Faculty Publications
The purpose of this Faculty Publications collection is to allow TAMU Faculty to self-deposit products of their research, typically journal articles that can be made openly accessible, but also conference presentations and similar materials.
Faculty, please note that as part of the self-deposit process, the Libraries’ Office of Scholarly Communication would encourage you to apply a Creative Commons (CC) license to your work as you share it here. (For help choosing which type, see: https://creativecommons.org/choose/ .) By default via the submission process link immediately below, the CC license version will be the latest (4.0), with international jurisdiction. (For details, see: https://wiki.creativecommons.org/wiki/License_Versions .) If for any reason you would like to restrict the jurisdiction by country, you will need to contact us at digital@library.tamu.edu before you deposit the item.
Recent Submissions
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Scalar quantum field theory in a closed universe of constant curvature
(Princeton University, 1972-05)Quantization of a massive neutral scalar field without self-interaction defined on a space-time manifold with given metric is studied, with emphasis on the two-dimensional de Sitter space. Applications in both general ... -
There’s an App for That: Information Resources for Disaster Preparedness and Response
(2020-02-12)Background: Quick and easy access to disaster health information is needed during all four phases of the emergency management cycle: Preparedness, Response, Recovery, and Mitigation.1 Health professionals and responders ... -
Moving Forward: The Next-Gen Catalog and the New Discovery Tools
(2020-02-13)This article explores two emerging solutions—next-gen catalogs and discovery products. A next-gen catalog provides an intuitive interface designed in accordance with current web standards. It incorporates features such as ... -
Why construction productivity initiatives fail to deliver significant improvements?
(2020-02-13)Popper’s (1972) analytical process of conjecture and refutations highlight how a problem begets a solution that engenders new problems. Efforts, in theory and practice, to increase construction productivity at the strategic ... -
Pedestrian Observation and Data Collection Curriculum Guide
(Transportation Research and Education Center, 2018)This guidebook provides a comprehensive set of class exercises suitable for students in courses related to travel behavior, traffic safety, urban planning and design, community health, or civil engineering. Exercises include ... -
It’s Good for Business: How to Make Library Collaborations Yield Dividends
(2018)An initiative by the Bryan + College Station Public Library System (BCSPLS) sought to increase public awareness of library programs and bring in new and larger groups of patrons. A main focus on financial literacy and ... -
Looking for the library: Using an undergraduate business syllabi analysis to inform an instruction program
(Journal of Business & Finance Librarianship, 2019-06-13)This study analyzed 260 syllabi representing a year of the undergraduate curriculum from a business school. The syllabi were examined based on the mentions of the library from across three categories: Spaces, Resources, ... -
Adults need STEM, too: An assessment of one public library's experiment with STEM programming for adults
(The Journal of Creative Library Practice, 2019-12-15)In 2016, the Bryan + College Station Public Library System received a $1,000 grant to conduct informal STEM programs for adults. The library’s stated goals were to encourage lifelong learning and civic engagement through ... -
Associate Instructional Professor
(2020-02-04)Popper’s (1972) analytical process of conjecture and refutations highlight how a problem begets a solution that engenders new problems. Efforts, in theory and practice, to increase construction productivity at the strategic ... -
ARTé: Mecenas
(Triseum, 2016-06-15)True to the life of the Medici, students must balance relationships with powerful city-states, merchant factions and the Catholic Church to build and maintain a financial empire and play a pivotal role in the creation of ... -
Invest in Your Library: Why Your Institution's Librarians are a Valuable Asset in a Collaboration Portfolio
(2020-01-31)Librarians are well situated to assist students with more than simply citation management or research papers. The specific skills of librarians lend themselves to working collaboratively across the campus to address students’ ... -
Managing the Changing Climate of Business Collections
(2020-01-28)Librarians that support business programs are weathering competing priorities in business collection management driven by requests from faculty and students, increasing resource costs with limited budgets, institutional ... -
Name Disambiguation for Digital Collections: Planning a Linked Data App for Authority Control at Texas A&M University Libraries
(2020-01-06)This presentation describes plans that are being made for the creation of an “authority control” app for names within repositories at Texas A&M University. The purpose of this app is to serve as a tool for library staff, ... -
Translating the Future: Transpilers and the New Temporalities of Programming in JavaScript
(2018-01)This essay is about transpilation and the future of translation work done by machines. “Transpilation” is a particularly ugly portmanteau word that refers, in web development, to a particularly confusing new concept used ... -
Communities of Information: Information Literacy and Discourse Community Instruction in First Year Writing Courses
(Purdue University Press, 2018)The artifacts of discourse (print texts, recordings, Web documents, etc.) are information, and as such fall under the umbrellas of both discourse communities and information literacy. Since the product of a discourse ... -
Documenting and Preserving Texas Freedom Colonies
(Texas Heritage, 2017)Often a destination at the end of an isolated dirt road, though some-times found in urban locations, Freedom Colonies are hidden African-American cultural legacies. These endangered communities are in need of greater ... -
The Fifth Street Neighborhood Plan & Market Study A Report on the Fifth Street Planning Process for Fort Bend County, Texas
(Center for Sustianable Development, University of Texas at Austin, College of Architecture, 2014-02) -
"Until the Lord Come Get Me, It Burn Down, Or the Next Storm Blow It Away": The Aesthetics of Freedom in African American Vernacular Homestead Preservation
(Buildings and Landscapes, 2019-12-15)Angel David Nieves and Leslie M. Alexander's We Shall Independent Be (2008), which contemplated the relationship between American ideals such as freedom and black space creation, advanced the validity of vernacular African ...
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