Setting aside journal pricing controversies and discrepancies for the moment, it may be
time for research libraries to assert their collective willingness to underwrite the costs of immediate and universal open access, for the same price as they are now paying for either twelve months or a lifetime - plus of exclusive journal access.
Not exact matches
At that
time the World Wide Web was not up and running, so I had to do the
research the hard way — by going to
libraries, going to the stacks, finding books — especially in the QK 99 section on herbal medicine — and looking up all the various terms
for chiles in the indexes of the books.
Although her regular academic salary from her tenured position provided the
time for research and access to
library facilities, she carried out her own «controversial»
research without any additional funding.
One day, I may type away
for hours on end, producing several thousand words of translation; on another, I will spend
time doing background
research on the Web or at a local
library for information and terminology on a new topic.
When I went to the
library to do
research for a school assignment, I spent about half of my
time there reading about cooking.
Both women threw themselves into
researching the period — and
for Becker, that meant diving into her
library of books on the Hollywood of that
time and
researching the preferred paint shades of the era.
This lesson requires four to six 40 - minute class periods, plus
time for research using
library and Internet sources in order
for each group to complete the written and oral reports.
With
research from the National Literacy Trust finding that pupils who regularly use the school
library read at or above the expected level
for their age, now is the
time for schools to make a change and recognise the importance of
library provisions.
Community Scavenger Hunt Teaches
Research Skills, Much More When armies of students descend on local
libraries, it has to be
time for the State of Jefferson Scavenger Hunt.
Compared to teachers at schools with similarly renovated
libraries — those renovated with state QZAB funds but without additional professional development funds, community partnerships, and modernized technology — teachers at
Library Project schools reported more collaboration with the school librarian and were four
times more likely to have their students use the
library for research.
The Michigan eLibrary provides all Michigan residents with free access to online full - text articles, full - textbooks, digital images, and other valuable
research information at any
time via the Internet; and provide an easy - to - use interlibrary loan system to allow Michigan residents to borrow books and other
library materials
for free from participating Michigan
libraries.
The
library can be a magnet
for ebook discovery and a distribution platform
for helping authors self - publish... The article mostly broadens our awareness of how a
library and its expert staff can help ensure that the right title finds the right reader at the right
time — and how the considerable
research expertise can help deepen and strengthen the
research in the book.
The Pew
Research Center's Internet and Family Life Project has released another report based this
time on
library usage and how patrons» attitudes towards
libraries are shifting, both
for the better and otherwise.
Most of them don't want to spend much
time in the
library for research process.
You may have no
time to go to the
library to search
for relevant sources, while our dissertation will conduct all
research for you.
Nor can I
research at
libraries or institutions, since I am unable to sit upright
for more than a few minutes at a
time.
Consolidating content also has significant benefits
for the
library user, who may find it frustrating and unproductive to have to learn multiple interfaces at the same
time while doing his / her
research.
Although the sample size of teen
library users is too small
for detailed analysis, in general the 16 - 17 year olds who went to the
library for research assistance in the past year tended to do so five
times or less.
Nonetheless, the South Carolina study, which tied test scores to specific standards, revealed that students with full -
time, qualified librarians and strong
library programs were more likely to meet at an exemplary level, and less likely not to meet, specific standards
for using literary text, using informational text, and conducting
research (Lance, Schwarz, & Rodney, 2014).
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research research library.
This is certainly the case
for the Stedelijk Museum, which has a
time - honored tradition of
research and (academic) publications; in 1957, the museum founded a
library (which today ranks among one of Europe's most noted
libraries of modern and contemporary art and design), and has since published countless extraordinary catalogues over the years.
Though e-book technology is improving all the
time, our belief is that printed books will continue to play an important role in academic
research libraries for the foreseeable future.
Having just gone back into private practice at the
time, I was in search of free resources
for legal
research, hoping to avoid the high cost of a Westlaw or LexisNexis subscription or investment in a
library of hard - bound reporters.
He suggested a key initiative
for the
library should be tracking
time and providing ROI numbers
for other work that is not billable, such as knowledge management, market
research for RFPs and the like.
As I see it, Google's free legal
research services won't put a dent in LEXIS or Westlaw, at least not
for a long, long
time,  Instead, they pose a threat to what I've collectively termed the «second city» providers like Versuslaw, Casemaker, FastCase or Loislaw. Right now, most lawyers are able to access those services
for free or cheap through deals with the bars — but will bars continue to support those subscriptions when there's a robust free option available? My heart goes out to these companies because they served as an oasis
for solos when no other options, save the law
library and manual
research, existed. Yet I don't see all of them able to survive the Google onslaught.
From the
library side of legal work, some theoretical MWP examples: extra
research to confirm a trusted person's work, legislative
research that goes back too far in
time, looking
for every case rather than the best cases that clarify an issue, filing a looseleaf service that hasn't been consulted in several years, pulling and copying print case reporters when you already have an electronic copy.