The Perceptions of Liaison Librarians, at a New Zealand Academic Institution, on the Role of Researchers in the Electronic Journal Environment

<p>The objective of this project was to examine how liaison librarians perceive the role of the academic researcher in the electronic journal environment. An interview process was undertaken with twelve liaison librarians from the Arts, Business and General Science disciplines, at a New Zealand tertiary institution, to elicit their views in this regard. Interviewees were questioned on the researcher/liaison librarian relationship in terms of their interaction involving direct and indirect forms of communication, on the topic of electronic journal publications. The direct forms of communication examined in this study, included e-mail, phone interviews and face-to-face interactions. The material placed on the Library subject resource web pages, concerning electronic journal publications, encapsulated the indirect method of communication between liaison librarian and researcher. This study was conceptualized with Anthony Giddens' "Structuration Theory" as a contextual basis. Continuous access and search methodologies were discovered to be the predominant themes between liaison librarians and researchers engaged in direct communication, on the topic of electronic publication. Access to available information found in electronic journals proved to be the most critical factor for researchers engaged in information retrieval and dissemination. Search enquiries amongst researchers were generally found to be more about ratification of their methodologies rather than a didactic engagement on how to carry out a particular search. Though these themes were found to be universal across the disciplines, variances between the faculties examined and between academic departments within their respective faculties were discovered. Input from researchers, concerning information on issues surrounding electronic journal publication, which is published on library subject resource pages has been found to be negligible. Although some academic departments do have certain researchers who do engage in the publication of these pages, they are situated in a distinct minority. Information on bibliometric measurement, copyright, and licensing are placed on these pages predominantly on the initiative of the liaison librarians examined. Issues surrounding scholarly communication, bibliometric measurement, open access platforms and institutional repositories have been found to be a part of the liaison librarian/researcher interaction, in this study. Whilst researchers do engage in these topics on a collegial level, they are also engaging with liaison librarians to better educate themselves in these matters. The principal influence on researchers, asking about these topics, is Performance Based Research Funding (PBRF), and most lines of questioning involve this facet of academic research. It can be said that liaison librarians believe that researchers play an active role in their relationship with the electronic publication environment. The role of the liaison librarian can be seen increasingly as that of facilitator rather than educator and this role is readily accepted by researchers. This study involved only a small research population, at one New Zealand tertiary institution and as such the findings cannot be regarded as universal to all researchers. In addition to this, the findings are based on the perceptions of liaison librarians and not researchers and although these perceptions offer a useful and unique view, it cannot be described as definitive. However this study can be utilized as a starting point for further research that examines both the views of researchers and the study of other academic institutions.</p>

The Perceptions of Liaison Librarians, at a New Zealand Academic Institution, on the Role of Researchers in the Electronic Journal Environment

<p>The objective of this project was to examine how liaison librarians perceive the role of the academic researcher in the electronic journal environment. An interview process was undertaken with twelve liaison librarians from the Arts, Business and General Science disciplines, at a New Zealand tertiary institution, to elicit their views in this regard. Interviewees were questioned on the researcher/liaison librarian relationship in terms of their interaction involving direct and indirect forms of communication, on the topic of electronic journal publications. The direct forms of communication examined in this study, included e-mail, phone interviews and face-to-face interactions. The material placed on the Library subject resource web pages, concerning electronic journal publications, encapsulated the indirect method of communication between liaison librarian and researcher. This study was conceptualized with Anthony Giddens' "Structuration Theory" as a contextual basis. Continuous access and search methodologies were discovered to be the predominant themes between liaison librarians and researchers engaged in direct communication, on the topic of electronic publication. Access to available information found in electronic journals proved to be the most critical factor for researchers engaged in information retrieval and dissemination. Search enquiries amongst researchers were generally found to be more about ratification of their methodologies rather than a didactic engagement on how to carry out a particular search. Though these themes were found to be universal across the disciplines, variances between the faculties examined and between academic departments within their respective faculties were discovered. Input from researchers, concerning information on issues surrounding electronic journal publication, which is published on library subject resource pages has been found to be negligible. Although some academic departments do have certain researchers who do engage in the publication of these pages, they are situated in a distinct minority. Information on bibliometric measurement, copyright, and licensing are placed on these pages predominantly on the initiative of the liaison librarians examined. Issues surrounding scholarly communication, bibliometric measurement, open access platforms and institutional repositories have been found to be a part of the liaison librarian/researcher interaction, in this study. Whilst researchers do engage in these topics on a collegial level, they are also engaging with liaison librarians to better educate themselves in these matters. The principal influence on researchers, asking about these topics, is Performance Based Research Funding (PBRF), and most lines of questioning involve this facet of academic research. It can be said that liaison librarians believe that researchers play an active role in their relationship with the electronic publication environment. The role of the liaison librarian can be seen increasingly as that of facilitator rather than educator and this role is readily accepted by researchers. This study involved only a small research population, at one New Zealand tertiary institution and as such the findings cannot be regarded as universal to all researchers. In addition to this, the findings are based on the perceptions of liaison librarians and not researchers and although these perceptions offer a useful and unique view, it cannot be described as definitive. However this study can be utilized as a starting point for further research that examines both the views of researchers and the study of other academic institutions.</p>

Scriptural Markup in the Bible Translation Community

At XML conferences, most discussion of scriptural markup revolves around formats like OSIS and other TEI formats that are not widely used in the Bible translation community. The Bible translation community cares deeply about its translation data, and has developed a backslash-delimited markup language called USFM that is well-suited for marking up Scripture for Bible translation and publishing. It has also developed an XML-based equivalent called USX that is suitable for electronic publication. Neither of these languages is closely related to TEI or its conventions. Although USFM is well-suited for representing Scripture, it is not well-suited for representing lexicons, USFM handbooks, commentaries, translation handbooks, critical apparatus, and many other kinds of resources that translators use as they work. This has been a bottleneck for making some kinds of resources available to translators. Twenty years ago, a team that included well-known XML professionals designed OSIS to meet the needs of this community, but despite the technical merits of OSIS, the translation community continued to use USFM and USX instead. This paper explores the reasons that caused this community to choose USFM and USX, ways to leverage XML to provide reference materials to working translators, and reference systems needed to relate resources to each other. In the course of this paper, we will explore a wide variety of formats designed by different communities with different tastes for different purposes, including USFM, USX, XML, JSON, YAML, and CSV/TSV. All of these are text-based formats that support Unicode and allow data to be clearly labeled. Of course, life would be simpler if all data were created in the same format, but as long as common reference systems can make relationships among data clear, this variety of formats is not particularly problematic. The structure and relationships in the data are more important than the physical format. This paper discusses these issues in the context of Paratext, software actively used by over 10,000 working Bible translators in more than 2,900 languages. It explains the value of USFM, but also the problems caused by its lack of extensibility and the ways that Paratext is using XML to overcome that problem. This paper also gives some real-world examples of mediating among different formats to create resources that work well together, respecting the right of data creators to use formats that work for them. These same issues also occur outside of Paratext in systems that query or process the same kinds of data in other environments that do not use USFM. The same reference systems used to enable XML inside Paratext can also be used to integrate XML formats outside of Paratext and to create new resources that can be used in a wide variety of systems.

The role of a multimedia textbook in the priority national project “education”

In the article, the authors consider the role of a multimedia textbook in modern education. The priority national project "Education" is being implemented in Russia - the creation and implementation of modern electronic textbooks is one of the priority concepts in this project. Electronic publications enhance interactive features such as modeling, surveys, discussions, and additional multimedia materials. Advantages of electronic textbooks: mobility, large capacity of information; the ability to constantly update content, without purchasing a new textbook and financial expenses; level of visibility: you can only put text, illustrations, diagrams and graphs in a printed publication, but you can also put animation in an electronic publication, which is convenient for visual display of academic subjects. The electronic textbook provides more opportunities for learning within the existing programs, as well as for the development and optimization of the educational process.

Green Open Access in Astronomy and Mathematics: The Complementarity of Routines Among Authors and Readers

Open access (OA) to publications has become a major topic in science policy. However, electronic publication providing free access to research via the internet is more than a decade older, was invented in the 1990s and driven by parts of the scientific community. This paper focuses on two disciplines (astronomy and mathematics) in which green OA is well established. It asks how authors and readers use the central disciplinary repository and how they are thereby included in the communication system of their disciplines. Drawing on an interview study with 20 scientists from both disciplines, we analyze the main characteristics of an inclusion, possible problems that result from it and how they are being solved. The empirical results show that there is a complementarity between the routines of authors and readers that co-stabilize each other. This finding suggests that the emergence of complementary routines could be a necessary condition for the green OA model to succeed.

CARA PEMBUATAN E-BOOK (Electronic Book) DENGAN MEMANFAATKAN FITUR SIGIL Ver 0.9.4 FORMAT EPUB

Perkembangan zaman di era serba teknologi sekarang banyak perubahan termasuk juga perubahan dalam membaca buku. Orang membaca dalam bentuk buku fisik dan juga ada yang membaca buku dalam bentuk digital e-book (Electronic Book) di komputer, laptop maupun di smartphone. Epub (electronic publication) merupakan salah satu format digital book yang merupakan format standardisasi bentuk, diperkenalkan oleh International Digital Publishing Forum(IDPF) pada Bulan Oktober Tahun 2011. Epub menggantikan peran Open eBook sebagai format buku terbuka. Epub terdiri atas file multimedia, html5, css, xhtml, xml yang dijadikan satu file dengan ekstensi .epub. Epub merupakan salah satu format buku digital yang paling populer saat ini, sebagai format yang tidak mengacu kepada salah satu pengembang tertentu, Epub mempunyai beberapa kelebihan fitur dibandingkan format buku digital yang lain , Epub memiliki karakteristik yang dinamis dapat menyesuaikan diri dengan ukuran layar perangkat laptop, komputer maupun smartphone dan memiliki fitur kelebihan lainnya. Sigil adalah editor open-source untuk EPUB yang dikembangkan oleh Strahinja Markovic pada tahun 2009 dan dikelola oleh John Schember sejak tahun 2011. Sebagai aplikasi cross-platform, itu didistribusikan untuk Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X dan platform Linux di bawah lisensi GNU GPL. Sigil mendukung WYSIWYG dan mengedit kode berbasis file EPUB, serta impor HTML dan file teks biasa. SIGIL merupakan aplikasi editor untuk membuat buku digital berformat Epub yang bersifat Open Source Peneliti menggunakan studi literatur sebagai referensi penelitian yaitu dengan mengumpulkan dokumen dari beberapa sumber pustaka yang diperlukan dalam penelitian. Hal ini dilakukan untuk memperoleh informasi dan data yang diperlukan untuk penelitian ini menggunakan aplikasi editor sigil untuk pembuatan buku digital berformat epub. Dari penelitian tersebut peneliti menggali ilmu agar ilmu tersebut dapat direalisasikan ke STMIK Citra Mandiri Padangsidimpuan. Oleh karna itu penulis akan meneliti “CARA PEMBUATAN E-BOOK (Electronic Book) DENGAN MEMANFAATKAN FITUR SIGIL” yang dimana nanti-nya penelitian ini akan di buat Jurnal semoga dapat bermanfaat bagi penulis sendiri maupun untuk pembaca . Semoga dari penelitian ini dapat menghasilkan ilmu yang bermanfaat untuk peneliti maupun STMIK Citra Mandiri Padangsidimpuan dan juga masyarakat yang membaca. Kata-kata kunci: buku digital, sigil, epub, e-book

Editorial

A Revista do Instituto GeoGebra Internacional de São Paulo (IGISP), ISSN 2237-9657, de regularidade semestral, é uma publicação eletrônica do Instituto GeoGebra de São Paulo com sede na Faculdade de Ciências Exatas e Tecnologia, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Educação Matemática da Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo (PUC-SP), Brasil.De acesso livre, tem por objetivo oferecer um espaço para divulgação e circulação de pesquisas e trabalhos desenvolvidos com o uso do software GeoGebra principalmente na América Latina.Esse terceiro número do volume 9 da revista de 2020 apresenta seis artigos e um relato de experiência que procuram abarcar as diferentes possibilidades e caminhos com que o GeoGebra pode ser investigado.The Journal of the International GeoGebra Institute of São Paulo (IGISP), ISSN 2237-9657, is a biannual electronic publication of GeoGebra Institute of São Paulo based in the Faculty of Exact Sciences and Technology at the Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo (PUC-SP), Brazil.Free of charge, it aims to offer a space for the dissemination and circulation of researches and works developed with the use of the software GeoGebra, mainly in Latin America.The third issue of the volume 9, 2020, presents six articles and one report of experience seeking to encompass the different possibilities and paths with the GeoGebra can be investigated.

Editorial

A Revista do Instituto GeoGebra Internacional de São Paulo (IGISP), ISSN 2237-9657, de regularidade semestral, é uma publicação eletrônica do Instituto GeoGebra de São Paulo com sede na Faculdade de Ciências Exatas e Tecnologia, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Educação Matemática da Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo (PUC-SP), Brasil.De acesso livre, tem por objetivo oferecer um espaço para divulgação e circulação de pesquisas e trabalhos desenvolvidos com o uso do software GeoGebra principalmente na América Latina.Esse terceiro número do volume 9 da revista de 2020 apresenta seis artigos e um relato de experiência que procuram abarcar as diferentes possibilidades e caminhos com que o GeoGebra pode ser investigado.The Journal of the International GeoGebra Institute of São Paulo (IGISP), ISSN 2237-9657, is a biannual electronic publication of GeoGebra Institute of São Paulo based in the Faculty of Exact Sciences and Technology at the Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo (PUC-SP), Brazil.Free of charge, it aims to offer a space for the dissemination and circulation of researches and works developed with the use of the software GeoGebra, mainly in Latin America.The third issue of the volume 9, 2020, presents six articles and one report of experience seeking to encompass the different possibilities and paths with the GeoGebra can be investigated.