Open Access Week: The Social Impact of Research

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Aug 142012

Open Access Week 2012 at the University of Utah  

October 23-25, 2012

How do readers find and get access to published research results? And what makes them likely to download and cite papers? Does it depend on researchers’ publishing choices and how do those choices differ among disciplines? These questions and more will be explored during the 4th annual Open Access Week at the University of Utah. This year’s keynote address will provide insight into the world of scholarly communications and will include a panel of University of Utah authors who will share their experiences publishing in open access journals and how it affected their readership. And don’t miss the workshop on how to make your research article visible as well as a presentation on the University of Utah’s online collection of research material created by faculty, staff, and students.

Free and Open to the Public.

 

Schedule of Events

Tuesday, October 23

Workshop

Publishing SMART: How to Make Your Article Visible
Instructors: Allyson Mower, Marriott Library and Abby Adamczyk, Eccles Library
1 to 3 pm, Marriott Library, Room 1009
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Authors want their scholarly articles to be seen, cited and utilized. This class provides opportunities for researchers to increase their visibility by exploring various publishing and archiving choices. Tools for evaluating journal impact factors, online usage, local online availability, retaining copyrights, and submission to online archives are covered.

 

Wednesday, October 24

Keynote Address and Panel Discussion

The Social Impact of Research: New Modes of Scholarship and New Ways of Publishing
Presenters: Dr. Johan Bollen, Indiana University-Bloomington and Mr. Roger Schonfeld, Ithaka S+R
U of U Panelists: Jose Crespo, Biology; Rob Gehl, Communication; Randy Irmis, NHMU/Geology &      Geophysics
2 pm to 4 pm, Marriott Library, Gould Auditorium

 

Dr. Bollen is associate professor at the Indiana University School of Informatics and Computing. He was formerly a staff scientist at the Los Alamos National Laboratory from 2005-2009, and an Assistant Professor at the Department of Computer Science of Old Dominion University from 2002 to 2005. He obtained his PhD in Experimental Psychology from the University of Brussels in 2001 on the subject of cognitive models of human hypertext navigation. He has taught courses on Data Mining, Information Retrieval and Digital Libraries. His research has been funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, National Science Foundation, Library of Congress, National Aeronautics and Space Administration and the Los Alamos National Laboratory. His present research interests are usage data mining, computational sociometrics, informetrics, and digital libraries. He has extensively published on these subjects as well as matters relating to adaptive information systems architecture. He is presently the Principal Investigator of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation-funded MESUR project which aims to expand the quantitative tools available for the assessment of scholarly impact.

Mr. Schonfeld leads the research efforts at Ithaka S+R, including examinations of the impact of new technologies on academia through studies of faculty attitudes and practices, teaching and learning with technology, and the changing role of the library. Key projects at Ithaka S+R that Roger has led include the Ithaka S+R Faculty Survey; projects on the changing research methods and practices of faculty members in fields such as history and chemistry; studies of the impact and sustainability of courseware initiatives; the Ithaka S+R Library Survey of deans and directors; a number of projects on library strategy, economics, and collections analysis, with a particular emphasis on digitization, management, and preservation of library collections, culminating in What to Withdraw for scholarly journals and two national consulting projects regarding government documents on behalf of ARL/COSLA and GPO. Roger has served on theNSF Blue Ribbon Task Force for Sustainable Digital Preservation and Access and the Western Regional Storage Trust’s advisory committee. Previously, Roger was a research associate at The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. There, he collaborated on The Game of Life: College Sports and Academic Values with James Shulman and William G. Bowen (Princeton University Press, 2000). He also wrote JSTOR: A History(Princeton University Press, 2003), focusing on the development of a sustainable not-for-profit business model for the digitization and preservation of scholarly texts.

 

Thursday, October 25

Presentation

USpace at Seven: Shaping and Sustaining the U’s Institutional Repository
Presenters: Lisa Chaufty, Donald Williams, Kinza Masood, Sarah LeMire, Allyson Mower (Marriott Library)
2 to 3 pm, Marriott Library, Room 1150
 

During Open Access Week 2010, we celebrated USpace’s fifth birthday. Two years have flown by. Come and hear how the University of Utah’s open access digital repository has continued to develop and grow. Presenters will discuss recent projects, new content development streams, and areas of future growth.

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Article of the Day: Selections from USpace

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Mar 042010

CEO pay and the Lake Wobegon effect is my new favorite article in USpace. Rachel Hayes and Scott Schafer, both from the David Eccles School of Business, wrote the paper in 2007 as a way to explain recent CEO pay increases at U.S. firms. They take a game theory model and apply it to what many in the business press refer to as “The Lake Wobegon Effect.” And what’s the Lake Wobegon effect? Most boards want to make sure they look strong, or, at least above average (as are all the kids from Garrison Keillor’s Lake Wobegon), so a CEO’s pay will increase at the same rate as a peer company’s even if the CEO performed poorly. For someone who is mystified by the business world, I find this to be comfortingly human. And their conclusion? Well, read for yourself http://content.lib.utah.edu/u?/ir-main,7291 The paper is part of a series from the Institute of Public and International Affairs (IPIA). To see other papers from IPIA, go to http://bit.ly/bOOPAT

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Jan 042010

The annual Governor’s Medal for Science and Technology awards ceremony will take place tomorrow and one of the seven recipients is Randall J. Olson, MD, Director, John A. Moran Eye Center. The awards program recognizes people and companies in Utah whose career achievements or distinguished service have benefited the state in the areas of science and technology http://www.sltrib.com/news/ci_14111462. We have archived many of Dr. Olson’s research articles in USpace which you can view here http://tinyurl.com/y9uu55a

Posted by Allyson Mower at 11:37 pm  

Article of the Day: Selections from USpace

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Nov 252009

Tim Garrett, an associate professor of Atmospheric Sciences at the University of Utah, has been in local and world news recently. His provocative study, Are There Basic Physical Constraints on Future Anthropogenic Emissions of Carbon Dioxide?, was published online this week in the journal of Climatic Change. We uploaded it today to USpace. At the foundation of his study is Garrett’s use of physics to create a new global economic growth model.  The article has created some controversy because of the study’s indications that energy conservation ultimately increases economic growth and therefore leads to accelerated energy consumption; and that stabilizing CO2 emissions even at current rates is not possible.   A good summary of the study can be found here.

Posted by Lisa Chaufty at 9:47 pm  

Article of the Day: Selections from USpace

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Oct 272009

USpace now has the capability to archive research posters created by students and faculty at the UofU in a media-rich format. Posters in USpace may now include embedded audio and video, PowerPoint slides, PDF or Word documents, and Web links.

Today’s article, then, is a research poster. It’s a poster created to highlight a class for researchers and other creators here at the U, called Publishing SMART: How to Make your Article Visible. The aim of the class is to help scholars achieve the most impact for their publications through the publishing and archiving choices they make.

Posted by Lisa Chaufty at 8:49 pm  

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Oct 052009

This year’s Siciliano Forum will focus on global aging–specifically healthy aging, an aging workforce, and shifting inter-generational relationships. I searched U Scholar Works on the subject of aging and found several results. The article “Why Generation(s) Matter(s) to Policy” by Susan McDaniel seemed relevant.

Professor McDaniel states that generation is “a unique kind of social location, premised on a dynamic interplay of birth time and the socio-political events occurring at crucial life course moments for [a] birth cohort. The importance of generation, in this view, is not the year of birth or the size of the birth cohort, but the social relevance of being born at a particular historical time in a given society.” She goes on to say that generation, as a concept, “opens policy to exploring who does what in relation to whom.” For example, looking at what kind of sacrifices one generation has made for another and what impact this would have on policy making. McDaniel indicates that this is an unusual approach to policy, yet is one that “provide[s] a sense of contribution and entitlement in [...] the expected transition into retirement at a particular or approximate age.”

For more information on the University of Utah’s Siciliano Forum, see http://www.csbs.utah.edu/siciliano_forum.html

Posted by Allyson Mower at 6:36 pm  

Article of the Day: Selections from USpace

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Sep 112009

I recently came across Prof. John Flynn’s article in USpace: the University of Utah’s Institutional Repository titled “Antitrust policy and health care reform” and thought it might be interesting to showcase given President Obama’s recent speech to Congress on the matter of health care reform. The article, written in 1994 and published in Antitrust Bulletin, “examines case law develop­ments [from 1984-1994] in applying antitrust policy to health care markets and suggests how antitrust policy…relates to legislative proposals for reform of health care markets” (pg. 6).

While Prof. Flynn wrote in the context of the Clinton administration’s health reform policy, antitrust concerns quickly arose in the early days of the Obama administration’s announcement of a new health care policy the details of which included reducing health care costs by means of hospitals, doctors, and insurance companies getting together to agree on strategies for holding down prices http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/27/health/policy/27health.html

Prof. Flynn argues that “[h]ealth care is an industry that has too long been immune from rigorous review on fundamental legal and economic grounds, a fact for which we are now paying a heavy price in both extensive litigation and a major legislative effort to restructure the entire industry” (pg. 73). The great challenge of health care reform, according to Prof. Flynn, is “[f]inding the right mix of market and regulatory remedies.” It is the kind of challenge “that may well take…decades to resolve in light of the complexities of the issues” (pg. 74).

You can find the full-text of Prof. Flynn’s article in USpace at http://content.lib.utah.edu/u?/ir-main,26706

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Aug 182009

As the summer winds down and school is about to start for learners of all ages, I find myself wondering where the summer went. Many of us have the same feelings, I know. I think of my two teenagers, in particular, and the various ways they have filled their summer hours: sleeping-in, reading, swimming, paid employment, etc. I poked around UScholar Works for an article related to this general topic and came across a working paper by Professor Cathleen Zick titled Over-Scheduled or at Loose Ends? The Shifting Balance of Adolescent Time Use.

In this paper Professor Zick notes that, over the past decades, there has been a decline in the number of hours adolescents spend working a job. She uses two time diary studies (one from 1977-78; the other, 2003-2005) to obtain data to answer the following questions: How are adolescents spending their time, given that they’re working less? Are they filling their time with more developmentally enriching activities? Is the employment decline related to family income levels and/or declining wage rates? Visit the full paper here if you would like some answers to those questions.

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Article of the Day: Selections from USpace

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Aug 052009

The mission of USpace, the University of Utah’s Institutional Repository is to collect, maintain, preserve, record, and provide access to the intellectual capital and output of the University of Utah, to reflect the University’s excellence, and to share that work with others. The University’s excellence emanates through a range of venues including its teaching, research and service. While research is sometimes thought of in terms of scientific laboratories, clinics, journal articles and books, it also occurs within studios devoted to art, music, and movement with outcomes such as paintings, sculptures and performances. One such example of this is De metal y madera: for flute, cello, percussion, and electronics. Written in 1999 by Professor Miguel Chuaqui, the musical score represents a culmination of his research interests which include “collaborations with colleagues in areas as diverse as Modern Dance (interactive dance systems) and the School of Medicine (interactive software development for therapeutic musical applications).” While reading the score in USpace, you can listen to a brief performance. This kind of research represents a growing area for USpace as we look toward fulfilling our goal of collecting, maintaining, preserving, recording and providing access to the intellectual capital of the University of Utah.

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Jul 282009

We recently uploaded this article to UScholar Works. It’s by Elijah Millgram, Professor of Philosophy here at the University of Utah. The article takes as its topic Nietzsche’s On the Genealogy of Morality. Written in 1887, Nietzsche’s Genealogy is considered by many scholars to be one of his greatest works, and an important work in the ethical canon. What Millgram lays out step-by-step in his article is a new way of reading the Genealogy. Briefly, Millgram’s new reading of the work postulates that in his Geneology Nietzsche presents his position on the origin of moral values in precisely the way he seems to be condemning in the work; and that he does this in order to show the effectiveness of that which he is condemning. In Millgram’s words, “The Genealogy of Morals is a very sophisticated critique of morality—for intellectuals, and that is because it is, at the same time, an exposé of the intellectuals themselves.”

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