The CLIC Librarians' Newsletter
September 27, 2012 Volume 6, No. 9
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.
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SCHOLARLY COMMUNICATION CHANGES
Bill Tierney, President of AERA, recently sent an email to AERA members. In it, he discusses the evolution of academic scholarship and the key challenges that he thinks lie ahead for AERA.

He remarks, "Once a stately process, academic publishing is now driven by the Internet. At one time we needed only a journal or a conference to present our research; now we use multiple outlets, simultaneous and instantaneous....Many of us are comfortable with the current forms of our journals and conferences. We should not change simply for the sake of change. But my sense is that we will need to change, on the basis of transformations in communication technology and in how we do our academic work."

He gives an example of a new publication outlet called Storify. A storify post is a website that creates and preserves stories or timelines using social media such as Twitter, photos and video. You read the storify from top of the web page to the bottom. He points to an example of a storify. In this case, Jonathan Becker is the author of the storify. He gives an overview of a topic. Then, he pastes in a tweet he saw from Sara announcing she has written a review of a Brooking's voucher study. Sara also lets the reader know that her report was mentioned by Diane Ravich on Diane's tweet. Then, Jonathan spots a rebuttal to Sara's review by Matt Chingos on his Matt's Twitter feed, so Jonathan inserts that into his storify....

So is there a ranking system to show impact of influential scholars' using social media? Yes! Education Week's Rick Hess posted a ranking in January 2012.

ACADEMIC PUBLISHING: A NEW MODEL
Adeline Coh writes, "Academic publishing is broken. University presses are underfunded, and are facing great difficulty surviving as the cost of producing monographs grows more and more unprofitable. Yet these monographs are often the gold standard for promotion and tenure ... But, academic presses argue, the work of evaluation for tenure and promotion should not be their responsibility. At the same time, libraries chant that their shrinking budgets cannot accommodate the rising costs of peer-reviewed journals that live behind exorbitant paywalls. Where does the solution lie?

Enter Anvil Academic which will debut its new website in early October, when it plans to announce an open call for proposals from the scholarly community. It hopes to issue its first publications in the spring/summer of 2013. The press has an ambitious and innovative peer review process in play, and wants to explore publishing partnerships with libraries, colleges and universities, presses and scholarly societies."

SPECIAL COLLECTIONS EXHIBIT
Established in 1762 and named for Queen Charlotte of England, Charlottesville has been touched by most of the major events in American history. Charlottesville: 250 Years of History (1762-2012) highlights some of the stories of the City’s people, events, and landmarks, covering the periods through the Revolutionary and Civil Wars, annexation and the industrial revolution, and racial segregation and urban development.

Charlottesville: 250 Years of History (1762-2012) is co-sponsored by the Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library and the University's Office of Community Relations.

The curatorial team for this exhibition is Edward Gaynor, Ann Southwell, Regina Rush, and Ellen Welch.

 
Scenario #1. When trying to download Write-N-Cite 4 (WNC4) to my PC, I discovered the ribbon that was supposed to show up at the top of the screen in Word, was not there. I am using the Chrome browser and have a 64 bit laptop computer. Why did WNC not download?
Solution #1. There are multiple reasons why Write-N-Cite 4 may not download properly.

We have found that people using the Chrome browsers, seem to have trouble with the Write-N-Cite 4 download. While there are many browsers one can use with your computer, RefWorks seems to function best with the Firefox (Mozilla) browser. We recommend that you use the Firefox browser when working with RefWorks, Write-N-Cite, and library databases..

If one has 64 bit PC, one may be experiencing the problem because one selected the 64 bit version of WNC4. One would think that one should download the version of WNC4 that matches your computer's operating system. However, one might have a 64 bit machine with a 32 bit version of Word installed. If this is the case one would want to use the 32 bit WNC installer. Word 2007 is 32 bit only and Word 2010 can be either. Be sure to remove the 64 bit version of WNC4 if you need to install the 32 bit.

Another possible reason for the download failure would be having Word open at the time you attempted your download. Word should NOT be open while one is downloading the WNC 4 software.

Scenario #2. You have completed writing your paper using RefWorks Write-N-Cite, yet when you try to format the paper to include the bibliography, an error message appears instead of the final, formatted paper.
Solution #2. Bibliographies may not format if the Word file type is .docx. To avoid this problem save your Word files with a .doc extension (compatibility version). This will allow the RefWorks program to properly format your papers and bibliographies. We have seen this problem more often in Macs than PCs, but it IS an issue for PC users as well. The .docx extension is the default file type in Word 2007 and 2010.

Scenario #3.   “ I cannot type entries in the "title" field for a new, manually entered reference. When I try adding text in the “title” field using the “edit” view, I am still unable to type in the text, so this is not a viable workaround. Typing in the other citation fields works fine. What is wrong? “
Solution #3.  RefWorks Tech Support staff  have seen this type of behavior with Internet Explorer 9 (IE9) browser. Therefore, using the FireFox browser is recommended. If you prefer to use the IE9 browser, running the browser in compatibility mode has corrected the issue. It does not seem to a consistent issue nor does it seem to be a 32 bit vs. 64 bit browser issue as some installations work fine and others need to run in compatibility mode. Use one of the options outlined in this handout for setting compatibility mode on your computer's IE browser. 

And don't forget, you can always contact RefWorks for tech support!

  INTERESTING BROADCAST
This American Life is an award winning, weekly public radio show.   There's a theme to each broadcast, and a variety of stories on that theme.  The archive of the September 14, 2012 broadcast may be of particular interest to the Curry community as its theme was “Back to School.”

We'd like to give a shout-out to the folks at CASTL for letting us know about this program.

 NEW HANDBOOK
TITLE: Handbook of Reading Interventions
CALL NUMBER: LB 1050.5 .H267 2011
Table of Contents

 NEW ONLINE BOOK
Doing Qualitative Community Research

APPS FOR TEACHERS
The web site, edudemic's stated mission is to "make people smart" by "changing how people learn" with "diverse forms of new thinking." As part of that effort they provide information on tools, trends, news, and more as it relates to education. The edudemic staff recently came up with a list of "50 Smartphone Apps Every Teacher Should Know About."

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.

 NCES RELEASES NEW DATA
This First Look report, Postsecondary Institutions and Price of Attendance in 2011-12; Degrees and Other Awards Conferred: 2010-11; and 12-Month Enrollment: 2010-11, presents findings from the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) fall 2011 data collection. It included three survey components: institutional characteristics for 2011-12 -- such as degrees offered, type of program, application information, and tuition and other costs; the number and type of degrees conferred from July 2010 through June 2011; and 12-month enrollment data for the 2010-11 academic year.

Another IPEDS First Look report, Employees in Postsecondary Institutions, Fall 2011 and Student Financial Aid, Academic Year 2010–11 presents a revised version of the preliminary report released August 7, 2012. This report presents fully edited and imputed data findings on the number of staff employed in Title IV postsecondary institutions in fall 2011 by occupational category, length of contract/teaching period, employment status, faculty and tenure status, academic rank, race/ethnicity, and gender. The report also contains data on student financial aid, including the number of undergraduate students receiving aid and the amount of aid received by those students for the 2010-11 academic year.

  GEOREFERENCING WORKSHOP  
TOPIC: Georeferencing – Putting Old maps and Aerial Photos on Your Map (same workshop as below)
TIME: 1:00pm – 2:00pm
DATE: Wednesday, October 3
LOCATION: Campbell Hall, Room 105
DESCRIPTION: Have an old map or an aerial photograph that you would like to use as a spatial layer? This session will teach you techniques to properly place your data and make it useable in GIS software. We will also demo similar techniques for Google Earth. 

  GEOREFERENCING WORKSHOP
TOPIC: Georeferencing – Putting Old maps and Aerial Photos on Your Map (same workshop as above)
TIME: 3:00pm – 4:00pm
DATE: Thursday, October 4
LOCATION: Alderman Library, Room 421
DESCRIPTION: Have an old map or an aerial photograph that you would like to use as a spatial layer? This session will teach you techniques to properly place your data and make it useable in GIS software. We will also demo similar techniques for Google Earth. 

  MATLAB WORKSHOP
TOPIC: Introduction to MatLab
TIME: 5pm - 7pm
DATE: Wednesday, October 3
LOCATION: Olsson Hall, room 120
DESCRIPTION: This UVACSE short course provides an introduction to the basic Matlab computing package.  During the two-hour course, we will discuss the Matlab interactive development environment and demonstrate how to use Matlab commands, functions. and graphics.
RESERVATIONS: Reserve a seat for the workshop.

 MATLAB WORKSHOP
TOPIC: Parallel Computing with MatLab
TIME: 5pm - 7pm
DATE: Thursday, October 4
LOCATION: To be determined
DESCRIPTION: This UVACSE short course provides an introduction to the basic Matlab computing package.  During the two-hour course, we will discuss the Matlab interactive development environment and demonstrate how to use Matlab commands, functions. and graphics.
RESERVATIONS: Reserve a seat for the workshop.

 PYTHON WORKSHOP
TOPIC: Introduction to Python
TIME: 5pm - 7pm
DATE: Wednesday, October 10
LOCATION: Olsson Hall, room 120
RESERVATIONS: Reserve a seat for the workshop