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Economics and Electronic Access to Scholarly Information
(MIT Press, 1997-05-19)
Dramatic increases in the capabilities of computers and communication networks, accompanied by equally dramatic decreases in cost, have fomented revolutionary thoughts in the scholarly publishing community. This paper ...
The Anatomage Table: An Innovative Approach to Anatomy Education
(2017-06-07)
The Anatomage Table, a virtual dissection table that is a visualization system of the human body, is being adopted by many leading medical schools and institutions as an innovative approach to teaching anatomy.
The Value of Social Search: Seeking Collective Personal Experience in Social Q&A.
(2013)
In this paper, we examine the value of social question-answering (Q&A) services as a platform for social search. We present a quasi-field study where we instructed 20 study participants to use a social Q&A service, Yahoo! ...
A Look at Altmetrics and Its Growing Significance to Research Libraries
(2013-09-05)
Many people involved in the scholarly communications process – from academics, students, and researchers, to publishers, librarians, and learners – are participating in a dynamic digital context now more than ever; moreover, ...
Taubman Health Sciences Library Location and Directions
(2015-09-13)
This is a map showing the location of the newly renovated Taubman Health Sciences Library of the University of Michigan.
Information Seeking Behavior of Engineers
(2017-02-01)
Engineers are largely specialists trained in areas such as mechanical, chemical, and electrical engineering, yet they work in a broad range of environments, such as research and development, design, testing, manufacturing, ...
Can a UX Department Really Make a Difference?
(2017-04-03)
When a library is truly invested in UX, with total awareness of and buy-in on user-centered thinking, its staff more readily embrace UX principles and have more empathy. However, creating a user-centric culture can be ...
The Value of Authority Control in a Next Generation OPAC
(2015-02-23)
This white paper, based upon the final report of the University of Michigan Library Authority Control Working Group, submitted March 30, 2011, demonstrates that, within an environment of a single, Google-like search box, ...
Submerged in Silence surrounding Sexual Violence: a three-minute video testimonial
(2018-04-05)
I am creating a three-minute video addressing the impact on survivors of public silence surrounding sexual violence. This video, a personal testimonial conveyed through ocean metaphors, will underscore the pain of recovery ...