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Show moreThe journal impact factor remains a controversial metric and its widespread adoption has critical implications for the development of open access journals not indexed by the Web of Science. The present study evolved from collaborations with editors of a small open-access locally published social sciences journal to assess its global reach and research value according to the professed scope and mission of the journal. Using a combination of Google Scholar and BePress data, we built a customized multifaceted framework to measure the success of this journal beyond citation counts. Our analysis incorporated the bibliometric concepts of popularity and prestige, as well as measures of readership and global reach in order to quantify the journal’s impact for prospective contributors. This poster will highlight the issues and benefits of using various types of data available to assess the impact of a journal.
The topic of this poster is based on the article by the authors: Solomon, D., & Eddy, M. (2019). Impact Assessment of Non-Indexed Open Access Journals: A Case Study. portal: Libraries and the Academy, 19(2), 329-352. Retrieved from http://muse.jhu.edu/article/721428.
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Show morePilot research project for photogrammetry in the field with regard to cultural heritage preservation. Created for Research ShowCASE, Case Western Reserve University 2019.
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Show moreCollection development is challenging for academic libraries due to the rising cost of e-resources. Over the past five years, the Case Western Reserve University Library has been experimenting with new ways to actively address these issues through specific strategic initiatives. We have been successful in reallocating one-time funds to user-driven purchasing initiatives, such as demand-driven and evidence based acquisitions models. Our usage data proves these models are cost-effective and aid in the research process by offering a wealth of content at the user’s point of need. This initiative has demonstrated that small changes can make a big impact and show value to our stakeholders.
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Show moreWhile digitization is not a digital preservation plan, methods used to execute digitization work can support future preservation efforts. Our approach in supporting digital preservation work is to conduct image analysis of the camera and resulting images to ensure FADGI compliance. Ensuring the quality of our preservation files increases the reliability of their survival in a digital preservation storage environment. This presentation covers how to use device and object level targets during the imaging process, what the importance of those targets are, and how exactly they're used to analyze the quality and accuracy of a camera's output. Running images through the Golden Thread software results in many points of data that enable us to understand our output from a scientific perspective. We will demonstrate how we review our analysis results and determine the necessary adjustments to make in our capture process for true FADGI compliance.
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Show moreThis essay is the result of an ongoing collaboration among an English faculty member (Kimberly Emmons), a humanities research librarian (William Claspy), and a special collections director (Melissa Hubbard). We work at a private research university, with an undergraduate population of approximately five thousand students. Our campus is best known for its scientific, medical, and engineering research and innovation. Accomplish- ments in the arts and humanities are equally robust, but undergraduates in these fields nevertheless find themselves justifying their interests to a more pragmatic and professionally oriented peer group. Initially, our collaboration was a simple show-and-tell activity meant to give students in the history of the English language (HEL) access to special collections materials. We wanted to offer them an experience that their peers in large science courses were not having. Our ongoing collaboration has led us to rethink this model of an impressive, but isolated, encounter; we now design activities that encourage students to use the library as a laboratory for exploring the English language. We have learned, along with our students, that a research library can be a productive space for asking and answering questions about the history and future of the English language. Regardless of the depth of a school’s collections, we argue that integrating library resources (human, textual, and digital) into HEL courses is an opportunity to engage our students and broaden our learning outcomes.
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Show moreReview of Science in the Archives, an edited volume of 12 essays that emerged from a working group held at the Max Planck Institute for History and Science in 2013 and 2014. This working group sought to “develop a shared framework for thinking about how the sciences choose to remember past findings and plan future research” (p. vii). The quest for such a shared framework, by necessity, calls for the crossing of long-standing temporal and disciplinary boundaries that artificially silo and separate. Drawing together a cohort of practitioners to build such a framework is no easy task, but this compendium hits its mark and is an exemplar of the new interdisciplinary tack emerging in forward-thinking corners of academia.
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Show moreFor decades libraries have contributed a wealth of knowledge and data into Sierra. By connecting to Sierra’s back-end PostgreSQL server through Tableau, a data-visualization software, librarians will have access to analyze this data in a completely new and innovative way. This presentation will demonstrate how to unlock the potential of Sierra with Tableau by connecting the two softwares, showing how to access and connect multiple Sierra tables, and provide example visualizations of collection data.
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Show moreThe academic book business has many moving parts and libraries are one of them. To hypothesize on the future, I will examine how libraries influence the market today. Delving into what I see as a librarian might help to give context to the larger discussion.
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Show moreThis report is an investigation of the research practices of faculty and research staff who utilize or support data science or “big data” methodologies at Case Western Reserve University (CWRU). The study was conducted by librarians and library staff within the Kelvin Smith Library (KSL) in collaboration with staff within CWRU University Technology ([U]tech), and was part of national selection of parallel studies occurring at public and private academic institutions throughout North America.
This report will be included in a larger report compiled and submitted by Ithaka S+R in 2022.
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Show moreIn this chapter, the authors describe the learning experience and goals of a class assignment to write content for Wikipedia about women in science and technology fields. The authors, a university professor and two librarians, collaboratively developed this assignment to allow students to engage in rigorous research and contribute to the visibility of women scientists by writing content for the web. The authors chose the Wikipedia platform as the means to make the students’ work openly available because of its ubiquity and the potential for student work to make an important impact. The assignment, used in two iterations of the course, was designed to provide students not only with a hands-on experience on working on the open web, but also with tools to assess critically the uses and abuses of open access platforms.
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Show moreThrough lessons learned over the past 20 years of digitizing materials, it is apparent that we need to (re)structure our digitization program specifically around human action for sustainability. New technology leads to improved imaging techniques, which ultimately drives best practices in the cultural heritage field. These changes pose challenges not just to KSL, but to all institutions who invest their resources to meet current standards, only to have those standards change a few years later. Time and experience has helped us understand that sustaining the digitization and stewardship of digital collections require as much, if not more, infrastructure, staffing, and other various resources as our physical collections do. Given this challenge, we will consider what human actions support the long-term efforts of digitization and describe the value and impact those actions will have on our ability to foster partnerships beyond the university.
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Show moreThis poster reflects an ongoing project to study the nature of the “digital librarian.” In this poster, we analyze 2017 postings from Code4Lib’s job board with job titles that include the words “digital” and “librarian” in any combination. We use NVivo and text-mining tools to look for patterns (or lack thereof) in the responsibilities, skills, and educational requirements for these positions. This work is a timely update on the evolving nature of digital librarians, and it offers a fresh and well-needed scholarly perspective on larger changes to library employment practices. As a former archaeologist and a former actress, we now find ourselves working as Digital Learning and Scholarship Librarians. A growing number of individuals are, likewise, following similarly non-traditional pathways to the library, and rightly so. The job market for new graduates across fields is perilous and many of the digital needs of libraries are going unmet. A deeper understanding of the prevailing skills that one must cultivate to become employable as a digital librarian is needed.
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Show moreThe Kelvin Smith Library at Case Western Reserve University has experience in both print and electronic Demand Driven Acquisitions. Now, we are experimenting with on-demand streaming media with the help of Kanopy, a distributor of online videos from a variety of popular documentary filmmakers and producers. This poster will cover our library's implementation strategies, integration with our discovery layer and ILS, outcomes from the initial months of the pilot, usage statistics and assessment, as well as user feedback.
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