Social Networks and Archival Content - December 21, 2016

The Prototype History Research Tool

The Prototype History Research Tool is an aggregate of biographical information about people, both individuals and groups, who created or are documented in historical resources. Users can search for names of individual people, organizations, and families; browse featured descriptions; and discover and locate connected historical resources. Search results can be filtered by occupation and subject.

Search Interface

Project and prototype tool (http://socialarchive.iath.virginia.edu/snac/search) as well as the test site for the user interface. 

Forthcoming Features

CRL's new repository of Civil Society Documentation - December 20, 2016

An article published the Fall 2016 issue of FOCUS on Global Resources  features an important new Center for Research Libraries initiative, an open web repository of civil society documentation. CRL President Bernard Reilly notes that the initial phase of this project, undertaken with support from the Carnegie Corporation of New York, marks a new chapter in the history of collecting and preserving official gazettes published in various world regions. The project has targeted documents from ten nations cited in Transparency International’s Corruption Perceptions Index as among the countries with the most corrupt public sectors.

Towards an Open Web Repository for Civil Society Documentation

"Government publications known as official gazettes (variously titled “journal officiel,” “diario oficial,” “bulletin officiel”) have long been key documents of civil society. These publications function as the legal newspapers of many countries, wherein the texts of new laws, decrees, regulations, international treaties, legal notices, legislative debates, and court decisions are announced. The laws published in the gazettes are the versions of record—and in many jurisdictions the only published versions—of many nations’ primary laws. In some cases, publication in the gazette even initiates jurisdiction."

Center for Research Libraries

Love Your Data Week - February 13-17, 2017

Love Your Data week is right around the corner on February 13-17, 2017! This year's theme is emphasizing data quality for researchers at any stage in their career.  

Visit our website: https://loveyourdata.wordpress.com/ or follow us on Twitter #LYD17 or #loveyourdata to gain inspiration, share ideas, and find new ways to promote data services and resources at your library and beyond! Please tell us if you plan to participate and we will list your institution's name on the site so we can continue to grow the community of data lovers.

More details will be available soon!



Sincerely, the LYD Week Planning Committee:
Thea Atwood
Michelle Bass
Heather Coates
Patti Condon
Erin Foster
Carla Graebner

Cinthya Ippoliti

Top Ten UC Irvine Articles Accessed in eScholarship for November 2016

Top Ten UC Irvine Articles Accessed in eScholarship for November 2016

Below is an overview of the number of views and downloads for this month, along with links to your usage numbers from previous months and additional data. We feel that the combination of views and downloads gives a more accurate picture of the interest in and usage of your publications than is reflected in download counts alone, particularly given the enhanced access readers have to your publications prior to download in the eScholarship interface.

UC Irvine Previously Published Works

For this month your total requests = 14947 (views=10202, downloads=4745).

Breakdown By Item

Top Ten Articles Viewed and Downloaded - November 2016

Item	Year	---- Number of Requests ----
Title	Published	Total	Nov/16	Oct/16
Kinematics Synthesis of Lower Limb Supporting Linkages	2015	154	153	1
Song of Youth: Youth Narratives and Representations of Young People in Contemporary Chinese Literature, Film, and Popular Culture	2016	106	9	97
Non-convex Optimization in Machine Learning: Provable Guarantees Using Tensor Methods	2016	99	34	65
Non-convex Optimization Methods for Sparse and Low-rank Reconstruction	2016	58	35	23
Investigation of the Effects of Flipped Instruction on Student Exam Performance, Motivation and Perceptions	2016	54	47	7
Radiation Tolerant Interface Design and Complexion Dynamics via Atomistic Modeling	2016	54	40	14
The Role of Maltreatment in the Development of Emotion Regulation	2016	53	10	43
Security of Internet of Things Devices and Networks	2016	45	25	20
Biochemical and Structural Elucidation of Polyketide Synthase and Non-Ribosomal Peptide Synthetase Enzymes Using Novel Pantetheine Analogues	2015	43	39	4
Highly Superior Autobiographical Memory (HSAM): Memory Distortion Paradigms and Individual Differences	2015	42	27	15

More information about the UC Open Access Policy is available on the Open Access Policy pages.

Visit the Implementation Plan to learn more about the timeline for systemwide roll-out of the publication management system.

My Dissertation Is Online! Wait – My Dissertation Is Online!? Copyright

My Dissertation Is Online! Wait – My Dissertation Is Online!? Copyright

"You’ve worked painstakingly for years (we won’t let on how many) on your magnum opus: your dissertation—the scholarly key to completing your graduate degree, securing a possible first book deal, and making inroads toward faculty status somewhere. Then, as you are about to submit your pièce de résistance through ProQuest’s online administration system, you are confronted with the realization that—for students at many institutions—your dissertation is about to be made available open access online to readers all over the world (hurrah! and gulp)."
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Rachael G. Samberg is UC Berkeley Library’s Scholarly Communication Officer.

Top Ten UC Irvine Articles Accessed in eScholarship for October 2016

Top Ten UC Irvine Articles Accessed in eScholarship for October 2016

Below is an overview of the number of views and downloads for this month, along with links to your usage numbers from previous months and additional data. We feel that the combination of views and downloads gives a more accurate picture of the interest in and usage of your publications than is reflected in download counts alone, particularly given the enhanced access readers have to your publications prior to download in the eScholarship interface.

UC Irvine Electronic Theses and Dissertations

For this month your total requests = 14947 (views=10202, downloads=4745).

Breakdown By Item

Top Ten ETDs Viewed and Downloaded - October 2016

Item	Year	---- Number of Requests ----		Total	Added to
Title	Published	Views	Downloads	Requests	"My Items"
A Practice Theory Approach to Understanding the Interdependency of Nursing Practice and the Environment Implications for Nurse-Led Care Delivery Models	2015	76	49	125	0
Primary production of the biosphere: integrating terrestrial and oceanic components	1998	64	42	106	0
Theorizing Practice and Practicing Theory	2011	39	61	100	0
Building the oral language skills of K-2 English Language learners through theater arts	2011	93	4	97	0
Reconceptualizing Organizational Routines as a Source of Flexibility and Change	2003	53	43	96	0
Enterprise Risk Management: Review, Critique, and Research Directions	2014	43	41	84	0
Zombies--A Pop Culture Resource for Public Health Awareness	2013	52	23	75	0
Organizational Routines as a Source of Continuous Change	2000	29	41	70	0
Corporate social responsibility as a source of employee satisfaction	2012	36	31	67	0
Item-wording and the dimensionality of the Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale: Do they matter?	2003	49	17	66	0

More information about the UC Open Access Policy is available on the Open Access Policy pages.

Visit the Implementation Plan to learn more about the timeline for systemwide roll-out of the publication management system.

Top Ten UC Irvine ETDs Accessed in eScholarship for October 2016

Top Ten UC Irvine Electronic Theses and Dissertations Accessed in eScholarship for October 2016

Below is an overview of the number of views and downloads for this month, along with links to your usage numbers from previous months and additional data. We feel that the combination of views and downloads gives a more accurate picture of the interest in and usage of your publications than is reflected in download counts alone, particularly given the enhanced access readers have to your publications prior to download in the eScholarship interface.

UC Irvine Electronic Theses and Dissertations

For this month your total requests = 3293 (views=2247, downloads=1046).

Breakdown By Item

Top Ten ETDs Viewed and Downloaded - October 2016

Item Year ---- Number of Requests ---- Total Added to Title Published Views Downloads Requests "My Items" Song of Youth: Youth Narratives and Representations of Young People in Contemporary Chinese Literature, Film, and Popular Culture 2016 95 2 97 0 Non-convex Optimization in Machine Learning: Provable Guarantees Using Tensor Methods 2016 27 38 65 0 The Role of Maltreatment in the Development of Emotion Regulation 2016 30 13 43 0 Fundamentals of Treating Interference as Noise 2016 15 12 27 0 Label-free fluorescence lifetime imaging microscopy (FLIM) to study metabolism and oxidative stress in biological systems 2016 23 3 26 0 Left out in Los Angeles 2016 23 2 25 0 Quantification of Grain Boundary Mediated Plasticity Mechanisms in Nanocrystalline Metals 2016 14 11 25 0 Repatriation Taxes and the Value of Cash Holdings 2015 22 2 24 0 Non-convex Optimization Methods for Sparse and Low-rank Reconstruction 2016 15 8 23 0 Transactional and Spatial Query Processing in the Big Data Era 2016 19 4 23 0

More information about the UC Open Access Policy is available on the Open Access Policy pages.

Visit the Implementation Plan to learn more about the timeline for systemwide roll-out of the publication management system.

Does UC's Open Access policy miss the mark? Depends on which mark. - October 28, 2016

Does UC's Open Access policy miss the mark? Depends on which mark.

Institutional open access policies often get a bad rap. Critics point to their lack of “teeth”; their poor compliance rates; their failure, thus far, to effect substantial change within the economically unsustainable and locked down scholarly publishing environment. Motivated by the desire to free all scholarship from publisher access restrictions and the equally ambitious goal of empowering all authors to retain rights to their scholarly publications, these policies struggle mightily under the weight of expectations.

But maybe we are expecting too much — or not enough.

http://osc.universityofcalifornia.edu/2016/10/does-the-uc-open-access-policy-miss-the-mark-depends-on-which-mark/

Does the UC Open Access Policy miss the mark? Depends on which mark. osc.universityofcalifornia.edu Institutional open access policies often get a bad rap. Critics point to their lack of “teeth”; their poor compliance rates; their failure, thus far, to effect substantial change within the economically unsustainable and locked down scholarly publishing environment. Motivated by the desire to free a

California Digital Library

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Top Ten UC Irvine Articles Accessed in eScholarship for September 2016

Top Ten UC Irvine Articles Accessed in eScholarship for September 2016

Below is an overview of the number of views and downloads for this month, along with links to your usage numbers from previous months and additional data. We feel that the combination of views and downloads gives a more accurate picture of the interest in and usage of your publications than is reflected in download counts alone, particularly given the enhanced access readers have to your publications prior to download in the eScholarship interface.

UC Irvine Previously Published Works

For this month your total requests = 12994 (views=9050, downloads=3944).

Breakdown By Item

Top Ten Articles Viewed and Downloaded - September 2016

Item Year ---- Number of Requests ---- Total Added to Title Published Views Downloads Requests "My Items" Beyond Looking for My Penis: Reflections on Asian Gay Male Video Porn 1999 107 3 110 0 The social dilemma of autonomous vehicles 2016 55 39 94 0 Building the oral language skills of K-2 English Language learners through theater arts 2011 87 3 90 0 A Practice Theory Approach to Understanding the Interdependency of Nursing Practice and the Environment Implications for Nurse-Led Care Delivery Models 2015 53 26 79 0 Primary production of the biosphere: integrating terrestrial and oceanic components 1998 44 34 78 0 Enterprise Risk Management: Review, Critique, and Research Directions 2014 32 41 73 0 Interdisciplinary collaboration: The role of the clinical nurse leader 2015 46 23 69 0 Theorizing Practice and Practicing Theory 2011 27 37 64 0 Corporate social responsibility as a source of employee satisfaction 2012 40 22 62 0 Toward more realistic projections of soil carbon dynamics by Earth system models 2016 42 15 57 1

More information about the UC Open Access Policy is available on the Open Access Policy pages.

Visit the Implementation Plan to learn more about the timeline for systemwide roll-out of the publication management system.

UCI Physicists Confirm Possible Discovery of Fifth Force of Nature - August 18, 2017

A UCI Physics and Astronomy team, led by professors Jonathan Feng and Tim Tait, have made a discovery that could profoundly change the future of physics. They have found evidence of a fifth force of nature and a new particle that could have implications for the unification of forces and efforts to understand the dark matter that pervades the universe. If their work is confirmed, I predict a Nobel Prize.

Professor Tait did an excellent job of explaining this work on NPR. You can hear the interview at http://goo.gl/dlv8lH.

You can also see a collection of news coverage at our Storify page. Of course, true physicists will want to look at their Physical Review Letter, 117, 071803 (2016).

I hope accomplishments like these make you proud to be associated with our School and with UCI. We look forward to seeing you at our upcoming events and research presentations.


Kenneth C. Janda
Professor and Dean
UCI School of Physical Sciences  

Pay-It-Forward - blog post from Scholarly Kitchen - August 9, 2016

The Pay It Forward Project: Confirming What We Already Knew About Open Access

POSTED BY DAVID CROTTY ⋅ AUG 9, 2016 ⋅ 14 COMMENTS

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Image via Tom Magliery.

The final report from the University of California, Davis and the California Digital Library’s ambitious “Pay It Forward” study of viable models for a “flip” from the subscription model to full open access (OA) for journal publishing has been released. At acost of $800,000, the study essentially confirms what we already knew from both previous studies and common sense: moving to Gold OA means increased costs for productive research institutions.

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