Representing Serials Metadata in Institutional Repositories

This study focused on how serials information for journal articles is presented based on a sampling of institutional repository platforms at a variety of institutions. Since metadata on journal articles in institutional repositories can often be incomplete and haphazard, not only due to the difficulty of entering the metadata in the first place, but due to the difficulty of adapting existing metadata schemes to represent a journal article accurately, how can libraries increase the discoverability of these individual articles from a wide variety of journals? By examining existing metadata schemes and how they are used to represent articles currently in institutional repositories, libraries can look for a way forward to better represent articles though adapting schemas, exploring possibilities for standardization of metadata for articles, and promoting good practices.     

IRUS-UK: Improving Understanding of the Value and Impact of Institutional Repositories

Institutional repositories (IRs) are important research management tools that can give increased visibility to the institution’s scholarly outputs. Although statistics were previously available through the various repository interfaces, without an agreed standard it was not possible to measure usage across a range of IRs accurately. IRUS-UK is a national aggregation service, containing details of all content downloaded from participating IRs in the United Kingdom. Through collecting raw usage data and processing them into item-level usage statistics IRUS-UK provides comparable and authoritative standards-based data and also acts as an intermediary between UK repositories and other agencies.     

Navigating OER: The Library’s Role in Bringing OER to Campus

In 2014, three librarians at the University of San Diego came together to explore open educational resources (OER). Coming from both technical services and digital collections, we were well-versed in the economic challenges facing today’s libraries. In order to formulate the approach that would work best for our campus, we first had to educate ourselves on the past, present, and possible future of the Open Access movement. While traditionally Open Access has focused on serials, OER offer the opportunity to expand its benefits to other formats. This article examines opportunities and tensions surrounding OER, as well as highlighting major players on the OER landscape. Our efforts began with a focus group for faculty to assess their own knowledge of and opinions on OER. After establishing a stipend budget, we sent out a call for proposals to faculty who were interested in participating in the Copley OER Initiative.     

高考改革是基础教育实施素质教育的突破口

当前,实施素质教育的最大障碍是体制性障碍,而体制性障碍中最显性的是现行高考制度。高考承担着引导中小学素质教育和高校选拔高素质人才的双重任务,对基础教育有着极强的导向功能。结合温家宝总理关于素质教育与考试评价的谈话精神并以此为指导,对现行高考制度存在的诸多问题,提出了改革的一些基本思路。     

高等教育资助研究综述——前沿的重构

文章从交易费用理论、资产专用性、委托-代理理论、新制度经济学的不同方面与层面对高等教育资助相关的前沿研究进行重构及综述,为教育经济学理论与实践出现差距的原因提供一种可能的解释。     

“国家教育考试制度的经济分析”文献综述

国家教育考试制度是由国家法律规定的针对教育测量与招生的考试制度。它具有法律规定性、教育水平测试性、教育层次选拔性、接受教育过程性、证书标志性等特点。考试已有的研究主要表现在以下6方面:1)考试制度的教育学研究,围绕科举考试的教育性、科举制对当今国家教育考试制度的影响以及考试与教学关系;2)考试制度的社会学研究,分析考试制度与社会公平的关系;3)考试制度的工艺学研究,从考试学内部因素对考试技术的微观分析;4)考试制度的管理学研究,对考试活动以及考试机构管理的分析;5)考试产业与考试制度的经济学研究,主要是对考试活动与考试产业的经济分析;6)对中外考试制度的比较研究。通过对考试制度相关文献的综述,发现对国家教育考试制度经济分析研究的缺失正是本研究的价值所在。     

Top Manager and Institutional Effects on the Adoption of Innovations: The Case of Teleworking 1

In spite of the advances in information and communication technologies, the implementation of teleworking is still behind early expectations. The slow adoption of teleworking may be explained by different organizational drivers that influence its implementation. This article reports the empirical findings of a survey conducted among a sample of Spanish companies to identify potential drivers and constraints based on top manager and institutional perspectives. The results indicate that the potential of teleworking is influenced by the manager's perception of teleworking benefits and barriers, the manager's tenure, the company's use of information and communication technologies, the company's degree of innovation, the proportion of salespeople, women and middle-age employees in the workforce, and the company size. Top manager factors seem to have more influence in the decision to adopt teleworking, while institutional factors are more significant in the potential diffusion in the company.     

Archiving Digital Materials: An Overview of the Issues

Digitization of content generated by those in academia—be they professors, lecturers, or administrative staff—has had a significant impact on the amount of space needed for storage on college and university campuses. What this paper attempts to address is some of the emerging technologies used for the storage of digital content and how these technologies have evolved since their origin with the American Memory Project in 1989, which is widely credited with starting the digital revolution in storage that is commonplace in offices and centers of higher education throughout the United States. The library's role in developing electronic storage for their own archival materials has had an ancillary effect in the field of digitization. The advances made by some libraries in creating more expansive storage devices that hold content other than text has benefited those in other fields as well.     

Examining Scientific Vocabulary: Mapping Controlled Vocabularies with Free Text Keywords

Scientific repositories create a new environment for studying traditional information science issues. The interaction between indexing terms provided by users and controlled vocabularies continues to be an area of debate and study. This article reports and analyzes findings from a study that mapped the relationships between free text keywords and controlled vocabulary terms used in the sciences. Based on this study's findings recommendations are made about which vocabularies may be better to use in scientific data repositories.     

机构知识库个性化知识资产统计服务的设计与实现研究

以中国科学院机构知识库CAS OpenIR为例,介绍机构知识库系统中知识资产统计模块的扩展开发及研究。提出一种多维可定制的知识资产统计数据组织模式,该模式可以满足多个机构多种统计需求,为各研究所利用CAS OpenIR进行知识资产统计提供一种广泛适用且便捷有效的处理方案。