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Sci-Hub: What Is It, and Why Does It Matter to Academic Libraries? An Interview with Michael Levine-Clark and Peter Katz
(2017-10-27)
Piracy of subscription-based scholarly literature has reached a new peak
with the advent of Sci-Hub and other sites like it. Sci-Hub is a collection of
over 68 million items led by and compiled by a researcher from ...
Collaborating With Your Campus Community To Execute Your Library’s High Impact Educational Practices
(2017-10-18)
The Association of American Colleges and Universities (AAC&U) LEAP report identified ten high impact practices that contribute to student success and retention. Librarians in the Research & Instructional Services department ...
The University of California Pay-It-Forward Open Access Publishing Research Project: An Interview with MacKenzie Smith
(2017-08-18)
In 2014, University of California- Davis University Library and the California Digital Library collaborated on an Andrew W. Mellon Foundation grant-funded project to explore costs associated with moving scholarly journal ...
Information Literacy Concepts
(2017-08-29)
Overview: Purpose and goals
This open educational resource provides learners with an overview of major information literacy concepts identified in the ACRL Framework for Information Literacy. Information literacy skills ...
Alzheimer’s Care: Getting Better
(2015)
As I was growing up, I still remember going to my grandparents’ house every day after
elementary school and eating orange sherbet, riding bikes around the neighborhood, and going to
the library to get books to read. I ...
An Overnight Success?: Usage Patterns and Demographics of Academic Library Patrons During the Overnight Period From 11 p.m.–8 a.m.
(2014-10-08)
During the Fall 2013 semester East Carolina University's main library piloted 24/5 hours of operation by opening on Sunday morning and not closing until Friday night. This article details the planning and execution of the ...
Species-specific expansion and molecular evolution of the 3-hydroxy-3-methylglutaryl coenzyme A reductase (HMGR) gene family in plants
(2014-04-10)
The terpene compounds represent the largest and most diverse class of plant secondary metabolites which are important in plant growth and development. The 3-hydroxy-3-methylglutaryl coenzyme A reductase (HMGR; EC 1.1.1.34) ...
Serum metabolomic profiling in acute alcoholic hepatitis identifies multiple dysregulated pathways
(2014-12-02)
Background and Objectives While animal studies have implicated derangements of global energy homeostasis in the pathogenesis of acute alcoholic hepatitis (AAH), the relevance of these findings to the development of human ...
Race, insurance type, and stage of presentation among lung cancer patients
(2014-04-15)
BACKGROUND: The percentage of adolescent and young adult (AYA) patients with cancer (those aged 15-39 years) diagnosed at a
distant stage of disease did not significantly change between 1975 and 2004. It has been hypothesized ...
Risk-adjusted survival after coronary artery bypass grafting: Implications for quality improvement
(2014-07-21)
Mortality represents an important outcome measure following coronary artery bypass grafting. Shorter survival times may reflect poor surgical quality and an increased number of costly postoperative complications. Quality ...