ATTENTION: The software behind KU ScholarWorks is being upgraded to a new version. Starting July 15th, users will not be able to log in to the system, add items, nor make any changes until the new version is in place at the end of July. Searching for articles and opening files will continue to work while the system is being updated.
If you have any questions, please contact Marianne Reed at mreed@ku.edu .
Libraries Scholarly Works: Recent submissions
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Open Access and Responsible Research: Preparing Future Faculty at the University of Kansas
(2007-05-16)The University of Kansas (KU) is planning for open access to ETDs in its institutional repository, KU ScholarWorks. The KU Libraries are working to educate graduate students about copyright, fair use, and open access to ... -
A Tale of Two Graduate Orientations
(2007-06-18)This poster highlights approaches to graduate-level library orientations at the University of Kansas Libraries. Attendees will gain a perspective on the unique and successful library and research orientations offered to ... -
Doing the MINI:(Meaningful, Immediate, and Needed Instruction): Thinking Outside the One-Shot Instruction Session
(2007-06-18)Academic librarians have been struggling for years to get away from the one-shot instruction session. When an opportunity to work with a classroom instructor presents itself, librarians should be prepared to discuss ... -
R U There? Looking for those Teaching Moments in Chat Transcripts
(2007-06-18)The University of Kansas Libraries implemented its chat reference service in 2003 to provide research assistance to students, staff and faculty. To further extend our hours of service, we established partnerships with ... -
A multifaceted approach to promote a university repository: The University of Kansas' experience
(Emerald Group Publishing Limited, 2007)The purpose of this paper is to describe the history of KU ScholarWorks, the University of Kansas’ institutional repository, and the various strategies used to promote and populate it. This paper describes how KU ... -
Is there reduction in disease and predispersal seed predation at the border of a host plant’s range? - field and herbarium studies of Carex blanda
(Blackwell Publishing, 2007)1. Small, isolated populations at species’ borders have been postulated to be less likely to have specialist pathogens and predators. Field and herbarium surveys were thus used to determine if two pathogens (a smut and ... -
Digital Preservation in Action: Toward a Campus-Wide Program
(EDUCAUSE Center for Applied Research, 2005-09-13)This bulletin explores a proposed model for establishing a digital preservation program in colleges and universities - requirements for educating the institutional community, developing roles and policies, and establishing ... -
Digital Preservation: A Campus-Wide Perspective
(EDUCAUSE Center for Applied Research, 2005-08-30)Preservation of digital content is an emerging aspect of the academy's stewardship responsibility. It requires more than simply extending traditional preservation practices to digital information or assuming that media ... -
New Frontier in Research Methodology Instruction for Latin Americanists
(2005-10)Recent surveys have shown that with new advances in technology students find library research more and more complicated. The result has been poorly researched term papers, theses and dissertations frustrating both students ... -
Visualizing the Value of IT: People, Technology, Services, and Processes
(2007-03-02)Technology is embedded in almost every activity of higher education organizations, but the value it brings to those activities is not always readily apparent. A model under development at the University of Kansas seeks to ... -
Jumpstarting a Project Through Internal Collaboration: Improving Access to Library Collections
(2007-02-21)We share our experience with a successful internal collaboration between disparate departments at the University of Kansas. By assembling a team whose members effectively worked together, the Digital Initiatives program ... -
Making It Big: Expanding the Reach of Information Services (Poster Session)
(2007-02-27)This poster session addresses collaboration between the three divisions of Information Services at the University of Kansas to transform a loosely structured 20 minute panel presentation into a clearly defined 45 minute ... -
Mapping your data: Integrating data into a GIS
(Environmental Systems Research Institute, 2006-12-12)In this intermediate-level GIS investigation, students will learn about tools and techniques for integrating data having spatial attributes into a geographic information system (GIS). ArcGIS allows users to visualize data ... -
Finding GIS data: Land cover and land use in Kansas
(Environmental Systems Research Institute, 2006-12-08)In this GIS investigation, students will learn about ‘real-world GIS’ by working through the process of identifying, accessing, manipulating and using spatial data, at the state and local / county scale. This lesson ... -
Open Access and Institutional Repositories: Making Scholarship Global
(2007-01-12)The Open Access (OA) movement is gaining momentum and new initiatives are emerging around the world. The OA publishing model--making scholarly research available through OA journals and subject-based and institutional ... -
Building a Library GIS Service from the Ground Up
(The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006)Geographic Information Systems (GIS) services in academic libraries tend to differ, based on availability of GIS data, software, hardware, and staff expertise. GIS services at the University of Kansas are closely aligned ... -
Jupiter: a Tool for Cataloging Web Resources
(2006-11)Library patrons conduct research using the Web, but they do not always select sites suitable for scholarly research. Since some open access Web resources complement licensed library electronic resources, library subject ... -
Darkroom
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Biographical Dictionary of Kansas Artists (active before 1945)
(2006-08-11)Dictionary of Kansas artists who were born in or artistically active in the state before 1945. The first edition of this work was compiled in 2006 and includes about 1700 artists' entries. The revised and expanded edition ... -
Assessing chemical information literacy skills using the ACRL standards as a guide
(2006-07-06)At the University of Kansas two librarians co-teach Bibliography of Chemistry, a one-hour credited class offered through the Chemistry Department for 1st graduate students. The content and teaching methodologies have changed ...