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Mentoring Graduate Assistants in the Academic Library (open access)

Mentoring Graduate Assistants in the Academic Library

Book chapter discussing mentoring graduate assistants in the academic library.
Date: 2011
Creator: O'Toole, Erin
System: The UNT Digital Library
Scholarly Communications Librarian (open access)

Scholarly Communications Librarian

The Future Academic Librarian’s Toolkit is a thorough handbook designed to guide future academic librarians from library school through first several years. This chapter specifically focused on scholarly communications librarian, which is a relatively recent area of professional focus for academic librarians.
Date: 2019
Creator: Martin, John Edward
System: The UNT Digital Library
Hybrid Approach for Energy-Aware Synchronization (open access)

Hybrid Approach for Energy-Aware Synchronization

This book chapter discusses a time synchronization scheme for wireless sensor networks that aims to save sensor battery power while maintaining network connectivity for as long as possible.
Date: December 2010
Creator: Akl, Robert G.; Saravanos, Yanos & Haidar, Mohamad
System: The UNT Digital Library
Educating the Community: Preserving Tomorrow's Treasures Today (open access)

Educating the Community: Preserving Tomorrow's Treasures Today

This book chapter discusses educating communities. and preserving tomorrow's treasures today. Librarians, curators, archivists, and volunteers work hard to conserve and preserve materials as they are added to their collections, insuring that the materials can be safely used. However, not all genealogical and historical information is held in cultural institutions; unknown numbers of valuable information sources reside with individuals and in residences. By educating the community today on how to protect the treasures in their care, we have the potential to minimize the repairs needed for these items in the future.
Date: April 5, 2012
Creator: Phillips, Jessica
System: The UNT Digital Library
Nachrichten: Electronic News Bulletins and the German Language (open access)

Nachrichten: Electronic News Bulletins and the German Language

Book chapter discussing electronic news bulletins and the German language.
Date: 1995
Creator: Costabile-Heming, Carol Anne
System: The UNT Digital Library
Media and Communication (open access)

Media and Communication

This book chapter discusses media and communication. As core features of humanity, communication and media clearly predate academic disciplines. They are in this sense non-disciplinary. Yet, they have for centuries been the subject of inquiry by those concerned to understand and improve human correspondence. This chapter surveys the historical development and present form of multi-, inter-, and transdisciplinary studies of media and communication.
Date: July 2010
Creator: Briggle, Adam & Christians, Clifford G.
System: The UNT Digital Library
["Belonging to America" by Kenneth L. Karst] (open access)

["Belonging to America" by Kenneth L. Karst]

A copy of "Belonging to American" by Kenneth L. Karst book cover. The next document contains a paragraph about gays and lesbians in American society and about the Baker v. Wade lawsuit.
Date: 19XX
Creator: unknown
System: The UNT Digital Library
STEM Bachelor's Degree Attainment among Women of Color in the United States: Using Geographic Analysis for Gender and Racial Equity Research (open access)

STEM Bachelor's Degree Attainment among Women of Color in the United States: Using Geographic Analysis for Gender and Racial Equity Research

This chapter showcases a study that examines the relationship between STEM bachelor’s degree attainment, particularly focusing on women of color, and the opportunities of higher education and STEM higher education within local communities across the United States. The authors analyze two large-scale national data sets, the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) and the American Community Survey (ACS), to conduct a location-level analysis. The authors then offer implications that target women of color who live in places that lack opportunities in higher education.
Date: July 12, 2021
Creator: Ro, Hyun; Meng, Yi & Zhu, Qiong
System: The UNT Digital Library
Introduction: Gender Equity in STEM in Higher Education: International Perspectives on Policy, Institutional Culture, and Individual Choice (open access)

Introduction: Gender Equity in STEM in Higher Education: International Perspectives on Policy, Institutional Culture, and Individual Choice

This introduction presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book provides an international overview of access and success for women in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) undergraduate programs. It focuses on women’s share of STEM graduates to explore trends and compare women’s enrollment in STEM to men’s enrollment in STEM and to higher education in general. The book focuses on the expansion of higher education in Taiwan as it relates to the improved participation of women in STEM tertiary education and in the STEM labor market. It focuses on the persistence of gender inequality in undergraduate engineering education in Germany by analyzing individual factors that contribute to women’s tendency to consider but then opt out of engineering. The book describes several challenges to gender-based equity in STEM in a post-Soviet context and offer multiple policy suggestions for improvement.
Date: July 12, 2021
Creator: Ro, Hyun; Ramon, Elizabeth J. & Fernandez, Frank
System: The UNT Digital Library
How to Hook a Hottie: Teenage Boys, Hegemonic Masculinity, and Cosmo Girl! Magazine (open access)

How to Hook a Hottie: Teenage Boys, Hegemonic Masculinity, and Cosmo Girl! Magazine

This book chapter discusses different media texts targeted at a different audience, magazines written for an audience of teenaged girls, which also work to naturalize male sexuality as aggressive and predatory. The authors study advice columns and articles in these magazines that depict teenaged boys as sexually forceful and emotionally stunted, and that encourage girl readers to expect and enable such behaviors.
Date: 2011
Creator: Enck-Wanzer, Suzanne M. & Murray, Scott A.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Neural Dynamics: Criticality, Cooperation, Avalanches and Entrainment between Complex Networks (open access)

Neural Dynamics: Criticality, Cooperation, Avalanches and Entrainment between Complex Networks

Book chapter discussing neural dynamics and the criticality, cooperation, avalanches and entrainment between complex networks.
Date: May 22, 2012
Creator: Grigolini, Paolo; Zare, Marzieh; Svenkeson, Adam & West, Bruce J.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Censorship and Review Processes: The Case of Günter Kunert (open access)

Censorship and Review Processes: The Case of Günter Kunert

Book chapter discussing censorship and review processes and the case of Günter Kunert.
Date: 1997
Creator: Costabile-Heming, Carol Anne
System: The UNT Digital Library
"Schreiber, was siehst du?" Processing Historical and Social Change (open access)

"Schreiber, was siehst du?" Processing Historical and Social Change

This book chapter discusses processing historical and social change in literature and film during the German unification.
Date: 2001
Creator: Costabile-Heming, Carol Anne; Halverson, Rachel J., 1961- & Foell, Kristie A.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Older Canadian with Developmental Disabilities Access to Health Care and Social Services (open access)

Older Canadian with Developmental Disabilities Access to Health Care and Social Services

This book chapter discusses older Canadians with developmental disabilities access to health care and social services.
Date: 1995
Creator: Easterling, Calvin Henry & Eve, Susan Brown
System: The UNT Digital Library
Ab Initio Calculations for Kinetic Modeling of Halocarbons (open access)

Ab Initio Calculations for Kinetic Modeling of Halocarbons

This book chapter discusses ab initio calculations for kinetic modeling of halocarbons.
Date: 1998
Creator: Berry, Rajiv; Schwartz, Martin & Marshall, Paul
System: The UNT Digital Library

Texts and Contexts: GDR Literature during the 1970s

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Book chapter discussing texts and contexts in German Democratic Republic literature during the 1970s.
Date: 1997
Creator: Costabile-Heming, Carol Anne
System: The UNT Digital Library
Initiation and maintenance of callus and cell suspension cultures (open access)

Initiation and maintenance of callus and cell suspension cultures

Book chapter discussing the initiation and maintenance of callus and cell suspension cultures.
Date: 1995
Creator: Franklin, C. I. & Dixon, R. A.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Metabolomics and Gene Identification in Plant Natural Product Pathways (open access)

Metabolomics and Gene Identification in Plant Natural Product Pathways

Book chapter on metabolomics and gene identification in plant natural product pathways.
Date: 2006
Creator: Dixon, R. A.; Achnine, Lahoucine; Deavours, Bettina E. & Naoumkina, Marina A.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Use of Health Care Services by Older Adults in the United States, Great Britain and Canada (open access)

Use of Health Care Services by Older Adults in the United States, Great Britain and Canada

Book chapter on the use of health care services by older adults in the United States, Great Britain, and Canada.
Date: 1995
Creator: Eve, Susan Brown; Pillai, Vijayan K.; Easterling, Calvin Henry & Jones, John D.
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Power of Images: From Postmodern Art to Memes (open access)

The Power of Images: From Postmodern Art to Memes

This chapter examines the elements of visual grammar used in advertising media and postmodern art that is now used to create powerful memes.
Date: 2021
Creator: Barham, Rebecca; Guo, Xuan & Mikler, Armin R.
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Excerpt from A Guide to Developing Educational Partnerships] (open access)

[Excerpt from A Guide to Developing Educational Partnerships]

An excerpt from "A Guide to Developing Educational Partnerships" by Naida C. Tushnet about different types of educational partnerships.
Date: October 1993
Creator: Tushnet, Naida C.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Conclusion: Unique but Transferable Approaches for Pursuing Gender Equity in STEM in Higher Education across the World (open access)

Conclusion: Unique but Transferable Approaches for Pursuing Gender Equity in STEM in Higher Education across the World

In this chapter, the authors offer suggestions for how policymakers and Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) educators may apply unique but potentially transferrable strategies. Finally, the authors suggest directions for innovative research and policy for pursuing gender equity in STEM fields after the economic and educational turmoil caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.
Date: July 12, 2021
Creator: Ro, Hyun; Ramon, Elizabeth J. & Fernandez, Frank
System: The UNT Digital Library
“Liberated from Serfdom”: Willis Conover and the Tallinn Jazz Festival of 1967 (open access)

“Liberated from Serfdom”: Willis Conover and the Tallinn Jazz Festival of 1967

This book chapter presents the Charles Lloyd Quartet’s performance at the 1967 Tallinn Jazz Festival, which broke the “stagecraft” of prior jazz diplomacy with the Soviet Union, and proceeded despite numerous official attempts to derail it, as a case study in the effectiveness of Willis Conover’s approach over the twelve years since his Voice of America program began in 1955.
Date: 2018
Creator: Feustle, Maristella
System: The UNT Digital Library
Blowing the Whistle Is Laden With Risk (open access)

Blowing the Whistle Is Laden With Risk

This book chapter explores perceptions of risk and responses to organizational wrongdoing.
Date: 2021
Creator: McGlynn, Joseph
System: The UNT Digital Library