As part of Open Access Week, the libraries recommend that faculty and students set up their own ORCID ID. ORCID (Open Researcher and Contributor ID) is a global non-profit organization that provides persistent digital identifiers (similar to a permalink) for researchers to use in identifying themselves. It is used to distinguish researchers and connect a Read More
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Open Access Week: What is ORCID?
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Celebrate Open Access Week!
Happy Open Access Week! International Open Access Week (October 23-29, 2023) was created by the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC) to highlight the benefits of Open Access (OA), share information on OA, and inspire wider participation in OA by the academic and research community. This year’s theme for Open Access Week is Community Read More
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Gale Digital Scholar Lab: Understanding Sentiment Analysis
Gale Digital Scholar Lab has six analysis tools built into it with Sentiment Analysis being one. Sentiment Analysis is the method of revealing trends or patterns in positive, negative, or neutral sentiment within a collected set of documents. “Sentiment Analysis uses the AFINN Lexicon to assign a “sentiment score” to each document within a researcher’s Read More
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Gale Literature Resource Center New Enhancements
Gale’s Literature Resource Center has added new enhancements and content that will help with your research needs. This webinar will be “a tour of the all-new browse functionality, 700+ portal pages focused on works of literature and literary topics, new primary and historical document sets, plus access to an additional 100+ original works of literature. Read More
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Peer Review Models and Misconceptions
As part of Peer Review Week (September 25-29, 2023), it is advantageous for us to explore the changing nature of peer review and the models that have sprung up over the years. For example, as the editor-in-chief for a Taylor & Francis academic journal, College & Undergraduate Libraries, I regularly return manuscripts back to the Read More
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Peer Review and the Future of Publishing
Welcome to Peer Review Week (September 25-29, 2023)! This week celebrates the scholarly peer review process, explores its significance in maintaining the quality of research publications, and addresses questions and challenges faced by researchers, academics, and librarians. The week is coordinated and sponsored by a number of publishers and affiliates. What is Peer Review? Peer Read More
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Digital Scholarship Fundamentals Workshops Fall Schedule
The University Libraries and the Department of Library and Information Science are offering a series of workshops this semester. The theme of the workshops is text data mining. Text data mining is the process of extracting valuable insights and patterns from unstructured textual data using various computational and statistical techniques to analyze and interpret this Read More
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The Archivist’s Nook: Consequor – Rare Books Acquisitions, 2022-2023
Several previous blog posts have highlighted select rare book acquisitions via purchase on an annual basis since the department joined Special Collections in 2019. The most recent reporting year, which ended April 30, 2023, saw three very significant additions. This was assisted in part by the welcome promotion of Alex Audziayuk from Rare Books Technician, Read More
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The Archivist’s Nook: Art Students at Work: Creating an Online Exhibit with Prints from Catholic University’s Special Collections
WORKERS: Exploring Labor in the Strishock Print Collection is an online exhibition resulting from the collaborative work between students in the Art History Department at Catholic University and Special Collections. The idea of working collaboratively was central to my course Museum & Gallery Practices Today, which introduces students to various aspects of gallery and museum practices through a participatory methodology that seeks to foster collaboration, creativity, and criticality.
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The Archivist’s Nook: Catholic U’s Centenary Alum and Scholar – Karl M. Schmitt
Kentucky born Karl Michael Schmitt (1922- ), a recent centenarian and alumnus of Catholic University, is a distinguished scholar and teacher on Latin American studies. Special Collections, which includes University Archives, is fortunate to have a small but important collection of Dr. Schmitt’s materials, mostly photographs, documenting his World War II era time on campus, Read More
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