Turtles All The Way Down To The Tracks: What And Where Is Terrapin Station?

Presentation discussing the interpretation and importance of the Grateful Dead's song, "Terrapin Station." It was presented at the Southwest Popular/American Culture Association's 40th Annual Conference held in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
Date: February 20, 2019
Creator: Berg, Jeremy
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Data for development: The case for Africa (open access)

Data for development: The case for Africa

Conference paper presenting the results of a systematic review of data use practices by African countries to support the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (UN SDGs) #2 – agriculture.
Date: October 18, 2019
Creator: Assefa, Shimelis; Alemneh, Daniel Gelaw & Rorissa, Abebe
Object Type: Paper
System: The UNT Digital Library
Beyond “Set It and Forget It”: Proactively Managing Your EZproxy Server (open access)

Beyond “Set It and Forget It”: Proactively Managing Your EZproxy Server

This article describes a half-day pre-conference workshop focused on the ins and outs of managing an EZproxy server. The presenter shared detailed information on how to use the EZproxy admin page to help reduce patrons’ barriers to access and identify potential security concerns. She also covered current topics of interest to the EZproxy community, such as how to modify database stanzas to support https.
Date: January 11, 2019
Creator: Rosenfeld, Jenny & Enoch, Todd
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Cybersecurity Challenges in the Era of Open Access and BIG Data: Issues and Considerations (open access)

Cybersecurity Challenges in the Era of Open Access and BIG Data: Issues and Considerations

Article from a panel held at the American Society for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T) 2019 pre-conference held on October 19, 2019 in Melbourne, Australia. The panelists discussed cybersecurity challenges and provided an assessment of the cybersecurity issues related to open access and big data.
Date: October 19, 2019
Creator: Alemneh, Daniel Gelaw; Chang, Hsia-Ching; Hawamdeh, Suliman M.; Rorissa, Abebe & Assefa, Shimelis
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library

Open Access Publishing and the Evolving Landscape of Scholarly Communication

Presentation that covers the basic principles of open access including stakeholder roles, policies, challenges and opportunities, emerging trends, and institutional initiatives.
Date: September 30, 2019
Creator: Alemneh, Daniel Gelaw
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library

Open Access and Scholarly Communication

Presentation on the concepts of open access and scholarly communication. This presentation covers the background of these topics and their definitions, tools and policies for open access, technology and emerging trends, challenges/opportunities that open access faces, and ultimately relates this information to open access initiatives in developing countries.
Date: December 13, 2019
Creator: Alemneh, Daniel Gelaw
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library

GitAnnotated: Creating a Digital Annotated Bibliography on GitHub

Presentation describing the process to create an annotated bibliography using GitHub so multiple users could access and contribute to it. The authors share some background, learning resources, problems, and how to contribute to the GitHub site.
Date: September 27, 2019
Creator: Henson, Brea & Andrews, Pamela
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Heart of Librarianship: A Topical Literature Review of Outreach in Academic Libraries (open access)

The Heart of Librarianship: A Topical Literature Review of Outreach in Academic Libraries

This literature review provides an overview of outreach in academic libraries over the last five years. The review aims to centralize the common activities and general purposes of outreach while also bringing emphasis to more strategic outreach efforts such as the incorporation of learning outcomes and assessment into outreach. The review also provides commentary on how outreach can be used to affect information literacy and research.
Date: July 5, 2019
Creator: Henson, Brea
Object Type: Paper
System: The UNT Digital Library
A unified, contemporary approach to teaching energy in introductory physics (open access)

A unified, contemporary approach to teaching energy in introductory physics

Article proposes a more coherent, contemporary approach to the teaching of energy in introductory physics courses that offers students a principled way to avoid confusions.
Date: July 1, 2019
Creator: Chabay, Ruth; Sherwood, Bruce & Titus, Aaron
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library

Where Does Information Literacy Fit? Mapping The Core

This presentation highlights a curriculum mapping project at the University of North Texas Libraries. The project seeks to improve the capacity of UNT students for critical thinking and the ability to use information effectively. The key aim of the initiative was to strengthen core library services to enhance high-impact practices. It was presented at the Cross-Timbers Library Collaborative 2019 Conference held by Texas Woman’s University in Denton, Texas.
Date: August 2, 2019
Creator: Hardin, Gregory; Hargis, Carol & Henson, Brea
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Metal Coordination‐Mediated Functional Grading and Self‐Healing in Mussel Byssus Cuticle (open access)

Metal Coordination‐Mediated Functional Grading and Self‐Healing in Mussel Byssus Cuticle

Article demonstrates direct evidence of Fe3+ and Fe2+ gradient distribution across mussel byssal cuticle threads thickness, which shows more Fe2+ inside the inner cuticle, to support the hypothesis that the cuticle is a functionally graded material with high stiffness, extensibility, and self‐healing capacity.
Date: October 24, 2019
Creator: Xu, Quan; Xu, Meng; Lin, Chun-Yu; Zhao, Qiang; Zhang, Rui; Dong, Xiaoxiao et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Identifying tween fashion consumers’ profile concerning fashion innovativeness, opinion leadership, internet use for apparel shopping, interest in online co-design involvement, and brand commitment (open access)

Identifying tween fashion consumers’ profile concerning fashion innovativeness, opinion leadership, internet use for apparel shopping, interest in online co-design involvement, and brand commitment

Article describes study identifying tween fashion consumers’ profiles in relation to fashion change agent (FCA) characteristics, such as fashion innovativeness and opinion leadership, and examines how the tweens’ FCA characteristics influence their Internet innovativeness, interest in online co-design involvement, and brand commitment.
Date: April 29, 2019
Creator: Baker, Renee; Gam, Hae Jin & Banning, Jennifer
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Finding New Cell Wall Regulatory Genes in Populus trichocarpa Using Multiple Lines of Evidence (open access)

Finding New Cell Wall Regulatory Genes in Populus trichocarpa Using Multiple Lines of Evidence

Article describes study which searched for genes with putatively unknown roles in regulating cell wall biosynthesis using an extended network-based Lines of Evidence (LOE) pipeline to combine multiple omics data sets in P. trichocarpa, including gene coexpression, gene comethylation, population level pairwise SNP correlations, and two distinct SNP-metabolite Genome Wide Association Study (GWAS) layers.
Date: October 8, 2019
Creator: Furches, Anna; Kainer, David; Weighill, Deborah; Large, Annabel; Jones, Piet; Walker, Angelica M. et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Nature-Guided Synthesis of Advanced Bio-Lubricants (open access)

Nature-Guided Synthesis of Advanced Bio-Lubricants

Article describes study which finds that Orychophragmus violaceus (Ov) seed oil has superior lubrication properties, based on the unusual structural features of the major lipid species—triacylglycerol (TAG) estolides.
Date: August 12, 2019
Creator: Romsdahl, Trevor; Shirani, Asghar; Minto, Robert E.; Zhang, Chunyu; Cahoon, Edgar B.; Chapman, Kent Dean et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Associations Between Psychopathy and the Trait Meta-Mood Scale in Incarcerated Males: A Combined Latent Variable- and Person-Centered Approach (open access)

Associations Between Psychopathy and the Trait Meta-Mood Scale in Incarcerated Males: A Combined Latent Variable- and Person-Centered Approach

Article describes study which sought to replicate and extend current knowledge on the relevance of emotion regulation (ER) for psychopathy, focusing on a sample of incarcerated adult males.
Date: December 4, 2019
Creator: Garofalo, Carlo; Neumann, Craig S. & Mark, Daniel
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Survey of Benchmarks in Metadata Quality (open access)

Survey of Benchmarks in Metadata Quality

Full-text of a Qualtrics survey preserving the original formatting and text, including background and consent. The questions are organized into four sections: [1] questions 2-8. information about respondents’ institutions and professional experience.; [2] questions 9-18. metadata practices and technology within repositories; [3] questions 19-21. metadata elements included (i.e., required, recommended, or optional) and elements that are evaluated within repositories; and [4] questions 22-26. implemented and aspirational metadata evaluation practices at respondents’ institutions.
Date: 2019
Creator: Digital Library Federation. Assessment Interest Group. Metadata Working Group. Benchmarks Sub-Group.
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library

TRAIL Microcard Scanning Project

Presentation on the topic of microcard digitization presented at the annual meeting for the Technical Report Archive and Image Library (TRAIL). This presentation discusses the opaque microcard format and a project conducted by the UNT Libraries to produce high-quality digital files from the format.
Date: May 15, 2019
Creator: Phillips, Mark Edward
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library

Microfiche Scanning at UNT

Presentation delivered at the Technical Report Archive and Image Library (TRAIL) annual meeting held in Denton, Texas. This presentation discusses the digitization of microfiche as part of the technical report digitization activities at the UNT Libraries.
Date: May 15, 2019
Creator: Phillips, Mark Edward
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library

NACA Metadata Uplift Update

Presentation delivered at the Technical Report Archive and Image Library (TRAIL) annual meeting held in Denton, Texas. This presentation discusses the metadata cleanup activities for the collection of technical reports from the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) which is hosted by the UNT Libraries for TRAIL.
Date: May 15, 2019
Creator: Phillips, Mark Edward
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library

Sustaining the Texas Digital Newspaper Program

Presentation given at the Preservation and Archiving Special Interest Group (PASIG) conference 2019 held in Mexico City, Mexico. This presentation discusses the Texas Digital Newspaper Program (TDNP) at the UNT Libraries and the process to enhance the sustainability of the program.
Date: February 13, 2019
Creator: Phillips, Mark Edward
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library

CoRSAL Collection @ UNT Digital Library

Presentation given at the third Computational Resource for South Asian Languages symposium in 2019 at the University of North Texas, in Denton, Texas. This presentation describes the activities of the UNT Libraries to provide infrastructure and support for language documentation archiving and preservation via the CoRSAL Collection.
Date: October 29, 2019
Creator: Phillips, Mark Edward
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library

Using Metadata Record Graphs to Understand Digital Library Metadata

Presentation discussing the evaluation of network analysis (with Metadata Record Graphs) for metadata in six digital library collections, to determine the usefulness of network-based metrics compared to other statistical data.
Date: September 23, 2019
Creator: Phillips, Mark Edward
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library

Building Specialized Collections from Web Archives

Presentation given at the Artificial Intelligence for Data Discovery and Reuse (AIDR) 2019 conference in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. This presentation discusses work on creating datasets of high-value publications and documents from web archives that can be used for machine learning research to help classify these large collections of data.
Date: May 2019
Creator: Caragea, Cornelia & Phillips, Mark Edward
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Building Specialized Collections from Web Archiving (open access)

Building Specialized Collections from Web Archiving

Short paper presented at Artificial Intelligence for Data Discovery and Reuse (AIDR). This short paper presents work on creating datasets of high-value publications and documents from web archives that can be used for machine learning research to help classify these large collections of data.
Date: May 2019
Creator: Caragea, Cornelia & Phillips, Mark Edward
Object Type: Paper
System: The UNT Digital Library