The CLIC Librarians' Newsletter
September 13, 2012 Volume 6, No. 7
This newsletter is produced by the CLIC librarians, Kay Buchanan and Carole Lohman for the Curry School of Education to support digital scholarship and research.
Archived Issues

 WORKSHOPS
TOPIC: Introduction to Using RefWorks Software
WHEN: Tuesday Sept. 18 or Wednesday Sept. 19
TIME: 10 am to 11 am
You need only attend one of the workshops above.
LOCATION: In the CLIC, Bavaro Hall, room 306
DESCRIPTION: RefWorks software enables you to: 

• Download citations from databases and put them into a personal RefWorks research database

• Format bibliographies and citations automatically in over 400 styles including APA, MLA, etc.

• Use in conjunction with WORD to write papers, dissertations, etc.

• Access your RefWorks account from any computer, anywhere

• Create a database and share it with colleagues around the world

This class will focus on setting up the defaults in the software, downloading citations into RefWorks from databases, Google Scholar and the online catalog; creating a bibliography in APA style; and accessing the full text journal articles you import into your RefWorks folders. Attendees are encouraged to open a RefWorks account before you arrive. Be sure to use your U.Va. email address and computing ID when setting up your account.

COULD IT BE ON THE DEMISE? First there was the “impact factor.” Then came the “h-index.” Now, for those who believe that scientific prowess can be measured by statistical metrics, comes the Acuna-Allesina-Kording formula.

The formula, outlined on Wednesday in the journal Nature, is intended to improve upon the h-index—a tally of a researcher’s publications and citations—by adding a few more numerical measures of a scientist’s publishing history to allow for predictions of future success.

HOOS YOUR   
Throughout the semester, we will be highlighting information about finding, organizing, analyzing, managing, displaying, and preserving your research data. See this week's featured data information below.

 UPDATE
You can now access the statistical program, SPSS on the Mac and PC computers in the CLIC.

You can set up an appointment by calling 434.924.0911, dropping by her desk in the CLIC (immediately to the right when you enter the CLIC), or by stopping by her office in Alderman Library's Scholars' Lab.

 MORE MAPPING
TOPIC: Getting Your Data on a Map
TIME: 1:00pm – 2:00pm
DATE: Wednesday, September 19
LOCATION: Campbell Hall, Room 105
DESCRIPTION: Do you have GPS points or a list of Latitude and Longitude you would like to show as points on a map? This session will show you how to turn your data into map layers and how to connect them to make lines and polygons as well. 

TOPIC: Getting Your Data on a Map
TIME: 3:00pm – 4:00pm
DATE: Thursday, September 20
LOCATION: Alderman Library, Room 421
DESCRIPTION: Do you have GPS points or a list of Latitude and Longitude you would like to show as points on a map? This session will show you how to turn your data into map layers and how to connect them to make lines and polygons as well.

  FREE CULTURAL DATASET
The digital portal Europeana opened up its dataset of over 20 million cultural objects for free re-use yesterday.

"The massive dataset is the descriptive information about Europe’s digitized treasures. For the first time, the metadata is released under the Creative Commons CC0 Public Domain Dedication, meaning that anyone can use the data for any purpose - creative, educational, commercial - with no restrictions. This release, which is by far the largest one-time dedication of cultural data to the public domain using CC0 offers a new boost to the digital economy, providing electronic entrepreneurs with opportunities to create innovative apps and games for tablets and smart phones and to create new web services and portals." From the 9/12/2012 press release.

 
NEW RESEARCH GUIDE
The CLIC librarians in conjunction with Drs. Pam Tucker and Denny Berry have developed an Administration and Supervision Resource Guide to support students enrolled in classes on-Grounds and off-Grounds. The initial goal was to identify the best databases and journals in this field and make access to them quick and easy. We subsequently elected to identify other resources and services applicable to Administration & Supervision, so we added sections such as Statistics, Data Sets, Associations, Books, Handbooks, Test Instruments, Library Services, Dissertations, Government, and Blogs and Twitter. Faculty, please contact the CLIC librarians if you would like a research guide created for your class.

Handbooks are a great resource for locating best practices, research theories, names of authors, background material, overviews of topics, and good keyword terminology to use later when you search databases for journal articles and other materials to inform and support your research.

The CLIC has a collection of 375 handbooks focusing on education, psychology and other relateed disciplines. While the handbooks cannot be checked out of the CLIC, students can scan chapters in the CLIC for free using the digital sender or pay to copy a chapter using the CLIC's printer. Faculty can use LEO to request a digitial copy of a chapter from a handbook..

There are also handbooks in other U.Va. libraries so you can check VIRGO to see which ones are in the collection, where they are located, and if they can be checked out of the library. In addition, the Library has purchased some handbooks online and they will also be in VIRGO. Search by title or keyword. While not all books with the word HANDBOOK in the title of the book are research oriented handbooks, many will be. And, of course, you can check with the CLIC librarians for help locating a handbook on your topic of interest.

    NEW HANDBOOK
Title: Routledge International Handbook of Globalization Studies
Call Number: HF1365 .R68 2011
Table of Contents

  NEW HANDBOOK
Title: What Research Says about Reading Instruction, 4th ed.
Call number: LB1631 .W376 2011
Table of Contents

   NEW HANDBOOK
Title: Evaluating Teaching and Learning: a practical handbook for colleges, universities and the scholarship of teaching
Call Number: LB 2331 .K386 2012
Table of Contents

   NEW HANDBOOK
Title: Routledge Handbook of Second Language Acquisition
Call Number: P118.2 .R68 2012
Table of Contents

   NEW HANDBOOK
Title: Handbook of Research on Children's and Young Adult Literature
Call Number: PS 121 .H22 2011
Table of Contents

 THE GOOD OLD APP

SCHOOL HOUSE B&BS FOR EDUCATORS