This is the PowerPoint file for a 90-minute workshop for post-doctoral researchers covering data management best practices. Topics covered include general recommendations for data management in terms of planning, data description (metadata), file formats and naming conventions, ethics and consent, copyright, and sharing and archiving of data. The workshop is...
Dr. Cable Green lectures on the topic of "Expanding the open agenda: From open access to an open education" on Friday, October, 26th 2012 in the Library Main Rotunda during Open Access Week 2012.
Dr. Cable Green is the Director of Global Learning for Creative Commons and an expert in...
Workshop Outcomes: 1. Use one source to find other "recommended sources in at least two tools. 2. Distinguish between cited sources and citing sources. 3. Be able to conduct a "cited reference search".
Workshop goals: 1. Learn how to deliberately construct and plan your research process. 2. Learn how to identify and explain the use of both broad searching and narrow searching strategies. 3. Learn how to locate library and writing center support resources.
During the early fall of 1998, I made contact with Therese Graf Tanalski
when I was searching for family members of deceased Hall of Fame
members. Therese grew up in Corvallis, attended OSU, and married a 1944
CE graduate, Theodore T. Tanalski.
During my conversations and correspondence with Mrs. Tanalski...
Fernandez explains the creation of the online exhibit "Oregon Chinese Disinterment Documents" using Omeka, a free, open source, web publishing platform.
This paper was submitted and accepted for presentation at INTED2012 (6th International Technology, Education and Development Conference) held March 5-7 in Valencia, Spain.
This literature review completes the first of four research tasks that make up the research project “Identification of Outer Continental Shelf Renewable Energy Space- Use Conflicts and Analysis of Potential Mitigation Measures. The four tasks are: • Access to and understanding of relevant literature. The foundation for the development of...
Librarians listened and observed as undergraduate students tackled a typical research-based assignment using broad-based discovery tools, including Google Scholar, Web of Science and Summon. We will discuss what we learned about the research processes our users have developed, how they fit unfamiliar tools into those processes, how they carry early...
Books and journal articles are the most familiar forms of disseminating scholarly research, however, the move from "ink-on-paper" to a digital format presents small presses with difficulties. E-books, e-readers and digital publishing demand that presses transform their publishing model and rethink their business practices. Challenges are wide ranging and numerous;...
As IAMSLIC members will recall, in 1990 Stephanie Haas questioned ASFA’s supremacy in marine science libraries and found “potential pitfalls” if relying on a single database to adequately discover the relevant literature (Haas 1990). We still question the best way to access the literature in our multidisciplinary field. Patrons and...
Poster given at 2012 Library Assessment Conference - Charlottesville, Virginia. Poster earned Judge's Choice award in Organizational Performance poster category