UWM Libraries Staff Publications

 

Recent Submissions

  • Going Beyond the Data Management Plan: Services and Partnerships 

    Goben, Abigail; Zilinski, Lisa; Briney, Kristin (2016-01-01)
    Data management plans (DMPs) have provided an excellent gateway for librarians seeking ways to collaborate with researchers. However, the DMPs frequently capture only initial plans for data at the end of a grant application, ...

  • Institutional, Funder, and Journal Data Policies 

    Briney, Kristin; Goben, Abigail; Zilinski, Lisa (2017-01-01)
    Data curation exists within a larger framework of laws and policies covering topics like copyright and data retention. These obligations must be considered in order to properly care for data as it is being created and ...

  • Are Limits More Important than Results? Collecting Usability Data for a Facets-on-the-Right Library Discovery Layer Design 

    Hubbard, John (2017-02-02)
    Rapid A/B-like usability testing was employed in an effort to determine the optimal efficacy of and end user satisfaction with post-search delimiters (facets) being placed on the right vs. left side of the results screen ...

  • Do You Have an Institutional Data Policy? A Review of the Current Landscape of Library Data Services and Institutional Data Policies 

    Briney, Kristin; Goben, Abigail; Zilinski, Lisa (2015-01-01)
    INTRODUCTION Many research institutions have developed research data services in their libraries, often in anticipation of or in response to funder policy. However, policies at the institution level are either not well ...

  • Search@UW (Primo-Alma) Usability Testing Materials 

    Hubbard, John (2015-04-01)
    These are the scripts used for usability testing a library discovery layer (Primo-Alma) at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. In usability testing, participants are recruited to perform a set of common research tasks. ...

  • The Price Is Wrong! 

    Hubbard, John (2013-01-01)
    This presentation, which compares the cost of journal subscriptions to items such as Corvettes and diamond rings, ran on a loop in the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee library in the days leading up to an Open Access Day event.

  • “Riding the Rails” to Efficiency: A Production Line for 25,000 Glass Negatives 

    Lowrey, Jim (2014-01-01)
    When planning the digitization a large collection of glass-plate negatives, the UWM Libraries developed a low-friction 'rail' system to improve efficiency and negative safety for using an overhead 35mm camera for digitization. ...

  • The Zen of Web Discovery 

    Hubbard, John (2013-10-01)
    Many libraries have revitalized their role by offering an updated resource discovery layer. This article gives an informal overview of design principles and best practices for implementing a web-scale discovery system. ...

  • The Tenth Anniversary of the UWM Open Access Publication Fund 

    Korolev, Svetlana (2022-01-27)
    The UWM Open Access Publication Fund has supported 127 articles for the total amount of $109,100 since 2012. For the past three years, the fund assisted 32 corresponding authors affiliated with 18 different departments, ...

  • UWM Publications as Preprints 

    Korolev, Svetlana (2021-10-27)
    The purpose of this study was to explore the UWM publications as preprints and to identify the servers being used by UWM researchers, and the indexing sources for their discovery. My analysis of the numbers of preprints ...

  • UWM publications in MDPI journals 

    Korolev, Svetlana (2020-11-24)
    In August 2020, the UWM Libraries signed an agreement with MDPI’s Institutional Open Access Program. This report outlines our findings in support of our decision to join the program. The growing number of UWM publications ...

  • 2020 Update of the University Open Access Publication Fund 

    Korolev, Svetlana (2020-05-08)
    The University Open Access Publication Fund (UOAP) has been managed by the UWM Libraries since 2012. Its highest level of support, for eighteen articles in the total amount of $20,163, was provided in fiscal year 2019. ...

  • Finding Open Access Publications by UWM Authors 

    Korolev, Svetlana (2018-10-22)
    This study looks at the open access publications affiliated with the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, in Web of Science Core Collection. Such analysis became possible based on a partnership of Clarivate Analytics and ...

  • Evaluating the Impact of the University Open Access Publication Fund 

    Korolev, Svetlana (2018-03-13)
    This study describes the University Open Access Publication Fund from 2012 to 2018 at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee. The fund supports the “gold” open access model by covering partial costs for authors who publish ...

  • It Works All the Time ... Except for When It Doesn’t: Analyzing Error Reports from a Library Link Resolver 

    Hubbard, John (2017-12-07)
    Data from 22 months of a library discovery layer's "Report a Problem" link traffic shows that submissions (n=884) were attributable to user errors (43%); defective vendor systems (40%); and problems with local settings ...

  • Cinderella’s Lessons on Footbinding: How Tiny Feet Found their Way into the Chinese Cinderella Story 

    Smith, Tyler Scott (2013-05-01)
    Shoes, slippers, feet and sandals play one of the most pivotal roles in the prominent Cinderella stories through the tale’s history. Tracing versions of the tale geographically as it spread throughout Central Asia and then ...