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Collaborating on Scholarship: Best Practices for Team Research Projects

Description: Article on collaborating on scholarship. Collaborating on scholarship has the potential to provide many advantages, including benefiting from others’ expertise, reinforcing accountability, and providing motivation. However, working with others is tricky—consider compatible work habits, receptivity to criticism, and commitment to fulfill responsibilities. Decisions to be made include where to publish, in what order authors’ names will appear, and how the manuscripts will be written. Who will coo… more
Date: January 13, 2021
Creator: Sassen, Catherine & Brannon, Sian
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Equitable Educational Planning: Embracing Open Educational Resources for the Post-Pandemic Era

Description: This article explores the post-pandemic landscape and how increasing Open Educational Resources (OER), Open Access (OA), and removing access barriers could increase equity by establishing the ability for teaching/learning to continue for all, regardless of the ability to attend a brick-and-mortar building and regardless of socio-economic status. The authors examine the consequences of current iniquities through the lens of self-determination theory (SDT).
Date: 2021
Creator: Ford, Angela & Alemneh, Daniel Gelaw
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The Impact of Library Instruction on Undergraduate Student Success: A Four-Year Study

Description: This article reports on a four-year study done at the University of North Texas to compare variables of student success (GPA, pass or fail status in course, and retention) in students that attended library instruction sessions and students who did not. It finds a positive correlation between attending library instruction and student success.
Date: January 2021
Creator: Rowe, Jennifer; Leuzinger, Julie; Hargis, Carol & Harker, Karen
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Becoming an Associate Dean: A Librarian’s Tale of Lessons Learned

Description: Article shares the leadership lessons learned by a librarian who once served as a faculty member but then became an Associate Dean. Transitioning from a faculty role to an administrative one creates a landscape of learning that promotes growth and exposes challenges. This is the submitted/accepted manuscript version of the article.
Date: Winter 2020
Creator: Venner, Mary Ann
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Advances in academic video game collections

Description: This article discusses how the UNT Media Library developed a video game collection to support student retention, student recreation, and classroom instruction. The article also will explain how the Library successfully met challenges involved in collection development, related technology, space needs, and the challenges it sees ahead.
Date: August 29, 2020
Creator: Robson, Diane; Sassen, Catherine & Rodriguez, Allyson
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Academic Librarians Creating Value through Commercialization Partnerships

Description: This paper focuses on how the University of North Texas (UNT) Libraries was able to develop a successful partnership with the UNT Office of Innovation and Commercialization (OIC) and move outside the Libraries’ normal sphere of influence to help create a patent internship program for students. The paper is published in the Texas Library Journal Special Edition for Summer 2020, and it was a contributed paper at the Texas Library Association 2020 Virtual Summer of Learning conference.
Date: August 12, 2020
Creator: Dooley, Yvonne
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The Library as an Essential Service

Description: This article looks at the role of the UNT Libraries as an essential service during the COVID-19 pandemic and shelter-at-home declaration in Denton County, Tx in the Spring of 2020.
Date: June 2020
Creator: Venner, Mary Ann
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Dynamic Classification in Web Archiving Collections

Description: Article explores dynamic fusion models to find, on the fly, the model or combination of models that performs best on a variety of document types. The experimental results show that the approach that fuses different models outperforms individual models and other ensemble methods on three datasets.
Date: May 2020
Creator: Phillips, Mark Edward; Patel, Krutarth & Caragea, Cornelia
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Small-scale mechanical behavior of a eutectic high entropy alloy

Description: Article describes study evaluating small-scale mechanical behavior was for AlCoCrFeNi2.1 eutectic high entropy alloy, consisting of a lamellar arrangement of L12 and B2 solid-solution phases.
Date: February 14, 2020
Creator: Muskeri, Saideep; Hasannaeimi, Vahid; Salloom, Riyadh; Sadeghilaridjani, Maryam & Mukherjee, Sundeep

Exploring the Utility of Metadata Record Graphs and Network Analysis for Metadata Quality Evaluation and Augmentation

Description: Article discussing the effectiveness of network analysis for evaluating digital library metadata records. It provides count- and value-based statistics as well as network metrics for each of the two collections identified for this research and compares the usefulness of various data values for metadata quality analysis.
Date: 2020
Creator: Phillips, Mark Edward; Zavalina, Oksana & Tarver, Hannah
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Using Metadata Record Graphs to understand controlled vocabulary and keyword usage for subject representation in the UNT theses and dissertations collection

Description: This article discusses the use of network analysis through the creation Metadata Record Graphs to analyze the interconnectedness of subject and keywords in the University of North Texas Theses and Dissertations collection. The analysis compares overlap of controlled terms (Library of Congress Subject Headings) and uncontrolled terms (keywords), as well as the effects of basic format normalization (to simulate editing values for consistency) to evaluate how well subjects connect in the collecti… more
Date: December 2019
Creator: Phillips, Mark Edward; Tarver, Hannah & Zavalina, Oksana
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Metal Coordination‐Mediated Functional Grading and Self‐Healing in Mussel Byssus Cuticle

Description: Article demonstrates direct evidence of Fe3+ and Fe2+ gradient distribution across mussel byssal cuticle threads thickness, which shows more Fe2+ inside the inner cuticle, to support the hypothesis that the cuticle is a functionally graded material with high stiffness, extensibility, and self‐healing capacity.
Date: October 24, 2019
Creator: Xu, Quan; Xu, Meng; Lin, Chun-Yu; Zhao, Qiang; Zhang, Rui; Dong, Xiaoxiao et al.
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Cybersecurity Challenges in the Era of Open Access and BIG Data: Issues and Considerations

Description: Article from a panel held at the American Society for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T) 2019 pre-conference held on October 19, 2019 in Melbourne, Australia. The panelists discussed cybersecurity challenges and provided an assessment of the cybersecurity issues related to open access and big data.
Date: October 19, 2019
Creator: Alemneh, Daniel Gelaw; Chang, Hsia-Ching; Hawamdeh, Suliman M.; Rorissa, Abebe & Assefa, Shimelis
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Finding New Cell Wall Regulatory Genes in Populus trichocarpa Using Multiple Lines of Evidence

Description: Article describes study which searched for genes with putatively unknown roles in regulating cell wall biosynthesis using an extended network-based Lines of Evidence (LOE) pipeline to combine multiple omics data sets in P. trichocarpa, including gene coexpression, gene comethylation, population level pairwise SNP correlations, and two distinct SNP-metabolite Genome Wide Association Study (GWAS) layers.
Date: October 8, 2019
Creator: Furches, Anna; Kainer, David; Weighill, Deborah; Large, Annabel; Jones, Piet; Walker, Angelica M. et al.
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Mixed-Methods Assessment of a Mentoring Program

Description: This article describes how a large academic library's continuous cycle of mixed-methods assessment contributes to the success of their mentoring program. Assessment instruments include the Mentoring Competencies Assessment, the Fear of Negative Evaluation Scale, a satisfaction survey and a focus group.
Date: September 16, 2019
Creator: Harker, Karen; O'Toole, Erin; Keshmiripour, Setareh; McIntosh, Marcia & Sassen, Catherine
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Nature-Guided Synthesis of Advanced Bio-Lubricants

Description: Article describes study which finds that Orychophragmus violaceus (Ov) seed oil has superior lubrication properties, based on the unusual structural features of the major lipid species—triacylglycerol (TAG) estolides.
Date: August 12, 2019
Creator: Romsdahl, Trevor; Shirani, Asghar; Minto, Robert E.; Zhang, Chunyu; Cahoon, Edgar B.; Chapman, Kent Dean et al.
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Enhancing the Discovery of Tabletop Games

Description: Collections of three-dimensional materials may not be discoverable to library users if they lack adequate metadata. Discovery of these collections may be enhanced through the application of relevant cataloging standards and con-trolled vocabularies. This paper outlines how librarians at the University of North Texas Libraries used these strategies to increase access to a large collection of tabletop games.
Date: July 2019
Creator: Robson, Diane; Sassen, Catherine; Thomale, Jason & Yanowski, Kevin
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Understanding Connections: Examining Digital Library and Institutional Repository Use Overlap

Description: This paper examined how users navigated between other collections within the UNT IR, as well as within the UNT DL. Through this examination, we observed patterns between how users navigated between objects, understood which collections may have related to one another, examined why some unique items were used more than others, and viewed the average number of items used within a session
Date: June 8, 2019
Creator: Phillips, Mark Edward; Andrews, Pamela & Krahmer, Ana
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Identifying tween fashion consumers’ profile concerning fashion innovativeness, opinion leadership, internet use for apparel shopping, interest in online co-design involvement, and brand commitment

Description: Article describes study identifying tween fashion consumers’ profiles in relation to fashion change agent (FCA) characteristics, such as fashion innovativeness and opinion leadership, and examines how the tweens’ FCA characteristics influence their Internet innovativeness, interest in online co-design involvement, and brand commitment.
Date: April 29, 2019
Creator: Baker, Renee; Gam, Hae Jin & Banning, Jennifer
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Beyond “Set It and Forget It”: Proactively Managing Your EZproxy Server

Description: This article describes a half-day pre-conference workshop focused on the ins and outs of managing an EZproxy server. The presenter shared detailed information on how to use the EZproxy admin page to help reduce patrons’ barriers to access and identify potential security concerns. She also covered current topics of interest to the EZproxy community, such as how to modify database stanzas to support https.
Date: January 11, 2019
Creator: Rosenfeld, Jenny & Enoch, Todd
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