Library Faculty/Staff Scholarship and Research

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    Gordon W. Prange Collection: Accessible Materials from Japan
    (2017-11-07) Jenkins, Kana
    This poster introduces the various types and formats of the materials held at the Gordon W. Prange Collection, Special Collections and University Archives (SCUA), University of Maryland Libraries.
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    Beyond Plagiarism: Scientific Ethics and Its Other Aspects
    (MDPI, 2018-05-08) Baykoucheva, Svetla
    The purpose of science is to advance human knowledge, cure diseases, and make life for people better. Does the current competitive environment in academia allow researchers to pursue such noble goals? The increase we see in the number of articles retracted by even reputable journals is quite alarming, and we need to have an honest discussion about why this is happening. When talking about scientific ethics, we usually focus on plagiarism and scientific fraud. Scientific misconduct may be very subtle (like, not citing peer’s articles), but sometimes it is more obvious (fabricating results). Scientific ethics, though, is much more than plagiarism and fabrication of data. As you will see, the authors of the articles included in this issue have looked at scientific ethics from a broader perspective.
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    Eugene Garfield’s Ideas and Legacy and Their Impact on the Culture of Research
    (MDPI, 2019-06-14) Baykoucheva, Svetla
    Eugene Garfield advanced the theory and practice of information science and envisioned information systems that made the discovery of scientific information much more efficient. The Institute for Scientific Information (ISI), which he founded in Philadelphia in 1960, developed innovative information products that have revolutionized science. ISI provided current scientific information to researchers all over the world by publishing the table of contents of key scientific journals in the journal Current Contents (CC). Garfield introduced the citation as a qualitative measure of academic impact and propelled the concepts of “citation indexing” and “citation linking”, paving the way for today’s search engines. He created the Science Citation Index (SCI), which raised awareness about citations; triggered the development of new disciplines (scientometrics, infometrics, webometrics); and became the foundation for building new important products such as Web of Science. The journal impact factor (IF), originally designed to select journals for the SCI, became the most widely accepted tool for measuring academic impact. Garfield actively promoted English as the international language of science and became a powerful force in the globalization of research. His ideas changed how researchers gather scientific information, communicate their findings, and advance their careers. This article looks at the impact of Garfield’s ideas and legacy on the culture of research.
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    Record added/Page created: leveraging name authority work to highlight women in book history
    (2019-07-17) Hovde, Sarah
    Presentation given virtually at the Symposium on Women/Gender Minorities in Print/Publishing in the 20th Century (Stanford University, July 17, 2019), discussing the representation of women in book history through library name authority files and open knowledge bases such as Wikipedia and Wikidata.
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    How to catalog 100,000 playbills (give or take a few thousand)
    (2019-01-18) Hovde, Sarah
    Presentation given at the Digital & Archival Approaches to Theater History conference (Philadelphia, January 2019), providing an overview of a retrospective conversion and cataloging project undertaken between 2016 and 2019 to provide catalog access to playbill collections in the Folger Shakespeare Library.
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    Playing at the big table: Betting on transformative change and collaboration at the Frye Leadership Institute.
    (American Library Association, Publications in Librarianship, 2015) Lim, Adriene; Lewis, Vivian; Baker, Neal
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    Crisis Management
    (ALA Editions, 2019) Lim, Adriene; Garnar, Martin
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    Assigned Leaders in Unionized Environments: Coping with the Economic Recession and Its Aftermath in Academic Libraries
    (Simmons University, 2012) Lim, Adriene; Hernon, Peter; Neal, James; Franklin, Brinley