saved students an average of $128 per class (Senack 2015). With the College Board (2017) advising students to budget between $1,220 and $1,420 a year for textbooks and other supplies, it becomes clear that OER has a huge potential for lowering the cost of college. In fact, the increase in the cost of textbooks far exceeds the rate of inflation (Popken 2015), and everyone from educators (Tovar & Piedra 2014) to non-profits (William and Flora Hewlett Foundation 2019) to legislators (Polis et al. 2017) are seeking to rein in costs. Rapidly increasing textbook costs go beyond an inconvenience to an issue of access. Up to 65% of students declined to buy or rent a textbook due to cost, even though 94% of those same students thought it hurt their grad
开放教育资源（OER）在教育资源市场中只占一小部分，但在工程中的使用是有限的。本研究旨在确定工程力学课程中OER的当前采用模式和采用障碍。研究问题是通过罗杰斯的创新扩散模型来检验的。一项针对美国各地力学教师的调查，结合学院和大学网站上的公开数据，用于确定教师对OER的实践和意见。在2017-2018学年，只有少数机构广泛使用OER。然而，机械教员对OER的了解很高，许多教员报告说他们的课程对OER感兴趣。工程力学课程缺乏高质量的OER内容似乎是更广泛采用的主要障碍。背景与简介本研究旨在探讨开放教育资源（OER）在工程力学导论课程中的使用现状。根据威廉和弗洛拉·休利特基金会的说法：开放教育资源（OER）是指属于公共领域的教学、学习和研究资源，或者是根据知识产权许可证发布的，允许他人自由使用和重新利用这些资源。OER包括完整的课程、课程材料、模块、教科书、流媒体视频、测试、软件以及用于支持获取知识的任何其他工具、材料或技术（2019）。虽然越来越多的数据表明OER在高等教育中的使用，但很少有研究专门针对OER在工程中的使用。本研究通过对力学教师的调查和对学院和大学网站公开数据的分析，考察了OER在工程教育中的当前使用情况，并确定了在工程课程中采用的障碍。在课堂上使用OER当代替传统出版的商业内容时，OER有几个优点。首先，OER是免费使用的。在一项针对五所大型机构的研究中，研究人员发现，OER平均每节课为学生节省128美元（Senack 2015）。随着大学董事会（2017）建议学生每年为课本和其他用品编列1220至1420美元的预算，很明显，OER在降低大学成本方面具有巨大潜力。事实上，教科书成本的增长远远超过了通货膨胀率（Popken 2015），从教育工作者（Tovar&Piedra 2014）到非营利组织（William and Flora Hewlett Foundation 2019）再到立法者（Polis等人，2017），每个人都在寻求控制成本。快速增长的教科书成本不仅带来不便，还带来了获取问题。高达65%的学生因成本原因拒绝购买或租赁教科书，尽管94%的学生认为这会影响他们在该课程中的成绩（Senack 2015）。除了对学生免费之外，开放资源的许可协议也使它们从根本上更适合教师。这允许教师混合和匹配资源，在他们认为合适的时候添加自己编写的内容，并为他们用于教学的资源的演变做出贡献。虽然这种创作和改编可能需要教师额外的时间，但过去的研究表明，教师绝大多数倾向于将教育创新适应他们的环境，而不是逐字逐句地采用它们（Henderson&Dancy，2007）。创意共享和公共领域许可证的风气也成为了这一趋势，赋予了教师更多的控制权。当考察OER对学生学习的影响时，结果通常是积极的。传统出版材料和OER的大多数直接比较在学生学习成果方面都没有显示出任何优势（Allen等人，2015；Winitzky Stephens和Pickavance，2017年）。一些较小的研究发现，学习收益与OER相关（Ackovska&Ristov 2014；Llamas-Nistal&Mikic Fonte 2014；QingHua等人2014），但在许多情况下，内容交付方法发生了重大转变，而不仅仅是简单地开放内容。然而，在其他研究中，由于入学机会和负担能力的增加，观察到对学生学习的重大影响。佐治亚大学的研究人员在一项多年的全大学研究中发现，当课程在课堂上实施OER时，DFW成绩（即获得D成绩、F成绩或退出课程的学生）显著下降，同时B+和更高成绩也相应增加（Colvard等人，2018）。正如佩尔助学金资格所表明的那样，这种积极影响集中在低收入学生身上。 当每个人都有平等的访问权限，但访问权限并不平等时，OER的结构并不能使其成为比传统上为学生发布的内容更好的学习资源。OER通过使获得学习资源的机会更加公平来改善学习环境。尽管有上述考虑，2016-2017学年（Seaman&Seaman2017），OER在高等教育整体教科书市场中所占份额相对较小（9%）。这比2015-2016年的5%有了显著的增长，但仍远未达到多数。Seaman&Seaman（2017）发现，微积分、化学和物理等大型入门性多节课程的采用率最高（16.5%），OpenStax系列教材(https://openstax.org/)代表了所研究人群中开放内容的主要提供者。工程教育中的OER当具体考察OER在工程教育中所起的作用时，我们发现研究和资源更加有限。Anderson等人（2017）发现，在美国西部两所大学的图书馆员试图增加OER的使用量时，“专业高年级工程课程的资源很少。”在同一研究中报告的一项对工程系教师的调查中，作者观察到59%的受访教师对OER知之甚少或根本不熟悉。其他人承认可能的好处（降低成本和定制），但也报告了对质量和难以找到工程OER的担忧。教师的进一步回应表明，一些人使用OER来补充商业文本，而不是取代它们，这将提高人们的认识和讨论，即使高昂的教科书成本仍然是一个问题。正如作者所指出的，“在开放教育方面，一种规模并不适合所有人”，增加开放资源使用的策略可能因班而异。一些工程OER教材和资源确实存在，可以在MERLOT等存储库中找到(http://merlot.org/merlot/index.htm)或开放式教科书图书馆(https://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks)，但选择比化学、经济学、数学、物理学等“普通教育”科目更为有限。此外，可以注意到，高等教育中主要的OER出版商OpenStax（Seaman&Seaman 2017）目前没有为工程科目提供任何OER，这进一步说明了工程中这些资源的可用性有限。Tovar和Piedra（2014）对与计算机和电气工程相关的OER进行了专门的综述，但似乎没有此类综述可用于其他工程学科。总体而言，OER在工程中似乎是有限的，对OER材料的审查也有限，在工程教育背景下的研究也有限。工程教育中其他创新的采用由于工程学科中OER的采用有限，以及对工程教育中OER采用的研究有限，作者还试图研究工程教育中的其他教育创新的采用模式，以帮助阐明OER如何在社区中被采用。创新的传播，如基于问题的学习、即时反馈系统（点击器）、即时教学、思维配对共享，以及其他一些创新，都比OER的传播得到了更彻底的检查。特别是，Borrego及其同事（Borrego等人，2010；Borrego et al.2013；Borrego&Henderson 2014）在工程教育创新传播领域做了大量工作。博雷戈指出，在她的研究中，围绕学习创新的有效性进行了广泛的研究，尽管这些创新的采用率仍然很低。通过研究简单地证明教育创新的价值并不能在工程教育界得到广泛采用，这突出了理解创新传播的重要性。这一结论反映了在物理教育中所做的工作，研究发现，即使对这些创新的认识和实施这些创新的动机很高，对教学创新的采用仍然有限（Henderson&Dancy，2007；Dancy和Henderson，2010年）。Rogers创新扩散模型在Borreg
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The ACRL Science and Technology Section (STS) Professional Development commitee members administers a survey approximately every two years to section members to learn what continuing education topics members are interested in. Surveys are sent to all section members as well as to members of the STS-L mailing list. This article reports on the results of the 2018 survey.
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