Allied Program Areas and Specializations within LIS: UNT Experience

This presentation was presented as part of a panel on "The Benefits and Challenges of Allied Programs and Specializations in LIS Units" as part of the opening plenary panel at the 2018 Association for Library and Information Science Education (ALISE) Conference. This presentation discusses the rewards and challenges of Library and Information Science (LIS) programs, with a detailed overview of LIS programs offered at the University of North Texas.
Date: February 7, 2018
Creator: Hawamdeh, Suliman M.
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library

Attitudes of Scholars Towards Open Access (OA) Repositories

This poster presents data on faculty members' awareness of open access publishing, based on faculty age, college, rank, and status.
Date: February 6, 2018
Creator: Tmava, Ahmet Meti & Alemneh, Daniel Gelaw
Object Type: Poster
System: The UNT Digital Library

Revisiting the Evolving Landscape of Open Access and Scholarly Communication

Presentation at the 2018 Annual Conference of the Association for Library and Information Science Education. This presentation contains questions and topics of discussion for the panelists.
Date: February 8, 2018
Creator: Alemneh, Daniel Gelaw; Rorissa, Abebe; Assefa, Shimelis; Helge, Kris; Hawamdeh, Suliman M.; Hastings, Samantha Kelly et al.
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Determining Event Durations: Models and Error Analysis (open access)

Determining Event Durations: Models and Error Analysis

This paper presents models to predict event durations.
Date: June 1, 2018
Creator: Vempala, Alakananda; Blanco, Eduardo & Palmer, Alexis
Object Type: Paper
System: The UNT Digital Library
Revisiting Indexing & Abstracting in the Digital Era (open access)

Revisiting Indexing & Abstracting in the Digital Era

Paper presented for the 2018 Multidisciplinary Information Research Symposium. This paper discusses emerging trends for digital libraries and argues that indexing and abstracting services are still on the path to rediscovering and effectively accessing knowledge in the digital era.
Date: February 12, 2018
Creator: King, Samantha; Boyedoe, Howard; Chacon, Andrea; Hall, Molli; Krizansky, Maria; O'Bryant, Kathleen et al.
Object Type: Paper
System: The UNT Digital Library

Revisiting Indexing & Abstracting in the Digital Era

Presentation for the 2018 Multidisciplinary Information Research Symposium. This presentation discusses emerging trends for digital libraries and argues that indexing and abstracting services are still on the path to rediscovering and effectively accessing knowledge in the digital era.
Date: April 26, 2018
Creator: King, Samantha; Boyedoe, Howard; Chacon, Andrea; Hall, Molli; Krizansky, Maria; O'Bryant, Kathleen et al.
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library

Unfolding Research Data Services: An Information Architecture Perspective

Poster presented at the 2018 ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries. This poster describes the use of a content analysis with the lens of information architecture to better understand how research data services are organize in North American academic library websites, and to what extent the research data lifecycle is supported within these services.
Date: June 4, 2018
Creator: Khan, Hammad; Chang, Hsia-Ching & Kim, Jeonghyun
Object Type: Poster
System: The UNT Digital Library
Designing Learning for Sustainable Development: Digital Practices as Boundary Crossers and Predictors of Sustainable Lifestyles (open access)

Designing Learning for Sustainable Development: Digital Practices as Boundary Crossers and Predictors of Sustainable Lifestyles

This article contains results from a survey among students of urban and spatial planning in Slovenia to inform teacher's approaches to teaching as an important driver of institutional change.
Date: June 15, 2018
Creator: Starcic, Andreja Istenic; Terlevic, Maja; Lin, Lin & Lebenicnik, Maja
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
What is a Data Librarian?: A Content Analysis of Job Advertisements for Data Librarians in the United States Academic Libraries (open access)

What is a Data Librarian?: A Content Analysis of Job Advertisements for Data Librarians in the United States Academic Libraries

This paper attempts to understand what is required to be a data librarian by applying a content analysis approach to job advertisements by hiring professionals in academic libraries in the United States.
Date: July 31, 2018
Creator: Khan, Hammad & Du, Yunfei
Object Type: Paper
System: The UNT Digital Library
Complex Adaptive Systems: Adapting and Managing Teams and Team Conflict (open access)

Complex Adaptive Systems: Adapting and Managing Teams and Team Conflict

This book chapter provides an overview of teams, complex adaptive systems, conflict stages, and conflict models, while also presenting adaptive leadership as a style that offers organizations with the capabilities of reacting to changing environments quickly.
Date: August 1, 2018
Creator: Turner, John; Baker, Rose M. & Morris, Mark
Object Type: Book Chapter
System: The UNT Digital Library
Insights Into the Factors Influencing Student Motivation in Augmented Reality Learning Experiences in Vocational Education and Training (open access)

Insights Into the Factors Influencing Student Motivation in Augmented Reality Learning Experiences in Vocational Education and Training

This article attempts to identify some of the components that positively affect student motivation in mobile augmented reality (AR) learning experiences to contribute to the design and development of motivational AR learning experiences for the Vocational Education and Training (VET) level of education.
Date: August 21, 2018
Creator: Bacca, Jorge; Baldiris, Silvia; Fabregat, Ramon & Kinshuk
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Evolutionary Path of Factors Influencing Life Satisfaction among Chinese Elderly: A Perspective of Data Visualization (open access)

Evolutionary Path of Factors Influencing Life Satisfaction among Chinese Elderly: A Perspective of Data Visualization

This article investigates how the influence and importance of factors associated with life satisfaction in the elderly have changed during these years.
Date: September 11, 2018
Creator: Zhang, Hui; Wang, Yongyi; Wu, Dan & Chen, Jiangping
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Inclusivity Instead of Exclusivity: The Role of MOOCs for College Credit (open access)

Inclusivity Instead of Exclusivity: The Role of MOOCs for College Credit

This book chapter reviews the extant model, programs, and available outcomes for the massive open online course (MOOC) credit acceptance process.
Date: 2018
Creator: Baker, Rose M.; Passmore, David L. & Mulligan, Brian Martin
Object Type: Book Chapter
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Relationship between Administrative Intensity and Student Retention and Success: A Three-Year Study (open access)

The Relationship between Administrative Intensity and Student Retention and Success: A Three-Year Study

This article describes a secondary data analysis study linking the internal organizational elements of administrative intensity to institutional results as evidenced by higher education student retention and graduation rates.
Date: September 22, 2018
Creator: Romine, Kerry; Baker, Rose M. & Romine, Karla A.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Game design for visually-impaired individuals: Creativity and innovation theories and sensory substitution devices influence on virtual and physical navigation skills (open access)

Game design for visually-impaired individuals: Creativity and innovation theories and sensory substitution devices influence on virtual and physical navigation skills

This article examines the design elements of three virtual reality games for functionality and transferability to orientation and mobility education for visually impaired individuals.
Date: October 23, 2018
Creator: Baker, Rose M.; Ramos, Karina & Turner, John
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
How Does Your Knowledge Flow? Exercises in Spatial Syntax (open access)

How Does Your Knowledge Flow? Exercises in Spatial Syntax

This paper describes a workshop that introduces participants to the practice of spatial syntax and provides a hands-on opportunity for participants to map assess the knowledge flows of their working environments.
Date: November 9, 2018
Creator: Bedford, Denise A. D.; Garcia-Perez, Alexeis & Sappington, Jayne
Object Type: Paper
System: The UNT Digital Library
Fostering Scholarly Creativity: Modeling Functional Browsing through the Lens of Complexity (open access)

Fostering Scholarly Creativity: Modeling Functional Browsing through the Lens of Complexity

This paper models scholarly browsing.
Date: November 9, 2018
Creator: Behpour, Sahar; O'Connor, Brian Clark; Goudarzi, Abbas & Hawamdeh, Suliman M.
Object Type: Paper
System: The UNT Digital Library
Characterization of a Semantic Relations Taxonomy in Biomedical Science (open access)

Characterization of a Semantic Relations Taxonomy in Biomedical Science

This paper characterizes the Ontobee relations ontology in the biomedical science domain with comparisons to the Conflict and Mediation Event Observation (CAMEO) relations taxonomy and the UMLS semantic network relations.
Date: November 9, 2018
Creator: Wu, Yejun & Yang, Li
Object Type: Paper
System: The UNT Digital Library
Managers or Librarians: Roles and Competencies in RDM (open access)

Managers or Librarians: Roles and Competencies in RDM

This paper describes a workshop to analyze the roles and competencies of data curators in different contexts such as enterprises and academic libraries in mainland China.
Date: November 10, 2018
Creator: Fan, Zhenjia
Object Type: Paper
System: The UNT Digital Library
Panel on the Nexus of Knowledge Management and Information Science: What Past and Present Trends Tell Us About the Future (open access)

Panel on the Nexus of Knowledge Management and Information Science: What Past and Present Trends Tell Us About the Future

This panel brings together leaders from knowledge management and information science to discuss the trends and opportunities for collaboration within and between these fields.
Date: November 10, 2018
Creator: Freeburg, Darin; Liebowitz, Jay; Marchionini, Gary; Hawamdeh, Suliman M.; Makani, Joyline & Sappington, Jayne
Object Type: Paper
System: The UNT Digital Library
Document Expansion for Short Text Conversation (open access)

Document Expansion for Short Text Conversation

This paper reports a study on improving the retrieval of comments made to previous posts that can potentially be relevant to new posts in the open social media domain.
Date: November 9, 2018
Creator: Wang, Jianqiang
Object Type: Paper
System: The UNT Digital Library
Information Overload & Its Effect on High School Students (open access)

Information Overload & Its Effect on High School Students

This paper studies how high school students experience information overload, as well as their specific physical, emotional, and mental reactions.
Date: November 9, 2018
Creator: Zimmerman, Tara
Object Type: Paper
System: The UNT Digital Library
Harnessing Knowledge Management Sharing (Kms) in the Era of Cloud Computing: A New Horizon for Organizations and the Analysis of Some Case Studies (open access)

Harnessing Knowledge Management Sharing (Kms) in the Era of Cloud Computing: A New Horizon for Organizations and the Analysis of Some Case Studies

This paper investigates knowledge management sharing in organizations in an era of cloud computing solutions.
Date: November 9, 2018
Creator: Merlo, Tereza Raquel
Object Type: Paper
System: The UNT Digital Library
Open Science and Open Data for Sustainable Development: A Global View (open access)

Open Science and Open Data for Sustainable Development: A Global View

This paper describes a panel that provides an overview of the global landscape of open science.
Date: November 9, 2018
Creator: Rorissa, Abebe; Alemneh, Daniel Gelaw; Hawamdeh, Suliman M.; Assefa, Shimelis; Helge, Kris; Lewis, Elise et al.
Object Type: Paper
System: The UNT Digital Library