bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Correlation of lipid profile with C3d and Carotid Intima-Media thickness in Type 2 Diabetic patients
Authors: Soomro Sana , Anjum Nargis , Wasi Nosheen , Najm Uzma , Zia Nuvair , Ramzan Adil
Published: July 2022

Background: Complement activation occurs in the vessel's wall as serum lipids start to get deposited, marking the beginning of atherosclerosis formation. Carotid intima-media thickness (IMT) is a widely used tool for detecting atherosclerosis. This study objective was to correlate lipid profile with C3d levels and Carotid IMT in type 2 Diabetic patients. Methodology: This case-control study comprised 120 male and female participants between 35 to 65 years of age. Of them, 90 type 2 diabetes patients were stratified according to the diabetes duration into four groups, Group A (n=30) <5 years of diabetic, Group B (n=30) 5-10 years of diabetic, Group C (n=30) >10 years diabetic and non-diabetic subjects healthy controls in Group D (n=30). The Anthropometric measurements (height, weight, and BMI), serum C3d level, carotid intima-media thickness (carotid IMT) &, serum levels of Cholesterol, Triglycerides, Low-density lipoprotein (LDL), and High-density lipoprotein (HDL) were evaluated. Results: In Type 2 Diabetic patients with moderate to high levels of serum Cholesterol, the C3d levels were found to be significantly raised (10.58 ±3.87 µg/ml and 15.37 ± 2.51 µg/ml, respectively), but Carotid IMT was increased in patients with high Cholesterol (0.98 ± 0.11 mm). Patients with moderate to high levels of Triglycerides had C3d 11.03 ± 3.85 µg/ml and 13.66 ± 4.30 µg/ml, respectively, but Carotid IMT was observed to be raised in patients with higher triglycerides levels (1.00 ± 0.11 mm). Also, in patients with moderate to high serum LDL C3d were 10.26 ± 3.10 µg/ml and 13.14 ± 4.08 µg/ml, respectively, whereas Carotid IMT was increased in patients with high levels of LDL (0.93 ± 0.13 mm). The C3d (12.12 ± 4.42 µg/ml) and Carotid IMT (0.90 ± 0.13 mm) levels were increased as HDL decreased significantly. Conclusion: Serum C3d can be used as an early marker of atherosclerosis formation, which increases as lipid levels exceed the normal range in diabetic type 2 patients compared to carotid IMT detected in patients with higher lipid parameters.
Drugs being tested against covid-19 to slow down its spread and find effective treatment: A systematic review.
Authors: Rasheed Arsalan , Νοοr Μalaika , Usman Τahir , Bilqees Rizwana , Afnan Muhammad , Gul Saira , Khan Naimat Ullah , Khattak Saadullah , Khattak Irfan , Shah Assar Ali
Published: July 2022

Background: The SARS-COV-2's spread from continent to the continent has resulted in an increased number of mutations in the viral gene encoding proteins. As a result, mutations in target proteins provide a significant challenge in creating antiviral drugs and vaccines. The present review discussed the COVID-19 epidemiology and the effects of drugs being tested against COVID-19/SARS-COV-2. Dosage of these drugs along with associated challenges was also discussed. Methodology: Systematic review was conducted after a thorough search in the "PubMed, NIH, Elsevier, Scopus, Web of Science, Science Direct, and Google Scholar database. 45 studies on drugs associated with COVID-19 fulfilled the inclusion criteria and were selected for this review. Results: The FDA only accepted the Remdesivir drug against SARS-COV-2, as the hospitalized patients recovered very quickly by taking it. Antiviral EIDD-2801 has been found to make the SARS-COV-2 unable to infect cells by causing genetic modifications in the virus RNA. Similarly, Nitazoxanide appeared beneficial against SARS-COV-2 in a primary intervention and severe conditions (including pregnancy) without undesirable effects on the newborns. Children with mild cases can be handled solely by proper caring. Conclusion: Although Remdesivir and Dexamethasone are recommended in severe cases, clinical trials are ongoing to investigate other possible therapies like MAb and Convalescent Plasma antibodies for COVID-19. Older drugs (usually used to treat other conditions) are also under-tested by researchers to see if they are effective for COVID-19. Further tests are essential to validate whether any of the mentioned above possible therapies would be helpful for COVID-19 treatment.
The principal–agent problem amid digital transformation
Authors: Popov Evgeny V. , Simonova Viktoriya L. , Cherepanov Vitaly V.
Published: July 2022

Despite the widespread use of digital technologies, the economic nature and essence of digital transformation remain understudied. The article examines the aspects of the principal–agent problem amid digital transformation, which implies replacing a person or analogue machines with digital technologies. Transformation is needed to gain additional economic advantages or improve the flexibility of the organization’s activities within the concept of Industry 4.0. The research demonstrates that the underlying economic reason for digital transformation is to solve the problem of information asymmetry and overcome the principal–agent conflict through the use of digital technologies. The concept of digital transformation and the principles of the principal–agent theory constitute the methodological basis of the study. Among the research methods were generalization, the inductive method of knowledge formation, and the assessment of the conclusions’ completeness with the involvement of theorists and practitioners in the field under consideration. The study allowed broadening the understanding of the principal–agent theory: establishing the roles of a human agent and a machine agent, as well as highlighting the essential economic aspects of digital transformation. The results obtained can be used to create digital transformation methodologies and research on the organization of labour in this field.
Industrial municipalities in economic space of traditional industrial regions: A programme for research
Authors: Dvoryadkina Elena B. , Dzhalilov Elvin V. , Istomina Natalia A.
Published: July 2022

Behind the quality of economic space of traditional industrial regions, there are various factors at play, including the performance of municipalities, among which the impact of industrial municipalities is particularly noticeable. Most of the programmes presented in the Russian academic discourse and used to assess municipalities focus on revealing trends in their socioeconomic development. At the same time, regional economics lacks methodological approaches to assessing them in a spatial context. The research aims to develop an original method for analysing and evaluating the development of industrial municipalities in economic space of traditional industrial regions. Methodologically, the study rests on spatial and municipal economics, and the concept of functional complexity. The suggested programme for research consists of five blocks. The first four blocks include the assessment of the industrial municipalities’ participation in ensuring the saturation of regional economic space, forming region’s industrial potential and its municipal economic space, and processes of strengthening functional complexity of regional economic space. The fifth block includes the calculation and interpretation of composite indicators as well as building a typology of industrial municipalities. The practical significance of the developed programme for research is that it meets the need for the assessment of industrial municipalities as a system-forming element in the economic space of traditional industrial region.
Assessing Information-Seeking Behavior of Computer Science and Engineering Faculty.
Authors: Tucci Valerie K.
Published: July 2022

This study, the first phase of a multi-phase effort, was undertaken to assess and provide for the information needs of the Faculty of the Schools of Science and Engineering at The College of New Jersey (TCNJ) in the digital age. The objectives of this phase were to: 1) gain an in-depth understanding of how computer science and engineering faculty members currently obtain information and thus influence students, 2) determine changes needed in the collection/services of the library to facilitate this information flow and implement desired change and 3) share this experience so other librarians may question whether their faculty members also feel misunderstood and 4) initiate a dialogue with faculty members to obtain their perspective and insight. Focus Group standardized protocol with a trained facilitator and recorder was employed to gather qualitative data from 47% of the computer science and engineering faculty. The facilitator employed a pre-designed guide to elicit responses about current and desired library collections and services. Nine major information behaviors or issues were identified as needing to be addressed. From this feedback, collection/services changes were implemented to support the positive information behaviors and to overcome barriers to enhancing students' information literacy and life-long learning skills while assuring faculty members that their needs were heard and understood. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Essential Readings in e-Science
Authors: Szigeti Kathy , Wheeler Kathy
Published: July 2022

The amount of data that scientists produce continues to increase every year. People are needed to handle, preserve, describe, and organize that data, and, because many of these tasks are similar to what librarians have done with publications for centuries, it makes sense that librarians would have a role in the emerging task of managing scientific data. It is the purpose of this paper to give librarians a core set of readings to turn to in order to begin learning about this new task in our field; to help us, as individuals and as a profession, understand what our roles will be in the area of "e-Science." [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Searching Inorganic Substances in SciFinder.
Authors: Wagner A. Ben
Published: July 2022

The primary goal of this article is to assist researchers and librarians to accurately and completely search Chemical Abstracts Service's (CAS) SciFinder web-based system for inorganic substances, excepting coordination compounds. CAS indexing policies and conventions in handling the wide variety of inorganic materials are described in detail. Detailed search strategies for retrieving salts, oxides, sulfides, minerals, alloys, metal clusters, tabular inorganics, indeterminate derivatives, and unknown/variable compositions are reviewed. Although this article is of primary value for SciFinder researchers, the analysis of how CAS handles inorganics will be of use to searchers regardless of the platform used to access Chemical Abstracts information. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood
Authors: Vella Lia
Published: July 2022

The article reviews the book “The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood,” by James Gleick.
Mathematicians' Views on Current Publishing Issues: A Survey of Researchers.
Authors: Fowler Kristine K.
Published: July 2022

This article reports research mathematicians' attitudes about and activity in specific scholarly communication areas, as captured in a 2010 survey of more than 600 randomly-selected mathematicians worldwide. Key findings include: Most mathematicians have papers in the arXiv, but posting to their own web pages remains more common; A third of mathematicians have published papers in open access (OA) journals, with speed of publication being seen as the primary advantage over traditional journals, but there is substantial philosophical opposition to OA journal models that charge author fees; Tenure and promotion criteria influence publishing decisions even among most tenured faculty members; Mathematicians want to keep more rights to their publications than they have been allowed, but they have a high success rate in negotiating with publishers for more; Online collaboration tools, such as Google Groups, are not yet widely used for research but their use is expected to rise in the near future. Reasons behind the mathematics culture of openness were also explored. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Government Policy Resources for Science and Technology Topics: A Case Study.
Authors: Prescod Janette , Leach Sandra , Mack Thura
Published: July 2022

Research librarians should be literate in locating government resources at both federal and state levels. Although assistance with policy research may not be as frequently requested as other subjects, librarians need to be knowledgeable in this subject area. Policy resources produced by federal and state legislative and executive agencies can be challenging to locate and interpret. This article examines congressional and other governmental sources of policy information using an environmental catastrophe, the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) Coal Ash Spill in Kingston, Tennessee, as a case study to illustrate an approach to researching environmental policy information. Information on the Coal Ash Spill is an example of a request that might be received at any research assistance desk employing a cadre of librarians with specialization in various disciplines, including science and technology. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Science and Technology Resources: A Guide for Information Professionals and Researchers.
Authors: Larsen Peter
Published: July 2022

The article reviews the book "Science and Technology Resources: A Guide for Information Professionals and Researchers," by James E. Bobick and G. Lynn Berard.
The Use of Online Current Awareness Services by Natural Sciences and Engineering Faculty at Western Michigan University.
Authors: Leatherman Carrie C. , Eckel Edward J.
Published: July 2022

Nearly every commercial database that covers natural sciences and engineering offers some type of current awareness (CA) service that provides regular updates to users on current literature in a selected field of interest. Current awareness services include e-mail alerts, tables of contents, and RSS feeds. This study was designed to find out what percentage of natural sciences and engineering faculty at Western Michigan University (WMU) uses online CA services, what types of CA tools they use, how useful they find these tools, and whether faculty would be interested in a library training session that covered such tools. We invited WMU natural sciences and engineering faculty to take a 13-question survey. We found that e-mail alerts were the most often-used CA service; few researchers used RSS feeds. Most researchers used the services to alert them to research in a specific subject area. Awareness of other researchers in specific areas was the most frequently cited contribution of CA services. A significant number of natural sciences and engineering faculty at WMU would be interested in library instruction about CA services, although whether they would take advantage of such instruction is uncertain. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Gauging Workplace Readiness: Assessing the Information Needs of Engineering Co-op Students.
Authors: Jeffryes Jon , Lafferty Meghan
Published: July 2022

Librarians at the Science and Engineering Library at the University of Minnesota surveyed engineering students participating in a work placement as part of the cooperative education program. The survey asked about students' on-the-job information usage, comfort level accessing different types of engineering literature, and experience learning to use specific resources. All respondents indicated having to find some sort of information during their work placement. Industry standards and books had particularly high usage. A variety of levels of comfort and history of instruction were also reported. The goal of this study was to get a better idea of the practical information needs that undergraduate engineering students could expect to encounter in the workplace and better tailor our information literacy instruction to meet those needs in the future. These findings will further strengthen our case for curriculum integration in future conversations with engineering faculty. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Statewide Spatial Data Clearinghouses: an Oregon Case Study.
Authors: Wirth Andrea A. , Avery Bonnie , Walsh Kuuipo , Rempel Marc
Published: July 2022

Collaborative planning to streamline as well as to provide citizens with easier access to geospatial data has a long history in Oregon. A milestone in this process was the launch of the Oregon Spatial Data Library (OSDL) in November 2009. The OSDL provides a method for sharing public domain geospatial data at no cost to the user and is part of Oregon's participation in the National Spatial Data Infrastructure (NSDI ). This article reviews the nationwide setting for development of the NSDI and subsequent development of state geospatial clearinghouses. The paper first reviews these clearinghouses with a specific focus on five user-centric characteristics: keyword search options; availability of training or documentation; ease of access to metadata; presence of locally unique data; and calls for data or metadata contributions. These characteristics address the perspective of users who are neither GIS experts nor familiar with the clearinghouses. Information literacy concepts and the literature review informed the selection of the characteristics used in the review. The OSDL is reviewed in the same manner with the intention of commenting on steps which might be taken to make it more effective in the future. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
The Unbearable Lightness of Data: Touloukian's Quest and Why It Still Matters.
Authors: Flaxbart David
Published: July 2022

The author discusses the work of physicist Y. S. Touloukian on information retrieval which is the "Retrieval Guide." It was Touloukian's try to resolve the problem of using text to search for numbers by coming up with an evaluated bibliography of publications reporting physical property data for various materials.
Managing Research Data.
Authors: Eaker Christopher
Published: July 2022

The article reviews the book "Managing Research Data" edited by G. Pryor.
Identifying Liaison Opportunities through Content Analysis: Academic Library Trends in the Ecological Society of America's Conference Program.
Authors: Conklin Jamie L.
Published: July 2022

Science and technology librarians need to continually invest time into professional development activities to gain new skills relevant to the faculty and students they serve. Many academic libraries face diminishing budgets and have few travel dollars available for attendance at library and subject-specific conferences. This study determined that a content analysis of a subject- specific conference would be a useful substitute for attendance. I analyzed the 2012 conference program of the Ecological Society of America (ESA) to identify trends shared by ecology faculty and librarians, as well as the most frequently occurring trends and topics. The analysis categorized the 470 sessions by trends identified in the ACRL 2012 T op Trends in Academic Libraries and found that the most frequent trend was communicating value with 51 sessions, followed by higher education with 23 sessions, data curation and staffing with 17 sessions, and information technology with 16 sessions. Some frequently discussed topics included climate change, ecosystem services, plant communities, forests, food webs, and invasive species. Content analysis proved useful for identifying possible collaborative areas with ecology faculty for the benefit of librarians and faculty, as well as pinpointing specific areas and resources for collection development, instruction, and reference. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Creative Destruction and Library Services.
Authors: Hutchinson Alvin
Published: July 2022

The article describes how the Internet has pushed libraries to adopt a self-service model. With the licensing of online journal content, finding and retrieving articles no longer requires a visit to the library or the interlibrary loan office. Moreover, with reduced library visitorship due to more desirable digital delivery services, science librarians have to change their way of operating and to develop more direct-to-reader services.
The Ants Go Marching: Interns' and Librarians' Roles in a Global Collaboration.
Authors: Barr Dorothy
Published: July 2022

AntWiki was created "to provide a wealth of information on the world's ants." The wiki gathers contributions from ant experts worldwide and makes the information accessible to anyone with an Internet connection. Part of AntWiki began as the Global Ant Project, GAP, an online bibliography designed to bring together the work of ant taxonomists past and present, with brief biographies and also pictures of each scientist whenever available. This paper describes how five Simmons College Graduate School of Library & Information Science (GSLIS) students worked on GAP and AntWiki, finding and collecting PDFs of articles; posting online those that are out of copyright; searching for and uploading portraits of taxonomists; and creating a page on Antwiki on Human Culture and Ants. The project thus became a collaboration of researchers, librarians and library students to further the world's knowledge of ants, the "little creatures that run the world" in E.O. Wilson's words (Upton 1995). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Liberating the Publications of a Distinguished Scholar: A Pilot Project.
Authors: Kelly Julie
Published: July 2022

Many distinguished scholars published the primary corpus of their work before the advent of online journals, which makes it more challenging to access. Upon being approached by a distinguished Emeritus Professor seeking advice about getting his work posted online, librarians at the University of Minnesota worked to gain copyright permissions to scan and upload older works to the University's Digital Conservancy (UDC). This project then uniquely took the process one step further, using the sharing option of RefWorks to make these works accessible to the widest possible audience while concurrently offering the sophisticated functionality of a citation manager. With open access repositories gaining acceptance as an authoritative long-term venue for making resources available online, including older content that can be digitized, the methods developed in this pilot project could easily be followed by others, thus greatly increasing access to older literature from distinguished scholars. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Electronic Lab Notebooks: Supporting Laboratory Data in the Digital Era.
Authors: Bogdan Kristin , Flowers Themba , Themba.flowers@yale.edu
Published: July 2022

This article focuses on the collaboration of Yale University Library (YUL) and Information Technology Services (ITS) to introduce a service providing institutional support for electronic lab notebooks (ELN). Topics discussed the process involved in choosing a product, support considerations and the alternative steps that the groups might have taken. The outcome of the effort are explored.
The Evolution of Library Instruction Delivery in the Chemistry Curriculum Informed by Mixed Assessment Methods.
Authors: Mandernach Meris A. , Shorish Yasmeen , Reisner Barbara A.
Published: July 2022

As information continues to evolve over time, the information literacy expectations for chemistry students also change. This article examines transformations to an undergraduate chemistry course that focuses on chemical literature and information literacy and is co-taught by a chemistry professor and a chemistry librarian. This article also describes results from assessment of both content knowledge and student perception, and discusses how the assessment was used to inform changes to the course. This type of student assessment and evaluation has not previously been examined in the delivery of required undergraduate chemistry information courses. Since this course has used in-person, online, and blended delivery methods, the article describes what students can learn from online modules, and where they need more intensive classroom instruction. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
OA Article Charges: Good Business, Bad Business, or Just More Business?
Authors: Warren Scott
Published: July 2022

The author argues that it is not cost-effective for libraries to pay open access (OA) article charges. The author explains how OA charges will become a supplementary cost for libraries if they decide to pay for individual articles authored on their campus to be published OA. The author suggests a prudent approach for libraries to support OA initiatives.
Information Literacy in Mathematics Undergraduate Education: Where Does It Stand Today?
Authors: Bussmann Jeffra Diane , Bond Jeffrey D.
Published: July 2022

The published literature on information literacy in mathematics is relatively sparse. This article explores the current state of information literacy initiatives in undergraduate mathematics. The authors survey academic librarians (n=118) who liaise with mathematics departments in order to gain an understanding of their practices and attitudes towards this area. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Science Outreach through Art: A Journal Article Cover Gallery
Authors: McCullough Ian
Published: July 2022

Research faculty journal covers were used to create a gallery in the Science & Technology branch library at the University of Akron. The selection, presentation, and promotion process is shared along with copyright considerations and a review of galleries used for library outreach. The event and display was a great success attracting faculty and administration that had rarely if ever entered the library. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Personal Outreach in a Virtual World
Authors: Wagner A. Ben
Published: July 2022

For all the wonders of social media and other forms of virtual communications, I still find the most successful outreach programs are face to face. The power of personal contact is as old as the human race. In today's world, think of the impact a hand-written letter or a phone call has in the midst of our daily flood of e-mail and cell phone texts. In the same way, I am convinced that face-to-face outreach usually has the same high impact because it is increasingly rare. Is not one of the main objectives of the current interest in embedded librarians direct personal contact with patrons?
Let me describe the three most successful outreach programs I have engaged in during my 15-year career as an academic science librarian. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
STS Research Agenda Task Force Report.
Authors: Baruzzi Andrea , Osorio Nestor
Published: July 2022

The article focuses on a study conducted by the Research Agenda Task Force of the Science and Technology Section of the Association of College and Research Libraries in the fall of 2013 to capture current and future research areas. The survey is aimed at guiding professional practice as well as shaping the curriculum of future library and information science programs. Other topics discussed include survey results and recommendations.
Research Data Management Self-Education for Librarians: A Webliography.
Authors: Goben Abigail , Raszewski Rebecca
Published: July 2022

The article offers information on websites about research data management, including California Digital Library DMPTools Webinars available at http://dmptool.org/community resources, New England Collaborative Data Management Curriculum available at http://library.umassmed.edu/necdmc and Lynda available at www.lynda.com/.
Preserving the Digital Record of Science and Engineering: the Challenge of New Forms of Grey Literature.
Authors: Musser Linda
Published: July 2022

Research communications today are largely conducted by digital means. At this time, however, only a small percentage of these digital communiques are archived and preserved for future use. This article provides an overview of the challenge of this digital grey literature, a brief overview of digital archiving, and the role librarians and researchers can play in facilitating the availability and accessibility of these resources for future generations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Make an Exhibit of Yourself: Reaching Out to Faculty and Students Through Exhibits.
Authors: Barr Dorothy
Published: July 2022

There is general agreement among librarians today that we need to rethink our roles, find new ways to reach out to our patrons, and raise our library's profile in the wider community. Showcasing library resources is an important way to demonstrate our relevance to our wider institutions. One way this has traditionally been done has been through exhibits. These have usually been within or right outside the library and have displayed treasures such as old books, manuscripts, prints, or other objects from the collections, new books or ones written by faculty at the institution. Today, however, many science librarians find that with so much now available online, a substantial proportion of their patrons rarely if ever set foot in the physical library, making it important to find new ways to raise awareness of library resources and services. Creating exhibits outside the physical library and involving faculty and students in their creation is one way to make the library more visible. Adding an online component such as an accompanying LibGuide further enhances the library's profile. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Lifelong Learning and Science Media Education: Opportunities for Libraries?
Authors: Fosmire Michael
Published: July 2022

The article focuses on higher education framework related to science media education which includes information on science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) libraries and literacy competency standards of Association of College & Research Libraries.
How Chemistry Graduate Students and Researchers are Finding and Using Chemical Information: Findings from Interviews in a Chinese University.
Authors: Yuening Zhang
Published: July 2022

Although scholarship has addressed issues around serving international students in U.S. and Canadian libraries, reports on how Chinese graduate students use information in Chinese universities, especially for a particular discipline, are rare. In this study, the author interviewed 15 graduate students and researchers in a top-ranked chemistry program in Beijing, China, in July 2015. The study focused on six areas: use of print and e-books; use of databases; the status of chemical information instruction; awareness of interlibrary loan and copyright; knowledge of open access and data management; and use of reference management tools. Findings from the study will benefit both chemistry and science librarians who work with international students in chemistry and related areas from China, as many of the graduate students interviewed will pursue a postdoctoral experience in the U.S. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Analysis of Citations to Books in Chemistry PhD Dissertations in an Era of Transition.
Authors: Flaxbart David
Published: July 2022

A citation analysis of chemistry PhD dissertations at the University of Texas at Austin yielded data on how often graduate students cite books in their bibliographies, and on the characteristics of the books cited, in terms of age and local ownership. The analysis examined samples of dissertations selected from five discrete years - 198: 200: 2009, 201: and 2015 - in order to provide longitudinal data on how citation trends are changing during a transition period in libraries. Data indicated that chemistry graduate students cited low numbers of books relative to journal articles, confirming expectations from similar studies, and that the trend over the time period studied is downward, despite the increasing number and availability of e-books. The results could inform collection management decisions and strategies for promoting book content to graduate students in future. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Using Scopus to Evaluate the Citation Habits of a "Real World" Academic Department (An Update to Prior Research)
Authors: Cusker Jeremy
Published: July 2022

In 2012, this author published a paper describing a method for using the raw data from Web of Science to examine the journals cited by any given group of researchers and then compare that list to lists of 'top journals' of similar disciplines. It was not a straightforward method to use and required a great deal of effort and spreadsheet work by a user in order to properly deploy. Since that time, the Scopus database has made available a workflow that vastly simplifies -- and, indeed, improves -- this process. In this paper, a method of using Scopus to generate expanded lists of highly cited journals within specific research communities and the comparison of those with published lists of journals for similar disciplines is described. The value of finding these top-cited journals in research communities may be useful to librarians making collection development decisions.
Online World '99, Chicago, October 25-27, 1999
Authors: Shrode Flora G.
Published: July 2022

The article summarizes interesting presentations from the OnlineWorld conference in Chicago in 1999.
Communication and Information Models for the New Millennium: Scientists and Librarians Face the Future STS 2000 Program ALA Annual Conference, July 10, 2000
Authors: Newby Jill
Published: July 2022

This article summarizes the annual STS program at ALA Annual in 2000. The program featured four speakers who exemplified how scholarly communication channels are changing and reflect librarians' roles in this evolving new communication system.
Building Digital Archives for Scientific Information
Authors: Solla Leah
Published: July 2022

The article discusses several digitial archives for scientific literature, including Project PRISM, the Electronic Mathematics Archives Initiative (EMANI), Project Euclid, the Digital Mathematics Library (DML), and arXiv.
Leaving Science for LIS: Interviews and a Survey of Librarians with Scientific and Technical Degrees
Authors: Hallmark Julie , Lembo Mary Frances
Published: July 2022

This research addresses why scientists and engineers choose to become librarians and information scientists and how the library profession can identify and encourage these newcomers. Presented as a panel discussion at the 2001 Annual Conference of the Special Libraries Association, the questions addressed in this research reflect the concerns of LIS professionals as they recruit librarians who have scientific or technical backgrounds. Results from interviews and a survey posted on selected mailing lists reveal details of career shifts from science and engineering to LIS. An influential factor in such moves was personal recruitment by LIS professionals.
Information-Seeking Habits of Environmental Scientists: A Study of Interdisciplinary Scientists at the Environmental Protection Agency in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina
Authors: Murphy Janet
Published: July 2022

This study describes a questionnaire survey of interdisciplinary scientists conducting research at The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina. The survey was conducted to gain a clearer picture of how the interdisciplinary scientist seeks information, and in particular how the interdisciplinary scientist manages his/her time in regard to information-gathering tasks. Results indicate that many participants have at least some difficulty in keeping up with research in their field(s) of study in regard to time. As a result, many participants do at least some of their information-gathering in their off-time or delegate certain research responsibilities to others.
Staying on Top of Agbiotech—An International Perspective
Authors: Hemming David
Published: July 2022

Article discusses agricultural biotechnology, a rapidly moving field at the interface of science and commerce that operates in a constantly changing political landscape.
Building a RefWorks Database of Faculty Publications as a Liaison and Collection Development Tool
Authors: Marsalis Scott , Kelly Julia
Published: July 2022

Using RefWorks, a web-based citation manager, we constructed databases containing the publications of the faculty members for four departments on the St. Paul campus of the University of Minnesota. The goals were to learn more about the research interests in the departments and to have a tool to help inform us when trying to make decisions about book purchases and journal cancellations. A few unexpected challenges were encountered and a number of unexpected benefits emerged.
Agriculture Journal Literature Indexed in Life Sciences Databases
Authors: Kawasaki Jodee L.
Published: July 2022

A variety of life sciences databases are available for libraries to purchase and for users to search. The purpose of this study was to discover which of these databases cover the agricultural journal literature for comprehensive searching and results. I compared the seven life sciences databases against the primary agriculture journals. The comparison results were mixed as to the databases' subject coverage. CAB Abstracts, an agricultural information database, had the best results; however, other databases with specific agriculture subject coverage were interspersed among more general life sciences databases when the total results were compared. The complete list in order from the most comprehensive coverage to the least coverage is CAB Abstracts, Web of Science, AGRIS, BIOSIS, Agricola, CSA Life Sciences, and Biological & Agricultural Index.
Comparing Journal Use Between Biology Faculty and Undergraduate Students
Authors: Kraus Joseph R.
Published: July 2022

From 1997 through 200: the faculty in the Biological Sciences Department at the University of Denver wrote 90 articles that were indexed by Thomson/ISI's Science Citation Index. Using data from this database, a list of the sources cited by the faculty was prepared. There were a total of :942 citations, and most of those citations were to journal articles. The top cited journal list was compared to a list of journals our biology students used. Many of the journals in the top 20 were co-listed, but for less cited journals, the faculty used many other journals for their research. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Ask a Science Librarian
Authors: Clifton Margaret
Published: July 2022

Discusses the reason behind the ability of a spider to walk across a ceiling without falling. Anatomy of spiders; Details of the study taken by a German and Swiss scientific team at the University of Zurich, Switzerland to examine spider legs; Description of van der Waals forces.
Evidence-Based Practice for Information Professionals: A Handbook
Authors: Anton Bette
Published: July 2022

Reviews the book "Evidence-Based Practice for Information Professionals: A Handbook," edited by Andrew Booth and Anne Brice.
Capital Improvement: One Northern Virginia Library's Support of Life-Saving Programs.
Authors: Hannan Heather Groves , Shelton Victoria , Fleming William , Meacham Nicki Trosclair
Published: July 2022

The article features the National Center for Biodefense and Infectious Diseases (NCB) at George Mason University in Northern Virginia. A brief background on the university is offered. An overview of the biomedical research services at the center is presented. Information on the new graduate programs offered by NCB in the fall of 2003 is given.
Surveying Graduate and Professional Students' Perspectives on Library Services, Facilities and Collections at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign: Does Subject Discipline Continue to Influence Library Use?
Authors: Chrzastowski Tina E. , Joseph Lura
Published: July 2022

The University Library at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) Services Advisory Committee has established a program to create a regular rotation of patron surveys. The program is an effort to answer basic questions about attitudes towards the library's services, facilities and collections. Modeled directly after those surveys designed and carried out at the University of Washington Libraries, the UIUC plan calls for an annual rotation of three surveys, each focused on a different user group. The first group surveyed (spring 2004) consisted of graduate and professional students, to be followed by undergraduate students (spring 2005) and faculty (spring 2006). Surveys will be conducted annually thereafter so that each user group will be surveyed every three years. Results from the first UIUC web survey, with 1400 respondents, revealed that graduate and professional students are very satisfied with their library experiences and the pattern of responses by subject discipline corresponds with the findings of Hiller (2002) at the University of Washington, but with some predicted shifts. "How-tos" for the web survey are discussed and included, along with a link to two sets of data analyses. In addition, lessons learned from the survey experience are discussed and suggestions are made for the presentation of data to successfully communicate survey results to decision makers. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Library as Laboratory: Computer Science Students Practice Usability Engineering in an Academic Library.
Authors: Mellinger Margaret
Published: July 2022

This article presents a project-based collaboration between a usability engineering (UE) course and the campus library. Student teams developed UE projects based on usability issues they identified in the library's web-based and information technology services. Using the library as a focal point, students practiced common UE methods such as ethnomethodological observation, web usability evaluation, and an iterative prototype process based on cycles of design, testing and evaluation. At the end of the term, teams of students presented their novel solutions to library staff as part of their final grade. Other academic librarians may find inspiration to pursue similar partnerships on their own campuses.
Entrez and BLAST: Precision and Recall in Searches of NCBI Databases.
Authors: O'Grady Tina
Published: July 2022

This project analyzes the results of searches for genes and proteins in the NCBI databases Gene, RefSeq RNA and RefSeq Protein. Corresponding searches were performed using the search programs Entrez and BLAST, and search recall and precision were calculated. The findings demonstrate the different types of result sets that can be expected from using different search programs and settings. Also, some unexpected results indicate that the default search settings are not optimal for all searches; an important aspect of searching which information professionals should remember and communicate to researchers [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
How Much Space Does a Library Need? Justifying Collections Space in an Electronic Age.
Authors: Butkovich Nancy J.
Published: July 2022

In 2002, plans to merge Penn State's Physical Sciences Library and Mathematics Library provoked a controversy in the Eberly College of Science over the size of the library needed to support its departments. The College contended that a physical collection no more than 5 years old was adequate. A study of astronomy, chemistry, mathematics, physics, and statistics faculty publications showed that a much older collection was required to include 90% of their cited references. How much older varied by discipline. These data were then used to determine collection space allocations in the new library. A follow-up study in 2007 found that the patterns were generally still valid. Although the results are specific to Penn State, the data may be similar to other U.S. institutions with similar degree programs. The method is easily adaptable to other institutions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Learning the Collection: a New Librarian's Experience in Collection Management.
Authors: Lewin Heather
Published: July 2022

A personal narrative is presented which explores the author's experience of having to learn collection management as a librarian at the Iowa State University.
1995 Midwinter STS Meeting Schedule
Authors: Llull Harry L.
Published: July 2022

A listing of events in the STS meeting schedule for the 1995 Midwinter Meeting Philadelphia, PA, February 3-7, 1995.
New Perspective to Measuring Interdependence among Stock, Oil and Currency Markets: A Canonical Correlation Analysis
Authors: Ayodeji Idowu Oluwasayo
Published: July 2022

With a view to explaining various seemingly-contrasting results often reported in financial linkages literature, the study investigates the possibility of the existence of more than one unique relationship among stock, oil and currency markets. It also quantified the impact of selected macroeconomic variables on these relationships. Three prominent markets of stock, oil and exchange rates were examined from the United States, United Kingdom and Nigeria. The model adopted was the canonical correlation specification. Canonical solution identified two significant unique association patterns each among US, UK and Nigerian markets, indicating that their linkages vary with time. We also observed that the effect of macroeconomic variables on the link among financial markets vary by country and data frequency. Overall, inflation rates played the most significant role in the linkages among financial markets. The study concluded that the previous results on interdependence among financial markets are not conflicting but rather complimentary as they evidenced the multiple patterns of association among markets.
Bayesian-Structural Equation Modeling on Learning Motivation of Undergraduate Students During Covid-19 Outbreak
Authors: Marliana Reny Rian , Suhayati Maya , Handayani N. Sri Bekti
Published: July 2022

The aim of this study is to explore the relationship model between e-learning readiness, self-directed learning readiness, and learning motivation of the students at STMIK Sumedang during the COVID-19 outbreak. Bayesian-Structural Equation Modeling and Markov Chain Monte Carlo Algorithm are used in the estimation of the parameters. The posterior distribution is formed using informative prior i.e., inverse-Gamma distribution on variance parameters, inverse-Wishart distribution on residual covariance, and normal distribution on other parameters of the model. The calculation is performed using the blavaan package on R-Software version 4.1.0 with 19000 iteration and 9000 samples of burn-in period. Data were taken from 214 samples of the students at STMIK Sumedang. The outcome from the calculation showed there is a significant effect from self-directed learning readiness to motivation learning of students and there is no significant effect from e-learning readiness to learning motivation. The direct effect on learning motivation is 7.25 from self-directed learning readiness and 0.045 from e-learning readiness.
Application of Fuzzy C-Means and Weighted Scoring Methods for Mapping Blankspot Villages in Pemalang Regency
Authors: Adiyana Imam , Sumertajaya I Made , Afendi Farit M
Published: July 2022

Covid-19 pandemic affects habits people around the world. The education sector in Indonesia is also undergoing policy changes, namely policy of transitioning face-to-face teaching and learning process to distance learning process (PJJ/online learning). Several studies have been conducted to examine the constraints PJJ process, resulting in finding that quality of internet network is majority obstacle in PJJ process. Conditions where there is no internet network in an area is commonly called a blankspot. In order to minimize the problem of blankspots, President and Ministry of Communication and Informatics of Indonesia realized the program "Indonesia is free signals to the corners of the country". This program involves all districts in Indonesia to conduct network quality surveys in the smallest areas of the village.  Basically, network quality survey activities require relatively no small resources and costs. So as to conduct the efficiency of field survey activities, early detection of village blankspot status is required based on the characteristics blankspot village in general. While the commonly used method of grouping village based on village characteristics is the fuzzy c-means and weighted scoring method. These two methods were chosen because they have good cluster convergence rate and easily interpreted display results of the group by user in the form diagrams and scores. This study aims to prove that fuzzy c-means and weighted scoring method are good for grouping cases of blankspot villages according to previous studies with different cases. The result comparison goodness value of clustering, it is known that fuzzy c-means method more suitable for clustering characteristics blankspot village than the k-means method. Meanwhile, weighted scoring method cannot be said better method for village classification than the decision tree method.