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Landscapes Of Research: Perceptions Of Open Access (Oa) Publishing In The Arts And Humanities, Julia Gross, John Ryan

Julia Gross

It is widely known now that scholarly communication is in crisis, resting on an academic publishing model that is unsustainable. One response to this crisis has been the emergence of Open Access (OA) publishing, bringing scholarly literature out from behind a paywall and making it freely available to anyone online. Many research and academic libraries are facilitating the change to OA by establishing institutional repositories, supporting OA policies, and hosting OA journals. In addition, research funding bodies, such as the Australian Research Council (ARC), are mandating that all published grant research outputs be made available in OA, unless legal and …

Critical Animal And Media Studies: Communication For Nonhuman Animal Advocacy, Nuria Almiron, Matthew Cole, Carrie Freeman

Carrie P Freeman

ABSTRACT: Suitable for a media studies graduate or upper level undergraduate course (or a critical animal studies course), this book aims to put the speciesism debate and the treatment of non-human animals on the agenda of critical media studies and to put media studies on the agenda of animal ethics researchers. Contributors examine the convergence of media and animal ethics from theoretical, philosophical, discursive, social constructionist, and political economic perspectives. The book is divided into three sections: foundations, representation, and responsibility, outlining the different disciplinary approaches’ application to media studies and covering how non-human animals, and the relationship between humans …

Teleinvestmentevangelists: Celebrity, Ritual And Religion And The Quest To “Beat The Market”, E. Douglas, Mary Keller, Elton Mcgoun

Mary L Keller

Purpose – This paper aims to offer a cultural understanding of investor faith in stock picking despite overwhelming evidence questioning its efficacy. Why, in the face of very widely communicated findings calling into question the advice and assistance offered by financial professionals to help them pick stocks or manage their mutual funds, do so many people persist in these practices? The authors believe that the best way to understand investor faith in the efficacy of stock picking is through teleinvestmentevangelists such as Jim Cramer, whose fusion of celebrity and religion taps into the ritualistic elements of investment that usually lie …

Assessment In Academic Libraries, Gregory Smith

Gregory A. Smith

Academic library assessment has a rich history, its roots being traceable to a time when today’s information technologies were beyond the realm of imagination. The field has developed at an accelerating pace for more than 40 years, fueled by scholarly and creative output within and beyond the field of library/information science. Prevailing economic, political, and technological conditions have already thrust assessment into the mainstream of academic library operations around the world, and this trend is unlikely to be reversed. In the past 20 years, advocates for library assessment have developed new venues for intellectual exchange, launching conferences and journals focused …

Pay-What-You-Want Pricing: Can It Be Profitable?, Yong Chao, Jose Fernandez, Babu Nahata

Yong Chao

Using a game theoretic framework, we show that not only can pay-what-you-want (PWYW) pricing generate positive profits, but it can also be more profitable than charging a fixed price to all consumers. Further, whenever it is more profitable, it is also Pareto-improving. We derive conditions in terms of two parameters, namely the marginal cost of production and the psychological cost of the consumer for paying too little compared to her reference price.

The paper makes the following contributions to the existing literature. First, we endogenize the choice of pricing strategies—PWYW vs. fixed price. Thus rather than solely focusing on the …

Taurodontism In Review: Methods Of Determination And Anthropological Utility., Scott Legge, Anna Hardin

Scott Legge

Taurodontism, the expansion of the pulp chamber of a tooth, has been a well-known feature of both fossil and modern humans since the early 20th century. In modern populations taurodontism is clinically important, as any increase in pulp chamber size affects the endodontic treatment options, but its archaeological importance among anatomically modern human groups remains unclear. It is often seen as a defining characteristic of the post-canine dentition in Neanderthals and is sometimes used as an indicator of phylogenetic affinity for European fossils. Since the 1960s a number of studies have examined the frequency of taurodontism in modern human populations; …

Configuring Relations Of Care In An Online Consumer Protection Organization, Karin Eli, Amy Mclennan, Tanja Schneider

Karin Eli

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Race, Gender, And Class In The Tea Party: What The Movement Reflects About Mainstream Ideologies, Meghan Burke

Meghan A. Burke

It has been all too tempting to characterize the Tea Party as an irrational, racist, astro-turf movement composed of members who are working to subvert their own economic interests. Race, Gender, and Class in the Tea Party reveals a much messier and much more fascinating analysis of this movement. Drawing upon in-depth interviews with organizers and fieldwork at conservative campaign trainings and conventions, its rich ethnographic data explores how the active folks in this movement, specifically organizers in one Midwestern state, understand their world, and how they act on that basis to change it. As this book will reveal, most …

“Inequality Has Contributed To Increasing Credit Use- And Increasing Credit Use Has Altered The Politics Of Inequality”, Basak Kus

BASAK KUS

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Introduction [To Measuring Globalization, Vol. 1], Susan Houseman

Susan N. Houseman

No abstract provided.

Choreographing Lived Experience: Dance, Feelings And The Storytelling Body, Karin Eli, Rosie Kay

Karin Eli

Although narrative-based research has been central to studies of illness experience, the inarticulate, sensory experiences of illness often remain obscured by exclusively verbal or textual inquiry. To foreground the body in our investigation of subjective and intersubjective aspects of eating disorders, we—a medical anthropologist and a contemporary dance choreographer—designed a collaborative project, in which we studied the experiences of women who had eating disorders, through eight weeks of integrating dance practice-based, discussion-based and interview-based research. Grounded in the participants’ own reflections on choreographing, dancing and watching others perform solos about their eating disordered experiences, our analysis examines the types of …

Somewhere Between The Ideal And The Real, The Civic Engagement “Expert” Learns And Lets Go, Margaret Olsen

Margaret Olsen

No abstract provided.

Copyright For Academic Librarians And Professionals, Ian Mccullough

Ian McCullough

No abstract provided.

Collection Development Best Practices Toolkit For Srs Librarians At Colby College, Margaret Ericson

Margaret D. Ericson

I developed this presentation and library guide in my capacity as collections coordinator for the Scholarly Resources and Services Librarians of the Colby College Libraries. It outlines the role of Scholarly Resources and Services Librarians in the building of library collections at Colby College, informed by best practices in the profession.

Focus On Urban, Regional And Local Issues, Derek Bond, Asta Manninen

Derek Bond

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Citizenship Management: On The Politics Of Being Included-Out, John Erni

John Nguyet Erni

Many in Hong Kong have identified the city as “half-sovereign” or “conditionally sovereign,” as postcoloniality has brought about new ruptures and shifting boundaries of citizenship in economic, cultural, and legal terms. The work of deciphering questions of belonging is still ongoing, and has in fact intensified in recent times. Increasingly, who qualifies as a citizen and where their sense of home is have become vital questions for two visible groups: the Chinese Mainlanders whose personal and cultural fortunes have been transformed by opportunities presented by the permeability of the city-border, and the foreign domestic helpers whose right of belonging has …

Standing Up For Our Bodies: It's On Us Handout, Kate Magsamen-Conrad

Kate Magsamen-Conrad

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Beyond Exile: The Ramayana As A Living Narrative Among Indo-Fijians In Fiji And New Zealand, Kevin Miller

Kevin C. Miller

Drawing on the themes of collective memory, cultural ideologies, and narrative constructions, this chapter proposes to examine the narrative of the Ramayana epic, its exegesis through performance, and its continued relevance to identity formation among Indo-Fijian Hindus both within Fiji and its Pacific Rim diaspora. Based on the recasting of the “twice-migrated” Indo-Fijian as the “twice-banished” by certain observers, we might expect the meaning of the Ramayana in the lives of Indo-Fijian Hindus in New Zealand to shift towards the theme of Rama’s exile, just as it did for the indentured laborers who made the original journey to Fiji. Nevertheless, …

Do Micro-Entrepreneurship Programs Increase Wage-Work? Evidence From Chile, Claudia Martínez A., Esteban Puentes, Jaime Ruiz-Tagle

Claudia Martínez A.

sing a randomized controlled trial of a large-scale, publicly run micro-entrepreneurship program in Chile, we assess the effectiveness of business training and asset transfers to the poor. Using survey and monthly administrative data we study the effects of the program over a period of 46 months. We find that the program significantly increases employment by 15.3 and 6.8 percentages points 9 and 33 months after implementation, respectively. There is also a significant increase in labor income. The employment increase in the short run is through self-employment, while in the long run wage work also increases. In the long run, total …

Navigating Copyright, Matt Ruen

Matt Ruen

The linked video covers the basics of copyright and fair use, from the academic library perspective. The video was created as part of a regular training series for library faculty, staff, and student workers.

FYI: I am not a lawyer, and this is not legal advice.

Tax Enforcement, Technology, And The Informal Sector, Ceyhun Elgin, Mario Solis-Garcia

Mario Solis-Garcia

No abstract provided.

Pariah Diplomacy, Huss Banai

Huss Banai

No abstract provided.

Forum: Storage Wars. Solving The Archaeological Curation Crisis?, Morag Kersel

Morag M. Kersel

Whether sponsored by academic institutions, governments, international agencies, or private landowners, the results of archaeological investigations are the same: the production of knowledge and an accumulation of things. The material manifestations (artifacts and samples) and the accompanying daily notes, digital records, maps, photographs, and plans together comprise a comprehensive record of the past. Once these items have been amassed, they are deposited in dig houses, magazines, museums, repositories, storage containers, and sometimes in personal basements and garages to be held in perpetuity. Across the globe, storage (here implying curation and permanent care) is one of the most pressing issues facing …

A Short History Of Wire Service Photography, Zeynep Gürsel

Zeynep Devrim Gürsel

No abstract provided.

Exploring The Links Between Culture, Locus Of Control And Self-Compassion And Their Roles In The Formation Of Weight Stigmatization, Peta Stapleton, Teeya Yamaoka

Peta B. Stapleton

The aim of this study was to examine the relationship between culture, Locus of Control and self-compassion in conceptualising weigh stigmatization. Participants included a culturally diverse sample (N= 136) who completed measures online including: the Attitude towards Obese Persons Scale (ATOP), Beliefs about Obese Persons Scale (BAOP), Anti-Fat Attitudes Scale (AFA), Multidimensional Health Locus of Control Scale (MHLC-Form B), Self-Compassion Scale (SCS), Individualism/Collectivism Scale (IND/COL) and the Marlowe Crown Social Desirability Scale (MCSD Short-Form). Self-compassion was a significant negative predictor of weight stigmatization and had a potential to reduce weight bias. Collectivism was a significant negative predictor of weight stigmatization, …

"On Translating Taiji", Joseph Adler

Joseph Adler

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Regional Integration And Democratic Conditionality: How Democracy Clauses Help Democratic Consolidation And Deepening, Gaspare Genna, Taeko Hiroi

Gaspare M Genna

How effective are democracy clauses of regional integration organizations (RIOs) in promoting democratization and democratic consolidation among member-states? RIOs are increasingly adopting "democracy only" clauses in their treaties, requiring democracy and political stability as a condition of membership. Stable democracy is a collective good for RIO members; without political stability, uncertainty regarding economic exchange increases, undermining the promise of integration. The presence of powerful countries may be necessary for the RIOs to legalize democratic conditionality. In this book, the authors argue that once established democracy clauses exert an independent influence in promoting and defending democratic norms and institutions within the …

Cranial Trauma And Interpersonal Violence In Alaskan Natives, Scott Legge

Scott Legge

Cranial trauma is investigated in a skeletal collection from Nunivak Island, Alaska. Trauma was observed in ten individuals from a sample of 121 crania (8.3%). Of the ten, five were males and five were females representing frequencies of 9.8% and 7.1%, respectively. Types of trauma included both blunt force and sharp-edged weapon inflicted injuries. Six of the ten show signs of healing or are completely healed; the other four individuals sustained the trauma at or near the time of death. The occurrence of trauma in the Nunivak Island collection supports previous researchers’ findings of higher frequencies for island dwelling Native …

Image Brokers: Visualizing World News In The Age Of Digital Circulation, Zeynep Gürsel

Zeynep Devrim Gürsel

No abstract provided.

Play As The Foundation Of Human Intelligence: The Illuminating Role Of Human Brain Evolution And Development And Implications For Education And Child Development, Aaron Blaisdell

Aaron P Blaisdell