Before you leave for the Christmas break, check out our Popular Reading shelves for some interesting selections listed below. Categories include fiction, historical fiction, mystery, suspense, non-fiction, current affairs, social issues, and politics. Something for everyone.
Our collection is on the first floor of Mullen Library in the Reference Reading Room. Have a restful, peaceful Merry Christmas. See you in the New Year!
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Hold your cursor over the Title to see a short description of the book, or click to view the catalog record. The status of the book is shown beside the call number.
Join the Washington Research Library Consortium Textbook Affordability Working Group for a brief introduction to open textbooks and a panel discussion featuring four faculty members who teach with them. All teaching instructors attending will have the opportunity to earn a $200 stipend by posting a review of an open textbook!
Date: Friday, December 10th, 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm
Agenda:
Welcome – Introduction to Open Textbooks and Faculty Funding Opportunity
Kevin Gunn, Coordinator of Digital Scholarship, Catholic University Libraries
Faculty Discussion Panel
Dr. Sen Chiao, Professor at Howard University’s Program in Atmospheric Science and Interdisciplinary Studies
Dr Sarah Fischer, Professor of Criminal Justice at Marymount University
Dr. Amanda Hinojosa, Professor at Howard University’s Business School
Jennifer Yang, Professor of Fashion Merchandising and Marketing, Marymount University
Moderator:
Angelique Carson, WRLC
Moderator(s)
Kevin Gunn, Coordinator of Digital Scholarship, Catholic University Libraries
As a member of the 2022 University Research Day Committee, I would like to share the following announcement with you:
University Research Day (URD) at The Catholic University of America is a day when students, faculty and staff come together to celebrate, share and learn about the innovative and exciting research taking place at the University.
We are pleased to announce the Call for Abstracts. Abstracts will be due January 28, 2022.
We would like to encourage ALL members of the Catholic University community to submit abstracts. This includes both campus-based students, staff and faculty, and those at other locations (e.g. Rome campus, online programs).
URD 2022 includes opportunities for oral presentations, posters and interactive research demonstrations (e.g. architectural model, short dramatic performance, etc.). Research includes anything that falls under “scholarly work”; for example, a project you worked on with a faculty member, a recent presentation you gave at a professional meeting, scholarly paper, dramatic or musical performance, or display of art, etc.
At URD, participants present their scholarship in a way that ensures engagement with everyone — even those unfamiliar with the subject matter.
Abstracts should reflect this and be written with clear, non-technical language that is geared toward ALL people. Examples of abstracts are available on the URD Abstract Submissions page. Members of the URD Planning Committee judge the submitted abstracts and selected presenters will be notified by email in March.
Look for more information on the URD website. You will find important dates, the link to the abstract application form, presentation formats and more. Follow us on social media at #CUatResearchDay.
Join the Washington Research Library Consortium Textbook Affordability Working Group for a brief introduction to open textbooks and a panel discussion featuring two faculty members who teach with them.
One of our presenters will be CU’s Dr. Chelsea Kelly, Assistant Professor of Sociology, who will share her experiences using an open textbook for her SOC 202 Research Methods class.
First-time attendees who are course instructors or faculty will have the opportunity to earn a $200 stipend by posting a review of an open textbook!
Date: Wednesday, December 1st, 12:30 pm – 1:20 pm
Agenda:
Welcome – Introduction to Open Textbooks and Faculty Funding Opportunity
Jenise Overmier, Assistant Professor, Research & Instruction Librarian, Marymount University
Faculty Discussion Panel
Dr. Chelsea Kelly, Professor of sociology, Catholic University
Bill Hanff, Professor in Digital Media, University of DC
Moderator:
Meghan Kowalski, Outreach and Reference Librarian, University of DC
Moderator(s)
Meghan Kowalski, Outreach and Reference Librarian, University of DC
Jenise Overmier, Assistant Professor, Research & Instruction Librarian, Marymount University
“You are getting very, very, sleepy. You want to peruse our Popular Reading section and take out some books for the Thanksgiving holiday. Our new acquisitions are listed below. Select something you like. Fiction, historical fiction, mystery, suspense, non-fiction, current affairs, and politics–just for you. You will awaken once you have left Mullen Library.”
Our collection is on the first floor of Mullen Library in the Reference Reading Room. Have a peaceful Thanksgiving.
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Hold your cursor over the Title to see a short description of the book, or click to view the catalog record. The status of the book is shown beside the call number.
Browse some of our new acquisitions in the Popular Reading Collection listed below. Fiction, historical fiction, mystery, suspense, non-fiction, current affairs, politics–you name it–are some of the subjects represented. Our collection is on the first floor of Mullen Library in the Reference Reading Room.
Hold your cursor over the Title to see a short description of the book, or click to view the catalog record. The status of the book is shown beside the call number.
The Digital Scholarship Workshop, ‘PIDs and your Scholarly Profile,’ has been moved to Wednesday, November 3rd at 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm. Registration details can be found here.
The theme for this year’s International Open Access Week (October 25-31) is, “It Matters How We Open Knowledge: Building Structural Equity.” The notion of structural equity is a dominant issue in today’s geopolitics. Open Access Week was created by the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC) for the academic and research community to “learn about the potential benefits of Open Access, to share what they’ve learned with colleagues, and to help inspire wider participation in helping to make Open Access a new norm in scholarship and research.”
A Quick Refresher: What is Open Access?
Open Access refers to “the free, immediate, online availability of research articles coupled with the right to use these articles fully in the digital environment. Open Access ensures that anyone can access and use these results—to turn ideas into industries and breakthroughs into better lives.” (SPARC*). See this video for a fuller explanation:
Open Science
The theme of Open Knowledge focusing on structural equity coincides with UNESCO’s recent Recommendation on Open Science report. This report is the first framework for establishing global standards for OA. The goal is to have research that is truly open, to “embrace a diversity of knowledge, practices, workflows, languages, research outputs and research topics that support the needs and epistemic pluralism of the scientific community as a whole, diverse research communities and scholars, as well as the wider public and knowledge holders […].”
UNESCO will adopt this report in November 2021. Some salient quotes from the report underscore the importance of this document:
Open Science should embrace a diversity of knowledge, practices, workflows, languages, research outputs and research topics that support the needs and epistemic pluralism of the scientific community as a whole, diverse research communities and scholars, as well as the wider public and knowledge holders beyond the traditional scientific community, including Indigenous Peoples and local communities, and social actors from different countries and regions, as appropriate.
And,
Open Science should play a significant role in ensuring equity among researchers from developed and developing countries, enabling fair and reciprocal sharing of scientific inputs and outputs and equal access to scientific knowledge to both producers and consumers of knowledge regardless of location, nationality, race, age, gender, income, socio-economic circumstances, career stage, discipline, language, religion, disability, ethnicity or migratory status or any other grounds.
SPARC has been at the forefront of Open Access since 1998. In its 2021 Update: SPARC Landscape Analysis and Roadmap for Action, it argues for fostering equitable open science practices. SPARC gives one example that has been around for years but not known in the larger scientific community:
The weight accorded to leading journals because of their impact factors (IF) has given these journals the incentive to operate a covert science policy: publishers and editors have incentives to maintain or raise their IF, and this leads them to prioritize publishing articles that are likely to be widely cited. This means they will prefer to publish articles in areas that are “fashionable” and of wide interest, and this focus of the leading publishers in turn affects funding and the priorities of funding bodies…. Unfashionable disciplines and approaches (like those affecting rare diseases or people in disadvantaged communities) are structurally disadvantaged by these dynamics.
The report outlines trends—rising market concentration, increased bundling, and inclusive access—that limit student choices and widen the usage of monitoring technologies, and further demonstrate that OA is being fought on a number of fronts, including academic freedom. See the activities planned for Open Access Week 2021.
Resources
OASIS. Developed at SUNY Geneseo’s Milne Library, Openly Available Sources Integrated Search (OASIS) is a search tool for discovering open content. OASIS currently searches open content from 114 different sources (66 sources in 2018) and contains 440,269 records.
The Company of Biologists. The Editors-in-Chief of Development, Journal of Cell Science and Journal of Experimental Biology share their thoughts on Open Access publishing in this video.
The Digital Scholarship Workshop, ‘Web Searching Makeover,’ has been moved to Wednesday, October 20th at 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm. Registration details can be found here.
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