UNT Scholarly Works - 108 Matching Results
Search Results
- A Journal of One's Own: Developing an Innovative, Values-Driven Open Journal
- Book chapter sharing the authors' experiences with establishing a values-driven open journal and look at ways these values can be incorporated into the bones of a journal.
- Engaging with the IR Remotely
- Book chapter exploring approaches and methods of engaging with an institutional repository (IR) remotely.
- Definition and Goals of Descriptive Linguistic Fieldwork
- Book chapter defining descriptive linguistic fieldwork, explores tasks that fall under this definition, outlines goals of descriptive linguistic fieldwork, and identifies aspirations and limitations of linguistic fieldworkers.
- A Systematic Review of the Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on the Learning Environment of Immigrant English Learners in the United States
- Book chapter examining how unequal access to the internet and technology impacted the school context including teachers, students, parents, and administrators, and how English Learners from immigrant backgrounds navigated this experience. Implications apply to education stakeholders to reduce inequities in online learning contexts.
- Preface [of the Handbook of Research on the Global View of Open Access and Scholarly Communications]
- Preface of the Handbook of Research on the Global View of Open Access and Scholarly Communications. The Handbook of Research on the Global View of Open Access and Scholarly Communications articulates OA concepts and issues while demystifying the state-of-the-art knowledge domain in the areas of OA and scholarly communications from diverse perspectives as well as implications for the information and knowledge society.
- The Role of Open Access in Enhancing Equitable Curricula and Research Outputs: Global Context
- Book chapter exploring the changing publishing paradigms, particularly the role of OA and how increasing open dissemination of scholarly outputs can reduce inequities in curricula and research activities.
- Providing Open Access to Heterogeneous Information Resources without Compromising Privacy and Data Confidentiality
- Book chapter discussing challenges raised by concerns about ensuring long-term access to digital resources verses data confidentiality and balancing the right level of data security that addresses compliance requirements in the context of libraries and cultural heritage institutions.
- Open Access Initiatives in Ethiopia's Higher Learning Institutions
- Book chapter outlining the state of OA policies and practices in Ethiopia's higher learning institutions.
- Mapping Texts: Examining the Effects of OCR Noise on Historical Newspaper Collections
- Book chapter that documents the “Mapping Texts” project, an experiment focused on the problem of OCR noise in historical newspapers.
- “Liberated from Serfdom”: Willis Conover and the Tallinn Jazz Festival of 1967
- This book chapter presents the Charles Lloyd Quartet’s performance at the 1967 Tallinn Jazz Festival, which broke the “stagecraft” of prior jazz diplomacy with the Soviet Union, and proceeded despite numerous official attempts to derail it, as a case study in the effectiveness of Willis Conover’s approach over the twelve years since his Voice of America program began in 1955.
- Blowing the Whistle Is Laden With Risk
- This book chapter explores perceptions of risk and responses to organizational wrongdoing.
- Hero or “Prince of Darkness”? Locating Peer Jacob Svenkerud in an Attributions-Based Typology of Whistleblowers
- This book chapter explores how whistleblowers are typified and understood by key stakeholders.
- A Comprehensive Approach to Addressing Gender Equity in STEM Subjects at Four-Year Universities in England
- This chapter explores gender disparities in enrollment and persistence in STEM undergraduate education in England. The authors examine the difference in early educational achievement in mathematics and science subjects and students’ plan to study STEM subjects by gender. They also examine women’s odds of studying STEM subjects in England after controlling for academic performance and social class characteristics. The authors also particularly test gendered differences in studying STEM at prestigious Russell Group universities. Finally, the authors highlight factors that policy makers, researchers, instructors, and STEM workforce members should consider to close gender gaps in STEM undergraduate education.
- STEM Bachelor's Degree Attainment among Women of Color in the United States: Using Geographic Analysis for Gender and Racial Equity Research
- This chapter showcases a study that examines the relationship between STEM bachelor’s degree attainment, particularly focusing on women of color, and the opportunities of higher education and STEM higher education within local communities across the United States. The authors analyze two large-scale national data sets, the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) and the American Community Survey (ACS), to conduct a location-level analysis. The authors then offer implications that target women of color who live in places that lack opportunities in higher education.
- Introduction: Gender Equity in STEM in Higher Education: International Perspectives on Policy, Institutional Culture, and Individual Choice
- This introduction presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book provides an international overview of access and success for women in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) undergraduate programs. It focuses on women’s share of STEM graduates to explore trends and compare women’s enrollment in STEM to men’s enrollment in STEM and to higher education in general. The book focuses on the expansion of higher education in Taiwan as it relates to the improved participation of women in STEM tertiary education and in the STEM labor market. It focuses on the persistence of gender inequality in undergraduate engineering education in Germany by analyzing individual factors that contribute to women’s tendency to consider but then opt out of engineering. The book describes several challenges to gender-based equity in STEM in a post-Soviet context and offer multiple policy suggestions for improvement.
- Conclusion: Unique but Transferable Approaches for Pursuing Gender Equity in STEM in Higher Education across the World
- In this chapter, the authors offer suggestions for how policymakers and Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) educators may apply unique but potentially transferrable strategies. Finally, the authors suggest directions for innovative research and policy for pursuing gender equity in STEM fields after the economic and educational turmoil caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.
- 1:1 iPads in 1st Grade: Two-Year Case Study of a Teacher's Concerns, Use, and Innovation Configuration
- This chapter reports the findings of a two-year case study of how one first-grade teacher in a Florida charter school with 1:1 iPads progresses through stages of concerns and levels of use to achieve technological innovation. Findings inform technology integration practices and emphasize the importance of acknowledging change concerns associated with technology acceptance.
- The Power of Images: From Postmodern Art to Memes
- This chapter examines the elements of visual grammar used in advertising media and postmodern art that is now used to create powerful memes.
- Out of the Oven and into the (Reusable) Bag: Sous-Vide Book Delivery
- This is a section of The Sustainable Library's Cookbook, which is a collection of sustainable activities for academic libraries. This particular section explores sustainable practices in the Access Services Department at the University of North Texas.
- Teaming up with Your Graduate School for Academic and Career Success
- As libraries continue to reinvent themselves to remain relevant, spaces, services, and instruction targeted specifically for the needs of the graduate student community are essential. This chapter describes how the Library Research Support Services Department (LRSS) of the University of North Texas (UNT) Libraries has collaborated with The Toulouse Graduate School (TGS) to support graduate students through the process of achieving the following three milestones: (1) writing the dissertation or thesis proposal, (2) completing the writing of the dissertation or thesis, and (3) developing an elevator speech for potential employers.
- Scholarly Communications Librarian
- The Future Academic Librarian’s Toolkit is a thorough handbook designed to guide future academic librarians from library school through first several years. This chapter specifically focused on scholarly communications librarian, which is a relatively recent area of professional focus for academic librarians.
- Adaptive Control Optimization of Cutting Parameters for High Quality Machining Operations based on Neural Networks and Search Algorithms
- This book chapter presents an Adaptive Control with Optimization (ACO) system for optimising a multi-objective function based on material removal rate, quality loss function related to surface roughness, and cutting-tool life subjected to surface roughness specifications constraint.
- Disrupting Labor in Digital Humanities; or, The Classroom Is Not Your Crowd
- This chapter critiques the use of student labor on digital humanities projects in and out of the classroom.
- Students Collaborate to Develop Educational Green-Clothing Label
- This book chapter describes a project to develop an informative green label that outlines the impact of a product on the environment, to help inform the consumer considering buying the product.
- A Voice of Their Own—Letting Library Collections Tell Their Story: The UNT Libraries Collection Map
- This chapter describes the development and use of a unique collection assessment tool, the Collection Map, to track the needs of academic disciplines and their fulfillment.
- Inclusivity Instead of Exclusivity: The Role of MOOCs for College Credit
- This book chapter reviews the extant model, programs, and available outcomes for the massive open online course (MOOC) credit acceptance process.
- Complex Adaptive Systems: Adapting and Managing Teams and Team Conflict
- This book chapter provides an overview of teams, complex adaptive systems, conflict stages, and conflict models, while also presenting adaptive leadership as a style that offers organizations with the capabilities of reacting to changing environments quickly.
- Creating Student-Centered Classroom Environments: The Case of Mathematics
- This book chapter provides examples of how mathematics instruction emphasized meaning and understanding, skills embedded in context, and connections between and among subject areas and school and life outside of school.
- Planning and Improvisation in Emergency Management
- Book chapter from "Critical Issues in Disaster Science and Management: A Dialogue Between Researchers and Practitioners." This chapter includes both a theoretical and practical examination of planning and improvisation in emergency management.
- Documenting Institutional Knowledge Through TRAC Self-Audit: A Case Study
- Book chapter on the Trusted Repository Audit and Checklist (TRAC) process through the lens of contextual dimensions within knowledge management, using the case study of the University of North Texas Libraries.
- Facilitating Discovery and Use of Digital Cultural Heritage Resources with Folksonomies: A Review
- This article explores the strengths and limitations of folksonomies through traditional indexing and taxonomies with an emphasis on the history of cultural heritage information retrieval.
- Characteristics of Tweets about African Cultural Heritage
- This article investigates broad characteristics of tweets about African cultural heritage with possible implications for marketing by cultural heritage administrators and other stakeholders.
- Using eReaders to Enhance Literacy Instruction in the Content Areas
- This book chapter focuses on the use of ereaders as a learning tool to motivate and engage students, support content learning, and promote literacy development across content areas.
- Behavioral Economic Tools for Promotion of Physical Activity
- This book chapter describes two key behavioral economic constructs and four key behavioral economic tools and their application to physical activity.
- Network Theory
- This book chapter discusses network theory, defined as the proposed processes and mechanisms that relate network properties to outcomes of interest.
- Teaching Functional Communication to Adults with Autism Spectrum Disorders
- This book chapter focuses on functional communication, including procedures for establishing speech and the use of one or more augmentative and alternative communication modes.
- Tower Cakes for Ranking Subscription Resources
- This book chapter contains a recipe detailing a method to evaluate subscription-based resources based on objective data and subjective input.
- Stop Folding the Dough: Intervening to Decide Whether or Not to Assess Again
- This book chapter contains a recipe detailing the assessment methods of the Assessment Workgroup at the University of North Texas Libraries.
- Rendering Repositories: Taking out the Fat and Getting to the Impact
- This book chapter contains a recipe detailing how to survey users for understanding the perceived value of digital library collections.
- Rubrics and Rutabagas: Only One is Useful for Assessing Staff During Evaluations
- This book chapter contains a recipe detailing how rubrics can be used for discussing employee performance expectations and evaluations.
- Professional Development Assessment Paella
- This book chapter contains a recipe detailing the assessment methods of a professional development program at University of North Texas Libraries.
- IamWe: Digital Storytelling, Personal Journeys, and Praxis
- This chapter discusses the practice of digital storytelling as it relates to personal growth among high school youth who were part of the IamWe program.
- Electrochemical Synthesis of Rare Earth Ceramic Oxide Coatings
- This book chapter discusses the electrochemical synthesis of lanthanum, cerium, and praseodymium oxides.
- Ferromagnetic ZnO Nanowires for Spintronic Applications
- This book chapter reviews experimental results of observed room temperature ferromagnetism in transition metal doped group II-VI semiconductors.
- Effectiveness of Nature Conservation - A Case of Natura 2000 Sites in Poland
- This book chapter examines problems emerging due to the designation of protected areas as well as implementation and management of the Natura 2000 in Poland.
- Electrodeposition of Cu-Ni Composite Coatings
- This book chapter reviews the electrodeposition of Cu-Ni incorporated with nano- to microparticles to produce metal matrix composites.
- “¿Son Modos? Tonos y salmodia en Andrés Lorente
- This book chapter discusses the distinction between modes and tones as corresponding to different epistemologies.
- Skins and Bones: The Horror of the Real
- This book chapter examines the ways in which horror, as an aesthetic mode or sentiment, is bound to an experiential perception of "the real."
- A snare in every human path: "Tamerlane" and the Paternal Scapegoat
- This book chapter examines Edgar Allan Poe's poem "Tamerlane" through Poe's reimagination of the artist-as-scapegoat figure as a viable alternative for preserving artistic integrity in the face of paternal and literary authority.
- HAM: A Hybrid Aquisitions Model for Public Libraries
- This book chapter discusses how to operationalize acquisitions through a discussion of various models of acquisitions, encompassing budgeting, working with vendors, selection, ordering, receiving, processing, and overall administration of the process.