The Oregon State University Extension Service engages the people of Oregon with research based knowledge and education that strengthen communities and economies, sustain natural resources, and promote healthy families and individuals. This document gives a 100-year history of OSU Extension.
In biomedical applications, it is often of interest to test the alternative hypothesis that the means of three or more groups follow a strictly monotonic trend such as u1 > u2 > u3 against the null hypothesis that the group means are either equal or unequal but are not monotonic....
Sharing of research data has begun to gain traction in many areas of the sciences in the past few years because of changing expectations from the scientific community, funding agencies, and academic journals. National Science Foundation (NSF) requirements for a data management plan (DMP) went into effect in 2011, with...
A panel of speakers from three universities explored their challenges and progress in building programs to support research data management, whether within the library system or with research offices or computing groups. Since 2012 Oregon State University has partnered with its research office and graduate school, helping students prepare data...
In response to the burgeoning practice of collaborative, networked, data-intensive research (known as eScience), university and research libraries are devoting significant consideration, effort and resources toward expanding their responsibilities to include research data services. The jargon that the librarianship community uses to discuss data-driven research is inconsistent and confusing, especially...
“International librarianship” is a term that embraces many different, though related, topics. These include international exchanges of librarians, cooperation between libraries and librarians in different countries, and the development of library services in Third World countries. Because the term covers so much territory, the literature on the subject is extensive....