Traditional methods of collections evaluation and assessment that focus on the journal container are increasingly in tension with both user experience and academic discovery systems design, both of ...which prioritize the individual item or article. This paper explores the potential applications and limitations of a new metric, the full text coverage ratio (FTCR), for revealing new insights about academic serials collections. Given a discovery service search that represents a particular subject area, the FTCR is the ratio between the number of items returned by a search scoped to full text and its corresponding "expanded" or un-scoped search. While the idea itself offers the potential for valuable and actionable insights, it may be that further analysis and refinement is required before it can be more widely adopted. This paper will describe these ratios in more detail, explain how they can be calculated, discuss some premises or prerequisites they require, present some of their limitations, briefly describe an application already pursued at one particular institution, and suggest additional applications and potential future directions for research in this area.
The government has issued a series of environmental laws and regulations to solve ecological problems, regulate environmental pollution, and drive enterprises to carry out green innovations. This ...paper constructs a theoretical framework of environmental protection subsidies, environmental tax collection, and enterprise green innovation by taking the China A-share manufacturing listed enterprises as a research sample. Further, we explore the contingency impact of the market-expected performance gap and market competition on the enterprise green innovation. The empirical results show that there is a linear positive driving relationship between environmental protection subsidies and enterprise green innovation. The relationship between environmental tax collection and enterprise green innovation is a U-shaped relationship that first inhibits and then promotes. The market expectation performance gap moderates between environmental subsidy and enterprise green innovation. Market competition plays a reinforcing role in environmental subsidy, environmental tax collection, and enterprise green innovation. These research findings are conducive to providing theoretical support and reference for the government to encourage enterprises to actively carry out green innovation in practice, thereby helping to promote green development in the country.
Medical care for cancer is increasingly directed by genomic laboratory testing for alterations in the tumor genome that are significant for diagnosis, prognosis and therapy. Uniquely in medicine, ...providers must search the biomedical literature for each patient to determine the clinical significance of these alterations. Access to published scientific literature is frequently subject to high fees, with access limited to institutional subscriptions. We sought to investigate the degree to which the scientific literature is accessible to clinical cancer genomics providers, and the potential role of university and hospital system libraries in information access for cancer care.
We identified 265 journals that were accessed during the interpretation and reporting of clinical test results from 1,842 cancer patients at the University Health Network (Toronto, Canada). We determined the degree of open access for this set of clinically important literature, and for any journals not available through open access we surveyed subscription access at seven academic hospital systems and at their affiliated universities.
This study found that nearly half (116/265) of journals have open access mandates that make articles freely available within one year of release. For the remaining subscription access journals, universities provided a uniformly high level of access, but access available through hospital system collections varied widely.
This study highlights the importance of different modes of access to the use of the scientific literature in clinical practice and points to challenges that must be overcome as genomic medicine grows in scale and complexity.
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DOBA, IZUM, KILJ, NUK, OILJ, PILJ, PNG, SAZU, UILJ, UKNU, UL, UM, UPUK, VSZLJ
In late 2017, the University of Massachusetts Amherst Libraries participated in the David Lewis and Michael Roy "2.5% Commitment and Open Data Collection Tool Project." This exercise provided a ...benchmark of collection and infrastructure investments to date, and it brought into focus the opportunity to articulate the Libraries' intentions for their collections going forward. The UMass Amherst Libraries provide a case study of an academic library collection that is pivoting from materials produced by proprietary publishers to a mix of investments in unique and special collections; open access publishing, content and infrastructure; and materials published through traditional channels.
Ammattikorkeakouluopiskelussa tärkeää asiantuntijatietoa julkaistaan ammatillisissa lehdissä. Niiden tehokas hyödyntäminen vaatisi metadataa, mutta sitä ei tuoteta kattavasti. Lisäksi lehtien ...julkaiseminen ja myynti on monimuotoistunut, minkä vuoksi lehtikokoelman ylläpito vaatii kirjastoilta uudenlaista osaamista.
Shelving Special Collections Materials Adams, John Henry
RBM : a journal of rare books, manuscripts, and cultural heritage,
04/2023, Letnik:
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Shelf space is a precious commodity in libraries, especially for special collections, which rarely deaccession materials. To deal with this problem, many librarians try to maximize efficiency in ...their shelving approaches. A common solution to space constraints is adjusting shelves to store materials by size categories. This approach is understudied, however, and projects to reorganize materials by size are often undertaken with little more than anecdotal evidence or intuition to support them. Using a reorganization of the oversize materials at Special Collections at the University of Missouri as a case study, this article lays out some concrete numbers for librarians who are considering shelving their books by size. The study indicates that subdividing oversize materials into upright and flat shelving can result in an increase in shelving efficiency of up to 600 percent for the materials that are stored upright. A systemic approach to shelving by size also offers some preservation benefits, especially for materials that are stored flat.
There is trauma in how Indigenous knowledge collections in libraries are managed. This paper seeks to understand the tikanga Māori context of Indigenous knowledges management in library collection ...policies. A review of selected library policies from five major AotearoaNew Zealand libraries regarding collection development, tikanga Māori integration and specifically Māori collection content will be explored using a modified Mead's Tikanga Test (of 2003). From this analysis will be inferred the ways in which the various library policies negate or affirm tikanga Māori. This will be followed by a brief introduction to the model Ngā Matatiki Mātauranga for culturally safe management of Indigenous collections to be integrated into collection policies. This paper will draw from a Māori perspective, in Aotearoa-New Zealand. The testing of library policies from five major libraries will drive the findings to represent the state of Indigenous collection policy in Aotearoa and how best for Māori to distinguish our futures in libraries.
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