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The Deposit Policy
(ALA Editions in collaboration with Core Publishing, 2021)
There are a host of implications and risks associated with the act of placing any author’s writing in the public sphere. As in the case of an institutional repository (IR), the mere fact of a university declaring: “Here ...
TEACHING WITH PRIMARY SOURCES: REPORT FROM TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY FOR ITHAKA S+R
(2020-10-27)
Primary sources have long enabled an inquiry-based approach to instruction, one which offers students the opportunity to expand critical thinking abilities and lasting research skills through a personal experience with ...
Methodology: Systematic Review and Meta-analysis of the AAC Literature for People with Autism Spectrum Disorder or Intellectual Disabilities who have Complex Communication Needs through 2020
(2020-10-12)
A comprehensive meta-analysis examining the impacts of augmentative and alternative communication for individuals with complex communication needs was conducted, examining the relationship between social-communicative and ...
Media Use During COVID-19: An Investigation of Negative Effects on the Mental Health of Asian Versus White Americans
(Frontiers in Communication, 2021-04-28)
The role of media use on mental health distress is particularly concerning during the
COVID-19 global pandemic. The vulnerabilities to and experiences of the COVID-19
pandemic in the United States are greatly influenced ...
Intergroup Contact
(The International Encyclopedia of Media Psychology, 2020-09-08)
Intergroup contact is defined as interactions between members of different social
groups. Contact is essentially a communicative process. Empirical evidence suggests that
positive intergroup contact can lead to prejudice ...
Modeling a Born-Digital Factoid Prosopography using the TEI and Linked Data
(2021-02-12)
Although the TEI has traditionally been used for encoding text, its combination of structured and semi-structured data has made it a compelling choice for born-digital, linked-data resources as well. Our intent here is to ...
The Gulf Coast Heritage Preparedness Initiative: Proposal to the Texas A&M University President's Excellence Fund
(Texas A&M University, 2021-05-24)
This planning and pilot study will assess the feasibility of a community-based, interdisciplinary model for protecting endangered places and heritage in surviving historic Black settlements founded 1865-1930 known as freedom ...
Similarly different: Finding the nuances in first year students' library perceptions
(Elsevier, 2021-07)
Information literacy efforts in academic libraries commonly target first-year students as a way to ensure that students learn foundational research skills at the beginning of their college experience. However, little has ...
Uncovering the information literacy skills of first-generation and provisionally admitted students
(Elsevier, 2021-01)
Librarians have experimented with a variety of instructional models, from one-shots to tutorials to semester-long information literacy courses, to increase the impact of information literacy instruction. This study assessed ...