CLIC Librarians' Newsletter

OPEN ACCESS JOURNAL
The American Educational Research Association (AERA) announced that it will launch AERA Open, an online, peer-reviewed journal that will be freely available to all readers on the web and will be published by Sage.  AERA Open is expected to start publishing articles in early 2014. Author instructions will be posted here.

The new publication will promote access to data; research instruments, protocols and guides; and other supplemental sources of information that will enhance the value of articles as well as encourage others to pursue research or its application.

AERA Open will set article payment charges at $400 for AERA members and $700 for nonmembers, with significantly lower charges for graduate students in both categories. There will be no charge for scholars in countries with low-income economies, as defined by the World Bank.

As an online journal, AERA Open offers a publishing venue for works in innovative formats, such as video, interactive data tables, and audio recordings that a print format precludes.

MCCORMICK BRIDGE
As many of you are not on-Grounds this summer, the CLIC librarians thought you might appreciate two  photographs* of the historic event that just happened on Emmet Street next to Bavaro Hall.  Crews removed McCormick Bridge in one night and will be rebuilding it during the upcoming months. Completion date is slated for the late July.
*Photos courtesy of Warner Granade, Subject liaison librarian for Commerce and Economics.

WRITING LITERATURE REVIEWS
To help guide you through the process of writing a professional and scholarly  literature review, we have opted to identify some quality resources that we think should prove useful to you.

The Purpose of the Literature Review is to:
1. provide  thorough knowledge of previous studies; and introduce  seminal works.
2. help focus one’s own research topic.
3. identify a conceptual framework for one’s own research questions or problems; indicate potential directions for future research.
4. suggest previously unused or underused methodologies, designs, quantitative and qualitative strategies.
5. identify gaps in previous studies; identify flawed methodologies and/or theoretical approaches; avoid replication of mistakes.
6. help the researcher avoid repetition of earlier research.
7. suggest unexplored populations.
8. determine whether past studies agree or disagree; identify controversy in the literature.
9. test assumptions; may help counter preconceived ideas and remove unconscious bias.

RESOURCES

University of Wisconsin-Madison
A chapter from The Writer’s Handbook, Learn how to write a review of literature

Wesleyan University
Literature Review Guide, 

University of North Carolina  The Writing Center
Literature Reviews

Harvard University
The Literature Review: A Research Journey 

Kent State University
Literature Review Guide

Title: Doing a Literature Review by Chris Hart
Location: Writing book shelf in the CLIC, room 306 Bavaro Hall and click here to check availability at UVa libraries
Call number: LB 2369. H3
Table of Contents

Title: Systematic Approaches to a Successful Literature Review by Booth, Papaioannou and Sutton
Location: Writing book shelf in the CLIC, room 306 Bavaro Hall and click here to check availability at the UVa Health Sciences Library 
Call number: LB1047.3 .B66 2012
Table of Contents

Title: The Literature Review: Six Steps to Success, 2nd ed. by Machi & McEvoy
Location: Writing book shelf in the CLIC, room 306 Bavaro Hall and clic here to check availability of 1st ed. at other UVa libraries
Call number: LB1047.3 .M33 2012
Table of Contents

AERA AND APA CODES
The AERA Code of Ethics and the APA’s Ethical Principles of Psychologists and Code of Conduct  can guide you through a variety of ethical questions including authorship credit (who should get their names included in a journal manuscript); contractual and consulting services; research planning, implementation and dissemination; data sharing expectations, plagiarism, etc.

ONLINE HANDBOOK
Title: Understanding College and University Organization: Theories for Effective Policy and Practice
Location: Online
Also in print format Handbook Area in the CLIC:
Call Number: LB2341.B4769 2008 v.1, v.2
Table of Contents:  Vol. 1, Vol. 2

ONLINE BOOK
Title: Trends Shaping Education 2013
Location: Online
Overview: What does it mean for education that our societies are increasingly diverse? How  is global economic power shifting toward new countries? Trends Shaping Education 2013 brings together international evidence to give policy makers, researchers, leaders, administrators and others a source to inform strategic thinking and stimulate reflection on challenges facing education.

CIRCADAS: THE VIDEO
If you watch the Return of the Circadas video, we guarantee you will be glad you did! It is chalk full of information, great photography and science at its best.

SEE UVA’S RED TAIL HAWKS
If you go quickly, you can observe 3 Red Tail Hawk fledglings. Their nest is in a pine tree to the left as you face Clark Hall where the Brown Science and Engineering Library is located. If you were coming out of Clark Hall, the nest is on the right near the green metal walkway. You can’t miss them as many people will probably be there with cameras and binoculars. The fledglings are about 12 to 18 inches tall making them big enough to see with the naked eye. They will probably relocate near the end of June. This image* is a close-up of a fledgling red tail hawk.

The  image* below shows a photograph of UVa’s fledglings and their nest.  The red boxes indicate the location of the young hawks.   For more information about red tail hawks, especially in urban settings, read this New York Times article.

*The fledgling photograph is courtesy of Ann Brokelman, blogger and photographer. The photograph of the three UVa fledgling red tail hawks is courtesy of Melissa Loggins, Brown Science and Engineering Library staff. Click on the bottom image to see a larger version of Melissa's photograph.


NOVA EDUCATION WEBINAR SERIES
Yes, the current school year is just winding down, but the folks at NOVA Education are already thinking about ways to enhance your teaching for the next school year.  NOVA Education is offering 3 webinars this month to middle and high school teachers to showcase the various ways that NOVA resources can be used in the classroom.  Check here for more details on the webinars and to sign up to participate in one, or all, of the webinars.

Wednesday, June 12th @ 6:00pm EST
Earth System Science Resources from NOVA and NASA

Tuesday, June 18 @ 5:00 pm EST
Sparking Student Interest in STEM Careers with NOVA

Thursday, June 27 @ 4:00 pm EST 
Developing Student’s Scientific Practice Skills with NOVA Labs

MOOCS (again and again)
In Deals With 10 Public Universities, Coursera Bids for Role in Credit Course.

According to the Chronicle of Higher Education article linked above, “Under the new deals, Coursera is recasting itself as a platform for credit-bearing courses that would be offered to students enrolled at multiple campuses within a public-university system.”

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.

CASTL GUEST LECTURE
PRESENTER: Dr. John Q. Easton is the director of the Institute of Education Sciences (IES), which is the research arm of the U.S. Department of Education and encompasses a number of national centers. Easton holds a Ph.D. in measurement, evaluation, and statistical analysis from the University of Chicago, and was executive director of the Consortium on Chicago School Research at the University of Chicago.
TOPIC: “Using Measurement as Leverage between Developmental Research and Educational Practice”
DATE: Thursday, June 20
TIME: Noon – 1:00 PM
LOCATION: Zehmer Hall Auditorium (#25 on map, top right)
DESCRIPTION: Dr. Easton will be discussing the importance of good measurement, especially as it relates to domains of development beyond cognitive and academic skills. Discussions will also center around collaboration with educational partners and researchers to leverage the impact of using measures. The event is sponsored by the Center for Advanced Studies in Teaching and Learning (CASTL) at UVa’s Curry School of Education.

 DATA WORKSHOPS
The University Library’s Data Management Consulting Group is conducting several workshops this summer.  You can register for the June workshops using the links below.

TOPIC: “Best Practices of Collecting and Managing Research Data”
DATE: Tuesday, June 11
TIME: 4:00 PM- 5:00 PM
LOCATION: The CLIC, room 306 Bavaro Hall (map)
DESCRIPTION: This workshop will focus on best practices for collecting and organizing data. It is increasingly important to store and document research data in ways that facilitate their effective retrieval and interpretation in the future. These best practices and tips will benefit you, the data collector, as well as improve prospects for the long-term preservation and re-use of data by others.  Participants will need to bring their laptop computers.
PRESENTER: Sherry Lake, Senior Data Consultant, University Library’s Data Management Consulting Group
REGISTRATION: Limited to 20 attendees, Register here.

TOPIC: Hands-On Data Management Planning for the Social Sciences
DATE: Thursday, June 20
TIME: 4:00 PM- 5:00 PM
LOCATION: The CLIC, room 306 Bavaro Hall (map)
DESCRIPTION: What’s your plan for managing all the data from your research? Did you know that all federal agencies with budgets over $100M will soon require data management plans outlining how you will provide access to your research data? What metadata standard will you use? What repository will you deposit your data into? Will your data be restricted or fully open? Join us for a data management planning workshop geared to social science researchers. We will cover critical components of data management planning to help you get started, introduce you to available resources, and give you an opportunity to develop your own data management plan for a grant. The workshop will conclude with peer and expert feedback on draft data management plans produced during the workshop. We welcome all researchers; faculty, graduate students, and others.  Participants will need to bring their laptop computers.
PRESENTERS:  Andrew Sallans, Head of Strategic Data Initiatives, UVA Library, and Bill Corey, Data Management Consultant, UVA Library
REGISTRATION: Limited to 20 attendees, Register here.

  STATLAB WORKSHOP REGISTRATION
The StatLab, an applied statistical consulting service for researchers across Grounds, is holding several workshops this summer.  Each workshop is offered twice so you may select the day/time that’s most convenient.   To learn more about each workshop, just click on the workshop title link.  To register, click on the link for the workshop date you want to attend.

NEW DATA:  POSTSECONDARY TUITION, FEES, DEGREES
This First Look report, Postsecondary Institutions and Cost of Attendance in 2012-13; Degrees and Other Awards Conferred, 2011-12; and 12-Month Enrollment, 2011-12  presents findings from the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) fall 2012 data collection, which included three survey components: institutional characteristics for 2012-13—such as degrees offered, type of program, application information, and tuition and other costs; the number and type of degrees conferred from July 2011 through June 2012; and 12-month enrollment data for the 2011-12 academic year.

  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.

NEW ONLINE HANDBOOK
Title: Handbook of Distance Education, 3rd edition
Author: Michael G. Moore
Access: Internet

NEW PRINT HANDBOOK
Title: Routledge Handbook of Physical Activity and Mental Health
Location: CLIC Handbook Area: QP 301 .R693 2013
Table of Contents

Note: Handbooks in the CLIC may not be checked out, but may be scanned for free or photocopied for 8 cents per page in the CLIC.

GRADUATED? LEAVING UVA?
If you are preparing to leave UVa, and will not be returning, you will need to determine what you need to do with your various computing-related activities such as email, data collected, etc. This checklist, Computing-Related Items to Consider When Leaving UVa, should help!

IS THIS PUBLISHER LEGIT?
Recently, several of you contacted the CLIC librarians to ask whether  a given publisher is reliable. Here is a resource that we use and that you, too, can consult: Beall’s list of potential, possible, or probable predatory scholarly open-access publishers. The term Predatory Publishers seems to have found its way into the academy! Don’t hesitate to contact us if you have any doubt about a publisher’s legitimacy. We promise to track down the truth.

*The Predatory Publisher drawing above was shared through a Creative Commons Open Access license by the TU Delft Library.

CONFERENCE@CURRY
DATES: June 3rd – June 7th
TOPIC:  The 41st conference on the Art & Science of Sports Medicine
DATES: June 3rd – June 7th
TIME: Daily
LOCATION: Bavaro Hall
DESCRIPTION: The focus of the conference this year is sports injuries in youth and adolescents.  Be sure to register as either academic credit or for continuing education credit. The 2013 Schedule is now available as well as the fee structure.

IMPROVE YOUR DISSERTATION WRITING
In May students often report to us how motivated they are to work on their dissertations as they have just watched some of their colleagues graduate!

To help guide you through the process of writing and organizing a dissertation, we wanted to point out some books we think should prove useful. The following books are in the CLIC, room 306 Bavaro Hall.  They may also be in another library. If so, we will indicate that.

Title: Handbook of Scholarly Writing published by the Jossey-Bass
Location: When you enter the CLIC  room 306 Bavaro Hall, turn right. This book is shelved with the handbook collection.
Call number: PN 146 .H36 2011
Table of Contents
Patrons must read, copy, or scan this book in the CLIC, as it can’t be checked out.

Title: Dissertation and Theses from Start to Finish by Cone and Foster 2006; published by APA
Location: When you enter the CLIC  room 306 Bavaro Hall, turn right. This book is shelved  on the top shelf of the bookshelves next to the green lamp. Patrons must read, copy, or scan this book in the CLIC, as it can’t be checked out.
2nd Location: Brown Science and Engineering Library
Call number: BF76-5. C645 Table of Contents Check to see if the Brown Science and Engineering Library’s copy is available for check out.
Call number: BF76-5. C645
Table of Contents

Title: Writing the Award Winning Dissertation: a Step by Step Guide by Allan A. Glatthorn, Randy L. Joyner
Location: Alderman, Fine Arts and Ivy Libraries own copies
Call number: BF76-5. C645
Table of Contents
Check to see if a copy is available for check out.

McCORMICK OBSERVATORY
What: McCormick Observatory open to the public and groups
When: Friday, June 7th 9-11pm
Where: UVa’s McCormick Observatory 600 McCormick Road, Charlottesville, VA 22904
Cost: Free, donations welcome
Description: New to the Charlottesville area?  Looking for something different to do?  Then head on out to the Leander McCormick Observatory’s public night and get star struck.  The Observatory is open to the public on the 1st and 3rd Friday night of each month (except holidays) for 2 hours. It is open for educational groups the 2nd and 4th Fridays Groups MUST call (434) 924-7494 to schedule a visit. McCormick Observatory is located on the western edge of the UVa Grounds map. Each public night includes observing with all of the telescopes (weather permitting), audio-visual presentations, museum exhibits, and tours of the Observatory.
Contact:  For more information you can call Department of Astronomy at 434-243 1885 or visit the observatory’s web site.

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.

DATA SUMMIT
On May 14th, 2013 UVACSE and the Office of the Vice President for Research hosted the UVa Big Data Summit 2.  Presentations at the Big Data Summit2 are linked at the bottom of this page.

Curry’s Catherine Bradshaw was a panelist in (Part 1)  The video of the Data Producers and Infrastructure Issues and Challenges panels at :31.30 minutes. Catherine stated there was a rich array of projects going on in the Curry school and she continued by laying out a framework for thinking about collaboration that would include Curry faculty. Catherine highlighted Curry faculty member, Marcia Invernizzi who received the 2013 Innovator of the Year award for suite of tools and assessments that she and her team developed for the PALS reading program. (PALS identifies children at risk for disabilities and learning problems in reading.)    Catherine also identified challenges to big data including data storage, access and sharing; support for analysis and information technology; legal, confidentiality, security and ethics. She also focused on opportunities in Curry including: 1) the online learning environment, expertise in teaching, learning and statistics; 2) data rich environment including  large samples and repeated trials; 3) an interdisciplinary and collaborative focus to research; 4)Diverse data types; and 5) clear applications and eager end users.

REPORT RELEASED
The NCES released the Condition of Education 2013. The report has 42 indicators which provide a progress report on education in America and include findings on the demographics of American schools, U.S. resources for schooling, and outcomes associated with education. The report may be a great resource for statistics for your research papers, dissertation or teaching needs!

WORKSHOP REGISTRATION DEADLINE 5/27
TOPIC: Hierarchical Linear Modeling (HLM)
DATES: June 11th – June 13th
TIME: 9am-3pm with noon-1pm lunch break
LOCATION: To Be Determined
DESCRIPTION:  This three-day short course will introduce users to the basics of hierarchical linear models. We will discuss the structure of basic models, including 2-level organizational models and 3-level models for individual change. We will also cover how-tos for setting up and executing these models starting from typical Stata (or SPSS) data files through the program HLM. Allison Atteberry will also teach users how to execute these models using Stata in a more efficient fashion. Advanced topics will be covered and discussed on the final day, tailored to the interests of the participants.

Registration The Virginia Education Sciences Training (VEST) program is offering this  HLM  workshop. We will be able to include a limited number of non-VEST participants.  If you would like to participate, please email Denise Strickland no later than  Monday, May 27 and we will try to accommodate as many individuals as possible.  The workshop is free, but we will ask you to take a pre-survey, which will be administered online. Questions? Contact Denise Strickland, Managing Director
Program Coordinator Virginia Education Sciences Training (VEST) Fellowship Program University of Virginia 434-243-2021 (voice) dcs2z@virginia.edu

TITLE: Hierarchical Linear Models
AUTHOR: Raudenbush and Bryk
UVa LIBRARY: 1st edition 1992
2nd edition 2002

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.

GRE WORKSHOP HELD
A GRE prep workshop was hosted by the Director of Student Support Services, Cheryl Gittens.  Zack Beamer from Kaplan provided key GRE facts, test strategies, and sample questions during the workshop.   A dozen Curry undergraduates participated in anticipation of the need to take the GRE in the near future to gain admittance to graduate study here at Curry or elsewhere.  Another GRE session is anticipated in the Fall.

A VIRTUAL YOKNAPATAWPHA
Professor Steve Railton and a UVa team of database and web developers are creating an online resource to enable the mapping and study of William Faulkner’s fiction and his imaginary county of Yoknapatawpha. The project will include two dozen Faulkner scholars from around the country who have signed on since the University Library’s Digital Media Lab built the prototype of the Digital Yoknapatawpha.

LISTENING TO FAULKNER
William Faulkner was a writer-in-residence at UVa from 1957-1958. Here you can listen in on William Faulkner’s sessions with audiences. The online archive includes almost 30 hours of Faulkner reading from his fiction, giving remarks at public events and answering questions about his work in English classes at UVa.

CALL FOR AWARD NOMINATIONS
“PLOS, the Public Library of Science, is launching the Accelerating Science Award Program (ASAP). These awards recognize the use of scientific research, published through Open Access, which has led to innovations in any field that benefit society. Major sponsors include the Wellcome Trust and Google.” …

“Three top awards of $30,000 each will be presented.  The nomination period is open from May 1 to June 15, 2013.  Winners will be announced in Washington, DC in October 2013, at an Open Access Week kickoff event hosted by SPARC and the World Bank.”

“For more information, including the full details of the ASAP Program, nomination process, and the Award specifics, go to http://asap.plos.org. For Program rules visit http://asap.plos.org/nominate/rules/.”

CLCD APP OF THE MONTH
“Planets” is free app lets you look at the planets from both a 2-D and 3-D perspective. It is the Children’s Literature Comprehensive Database recommended app for this month.   It’s easy to use. Touch the Globe option to view 3-D models of each planet. The Visibility option lets you check out moon phases.  Available for both iPhone, IPad and iPod, Planets is a free app and has received great reviews.

A 3D PRINTER FOR $1,300.00 
Staples became the  first major U.S. retailer to announce the availability of 3D printers.  The Cube® 3D Printer, starting at a cost of $1,300.00 per printer, is ready to use right out of the box. The printer features Wi-Fi, is compatible with Mac or Windows, and comes with 25 free 3D templates designed by professional artists, with additional templates available online.   Additional information may be found in this Staples News Release.

CONFERENCE PAPERS FULL TEXT
If you have been trying to locate a conference paper, check OpenDOAR to see if it is available full text. OpenDOAR  contains conference papers from the U.S. and international institutional repositories as well as other open access documents. You can search repository contents, browse a list of repositories, or search for repositories.

OpenDOAR is one of the SHERPA Services including RoMEO and JULIET, run by the Centre for Research Communcations (CRC).

CONGRATULATIONS GRADUATES!
Here’s to an exciting day and a bright future.

If you missed our information on library resources for alumni, check out these previous newsletters: April 18, April 25, and May 2.

CLIC SUMMER HOURS 
Monday – Friday 8am-5pm
Saturday and Sunday CLOSED
Exceptions:
CLOSED May 27, Memorial Day
CLOSED July 4, Independence Day

The CLIC will maintain summer hours from May 13-August 23, 2013.
Hours at other UVa Libraries

LAST NEWSLETTER OF THE SEMESTER
The newsletter will return the first week of the summer session and will be published every other week during the summer.

The CLIC staff would like to thank everyone for making the CLIC an enjoyable and rewarding environment in which to work and for letting us get to know you. You can contact us this summer if you need our assistance.

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.

 

 STATLAB WORKSHOP REGISTRATION
The StatLab, an applied statistical consulting service for researchers across Grounds, is holding several workshops this summer.  Each workshop is offered twice so you may select the day/time that’s most convenient.   To learn more about each workshop, just click on the workshop title link.  To register, click on the link for the workshop date you want to attend.

REGISTRATION NOW OPEN
TOPIC: The basics of  parallel and high-throughput computing
DATES: June 10th – June 14th
TIME: 8:30 am – 5:00 pm
LOCATION: 205 MEC (Mechanical Engineering Building)
DESCRIPTION:  The University of Virginia Alliance for Computational Science and Engineering (UVACSE) is offering a High Performance Computing (HCP) Bootcamp. HPC Bootcamp is a FREE one-week short course for those who wish to learn the basics of high-throughput and parallel computing. Topics covered include MPI for distributed systems and OpenMP for multicore systems.

Registration is required, but the week-long Bootcamp is FREE for all participants. Register here to attend. If you have any questions, please email uvacse@virginia.edu

NEW WEBINARS ON FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES
Dates:  May–July 2013
Are you considering applying for an IES grant for FY 2014?  If so, these webinars should be of interest. The Institute of Education Sciences will host a series of funding opportunities webinars. These webinars  focus on a wide range of topics for applicants to the FY 2014 grant programs, including the application process, grant writing, and overviews of specific funding opportunities. Full descriptions of the webinars are available and registration is now open.

DATA SETS, INSTRUMENTS, AND ANALYSIS TOOLS
Child Care & Early Education Research Connections promotes high quality research in child care and early education and the use of that research in policy making.  As part of its services, Research Connections offers access to datasets, instruments, and tools for analysis.  In order to make use of the datasets, you will need statistical software and a good understanding of statistical methodology.  The instruments indexed by Research Connections are from studies following quantitative research methodologies  and those using qualitative methodologies.  The online analysis system  functions with many of the available datasets.

Research Connections is a partnership among the National Center for Children in Poverty (NCCP), the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR), and the Office of Child Care, and the Office for Planning, Research and Evaluation (OPRE).

NEW NCES REPORT
The “First Look” report, Revenues and Expenditures for Public Elementary and Secondary School Districts for School Year 2009-10 (FY 10),  furnishes finance data for all local education agencies (LEAs) that provided free public elementary and secondary (PK-12) education in the United States for school year 2009-10. State education agencies in the 50 states and the District of Columbia provide the data to the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) at the Institute of Education Sciences, part of the U.S. Department of Education.

NEW REPORT FROM THE NATION’S REPORT CARD
To improve the measurement and reporting of socioeconomic status (SES) and its relationship to academic achievement in the context of the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), National Center for Educational Statistics (NCES) convened a panel of experts to provide recommendations concerning SES as a construct, with the understanding that their recommendations might ultimately lead to a new measure of SES that could be used for NAEP.  The report, Improving the Measurement of Socioeconomic Status for the National Assessment of Educational Progress: A Theoretical Foundation, from the committee is available for download.

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

A NEW STATISTICAL CONSULTING SERVICE
Research Data Services offered by the University of Virginia Library is growing – this summer, they’re launching the StatLab, an applied statistical consulting service for researchers across Grounds. The StatLab staff will provide advice and training in data analysis and statistical methods to UVa research scholars through individual consulting, workshops on statistical techniques, and online tutorials. And it’s free! You can learn more at statlab.library.virginia.edu.

StatLab staff are already available to meet with interested researchers for one-on-one consulting, ranging from issues of basic analysis and design to implementation of advanced statistical techniques. This summer they will be offering workshops on mixed-effects modeling and matching methods. The registration for these workshops will be open May 6.

The StatLab is hiring a full time statistical consultant.  In addition, they are also hiring two graduate student consultants.

Please feel free to email Michele Claibourn, Head of StatLab or call her at 434-924-DATA if you’d like to set up an appointment, to offer suggestions for future workshops of interest to graduate students and faculty, or to learn more about the Library’s expanding Research Data Services.   Michele has an office in the CLIC, room 306 Bavaro Hall.

EXAM STUDY SPACE
The Library Council made an arrangement with the Small Special Collections Library to make its auditorium available to students as study space during finals, May 2-10. The auditorium is on the lower level of the Harrison Institute/Small Special Collections Library, one floor down from the main entrance. Map #19

Thursday, May 2,  9 a.m.–8:30 p.m.
Friday, May 3, 9 a.m.–4:30 p.m.
Saturday May 4,  9 a.m.–4:30 p.m.
Sunday May 5  CLOSED
Monday, May 6,  9 a.m.–8:30 p.m.
Tuesday, May 7,  9 a.m.–8:30 p.m.
Wednesday, May 8,  9 a.m.–8:30 p.m.
Thursday, May 9,  9 a.m.–8:30 p.m.
Friday, May 10,  9 a.m.–4:30 p.m.

PLAGIARISM FACT SHEET
Plagiarism is when one author deliberately (or unthinkingly) uses another person’s work without permission, credit, or acknowledgment. Plagiarism has varying different levels of severity, such as: 1) How much of someone’s work was taken and 2) What was copied. The CLIC librarians hope this guide to plagiarism: what it is and what you can do about it can help you understand and prevent plagiarizing in your writing.

WHAT’S IN YOUR WALLET
First, some data for you to digest. 1,000 wallets and purses are stolen every two minutes in America. Additionally, it costs an average of $8,000 to recover from identity theft, not to mention the time it takes standing in line to get a new social security card or other items! Below are items you might consider removing from your wallet to save you time, money, and aggravation. And here is why.

1. Social security card
2. Passport
3. Multiple credit cards
4. Excessive cash
5. Checkbook
6. Spare keys
7. Receipts
8. Password cheat sheet
9. Birth Certificate

The UVA libraries are pleased to announce that you now have access to two new collections of e-books made possible through the Virginia consortium, the Virtual Library of Virginia (VIVA).  You can find and connect to them through VIRGO: the Library Catalog.  Currently-published titles are already available and more will be added as they are published throughout the year.  These books are available in PDF format and can be read, printed or downloaded on your computer or other device.

The first collection is ScienceDirect Books published by Elsevier. It will have almost 700 titles ranging across 22 subject collections in science, technology and medicine.  Here is a list of currently available titles in VIRGO  Do note you can use the facets on the left of the screen to narrow the results.

The 2nd collection is published by Springer, includes over 2,000 titles in the areas of Biology and Biomedical Sciences, Earth and Environmental Science, Computer Science and Behavioral Science.  Here is a list of currently available titles in VIRGO. Do note you can use the facets to narrow the results.

FREE LITERACY WEBINAR
Date:  May 13, 2013
Time:  3:30pm – 4:30pm
Topic:  Are You Prepared to Meet the Literacy Needs of African American Male Youth?
Description: The need for quality literacy education is strong, particularly for certain underserved populations. One group in critical need of improved literacy instruction is African American males. According to the National Association for Educational Progress 2011 Report Card, only 14 percent of African American 4th and 8th graders performed at or above the proficient level on national reading tests in 2011 and males scored 9 points lower on average than females.
This webinar will explore the role of the education community, including librarians, in:
1) closing the literacy achievement gap,
2) nurturing the resolve of African American male youth, helping them reconcile their different identities, and re-imagine their place in the world,  and
3) enabling African American male youth to take action in their own lives and in their communities.
Presenters: Sandra Hughes-Hassell and Amanda Hitson
Please register for the free webinar even if you will be unable to attend the event as registrants will receive an e-mail when the recorded session is available

 IES GRANTEES PRESENT AT AERA
The 2013 Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association (AERA) is taking place in San Francisco, California, from April 27-May 2. Many Institute of Education Sciences (IES) grantees presented findings from their research grants from the National Center for Education Research (Curry’s Colby Tofel-Grehl, Carolyn Callahan, Susanna Loeb, James Wyckoff, Francis Huang, Marcia Invernizzi, Karen Ford, and Sarah Oh were among the presenters.) and the National Center for Special Education Research (NCSER). Click here for a list of conferences where you may be presenting if you receive an IES-funded grant!

POSTER SESSIONS IN THE CLIC
Recently, the CLIC was the site for two poster sessions. Dr. Patrice Grimes’ class, Teaching Social Studies in the Elementary School, shared lessons and activities with fellow students in this poster session held April 25th.

Students in Dr. Joanna Lee Williams’ and Dr. Natalia Palacios’ class, Introduction to Child Growth and Development, presented their research topics to students and faculty during a poster session on April 30th.

At some point in your Curry career, you will probably be required to design a poster session and present the information to your peers. You may also want to submit a poster session proposal to a professional association such as the American Educational Research Association (AERA) in the upcoming years. If so, here is the AERA website that explains how to create an effective poster session.

 GOVERNMENT ACCESS TO PERSONAL INFORMATION
“In this annual report, ‘Who Has Your Back,’ the Electronic Frontier Foundation examined the policies of major Internet companies — including ISPs, email providers, cloud storage providers, location-based services, blogging platforms, and social networking sites — to assess whether they publicly commit to standing with users when the government seeks access to user data. The purpose of this report is to incentivize companies to be transparent about how data flows to the government and encourage them to take a stand for user privacy whenever it is possible to do so.” PDF version.

MEASURING INFLUENCE
SPARC, The Scholarly Publishing & Academic Resources Coalition, recently released a primer on article level metrics authored by Greg Tananbaum.  “Article Level Metrics (ALMs) are rapidly emerging as important tools to quantify how individual articles are being discussed, shared, and used. ALMs can be employed in conjunction with existing metrics, which have traditionally focused on the long term impact of a collection of articles (i.e., a journal) based on the number of citations generated. This primer is designed to give … an overview of what ALMs are, why they matter, how they complement established utilities, and how they can be used in the tenure and promotion process.”

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.

SUBMIT YOUR GRANT APPLICATION
IES has released FY2014 funding announcements for grant competitions.

The National Center for Education Research competitions are:

• Education Research Grants (84.305A);
• Research Training Programs in the Education Sciences (84.305B);
• Education Research and Development Center Program (84.305C);
• Statistical and Research Methodology in Education (84.305D); and
• Partnerships and Collaborations Focused on Problems of Practice or Policy (84.305H).

The “Request for Applications” for each competition is available.

SECURE YOUR DATA
If you need advice about securing your data, the Information Security team’s consultation, guidance, and investigation services can be a valuable resource. The Information Security team is part of the Information Policy, and Records Office (ISPRO). ISPRO reports to the Vice President/CIO, James M. Hilton.

Phone:  434-243-8707
Email: Email ISPRO
Contact/Location
2400 Old Ivy Road, Room 162 (across from Ivy Parking garage)
P.O. Box 400898
Charlottesville, VA 22904

FOR UVA RESEARCHERS
The ITS division at UVa offers for fee and without fee options for storing the data that you collect for your research. Check it out!

LIBRARY SERVICES FOR ALUMNI
This is the last in a series of information for new alumni on obtaining library resources after graduation. You can read  the first article in the series and the second article from these sites.

Datasets (free)
Below are sources of freely available datasets.

1. Institute of Educational Sciences (IES) provides rigorous and relevant evidence on which to ground education practice and policy and shares this information broadly.  It is the research arm of the U.S. Department of Education.
2. National Center for Education Statistics (NCES)  is the primary federal entity for collecting and analyzing data related to education.  It is part of the IES.
3. World Bank: Data  - The World Bank is a source of financial and technical assistance to developing countries around the world.  For more information, see the World Bank Data’s About page.
4. UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS) – A United Nations source for cross-nationally comparable statistics on education, science and technology, culture, and communication for more than 200 countries and territories.   UIS provides a Data Centre where you can access data and build your own statistical tables related to UNESCO’s fields of action.
5. FedStats provides access to the full range of official statistical information produced by the Federal Government without having to know in advance which Federal agency produces which particular statistic.  Don’t you love one stop shopping?
6. OECD iLibrary Statistics  The mission of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) is to promote policies that will improve the economic and social well-being of people around the world.  OECD iLibrary is the online library of the OECD featuring its books, papers and statistics and is the gateway to OECD’s analysis and data.

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

 LIBRARY SERVICES FOR ALUMNI
This entry is a continuation of the list of Alumni services and resources which we began in last week’s newsletter.

This week we will focus on access to full text journal articles, e-books, databases, and bibliographic software. We all have read about the high cost of purchasing access to full text journal articles. When students are enrolled at UVa,  the library pays the fees for that access. Once a student graduates and leaves UVa, obtaining access to databases and full text journal articles can be challenging. We hope the information below helps you secure the articles you need as you continue your career and personal development.

In addition to the access Alumni have to the five full text databases provided by the Library and U.Va. Alumni Services, graduates do have other databases they can freely access. However, the familiar Find@UVa icon will no longer appear to provide full text access to the journal articles.  UVa’s  contract with the full text journal providers stipulates that U.Va. can only provide access to only current students and faculty. Alumni may be able to procure full text articles by visiting university, public or school libraries; purchasing copies from online suppliers, or obtaining subscriptions to the journals. Call us at 434.924-7040 if you have any questions about this.

Free Databases
In addition to the five full text databases available to alumni (note, these 5 databases do provide the articles full text), alumni can access the following databases without charge. Access to full text is not offered by the database providers listed below  except as noted. Instead, alumni will need to investigate other options for acquiring full text articles such as visiting a public university library which has a subscription to the journal, purchasing a copy from the journal publisher, or seeing if the article was included in one of  the free full text databases offered by the U.Va. Office of Engagement and the University Library.

1. ERIC
2. PubMed
3. PubMed Central.  All articles are available full text without cost.
4. What Works Clearinghouse database.   The reports are available full text without cost.
5. Directory of Open Access Journals.  All of the journals are full text.
6. Google Scholar
7. Google Books.   While books in the public domain may be available full text, books that are under copyright will not be available.
8. PsycINFO.  If you join the American Psychological Association, you can purchase year-long individual subscriptions to their database and full text articles or you can use their “on demand” service to gain 24 hour access to the database. *
9. Udini. Search the Udini database without charge for academic research, news, and trade news from authoritative publications. Users pay per article, project or month.

Bibliographic Software (Free)
UVa Alumni continue to have free access to RefWorks software at no cost as long as UVa subscribes to RefWorks.   Click here to read how to transition from a student account to an alumni account.

As stated before, the one major difference when using RefWorks will be that the Find@UVa button does not display.  Our contract with the full text journal providers stipulates that the Library can only provide full text access to current UVa students and faculty. Alumni may be able to procure full text articles through other options including:  visiting university, public or school libraries that subscribe to the journal in print or online, purchasing copies from online suppliers and publishers, or seeing if the article was included in one of the free full text databases offered by the UVa Office of Engagement and the University Library.  Do note that if you attached articles to the citations in your RefWorks account during your student days, those will continue to be available full text.

1. EndNote Basic.  On April 23rd,  EndNote’s publisher began offering a free version of EndNote called EndNote Basic.
2. Mendeley
3. Zotero
4. RefWorks. See the 2 paragraphs directly above this listing.

NEW HANDBOOK
Title: Handbook of Psychology: Educational Psychology, 2nd ed., Volume 7 in series
Location: CLIC Handbook Area: BF 121 .H213 2013
Table of Contents

Note: Handbooks in the CLIC may not be checked out, but may be scanned for free or photocopied for 8 cents per page in the CLIC.

   FREE, NEW SOFTWARE
Thomson Reuters, owners of EndNote, announced this week they would offer a free version of EndNote called EndNote Basic. EndNote Basic includes storage for 2 gigabytes of attachments and 50,000 references, as well as the top 20+ most frequently used styles.

EndNote and EndNote basic are tools for searching, organizing and sharing work, creating bibliographies, and writing papers. The EndNote iPad version will soon be updated to reflect the new EndNote Basic functionality. EndNote’s iPad version is available on iTunes for $.99 (discounted from $9.99) through the end of July 2013.

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.

 

BIG DATA SUMMIT2
Data is everywhere and growing every day. The second Big Data Summit will be held at UVa in Rice Hall  on May 14 from 8:30 am- 1:30 pm. This half-day event will bring together the University community to discuss issues, opportunities, and research regarding Big Data. More information and the online registration form is available on the UVACSE website.

FREE HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING BOOTCAMP
TOPIC: The basics of high-throughput and parallel computing
DATES: June 10th – June 14th
TIME: 8:30 am – 5:00 pm
LOCATION: 205 MEC (Mechanical Engineering Building)
DESCRIPTION:  The University of Virginia Alliance for Computational Science and Engineering (UVACSE) is offering a High Performance Computing (HCP) Bootcamp. HPC Bootcamp is a FREE one-week short course for those who wish to learn the basics of high-throughput and parallel computing. Topics covered include MPI for distributed systems and OpenMP for multicore systems.

Registration is required, but the week-long Bootcamp is FREE for all participants. Register here to attend. If you have any questions, please email uvacse@virginia.edu

NATION’S REPORT CARD: ECONOMICS 2012
First administered in 2006, the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) economics assessment measures twelfth-graders’ understanding of a wide range of topics in three main content areas: market economy, national economy, and international economy. This report provides results of the economics assessment in 2012 based on a nationally representative sample of nearly 11,000 twelfth-graders. Results from 2012 are compared with those from 2006 to investigate whether our nation’s high school seniors are becoming increasingly literate in economics. Download the full report.

CELEBRATE STATISTICS
2013 is the International Year of Statistics.  Find out why and how over 1,900 international organizations are celebrating the year by visiting the International Year of Statistics web site.

Many of these organizations have devel­oped primary and secondary school statistics education programs and resources, most of which are free.  Check out the Teacher Resources page on the IYS web site to access the resource links which are organized by topics and country of origin.

NATION’S REPORT CARD:  NEW MATH REPORT
Does taking an honors course guarantee a rigorous curriculum? For parents and students, the news from this new report that high school honors algebra I and geometry may not always reflect the course content was a surprising finding.

The video, Inside America’s Math Courses captures parent and student reactions to findings from the Mathematics Curriculum Study, as detailed in the report Algebra I and Geometry Curricula: Results From the 2005 High School Transcript Mathematics Curriculum Study. See what math curriculum and assessment experts have to say about the findings and what insights they have for parents and students.

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

  ALUMNI LIBRARY SERVICES
The Curry librarians often get asked this time of year if students graduating in May will continue to have access to library resources such as databases, full text journals and ebooks. Here is the short answer.  Students who graduate in May 2013 will continue to have access from on and off-Grounds to these services until mid August 2013. The library contracts with many vendors who provide access to these resources that support the teaching, learning and research needs of the University and contractual stipulations restrict access to this expansive number of resources to currently enrolled students and faculty.  Therefore, the Library has joined with Alumni Services to provide access to the following databases to Alumni. 

However, your Curry Librarians would be remiss not to mention other options you may want to investigate as you continue your professional careers and lifelong learning efforts. This week, we will give an overview of services alumni can  investigate that are offered through various libraries. Next week, we will provide information about access to databases, full text journal articles and ebooks, as well as  RefWorks.

1. U.Va. Libraries.  Alumni can definitely continue to come to the libraries on-Grounds. They can borrow books, bring a laptop or use the public computers to access the databases and the full text journal articles. They can also get assistance and advice from librarians for their research needs.
2. Other University Libraries. Most university libraries allow the public to visit the library without charge. the public can use databases, and access full text journals (flash drives can be very handy for this). Due to legal contracts they do not allow members of the public to access resources such as full text articles or databases from off campus. Check with the web pages of these libraries or contact staff to find out about other policies such as borrowing books and photocopying.
3. Public Libraries. By registering in person with your local public library, the public  will be able to borrow books.  Check their web site or ask in person about the libraries policies, resources, and services. In addition, many public libraries now have databases and ebooks the public can access from home or office once the person registers. For example, alumni who remain in the Charlottesville area can register in person with the Jefferson Madison Regional Library (JMRL). Then, they can download books and access databases JMRL purchases or leases in person or over the internet from home or office. JMRL also provides interlibrary loans for all patrons. There is a $3 processing fee per item.
4. School Libraries. If you work at a pre-k-12 school, check with the media specialist to discover what services and resources they offer for students and staff.

HOW DOES ONE CITE AN ARTICLE WITHOUT PAGE NUMBERS?
How would you cite a reference from a journal article, web page, or other document that did not include page numbers using APA style? While we know that PDFs are the preferred format for citing purposes,   we also realize that it is not always possible to get a PDF copy.

For example, last week, a student called the Curry librarians to find out how to cite a quote from a book that was on an unnumbered page on a book’s dedication page.  We suggested that he use option 2 as shown in the image above in the paper he was writing which would follow this pattern:   (author of the book’s last name, date of publication, Dedication section, para. 1) In another instance, the student was citing a journal article that was only available in HTML format. We suggested to the the student that she could use either option 1 or 2 as shown in the image above. She opted for option 2- using the section and paragraph  as the quote was in paragraph 52 in the Findings section of a journal article and it was easier for the reader to find the Findings section and paragraph 2 instead of counting 52 paragraphs!

 U.Va SALARIES
The University’s newspaper, The Cavalier Daily obtained salary information for University faculty and staff in 2012 using the Freedom of Information Act.  More. . .

Faculty Salaries 2012-2013

Staff Salaries 2012-2013

NEW EBOOK
The American Psychological Association published this new title in 2012 which was written by Jeff Shager, It is now available online! Just click the title below, to read it!
Journey from Child to Scientist: Integrating Cognitive Development and the Education Sciences.

ENGINEERING EDUCATION PRESENTATION
TOPIC: What is Engineering Education?
DATE: Friday, April 19
TIME: 12:00 pm– 2:00 pm
LOCATION: Chemical Engineering Building – CHE Lecture Hall 005
DESCRIPTION: Dr. Lisa McNair and graduate student Rachel Louis Kajifez  of the Virginia Tech Engineering Communication Center will be presenting information and research regarding Engineering Education.

This event is provided by the student chapter of American Society for Engineering Education at U.Va. with support from the University of Virginia School of Engineering, and the University of Virginia Curry School of Education.

STUDENTS RAVE ABOUT THIS OPPORTUNITY!
This week is Garden Week in Charlottesville and Albemarle and the Curry librarians want to encourage you to take advantage of the sunny weather and this unique opportunity to see lovely gardens and homes, as well as enjoy meeting the many people who participate in this event from all over the globe. Events such as free tours of the Pavilion homes and gardens on the Lawn* is a must-do before you graduate! A tour of the estate gardens at Morven which was previously owned by the late John Kluge and is now owned by U.Va. is guaranteed to keep you mesmerized. There is a $20 fee for the tour of the Morven gardens and the tour is only offered once a year. This year it is this Saturday from 10am – 5pm! Be sure to view this information and click on the slide show arrow to get ticket info.

*Pavilion Tours, Tuesday, April 23. Meet on the Rotunda steps (Lawn side) 10am or 1 pm.

• Pavilion II: Meredith Woo and Bruce Cumings
• Pavilion IV: Larry Sabato
• Pavilion VI: Bob Sweeney

CUPS AND CONVERSATION
This week’s Curry Cups and Conversation session focused on diversity.  Christian Steinmetz and  Winx Lawrence assembled a collection of books on diversity from their personal collections.  Many of the attendees who examined the collection and spoke with them ask for a list of the titles. The Curry Librarian’s created the list of these diversity books.   Each of the titles is hyper-linked and will take you to the Library’s online catalog, VIRGO. Thus, you will be able to see if the book is checkout or on the shelf.  In those cases where the book is not part of the Library’s collection, you will be taken to information about the book, including the table of contents if applicable.

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.

 

DATA MANAGEMENT EVENT
TOPIC: The Evolution of Research Data: Strategies for Curation and Data Management
DATE: Thursday, May 16
TIME: 10:00 AM – 3:30 PM
LOCATION: Boar’s Head Inn, 200 Ednam Drive, C’ville, VA
DESCRIPTION: Sponsored by The University of Virginia Library, the Virginia Library Association’s College & Research Libraries and Elsevier, this event  will feature speakers addressing the different stages of the research data life cycle, with representatives from University of Virginia faculty, learned societies, research institutions, and publishers coming together to examine the implementation stages, available technologies and associated challenges and barriers for managing, preserving and accessing research data. Attendees will leave armed with valuable information to engage their respective organizational stakeholders to initiate and continue long-term research and data management efforts.  While this event is geared toward library professionals, other interested individuals are welcome to attend.

The event is free, but you will need to Register.  If you have any questions, please contact Ryan Bailey with Elsevier.

DATA WORKSHOP
TITLE: Gaining an Advantage by Sharing Your Research Data
PRESENTERS: Andrew Sallans and Bill Corey
DATE: April 23th, at 4pm, in Bavaro Hall 306, CLIC Register

image from http://dmp.data.jhu.edu/plan-basics/data-sharing/

This newsletter is produced by the Curry librarians,
Kay Buchanan and Carole Lohman for the Curry School
of Education to support digital scholarship and research.

ELSEVIER BUYS MENDELEY
“Today we are excited to announce that Mendeley is joining Elsevier! You might already have heard some rumors and speculation about this in the past few weeks . . . Now that the union is official,” Victor announced on the Mendeley blog.

How will this new union impact the research community? Elsevier states the impact of the merger is captured by the phrase Find, Read, Share, and Connect. Using Elsevier’s products such as the Science Direct database, researchers can find articles, read them, share them with friends (using Mendeley) and connect with colleagues (using Mendeley) who focus on similar research. Read more from Elsevier. What impact will this merger have? Will users of RefWorks, EndNote, and Zotero switch to Mendeley to get the added value of sharing and connecting to other researchers?   Will new functionality be added to Mendeley? The Curry librarians look forward to following this development and we bet you will be, too.

KINDERGARTENERS PROGRAM & BLOG
This week, Monty Jones, SOE Director of Technology at VCU wrote in his blog, “A few years ago, I did an engineering program with kindergarten students, and it opened my eyes to the challenges of trying to use technology to improve learning at this level. My son is in kindergarten now, and I often try things with him, usually just for fun. He is learning to program in Scratch so he can do cool things with his motor Legos.” Monty also mentions a teacher’s blog that promotes blogging in kindergarten.  Wow!

The student chapter of American Society for Engineering Education at U.Va. invites you to the following presentation.
TOPIC: What is Engineering Education?
DATE: Friday, April 19
TIME: 12:00 pm– 2:00 pm
LOCATION: Chemical Engineering Building – CHE Lecture Hall 005
DESCRIPTION: Dr. Lisa McNair and graduate student Rachel Louis Kajfez of the Virginia Tech Engineering Communication Center will be presenting information and research regarding Engineering Education.

This event is provided by the student chapter of American Society for Engineering Education at U.Va. with support from the University of Virginia School of Engineering, and the University of Virginia Curry School of Education.

CELEBRATE WITH US!
We hope you will come to the CLIC for a sweet treat and to help the librarians celebrate National Library Week, April 14-20, 2013.

While the celebration is limited to one week, the assistance you can obtain from librarians is available year round and around the clock thanks to our consult service and our online resources designed for Curry. 
 

OUTSTANDING SCIENCE TRADE BOOKS 
The National Science Teachers’ Association annually selects outstanding science trade books for K-12 students.  The NSTA recently released their list of outstanding science books published in 2012.

LIBRARY AND ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES COLLABORATION
Environmental Sciences Professor Stephan de Wekker and Library Web programmer, Doug Chestnut, collaborated to gather atmospheric data using a remote-controlled hexacopter.  A grant made to Doug Chestnut, and to Chris Gist and Kelly Johnston, U.Va. Library Geographic Information Systems Specialists, for the construction of a “hexacopter” to experiment with aerial photography & GIS is the impetus for the collaboration.  More…

POETRY ACTIVITIES FOR THE CLASSROOM
In honor of National Poetry Month, here are a couple of easy poetry writing activities that teachers may want to try.

Activity 1 – Newspaper Blackout Poetry Have your students create newspaper blackout poems.  Take a newspaper article and with a black magic marker, black out all of the words you don’t need, leaving only the words from the article that you are using for your poem.   There is a book of newspaper blackout poems written by Austin Kleon.  There is also a web page of examples of blackout poems.   Who says newspapers are dead!

Activity 2 – Book Spine Poetry This activity would be a wonderful collaboration between the school library media specialist, the teacher, and his or her students.  Make a poem or story using the titles of the books as they appear on the spine of the book like the example to the left.  If you are asking an entire class to do this activity, you will probably need to use your school’s library in order to obtain sufficient numbers of books for the students to create their poems.  Check out the poems that were created this year.

K-12 ED:  BYOD TOP CHALLENGE
The term BYOD, which stands for “Bring Your Own Device,” refers to the practice of students bringing their own laptops, tablets, smartphones, or other mobile device into the classroom. BYOD was identified as one of the top challenges this week by the Horizon.K12 Advisory Board, which published their top ten trends and challenges and top 12 emerging technologies that they believe will have a significant impact on teaching, learning, and creative inquiry in global K-12 education over the next five years. These initial results have been compiled into an interim report, known as the “Short List.”

The Horizon Project is part of a longitudinal study led by the New Media Consortium, in collaboration with the Consortium for School Networking (CoSN) and the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE).

KEY INFORMATION ABOUT MOBILE APPS FOR KIDS
For parents, the growing universe of mobile applications targeted at kids can be overwhelming.  As their children’s teacher, you may be asked what apps would be appropriate.  Do you need an easy way to educate your parents and help them make decisions about what kids’ apps to download?

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has an informational graphic that can help.  The information contained in the graphic is drawn from the Commission’s recent report titled “Mobile Apps for Kids: Disclosures Still Not Making the Grade.” The FTC also provides a wide array of online information for consumers about mobile apps.

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.

 

STATS-DC 2013 DATA CONFERENCE
The National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) is sponsoring  the STATS-DC 2013 Data Conference, “Discovering Through Data” (July 17–19, 2013).  You are invited to attend the Summer Data Conference in Washington, DC and to submit a proposal to present a session. For more information, you can view the conference brochure 0r the conference web site.   There is no registration fee to attend the conference, but individuals are responsible for their own transportation, food, and lodging.  Register

Submit a concurrent session or demonstration proposal
Check the “Yes I’d like to make a proposal” box at the end of the registration form.  An additional section will be added to the registration form.  This is where you can provide information about your proposal. The deadline to submit a proposal is Friday, April 26, 2013.

PUBLIC OPINION POLL WEBINAR
The Roper Center was founded in 1947 and is the largest archives of public opinion data in existence anywhere in the world.  On Wednesday, May 8th from 9am – 10am, they are offering a free webinar.

This Webinar is designed to introduce Roper Center services to researchers at member institutions (yes, U.Va. is a member). The focus will be on how to use the iPOLL database and navigate from iPOLL to the other online resources. The content of the Roper Center archives includes thousands of public opinion polls conducted in the US and abroad over the last 75+ years. iPOLL is a database of US questions and responses. Also available are full datasets and modules for online analysis. Free registration.

BY THE NUMBERS
Federal Student Loan Debt Burden of Noncompleters, a Statistics in Brief, focuses on the federal student debt burden accrued by students who do not complete a postsecondary credential within 6 years of enrolling.  The cumulative federal student debt burden among students who did not complete a degree or certificate within 6 years of enrolling amounted to 35 percent of their annual income for students who first enrolled in 2003-04.

DATA MANAGEMENT EVENT
TOPIC: The Evolution of Research Data: Strategies for Curation and Data Management
DATE: Thursday, May 16
TIME: 10:00 AM – 3:30 PM
LOCATION: Boar’s Head Inn, 200 Ednam Drive, Charlottesville. VA
DESCRIPTION: Sponsored by The University of Virginia Library, the Virginia Library Association’s College & Research Libraries and Elsevier, this event  will feature speakers addressing the different stages of the research data life cycle, with representatives from University of Virginia faculty, learned societies, research institutions, and publishers coming together to examine the implementation stages, available technologies and associated challenges and barriers for managing, preserving and accessing research data. Attendees will leave armed with valuable information to engage their respective organizational stakeholders to initiate and continue long-term research and data management efforts.  While this event is geared toward library professionals, other interested individuals are welcome to attend.

The event is free, but you will need to Register.  If you have any questions, please contact Ryan Bailey with Elsevier.

USING DATA TO GUIDE REMEDIATION
An August 2012 recorded training presentation about the SOL Student Performance by Question (SPBQ) Report provides information on how school staff can improve remediation efforts.
Webinar
SOL Scoring website

FREE ONLINE COURSE
The National Forum on Education Statistics has created an online course, The Forum Guide to Data Ethics Online Course, based on some of its best practice publications.

National Forum on Education Statistics (the Forum) strives to provide states, districts, and schools with helpful advice on the collection, maintenance, and use of elementary and secondary education data.

NEW OPEN ACCESS PLATFORM FOR DATASETS
“Open for submissions this autumn, Scientific Data is a new open-access, online-only platform for the publication of descriptions of scientifically valuable datasets. Scientific Data, which is being published by the Nature Publishing Group, will initially focus on experimental datasets from the life, biomedical and environmental science communities with future plans to expand to other fields in the natural sciences.”

“Scientific Data will introduce and publish a new type of content called Data Descriptors: peer-reviewed, scientific publications that provide detailed descriptions of experimental and observational datasets. Data Descriptors will be a combination of traditional scientific publication content and structured information curated in-house, and are designed to maximize reuse and enable searching, linking and data mining. Data Descriptors may be associated with articles from a broad range of journals.”  More…

U.S. CENSUS WEBINAR AVAILABLE
If you were unable to attend the April 3, 2013 U.S. Census webinar, “Census Data Tools: America’s Profile at Your Fingertips,” you can now access the slides and an audio recording online.  The recorded webinar runs one hour. This session provides an introduction to some of the statistical access tools provided by the U.S. Census Bureau. Brief descriptions of each tool are discussed, as well as highlights of features and key functionalities.

RESEARCH DATA LIFE CYCLE
The Research Data Symposium, held at Columbia University on February 27, 2013, featured panels addressing the different stages of the research data life cycle. Speakers examined the implementation stages, available technologies, and associated challenges and barriers for managing, preserving, and accessing research data.  The keynote addresses and the various sessions may be accessed and viewed from Columbia University’s Research Data Symposium website.

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.

SOON TO BE A PART OF HISTORY
The McCormick Road Bridge will be replaced this summer by the Virginia Department of Transportation (VDOT). The project to replace the bridge is scheduled to start on May 20th, and is expected to be complete by July 20th.

During this time the bridge will be closed to all pedestrian and vehicular traffic. Appropriate road signage will be in place by VDOT prior to construction to notify vehicle traffic of the bridge closure and detour routes.  Click here to view the alternate accessible route for pedestrians during the closure.

WHEN WILL THE BUS COME?
A new UTS bus locator system is now live. You can access the locator from the UTS Bus Locator website or by acquiring the TransLoc: Transit Visualization app.  See this link for additional information and instructions.

The image to the left shows the Green bus Route with two buses on the route. Check out the live map using the UTS Bus Locator link or the app’s map to see the buses moving along the route. How cool is that!

 WE STILL NEED LIBRARIANS!
While a card catalog may be a prehistoric search engine, not all old library aids have gone the way of the dinosaur. This year, librarians starting using a new type of library aid called LibGuides. We often refer to them as Library Research Guides.  We pulled together onto one guide various resources including:  the best journals, databases, statistics, and data sets for you to access and use as you engage in course work or research. Check out the various U.Va. Library Research Guides that best match your area of study and research.

In addition, while we continue to offer you expert research advice. we deliver that advice in a lot of new ways. Instead of just offering you in person assistance, you can call us at 434.924.7040, send the Curry librarians an email, schedule an appointment with us, or CHAT with a U.Va. Librarian. Use whatever way works best for you!

REGISTERING YOUR COPYRIGHT
We wanted to clarify for our readers that your work (dissertation, book chapter, journal manuscript, web page, video, podcast, etc.) is under copyright protection the moment it is created and fixed in a tangible form that it is perceptible either directly or with the aid of a machine or device. In addition, you can also register the copyright for your work which can be a significant benefit for the protection of your work. By registering the copyright, you can protect your work (intellectual property) and become immediately eligible for statutory damages and attorney fees. Registering your copyright allows for the claimant (in this case, you) to receive statutory damages set out in Title 17, Section 504 of the U.S. Code, which range from $750 – $150,000 plus attorney fees per copyright infraction. This contrasts with those who do not register for copyright – authors without copyright registration can claim only actual damages and no attorney fees.  Currently, you can register your copyright for $35. In some cases, publishers will offer to register your work for you. In this case, they usually will charge a higher fee than if you registered the work.

A NEW TEST FOR PASSIVE VOICE
If you can insert “by zombies” after the verb and the sentence still makes (marginal) sense, the sentence is passive. If you can’t, it’s active!

DON’T SPEND YOUR $$$
If you are researching on the web and you find a journal article you want to read, use the U.Va. Library’s Journal Finder tool to determine if the U.Va. library has the article. If the library does not subscribe, you can submit an Interlibrary Loan request (faculty can also use LEO) and library staff will get a PDF copy of the article and email it to you. There is no charge for this service. Sweet!

DUE DATES FOR GRADS’ BOOKS
On Wednesday, April 3, the library reset the due date for graduate students to May 10, 2014.   Note, that is 2014!  Any books checked out or renewed on or after April 3rd should reflect the new date.  Graduate students (masters and doctoral), please go online and renew the books you currently have checked out!

AUTHOR RIGHTS AT ISSUE
The editor and the entire editorial board of the Journal of Library Administration have resigned in response to a conflict with the journal’s publisher over an author agreement that they say is “too restrictive and out of step with the expectations of authors,” noted Jake New in an article in the Chronicle.  “The licensing terms set by the publisher, Taylor & Francis Group, were scaring away potential authors, the editor who resigned”, Damon Jaggars, told the Chronicle.

Tracy Roberts, the editorial director of journals at Taylor & Francis, defended the journal’s policies. “The current publishing environment around licensing and author rights is continually evolving. We consider ourselves to be a forward-looking publisher on author rights,” Ms. Roberts said. “Our License grants significant reuse rights to authors (pre-prints, non-embargoed post-prints, sharing, classroom use, presentation at conferences, republication in existing or new form), whilst we ask only for a sole license over the published version of record.”

SPECIAL ISSUE ON PUBLISHING
A special issue of Nature is online (all articles are available to non-subscribers) that looks at the future of publishing.  This issue should be an interest to everyone involved with scholarly communication.  Of particular interest to faculty and doctoral students is Stephen Pincock’s essay, “Publishing: Open to Possibilities,” which discusses the considerations that should be reviewed regarding costs, journal prestige and career implications if you opt for open access. Pincock remarked, “Early-career scientists face a pressing question: how should they publish to advance their careers at a time when the scholarly world is being shaken up? New options in publishing have highlighted sticky debates related to the impacts of costs on individual researchers and the ethics of business models that can keep cash-poor scientists from accessing data. But many researchers contend that impact factors and other metrics of journal prestige remain crucial — for now.”

FREE APP PROMOTES EARLY LITERACY
The Calgary Public Library in Canada developed Grow a Reader, a free app for Apple mobile devices.

The Grow a Reader app teaches parents and caregivers how to develop early literacy skills in young children. Grow a Reader is built on the Calgary Public Library’s interactive rhymes, finger plays and songs from its popular early literacy programs.  The app features 27 videos demonstrating interactive finger rhymes, face & body rhymes, lullabies, tickles and bounces, tips for developing a child’s early literacy skills based on five key practices, and suggested books for promoting early literacy.  The book titles are linked to the CPL’s online catalog.  U.S. users of the app will need to check with their local library system to see the availability of the titles.

FREE LESSON PLANS
Teachers, have your students create a digital brochure to a cultural heritage site, explore virtual 3D modeling, or build a scale model of a Mayan pyramid to study the effects of erosion on archeological monuments by using these and other the free lesson plans provided by CyArk.   CyArk is a 501c3 non-profit organization with the mission of digitally preserving cultural heritage sites.  As part of its mission, CyArk provides interdisciplinary K-12 lesson plans  to educators with a free CyArk Professional Account. These plans feature hands-on and computer based activities aligned to California State Standards. Teacher background, activity preparation information, Power Point slideshows, and student sheets are included.

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.

NEED TO USE SPSS?
The CLIC has copies of SPSS installed locally in the APPS folder on the 4 MACS in the CLIC.

You can also access SPSS and other specialized software programs through the HIVE  (software is listed in the right column) from virtually anywhere, via the Internet. For each software title included on the U.Va. Hive, there are a limited number of licenses available for use at any given time.

You also have the option to rent SPSS or many other software packages for use your exclusive use.

AND THE ANSWER IS…

Question:  A grad student is in search of sources for U.S. university, college, and community college profiles.  She’d like listings of majors/minors, grad/undergrad programs, tuition costs, and maybe a little more data of that kind.  Her goal is to map this information for institutions located in about a 100-mile radius around Chicago, so she’d need the street addresses for the main campus of each institution.  She’d like not to have to manually copy all this information. Ideally there would be a way of downloading some/much/all of this data into a format that she could easily use for her analysis.

Answer:  College Navigator from the National Center for Education Statistics has almost all of this information available with an easy to use search interface.  It lets you search by increments of miles from a particular ZIP code or specify states, select the type of institution, majors offered, tuition, conduct side by side comparisons of schools, and more.  Once you run your search, you can then export the data to spreadsheets using an .xls or a .csv format.  However, the more items you include into your search results, especially lists of majors for each school, the more unwieldy your download becomes.    It may take a while to survey all the data that’s available through this web site.

The National Association for College Admissions Counseling has put up a brief  YouTube tutorial that gives an overview of the College Navigator search interface. NCES also offers custom data from the Data and Tools menu.

GIS WORKSHOP
TOPIC: Advanced Techniques with Quantum GIS
DATE: Thursday, April 4
TIME: 3:00 – 4:00pm
LOCATION: Alderman Library, Room 421 (Electronic Classroom)
DESCRIPTION: One of QGIS’s strengths is its ability to pull in various streaming open standard data services. This session will have participants pull some data in from a remote location and do some spatial analysis.

The GIS Workshops are Scholars’ Lab events and are free, open to all, and require no advance registration. Please check the event calendar for the most recent updates to the Scholar’s Lab schedule.

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.

HOW TO WRITE A DISSERTATION TITLE
According to the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (aka the APA manual), “A title should summarize the main idea of the manuscript simply and, if possible, with style. It should be a concise statement of the main topic and should identify the variable or theoretical issues under investigation and the relationship between them.”  The recommended length for a title is no more than 12 words.  Does your title follow the APA guidelines? See page 23 of the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association for additional information. There is a copy of the 6th edition of the  Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association in the CLIC. Call number: BF76.7.P83. Barnes and Noble allows you to rent copies or purchase paperback or hardback editions online!

HOW TO WRITE A DISSERTATION ABSTRACT
As most readers will scan an abstract to determine whether they will read more of a dissertation, it is very important to craft a well-prepared abstract.  APA points out that journal abstracts have word limits that vary and typically range from 150-250 words.

The Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association provides the component parts of an abstract for various types of publications including: 1) an empirical study 2)  literature review or meta-analysis, 3), theory-0riented, 4) methodological and 5) case study.  For example, empirical studies should 1)  describe the problem under investigation in one sentence; 2) identify the participants and specify pertinent characteristics such as age, sex, and ethnic groups; 3) describe the essential study methods; 4) report the basic findings, including effect sizes and confidence intervals and/or statistical significance levels; and 5) the conclusions and  the implications or applications. See pages 25-27 of the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association for additional information. There is a copy of the 6th edition of the  Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association in the CLIC. Call number: BF76.7.P83. . Barnes and Noble allows you to rent copies or purchase paperback or hardback editions online!

PRONOUNCE IT!
Need to know what a medical term means?  Do you need to know how to pronounce it?  Just use the Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary found on the MedlinePlus website.  While not all of the medical terms in the dictionary have audio pronunciation guides, most do, so you not only can find the meaning of a term, but you can hear how it is pronounced.  This website is a service of the U.S. National Library of Medicine  of the National Institutes of Health.

PUBLISHING A BOOK? COOL ENHANCEMENTS
One of the new digital enhancements found in the print book, Discovering Statistics Using IBM SPSS Statistics, 4th ed., is Sage’s MobileStudy.  This feature, using QR codes within the printed book, enables smartphone and tablet users to instantly scan and access additional study and revision material such as SPSS movies.

In addition, faculty members can also choose to use the title alongside WebAssign® which enables them to quickly and easily set regular online assignments for their students (using the close to 2000 questions available), test them securely chapter by chapter, and provide them with extra opportunities to reinforce class learning through additional online practice – all backed up with immediate online feedback about their performance.

VIRTUALLY VISIT SMITHSONIAN COLLECTIONS
Teachers are always looking for authoritative, free materials that they can use to enhance their teaching and their students’ learning.  In addition to the Smithsonian Education website that has a variety of resources for educators, the Smithsonian Institution provides free online access to its major collections via the Smithsonian Collections Search Center.  This online catalog contains   records that include images, videos, audio files, podcasts, blog posts and electronic journals.  You may not be able to take your class to Washington, D.C., but that doesn’t mean your students can’t rummage through the “nation’s attic” for information or materials of use in their classwork or just for fun.  Please note:  Most of the images do require permission to use.

NEW  EBOOK
TITLE: Cop watch: Spectators, social media, and police reform

The APA (American Psychological Association) database, PsycBOOKs, provides quality full text books on a variety educational and psychological topics.  Currently, there are almost 3,500 full text APA books in the PsycBooks database. You can search for the ebooks by author, title, keyword, etc in the database.

You can also locate these full text books by using VIRGO.  This special VIRGO link only retrieves books in the APA PsycBOOKs database and should make research easier and faster for you. Note, in the left hand column, you can limit the results and hone in on books pertinent to your interest by year, author, call number, etc.  We especially like the call number method as it limits by subject!

AND THE ANSWER IS…
Here is another question recently fielded by the CLIC Librarians.
Question:  I am trying to upload a Word document with a .docx extension to the Resources section of my Collab site, but the upload keeps failing.  I am using a Mac computer.  How can I up load my document?

Answer:  As soon as we heard that the item to be uploaded was a Word document, a possible solution immediately came to mind.  We asked the individual if the Word document was open when the upload was attempted.  In this case the answer was yes.  As soon as the person closed the Word document, it could be uploaded.

Here is your troubleshooting tip for the week.  If you need to upload a Word document, no matter what the extension might be, .doc or .docx, or what computer operating system is being used or  where you need to do the upload,  be sure to close the Word document first, then do the upload.

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.

 

NEW GUIDE ON OPEN DATA
The Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resource Coalition (SPARC) released a new community resource for research funders entitled, “Implementing an Open Data Policy”.  This primer addresses key issues that these organizations encounter when considering the adoption and implementation of an open data policy.  The guide covers big-picture topics such as how to decide on the range of activities an open data policy should cover. It also delves into areas of very specific concern, such as options for where data can be deposited, and how privacy and other concerns can be managed.

GIS WORKSHOP
TOPIC: Introduction to Quantum GIS
DATE: Thursday, March 28
TIME: 3:00pm – 4:00pm
LOCATION: Alderman Library, Room 421 (Electronic Classroom)
DESCRIPTION: Quantum GIS (QGIS) is an open source, multi-platform GIS. While not nearly as powerful as ArcGIS, the 80/20 rule applies. Probably 80% of the things most users want to do with GIS can be done with QGIS. The session will introduce the interface and participants will make some nice maps. Learn more about QGIS at http://qgis.org.

GIS WORKSHOP
TOPIC: Advanced Techniques with Quantum GIS (same as below)
DATE: Wednesday, April 3
TIME: 4:00pm – 5:00pm
LOCATION: Campbell Hall, Room 105
DESCRIPTION: One of QGIS’s strengths is its ability to pull in various streaming open standard data services. This session will have participants pull some data in from a remote location and do some spatial analysis.


GIS WORKSHOP
TOPIC: Advanced Techniques with Quantum GIS (same as above)
DATE: Thursday, April 4
TIME: 3:00 – 4:00pm
LOCATION: Alderman Library, Room 421 (Electronic Classroom)
DESCRIPTION: One of QGIS’s strengths is its ability to pull in various streaming open standard data services. This session will have participants pull some data in from a remote location and do some spatial analysis.

The GIS Workshops are Scholars’ Lab events and are free, open to all, and require no advance registration. Please check the event calendar for the most recent updates to the Scholar’s Lab schedule.

INTERNATIONAL DATA EXPLORER UPDATED  
The National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) has added 2011 TIMSS and PIRLS data to the International Data Explorer.

The International Data Explorer provides results for the United States and other jurisdictions (including both countries and education systems). Results include mathematics and science achievement of fourth- and eighth-grade students for TIMSS and reading achievement of fourth-grade students for PIRLS. Also included are responses to a student questionnaire about their background, attitudes, and school experiences; responses to a teacher questionnaire about instructional practices, resources, and background and training; and responses to a school questionnaire about school characteristics and resources.

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.

WORKSHOP FOR DOCTORAL STUDENTS
TOPIC: Copyright, Intellectual Property, and Data Rights and Responsibilities
DATE: Thursday, March 28
TIME: Noon – 1:30pm
LOCATION: The CLIC, room 306 Bavaro Hall
DESCRIPTION: Madelyn Wessel, Associate General Counsel, will lead a discussion focused on what students need to know about copyright, intellectual property, and research data rights with regard to dissertations, journal articles, and other scholarship efforts. This talk will prove relevant to doctoral students whether you are graduating this year or in the future, as being knowledgeable about these issues is essential for academic success. In addition, Anne Houston, Director of Humanities and Social Sciences, and Jennifer Roper, Head, Metadata Management Services, for the University Library will discuss the new module that provides the opportunity for students to deposit their dissertations into the U.Va. institutional repository, Libra, providing full text access globally to all readers without cost using the open access distribution mode
REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED and lunch is provided.  We look forward to seeing you and answering your questions about this important topic!

BOOK SELLING IN A GLOBAL WORLD
What if you bought a book overseas that cost less abroad than in the United States,   sold it in the U.S. and turned a profit. Would that be legal?  In a much-anticipated ruling in the case of Kirtsaeng v. John Wiley & Sons, the court ruled, 6 to 3, that the so-called first-sale doctrine protects the buyers of copyrighted works even if those works were legally manufactured outside the United States. Jennifer Howard writes in the Chronicle of Higher Education, “Library groups celebrated the decision as “a total victory” for library users and others who share or resell copyrighted products. But publishers said the ruling would have “significant ramifications” for creators of copyrighted works and would discourage global trade.” Read the rest of the article.

SEMESTER@SEA
Have you ever wondered what it is like to sail on Semester at Sea?  How do classes work? What are cabins like? Where do you  eat? Is there a place to study? How does the community form on the ship?  Watch this informative video to get a glimpse into what life is really like life onboard the MV Explorer, the most unique college campus in the world. Filmed in beautiful time-lapse over the Fall 2012 voyage, follow the journey of students, faculty, staff, lifelong learners and the crew as they embark on a journey around the world.

And just so you know,  Semester at Sea is sponsored by the University of Virginia! Whether you are faculty, or staff or students, check out the opportunities for employment  with Semester at Sea. For more info, you can follow the official SAS Voyage blog  or the terrific blog Ellen Ramsey is posting.  Ellen is Knowledge Integration Manager & Liaison to the School of Nursing here at U.Va. All voyages are staffed by U.Va. librarians, all of whom have enjoyed and appreciated the opportunity to participate in meaningful engagement in the global community.

BEWARE OF EASY COPYRIGHT TRANSFERS
Todd A Carpenter’s essay, Copyright Transfer As a Click-through – It’s So Easy to Sign Away Your Rights, found in the Scholarly Kitchen blog, provides a cautionary tale for every scholarly author.  Before you sign that electronic contract with the publisher of your next article, be sure to read the fine print to determine what rights you are transferring to the publisher.  If you can’t determine what rights are being transferred, you may want to hold off submitting your article electronically until you can discuss the terms with the publisher.

For additional information and resources on author rights, visit the Scholarly Publishing & Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC) Resources for Authors page.

PUBLIC COMMENT REQUESTED
The What Works Clearinghouse (WWC) has entered its second decade of serving as a source of evidence-based information about what works in education. A revised and expanded WWC Procedures and Standards Handbook has been released in draft form for public comment through April 2013.

Download the Draft WWC Procedures and Standards Handbook Version 3.0 and let the WWC know what you think. Readers who want to provide feedback on the Handbook can contact the WWC Help Desk.

IMPROVE YOUR PUBMED RESEARCH SKILLS
Are you a user of the PubMed database?  Would you like to be a more effective user of this and other resources provided by the National Library of Medicine?  If so check out the resources at the National Library of Medicine Training Center.  In addition to offering live training webinars, which fill up fast, the Training Center also provides recorded tutorials often taken from the live webinars.  Brush up your PubMed and Medline search skills by using the resources found at the NLM Training Center.

GOOGLE READER BEING RETIRED
For those of you who use Google Reader for your RSS feeds, this may be disturbing news.  Google will discontinue, “retire”, the Google reader service as of July 1, 2013.  This means that you will need to find a new service to handle reading and sharing your RSS feeds.  For additional information about the change, view the Google blog post.

Where can you find a replacement?  The Google blog provided a link to a PopSugar article on Google Reader Alternatives.   C|net also had an article providing alternative readers.  Other RSS readers suggested as a Google Reader replacement included:

• ighome – For those that have an igoogle page, you can export feeds and import them into ighome.
• Newsblur – a news feed reader that free on the web, iPad, iPhone, and Android, but you can subscribe for a fee to a premium service that provides more features
• Symbaloo -  a visual way to link to online news sources and sites by saving a link along with an image, to a tile on the Symbaloo interface

VIRGINIA FESTIVAL OF THE BOOK
The annual Virginia Festival of the Book began Wednesday and will continue through Sunday March 24th.  Many of the events are being held in University area venues.  Also, there are several events featuring members of the Curry community.

TOPIC: Shake, Rattle, and Roll: Popular Music in America
DATE: Friday March 22, 2013
TIME: 6:00 pm
LOCATION: Barnes & Noble, Barracks Road
DESCRIPTION:  Curry professor, Derrick P. Aldridge (Message in the Music: Hip Hop, History, & Pedagogy), will join Ian Svenonius (Supernatural Strategies for Making a Rock ‘n’ Roll Group), Joe Oestrich (Hitless Wonder: A Life in Minor League Rock and Roll),  and Natalie Hopkinson (Go-Go Live: The Musical Life and Death of a Chocolate City) for a panel discussion on American popular music.  Jon Lohman will be the moderator.
Hosted by VFH Virginia Folklife Program.

TOPIC: Creating a Great Writing Group
DATE: Saturday March 23rd, 2013
TIME: 10:00 am
LOCATION: Omni Hotel, Preston Room
DESCRIPTION: Claire Cameron, a research scientist at CASTL, along with the three other members of BACCA Literary, a Charlottesville writer’s group, will have a panel discussion on how to build a supportive community that focuses on writers helping other writers become better at their craft.  The other members of BACCA Literary are A. M. Carley, Carolyn O’Neal, and Bethany Joy Carlson, who will serve as moderator.
Hosted by WriterHouse  and BACCA Literary

TOPIC: Books, Writing, and Other New Strategies to Make Our Schools Safer
DATE: Sunday March 24, 2013
TIME: 3:00 pm
LOCATION: Bavaro Hall
DESCRIPTION:  Meg Medina (Yaqui Delgado Wants to Kick Your Ass), Joseph Jones (Bullying in Schools), and Curry professors, Dewey Cornell and Jane Hansen, discuss empowering students to preserve their personal power in the face of bullying.  Bob Garrity is the moderator.
Hosted by Youth-Nex – Curry School of Education, University of Virginia and the Central Virginia Writing Project.

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.

INTERNATIONAL DATA TABLE LIBRARY UPDATED
The National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) has added 17 tables to the International Data Table Library.   The International Data Table Library now includes over 225 statistical tables with data that compare facets of education in the United States with those of other countries.  The new tables are in the participation in education and education outcomes areas.

RIGHTS IN DATA HANDBOOK
Created by DLA Piper, a global business law firm, this handbook sets out an overview of intellectual property (IP) and related rights affecting data and databases in 12 key global jurisdictions with links to relevant sources of the different types of protection which are available.  For each jurisdiction the guide considers three categories of database which may benefit from protection: original databases, databases in which investment has been made, and confidential databases.   DLA Piper has provided this as a general reference document and it should not be relied upon as legal advice.

AERIAL GIS WORKSHOP
TOPIC: Do It Yourself Aerial Photography
DATE: Thursday, March 21
TIME: 3:00pm – 4:00pm
LOCATION: Alderman Library, Room 421 (Electronic Classroom)
DESCRIPTION: Come get an update from the GIS guys and find out how to do your own aerial photography. They have three aerial platforms: balloon, kite and hexcopter that can be used.

GIS WORKSHOP
TOPIC: Introduction to Quantum GIS (same as below)
DATE: Wednesday, March 27
TIME: 4:00pm – 5:00pm
LOCATION: Campbell Hall, Room 105
DESCRIPTION: Quantum GIS (QGIS) is an open source, multi-platform GIS. While not nearly as powerful as ArcGIS, the 80/20 rule applies. Probably 80% of the things most users want to do with GIS can be done with QGIS. The session will introduce the interface and participants will make some nice maps. Learn more about QGIS at http://qgis.org.

GIS WORKSHOP
TOPIC: Introduction to Quantum GIS  (same as above)
DATE: Thursday, March 28
TIME: 3:00pm – 4:00pm
LOCATION: Alderman Library, Room 421 (Electronic Classroom)
DESCRIPTION: Quantum GIS (QGIS) is an open source, multi-platform GIS. While not nearly as powerful as ArcGIS, the 80/20 rule applies. Probably 80% of the things most users want to do with GIS can be done with QGIS. The session will introduce the interface and participants will make some nice maps. Learn more about QGIS at http://qgis.org.

The GIS Workshops are Scholars’ Lab events and are free, open to all, and require no advance registration. Please check the event calendar for the most recent updates to the Scholar’s Lab schedule.

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.