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Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"Scholarly Publishing"”.
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An archive of scholarly publishing at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
… of a computer system built to archive scholarly publishing completed at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and within other institutions of higher learning. The archive will provide a central, stable repository for researchers looking for permanent housing for their published …
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Thematic research collections: Libraries and the evolution of alternative scholarly publishing in the humanities
… to large-scale digital corpora, new forms of scholarly production challenge conventions of publishing and scholarly evaluation and the long-term maintenance of scholarship in libraries. The omission of digital scholarship from systems of scholarly communication – including peer review, …
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Towards the establishment and implementation of an institutional repository at the University of Cape Town (UCT): a case study
The concepts of open access and scholarly publishing are still gaining momentum in Africa, especially South Africa. Increasingly, institutional repositories are being planned and developed by universities throughout the world especially in the first world countries, which have taken the lead. …
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The Editorial Abilities of Artificial Intelligence
… are prompting many questions across academia and scholarly publishers, especially those surrounding plagiarism, intellectual property, authorship, and creativity. These advancements are changing common practices all throughout the academic publishing industry, but as a production editor at the …
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Mining Scholarly Publications for Research Evaluation
… management. At the same time, with the amount of scholarly literature rapidly expanding, recognising key research that presents the most important contributions to science is becoming increasingly difficult and time-consuming. This creates a need for effective and appropriate research evaluation …
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Approaching Review: A Heuristic Assisting Scholars Navigating the Publication of Multimodal and Open-Access Webtexts within the Tenure and Promotion Review Process
… the changing procedures and expectations of scholarly publishing within English Studies, focusing on the new mediums of digitally born scholarship and open-access scholarship. It does this by presenting a heuristic through which scholars can weigh various options for publication within …
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Electronic resources and institutional repositories in informal scholarly communication and publishing
… of the increasingly copious amount of scholarly electronic resources produced by academics. To date most research has focused on the impact for formal scholarly publishing. The purpose of this exploratory study is to discover the impact of IRs on the visibility and use of digital …
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Open access research publications and South African institutional repositories (IRS) in the context of Private Law and practices : an interdisciplinary study
… (not just legal reform) if the current scholarly publishing system is to change. A twofold practical component attempts to make the study a useful resource for information specialists by: (i) undertaking a case study of legal and institutional regulations and of repositories by exploring …
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How books became less 'different': An exploration of the rise of marketing within the publishing industry 1980-2010, and consideration of how this not only changed the business model, but impacted on the role of the author; with consideration of the likely associated implications of these developments in future
This research focuses on the history of publishing and authorship and is represented by the following books and articles: How to Market Books (1990; 1993; 1997; 2000; 2008) Are Books Different? (1993) Marketing your Book: An Author’s Guide (2001; 2007) Is there a Book in you? (2006) How …
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Who's writing what we read: authorship in criminological research
This thesis seeks to evaluate and identify authorship trends within criminological journals based on presumed gender and current institutional affiliation from four major criminal justice and criminological (CCJ) journals from 2014 through 2019. A content analysis was conducted on articles from …
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Awakening from androcentrism: calls for measurement of gender and sexuality in criminology
In recent years, calls have been made to progress the inclusivity of criminology, a field historically dominated by males. While specialty journals, such as Feminist Criminology, permit and encourage inclusive and progressive conceptualizations of social constructs such as gender and sexuality, …
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Bringing history to the public via genealogy and family history
… discipline. However, there are no peer-reviewed scholarly journals in which to publish the outcome of research into, and upon, genealogy per se. While genealogy shares many techniques and attributes with history as a subject of study, it is wider in both investigation and impact. Popular and …
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Understanding Multiple Layers of Practice: A Study on Academic Discourse Socialization in Engineering Research Teams
… as a space for socializing a novice author into scholarly publishing. More specifically, multiple team members with varied experience used marginal comments to communicate the conventions of discipline-specific writing practices to less experienced team members. The study offers implications …
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A comparative study of organisational structure changes in higher education institutions libraries between UK and Taiwan
… 'change in human expectations', and 'changes in scholarly publishing/communication' became the important reasons for changes in the follow-up survey period. (4) Most of the libraries conducted internally reorganisation rather than externally. The top two methods adopted in internal reorganisation …
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Creating 'space' for publication: challenges faced by women academic staff members at historically Black South African universities
… networks; assistance and support for their publishing venture at both institutional and departmental level and the development of strategies that would assist academic women in 'juggling' their personal and academic roles.
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Towards Agile Academia: An Approach to Scientific Paper Writing Inspired by Software Engineering
<p>The construction of scientific papers is performed in service of the greater scientific community. This iterative process is, in effect, an academic economy, where all members benefit from well-written papers. However, many published scientific papers are poorly written; they often lack …
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An Evaluation of a School District’s Mental Health Services Program Designed to Ensure a Safe and Positive Learning Environment for All
<p>A key component to academic success is comprehensive mental health services for students. The intended purpose of this evaluation was to study the implementation of strength-based performance standards in one school district’s mental health training for all individuals preparing to work in a …