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Characteristics of Tweets about African Cultural Heritage

This article investigates broad characteristics of tweets about African cultural heritage with possible implications for marketing by cultural heritage administrators and other stakeholders.
Date: May 20, 2016
Creator: Rorissa, Abebe; Assefa, Shimelis & Alemneh, Daniel Gelaw
Object Type: Book Chapter
System: The UNT Digital Library
Display of the Confederate Flag at Federal Cemeteries in the United States (open access)

Display of the Confederate Flag at Federal Cemeteries in the United States

This report discusses policies regarding the display of the Confederate Flag at national cemeteries. If a state observes a Confederate Memorial Day, National Park Service (NPS) cemeteries in the state may permit a sponsoring group to decorate the graves of Confederate veterans with small Confederate flags. Additionally, such flags may also be displayed on the nationally observed Memorial Day, to accompany the U.S. flag on the graves of Confederate veterans.
Date: May 20, 2016
Creator: Comay, Laura B. & Szymendera, Scott D.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library

GIS Trends and Open Access

Presentation for the 2016 Open Access Symposium discussing Geographic Information Systems (GIS) software and data in relation to open access initiatives.
Date: May 20, 2016
Creator: Burns, Douglas & Rodriguez, Allyson
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library
DOT's Federal Pipeline Safety Program: Background and Key Issues for Congress (open access)

DOT's Federal Pipeline Safety Program: Background and Key Issues for Congress

This report reviews the history of federal programs for pipeline safety, significant safety issues, and recent developments focusing on key issues for Congress.
Date: May 20, 2016
Creator: Parfomak, Paul W.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Zika Response Funding: Request and Congressional Action (open access)

Zika Response Funding: Request and Congressional Action

This report presents the Administration's request for supplemental appropriations for the Zika response. It includes sections outlining Congressional actions, the emergency supplemental appropriations request for Zika response efforts -- by both U.S. health and human services agencies and international assistance programs -- and information about unobligated Ebola response funds.
Date: May 20, 2016
Creator: Epstein, Susan B. & Lister, Sarah A.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Federal Prison Population Buildup: Options for Congress (open access)

The Federal Prison Population Buildup: Options for Congress

This report discusses a number of policy avenues lawmakers could consider, should Congress choose to address the growth in the federal prison population.
Date: May 20, 2016
Creator: James, Nathan
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Treasury Issues White Paper on Fintech and Marketplace Lending (open access)

Treasury Issues White Paper on Fintech and Marketplace Lending

This report briefly discusses the context and contents of a white paper issued on May 10, 2016 by the U.S. Department of the Treasury. The paper analyzes regulatory issues for the marketplace lending industry and offers several recommendations for industry and government responses.
Date: May 20, 2016
Creator: Murphy, Edward V.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
U.S.-Vietnam Economic and Trade Relations: Issues for the 114th Congress (open access)

U.S.-Vietnam Economic and Trade Relations: Issues for the 114th Congress

This report examines the bilateral trade issues between United States and Vietnam, discussing their main elements and exploring their potential implications for the 114th Congress.
Date: May 20, 2016
Creator: Martin, Michael F.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Pay Equity: Legislative and Legal Developments (open access)

Pay Equity: Legislative and Legal Developments

This report begins by presenting data on earnings for male and female workers and by discussing explanations that have been offered for the differences in earnings. It next discusses the major laws directed at eliminating sex-based wage discrimination as well as relevant federal court cases. The report closes with a description of pay equity legislation that has been considered or enacted by Congress in recent years.
Date: May 20, 2016
Creator: Feder, Jody & Collins, Benjamin
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library

OA Monographs: The Cost of Creating Them Today To Make Them Open For Tomorrow

This presentation contains findings from a 2015 Mellon-funded study to understand the costs of publishing monographs, and their next steps in building a tool to estimate publishing costs.
Date: May 20, 2016
Creator: Maron, Nancy
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library

Sustaining OA with Publishing Cooperatives

This presentation reports on the MacArthur-funded Open Access Publishing Cooperative Study, which is investigating the viability of publishing cooperatives through an examination of pilot projects in Africa, Canada, and the United States.
Date: May 20, 2016
Creator: Stranack, Kevin
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library

SHARE in Open Science and Open Access

This presentation contains an overview of SHARE, an open dataset repository to track research projects across the research lifecycle.
Date: May 20, 2016
Creator: Walters, Tyler
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library

Fair Open Access: A Roadmap

This presentation provides a model for flipping subscription journals to Open Access using Linguistics in Open Access (LingOA) as an example.
Date: May 20, 2016
Creator: Rooryck, Johan
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library

Open Minds But Closed Access. Why Are There So Few Gold Open Access LIS Journals? And Why Are So Many Librarians Unwilling To Unlock Their Scholarship?

This presentation contains an evaluation of the open access availability of library and information science literature.
Date: May 20, 2016
Creator: Baker, Sarah & Chaudhuri, Jayati
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library

Improving Openness of Scholarly Communication

This presentation contains an overview of the Open Science Framework as a free, open scholarly commons.
Date: May 20, 2016
Creator: Nosek, Brian
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library

Why Science is Better with Communism? The Case of Sci-Hub

This presentation will discuss why intellectual property rights, in the form of copyright law, are contradictory to science as an enterprise, and will draw on the example of Sci-Hub.
Date: May 20, 2016
Creator: Elbakyan, Alexandra
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library

Evaluation of Online-Only Journal Quality from Analysis of Email Solicitations

This presentation contains an analysis of ~600 solicitation emails related to 317 scholarly journals received within a one-year period to assess the quality of publishing venues available.
Date: May 20, 2016
Creator: Burggren, Warren W.
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with A. K. Sheffield, May 20, 2016 (open access)

Oral History Interview with A. K. Sheffield, May 20, 2016

The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an interview with A K Sheffield. Sheffield joined the Navy in late 1943. He completed Armed Guard School in San Diego. He served with the Navy Armed Guard aboard a transport ship, and traveled to the Philippine Islands. In May of 1944, Sheffield was aboard the SS Henry Bergh when it ran aground on the Farallon Islands, and shares details of those events. He traveled through the Pacific Islands, to Japan and throughout the Atlantic. Sheffield does not speak of participating in any battles or combat. He returned home aboard USS Iowa (BB-61) after the war ended in late 1945.
Date: May 20, 2016
Creator: Sheffield, A. K.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with A. K. Sheffield, May 20, 2016 transcript

Oral History Interview with A. K. Sheffield, May 20, 2016

The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an interview with A K Sheffield. Sheffield joined the Navy in late 1943. He completed Armed Guard School in San Diego. He served with the Navy Armed Guard aboard a transport ship, and traveled to the Philippine Islands. In May of 1944, Sheffield was aboard the SS Henry Bergh when it ran aground on the Farallon Islands, and shares details of those events. He traveled through the Pacific Islands, to Japan and throughout the Atlantic. Sheffield does not speak of participating in any battles or combat. He returned home aboard USS Iowa (BB-61) after the war ended in late 1945.
Date: May 20, 2016
Creator: Sheffield, A. K.
Object Type: Sound
System: The Portal to Texas History
Making an Open Information Age: Power, Freedom and Inequality in an Age of Bits captions transcript

Making an Open Information Age: Power, Freedom and Inequality in an Age of Bits

Video of the session "Making an Open Information Age: Power, Freedom and Inequality in an Age of Bits," which explores why we can and must create a world of open information and its implications for technology, politics, laws, and economics.
Date: May 20, 2016
Creator: Pollock, Rufus
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library
Dallas Voice (Dallas, Tex.), Vol. 33, No. 2, Ed. 1 Friday, May 20, 2016 (open access)

Dallas Voice (Dallas, Tex.), Vol. 33, No. 2, Ed. 1 Friday, May 20, 2016

Weekly newspaper from Dallas, Texas that includes local, state, and national news and advertising of interest to the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT) community.
Date: May 20, 2016
Creator: Nash, Tammye
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Altus Times (Altus, Okla.), Vol. 117, No. 46, Ed. 1 Friday, May 20, 2016 (open access)

The Altus Times (Altus, Okla.), Vol. 117, No. 46, Ed. 1 Friday, May 20, 2016

Daily newspaper from Altus, Oklahoma that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: May 20, 2016
Creator: Steinkopff, Eric
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Texas Register, Volume 41, Number 21, Pages 3563-3788, May 20, 2016 (open access)

Texas Register, Volume 41, Number 21, Pages 3563-3788, May 20, 2016

A weekly publication, the Texas Register serves as the journal of state agency rulemaking for Texas. Information published in the Texas Register includes proposed, adopted, withdrawn and emergency rule actions, notices of state agency review of agency rules, governor's appointments, attorney general opinions, and miscellaneous documents such as requests for proposals. After adoption, these rulemaking actions are codified into the Texas Administrative Code.
Date: May 20, 2016
Creator: Texas. Secretary of State.
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Denton Record-Chronicle (Denton, Tex.), Vol. 112, No. 292, Ed. 1 Friday, May 20, 2016 (open access)

Denton Record-Chronicle (Denton, Tex.), Vol. 112, No. 292, Ed. 1 Friday, May 20, 2016

Daily newspaper from Denton, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: May 20, 2016
Creator: Parks, Scott K.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History