Fostering Student Employee Engagement: Creating a Sense of Ownership Through Task Sharing Initiatives

Presentation describing how student supervisors developed a task sharing and reporting mechanism to encourage teamwork and improve student engagement. Student supervisors of the Access Services Department are committed to creating a positive and effective work environment while ensuring accountability and productivity. In order to improve students' work experience, the supervisors developed tools and techniques which have increased student engagement in the department operations and empowered them to take initiatives. In addition, these tools have boosted student assistant productivity, provided a sense of ownership and accomplishment, and improved communication with supervisors.
Date: November 17, 2021
Creator: Akers, Emily; Baskett, Pilar; Knox, Briana & Keshmiripour, Setareh
System: The UNT Digital Library

Indexing in a Digital World

Presentation is about how; the synergies of numerous emerging trends are making resource integration much easier and provide users with access to more diverse and previously unavailable contents and services that span myriad technologies across institutions and nations. Despite this, the ever-expanding digital information resources in the Web, has evolved without much regard to resources management and organization issues.
Date: May 2022
Creator: Alemneh, Daniel Gelaw
System: The UNT Digital Library

My Fulbright Experience: Ethiopia (2019-20) & South Africa (2021-22)

Presentation describes Daniel Alemneh's experiences as a Fulbright Scholar.
Date: February 27, 2023
Creator: Alemneh, Daniel Gelaw
System: The UNT Digital Library

Open Access and Scholarly Communication

This presentation covers the background and definition, stakeholder roles, policy frameworks, challenges and opportunities, and current/emerging trends in Open Access and Scholarly Communication.
Date: January 2, 2020
Creator: Alemneh, Daniel Gelaw
System: The UNT Digital Library

Open Access and Scholarly Communications: Looking Ahead to a Post-Pandemic Future

Presentation that covers open access in the context of Ethiopia. This presentation provides examples of the background of open access and scholarly communication, the policy frameworks in place (including the White House OSTP Call to Action), the challenges and opportunities in relation to developing nations, and the emerging trends in institutional initiatives in Ethiopia.
Date: May 2, 2020
Creator: Alemneh, Daniel Gelaw
System: The UNT Digital Library

Open Science and Open Data: Issues and Considerations

Presentation describes how the open access movement is transforming scholarly communication.
Date: March 2020
Creator: Alemneh, Daniel Gelaw
System: The UNT Digital Library

Roles of Library for Quality Education and Research: Emerging Trends in the Information Professions

Presentation asserts that in times of information scarcity, libraries provided the most effective way of sharing material.
Date: March 12, 2020
Creator: Alemneh, Daniel Gelaw
System: The UNT Digital Library

Knowledge Sharing Practices Among Faculty Members in Higher Education Institutions

Presentation asserts that knowledge is regarded as an organization's most valuable strategic resources. This presentation highlights and discusses knowledge sharing practices among faculty members in higher education institutions.
Date: April 2022
Creator: Alemneh, Daniel Gelaw & Dube, Farirai Delma
System: The UNT Digital Library

On the Open Road: The Story of an OA Publication through the Stakeholders Journey

Presentation discusses the process to publishing an open access book, and they discuss the critical role of OA in facilitating equitable global education. Authors of the presentation also introduce current and future work in the area of open access.
Date: 2023
Creator: Alemneh, Daniel Gelaw & Ford, Angela
System: The UNT Digital Library

Open Access Increases Educators Ability to Plan Equitable Curriculum: Global Context

This presentation gives an overview of Open Access including its definition, basic assumptions, open access registries, technology and trends, technological structure, policy frameworks, challenges and opportunities. It then applies this to the need for developing countries' contributions to global knowledge production and creating institutional initiatives.
Date: 2020-10-14/2020-10-16
Creator: Alemneh, Daniel Gelaw & Ford, Angela
System: The UNT Digital Library

Reducing Epistemic Injustices in Scholarly Output Management: Individual and Collective Levels

Presentation discusses scholarly output dissemination and production in different disciplines. It also touches on the role of open access and the removal of barriers in facilitating access and enhancing the research impact.
Date: October 2022
Creator: Alemneh, Daniel Gelaw & Ford, Angela
System: The UNT Digital Library

Scholars Experiencing Epistemic Injustice Due to Management of Scholarly Outputs

Presentation describes the ways scholars experience epistemic injustice. Authors of the presentation claim that these cases of epistemic injustice are due to management of scholarly outputs.
Date: October 2022
Creator: Alemneh, Daniel Gelaw & Ford, Angela
System: The UNT Digital Library

Open Access and Open Educational Resources for Equitable Scholarly Communication: Rethinking Educational Planning Post-COVID

Presentation that discusses Open Access (OA) and Open Educational Resources (OER) in light of the iniquities in scholarly communication that were made more apparent by the COVID-19 pandemic. This presentation discusses how OA and OER can address social justice concerns, improve scholarly communication, and facilitate equitable educational planning.
Date: October 14, 2021
Creator: Alemneh, Daniel Gelaw & Ford, Angela Y.
System: The UNT Digital Library

Beyond Scholarly Communications: The Role of Open Access in Facilitating Digital Preservation

Presentation asserts that ensuring long-term access to digital information resources is one of the key challenges facing cultural heritage intuitions today. This presentation looks broadly into the contributions that open access (OA) has made towards facilitating the preservation of data.
Date: October 2022
Creator: Alemneh, Daniel Gelaw & Laughton, Paul
System: The UNT Digital Library

Digital Innovation in Education: the Evolution of Open Access

Presentation details digital innovation in education, specifically, the evolution of open access.
Date: October 2022
Creator: Alemneh, Daniel Gelaw & Laughton, Paul
System: The UNT Digital Library

The Role of Open Access in Promoting Equitable and Human-Centered Teaching and Learning Environment: Post-Pandemic Academia

Presentation discusses how the synergies of numerous emerging trends are making resource integration much easier. All these developments provide users with access to more diverse and previously unavailable content and services that span myriad technologies across institutions and nations.
Date: August 2022
Creator: Alemneh, Daniel Gelaw & Laughton, Paul
System: The UNT Digital Library

Extractive Automatic Text Summarization Techniques for Afaan Oromoo - Afroasiatic Language in Ethiopia

Presentation describes how there is an enormous amount of textual materials, which can be difficult for humans to distil effectively. Researchers have targeted producing summaries of doctors' prescriptions, lengthy information articles. These manner readers can take advantage of quite a few records on numerous subjects inside a brief span.
Date: June 2022
Creator: Alemneh, Daniel Gelaw & Moissa, Ramata
System: The UNT Digital Library

Application of Big Data Analytics in Precision Medicine: Lesson for Ethiopia, Systematic Review

This presentation asserts that in Ethiopia, the BDA concept and its implementation are either not know or left insignificant. The aim of this study was to investigate the current trends, challenges and opportunities of applying BDA in precision medicine globally and take lessons for Ethiopia.
Date: June 2023
Creator: Alemneh, Daniel Gelaw & Woldemariam, Misganaw Tadesse
System: The UNT Digital Library

Data-Driven Decision-Making Practice in Higher Education Institutions in Ethiopia

This presentation details how the authors' study investigates the practice of data-driven decision-making in higher education institutions in Ethiopia. The study also involved interviews with two directors from the university's education program relevance and enhancement office and four senior officers from library departments.
Date: October 2023
Creator: Alemneh, Daniel Gelaw; Asfaw, Zelalem; Jimma, Worku & Ferede, Bekalu
System: The UNT Digital Library

Towards Reducing Epistemic Injustices Identified During Fulbright Experiences

Presentation describes how teaching is one of the activities as a Fulbright Scholar. Alemneh describes a plethora of open-source tools and technologies used to prepare, organize and deliver the courses I taught.
Date: October 2023
Creator: Alemneh, Daniel Gelaw; Assefa, Shimelis & Ford, Angela
System: The UNT Digital Library

Open Access in the Age of Pandemic

Presentation on the potential of open access to increase exposure and use of published research. The presentation includes sections on the impact of open access in relation to OA community initiatives, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the COVID-19 pandemic, and open access data.
Date: October 27, 2020
Creator: Alemneh, Daniel Gelaw; Chang, Hsia-Ching; Hawamdeh, Suliman M.; Rorissa, Abebe; Assefa, Shimelis & Helge, Kris
System: The UNT Digital Library

Changing Landscape of Scholarly Communications

The presentation is about changing the landscape of scholarly communications. The presentation describes how using social justice lenses could promote OA and OER.
Date: June 2022
Creator: Alemneh, Daniel Gelaw; Hawamdeh, Suliman M.; Fourie, Ina; Rorissa, Abebe; Ford, Angela & Assefa, Shimelis
System: The UNT Digital Library

Flexible OA Support in Academic Publishing: IGI Global's Premiere Platinum Open Access Book in Collaboration with University of North Texas

Presentation presents "Handbook of Research on the Global View of Open Access and Scholarly Communications", and details chapter information.
Date: April 2022
Creator: Alemneh, Daniel Gelaw; Helge, Kris; Priyanto, Ida Fajar; Beyene, Melkamu; Ford, Angela & Haynes, Brittany
System: The UNT Digital Library

Evaluation of Information Representation and Knowledge Organization in Cultural Heritage Organizations in Arabian Gulf Countries: A Case Study of Alqabas Archive

Presentation exploring how information is organized in digital cultural heritage collection in Arabian Gulf countries. Study reveals high metadata quality overall but lack of consistency for many metadata fields, explained in part by the absence of metadata creation guidelines and professional training for metadata creators.
Date: December 4, 2020
Creator: Aljalahmah, Saleh & Zavalina, Oksana
System: The UNT Digital Library