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Open Access and Scholarly Communication: The Current Landscape, Future Direction, and the Influence on Global Scholarship (open access)

Open Access and Scholarly Communication: The Current Landscape, Future Direction, and the Influence on Global Scholarship

Document proposal for a panel discussion at the Special Interest Group for International Information Issues (SIG/III), part of ASIS&T. There are five panelists listed with brief descriptions of their topics.
Date: October 2011
Creator: Alemneh, Daniel Gelaw
System: The UNT Digital Library
Digital Curation and Preservation Bibliography 2010 (open access)

Digital Curation and Preservation Bibliography 2010

The preface states that the work includes citations of articles, books, and technical reports on digital curation, mostly published between 2000 and 2010.
Date: 2011
Creator: Bailey, Charles W.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography 2010 (open access)

Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography 2010

This bibliography lists citations of English-language articles, books and other printed and electronic sources that are useful in understanding scholarly electronic publishing efforts on the Internet. Most sources have been published from 1990 through 2010; however, a limited number of key sources published prior to 1990 are also included.
Date: 2011
Creator: Bailey, Charles W.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Services and Supply Chains - The Role of the Domestic Private Sector in Water Service Delivery in Tanzania. (open access)

Services and Supply Chains - The Role of the Domestic Private Sector in Water Service Delivery in Tanzania.

This report presents findings from a review of the service activities of informal private water vendors in Dar es Salaam. Tanzania’s capital is a rapidly growing city, and around 70% of the population lacks proper housing and lives in informal settlements. Large parts of the city remain unserved by the water utility and many of those who have access to the piped network suffer from intermittent supply. As a result, small-scale private water vendors provide an essential service for many, in particular low-income households in the city.
Date: October 2011
Creator: Bayliss, Kate & Tukai, Rehema
System: The UNT Digital Library
Organizational History of The Portal to Texas History, 2011 (open access)

Organizational History of The Portal to Texas History, 2011

This document is a brief organizational history for The Portal to Texas History for 2011. This document was used for grant submissions to state or federal funding agencies, or private foundations. This document reflects on strategic directions for the program, as well as the number of collaborative partners for the Portal, and the number of historic documents in the digital library.
Date: 2011
Creator: Belden, Dreanna
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Portal to Texas History Partner List, 2011 (open access)

The Portal to Texas History Partner List, 2011

This document lists all of the partners of The Portal to Texas History in 2011. These partners were involved in projects and collections that were a part of the Portal.
Date: 2011
Creator: Belden, Dreanna
System: The UNT Digital Library
Emeritus College Presentation Lecture Notes (open access)

Emeritus College Presentation Lecture Notes

These lecture notes accompany a presentation titled 'This Side of the Border: The Mexican Revolution through the Lens of American Photographer Otis Aultman.' The lecture notes discuss the fifty-two presentation slides with the topics and details.
Date: February 17, 2011
Creator: Carlisle, Tara
System: The UNT Digital Library
Our Changing Planet: The U.S. Climate Change Science Program for Fiscal Year 2012 (open access)

Our Changing Planet: The U.S. Climate Change Science Program for Fiscal Year 2012

The document describes a wide range of advances in understanding the underlying processes responsible for climate variability and change, such as advances in understanding of climate change at high latitudes. It also describes progress on understanding the ongoing and projected effects of climate change on nature and society, including the interconnected relationships between climate, forests, and wildfire. The document also describes how observational and predictive capabilities are being improved and used to create tools to support decision making at local, regional, and national scales to cope with environmental variability and change.
Date: 2011
Creator: Climate Change Science Program
System: The UNT Digital Library
Appendix G: Contingency Plan Outline (open access)

Appendix G: Contingency Plan Outline

This is an appendix to the MetaArchive Final Report. In this appendix, the policy statements address the general requirements and procedures related to the enactment and handling of the MetaArchive Contingency Plan.
Date: November 9, 2011
Creator: Halbert, Martin; Hartman, Cathy Nelson; Skinner, Katherine; Walters, Tyler & Schultz, Matt
System: The UNT Digital Library
Editor's Foreword [Fall 2011] (open access)

Editor's Foreword [Fall 2011]

Editorial statement introducing the contents of the journal issue and providing other relevant notes.
Date: Autumn 2011
Creator: Holden, Janice Miner
System: The UNT Digital Library
Editor's Foreword [Spring 2011] (open access)

Editor's Foreword [Spring 2011]

Editorial statement introducing the contents of the journal issue and providing other relevant notes.
Date: Spring 2011
Creator: Holden, Janice Miner
System: The UNT Digital Library
Editor's Foreword [Summer 2011] (open access)

Editor's Foreword [Summer 2011]

Editorial statement introducing the contents of the journal issue and providing other relevant notes.
Date: Summer 2011
Creator: Holden, Janice Miner
System: The UNT Digital Library
Editor's Foreword [Winter 2011] (open access)

Editor's Foreword [Winter 2011]

Editorial statement introducing the contents of the journal issue and providing other relevant notes.
Date: Winter 2011
Creator: Holden, Janice Miner
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Blueprint for Ocean And Coastal Sustainability: An Inter-Agency Report Towards the Preparation of the UN Conference on Sustainable Development (Rio+20) (open access)

A Blueprint for Ocean And Coastal Sustainability: An Inter-Agency Report Towards the Preparation of the UN Conference on Sustainable Development (Rio+20)

"A Blueprint for Ocean and Coastal Sustainability", jointly prepared by UNDP’s Water & Ocean Governance Programme, IOC/UNESCO, FAO and IMO, contextualizes and sets forth a series of ten tangible proposals to shift the oceans management paradigm towards sustainability, and is intended to inform and influence possible Rio+20 outcomes on oceans.
Date: November 2011
Creator: Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of UNESCO
System: The UNT Digital Library
Lone Star Ink: Texas NDNP 2011: Grant Materials (open access)

Lone Star Ink: Texas NDNP 2011: Grant Materials

These grant materials were prepared for the National Digital Newspaper Program, a project funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) to provide access to historic American Newspapers. The Library of Congress serves as the technical adviser for the NDNP. The Award funded digitization of Texas historical newspapers. For the grant, UNT served as the lead institution and partnered with the Dolph Briscoe Center for American History at the University of Texas. This proposal was funded for $324,980.
Date: January 2011
Creator: Krahmer, Ana; Belden, Dreanna & Hartman, Cathy Nelson
System: The UNT Digital Library
Blue Carbon - First Level Exploration of Blue Carbon in the Arabian Peninsula (open access)

Blue Carbon - First Level Exploration of Blue Carbon in the Arabian Peninsula

Healthy natural coastal ecosystems, such as mangrove forests, saltwater marshlands and seagrass meadows provide a vast array of important co-benefits to coastal communities around the world, including throughout the Arabian Peninsula. These benefits include ecosystem services such as a rich cultural heritage; the protection of shorelines from storms; erosion or sea-level rise; food from fisheries; maintenance of water quality; and landscape beauty for recreation and ecotourism. In a Blue Carbon context these ecosystems also store and sequester potentially vast amounts of carbon in sediments and biomass.
Date: 2011
Creator: Lutz, S.J.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Climate in Asia and the Pacific: A Synthesis of APN Activities (open access)

Climate in Asia and the Pacific: A Synthesis of APN Activities

The synthesis report is part of the APN’s larger aim to contribute, from the science perspective, to the development of policy options for appropriate responses to climate vulnerability and impacts, including adaptation and mitigation, which in turn will contribute to sustainable development.
Date: 2011
Creator: Manton, Michael J; Heath, Lance; Salinger, James & Stevenson, Linda Anne
System: The UNT Digital Library
Enhancing Information for Renewable Energy Technology Deployment in Brazil, China and South Africa (open access)

Enhancing Information for Renewable Energy Technology Deployment in Brazil, China and South Africa

This report documents crucial information to support deployment of renewable energies in three key emerging markets - Brazil, China and South Africa - and provides information for policy-making aimed at supporting renewable energy markets in these countries. Specifically this study collates information on solar and wind resources and resource information, renewable energy support policies and goals, risk management and technologies integral to the increased renewable energy technology deployment.
Date: 2011
Creator: Moner-Girona, Magda
System: The UNT Digital Library
Women at The Frontline of Climate Change - Gender Risks and Hopes (open access)

Women at The Frontline of Climate Change - Gender Risks and Hopes

Women are often in the frontline in respect to the impacts of a changing climate. Globally the world is seeing increasingly frequent droughts and floods which are having economic but also profound social consequences. The women and people of Asia are currently at greatest risk with over 100 million people affected in this region annually.
Date: 2011
Creator: Nellemann, Christian; Verma, Ritu & Hislop, Lawrence
System: The UNT Digital Library
2010 Forest Carbon Workgroup: Final Report (open access)

2010 Forest Carbon Workgroup: Final Report

This document provides a detailed report and recommendations of the 2010 Forest Carbon Work group to the Director of the Department of Ecology and the Commissioner of Public Lands. The recommendations relate to the critical role Washington’s forest lands will play in addressing the challenge of climate change; appropriate responses to pressure for conversion of working forest lands to non-forest uses; and the role of ecosystem service markets, including carbon offset markets, and other incentive systems in bringing about desired results. The 2010 Work group included some members of a similar 2008 Work group and built on the results of that 2008 effort. The report appendix contains purpose statements by each participating interest, explaining its rationale for participation. In light of the 2010 Work group emphasis, this document focused on three topics: Forest carbon considerations in avoiding forest land use conversion; incentives to reward forest landowners for providing ecosystem services, including carbon storage and improvement of forest health; and features of forest carbon offset protocols and registries that are appropriate for use by forest offset project developers in Washington State.
Date: January 2011
Creator: Partridge, Craig; Boese, Jerry & Bernath, Stephen
System: The UNT Digital Library
Digitization 101 (open access)

Digitization 101

This document discusses digitization processes, including computer hardware, setting up the computer with Windows XP, setting up Windows 7 for digital projects, identifiers, folder management, standards, scanning, and digital preservation.
Date: April 11, 2011
Creator: Phillips, Mark Edward; Moore, Jeremy D. & Hall, Nathan
System: The UNT Digital Library
Farming’s Climate-Smart Future: Placing Agriculture at The Heart of Climate - Change Policy (open access)

Farming’s Climate-Smart Future: Placing Agriculture at The Heart of Climate - Change Policy

This publication highlights the ‘cause and effect’ relationship between agriculture and climate change. It observes that a range of practices– ‘climate-smart agriculture’ – could increase food production, help farmers to become more resilient to global warming and reduce emissions of greenhouse gases.
Date: 2011
Creator: Pye-Smith, Charlie
System: The UNT Digital Library
Valuation Techniques and Metrics for Climate Change Impacts, Adaptation, and Mitigation Options: Methodological Perspectives For the National Climate Assessment (open access)

Valuation Techniques and Metrics for Climate Change Impacts, Adaptation, and Mitigation Options: Methodological Perspectives For the National Climate Assessment

The National Climate Assessment (NCA) Report Series summarizes regional, sectoral, and process-related workshops and discussions being held as part of the third NCA process. This workshop focused on techniques for quantitatively valuing climate impacts and adaptation in the context of the upcoming NCA. The workshop was held in Arlington, VA on January 12-13, 2011. Volume 8 of the NCA Report Series summarizes the discussions and outcomes of this workshop.
Date: January 2011
Creator: Sussman, Frances; Clarke, Leon; Grambsch, Anne; Vallario, Robert; Langner, Linda; O’Brien, Sheila et al.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Fighting Corruption in the Water Sector - Methods, Tools and Good Practices (open access)

Fighting Corruption in the Water Sector - Methods, Tools and Good Practices

This publication is part of a series of UNDP-sponsored studies that present methods, tools and good practices to map corruption risks, develop strategies and sustain partnerships to address challenges and tackle corruption in the education, health and water sectors. They complement UNDP’s MDG Acceleration Framework (MAF), which has been endorsed by the UN Development Group and enables governments and development partners, within established national processes, to identify and systematically prioritize the bottlenecks to progress toward achieving the MDGs, and then devise strategies to overcome them. The studies bring together UNDP’s efforts to support countries to develop frameworks to accelerate their efforts to meet the MDGs as well as successfully meet the commitments of the UN Convention against corruption.
Date: October 2011
Creator: Vos, Jeroen
System: The UNT Digital Library