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Librarians Create Conditions for Researchers to Tackle Grand Challenges with Data Science
The COVID-19 pandemic, and the global scientific effort to develop treatments and vaccines, is the latest large-scale event to show the power and urgency of collaboration and data-sharing to solve...
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Digitization in an Emergency: Fair Use/Fair Dealing and How Libraries Are Adapting to the Pandemic
Like every other major institution operating during the coronavirus pandemic, research libraries are confronting sudden and radical shifts in their daily realities. Foremost among these challenges is the near-total loss...
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Johns Hopkins Libraries Explore Impact of Collections on Students’ Mental Wellness
Can library spaces and collections—both physical and digital—foster a sense of well-being and engagement with the community? Like many college students in the United States, students at Johns Hopkins University...
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HuMetricsHSS Develops Values-based Scholarly Measures
What would it look like if measures for assessing scholarship embodied humane values like equity, openness, collegiality, quality, and community? Across disciplines, incentives and reward structures in academia are widely...
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DataBridge Prepares Students for Careers in Data Science
The University Libraries at Virginia Tech is helping students develop skills to succeed in the fast-growing field of data science. DataBridge, an undergraduate research program offered by the libraries, provides...
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Data Curation Network Makes More Research Data Available to All
Research data has the most impact when other researchers and the public can find it and use it to build upon the original researcher’s findings. Researchers struggle with sharing their...
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Scientist Aims to Optimize Science through Data Analysis
Why would a school of information science have a biologist and physicist on its faculty? Jevin D. West, assistant professor at the University of Washington iSchool and co-director of the...
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TOME Brings Scholars’ Books to Wider Audience
What good is a book if people can't read it? Calvin L. Warren, assistant professor at Emory University, studies “concerns of black existence, such as justice, anti-black violence, and black...
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Libraries Open World of Knowledge for People with Visual Disabilities
On April 23, 2018, World Book and Copyright Day, Gulnaz Juzbaeva made history by borrowing a book. “One of the main obstacles I’ve encountered in school and university is the...
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NC State University Libraries Shift Diversity Training to Focus on Dismantling Systemic Racism
by Jennifer Garrett, Director, Talent Management, NC State University Libraries Contemporary diversity training often addresses prejudicial mindsets, unconscious bias, and “whiteness” as a normative frame. While these experiences are valuable,...