Webinar - "Researcher Identity Management" on Wednesday, August 28th

Webinar - "Researcher Identity Management" on Wednesday, August 28th at 11:30am:This session will cover some of the tools available to help manage your online research identity, such as researcher profiles and IDs available through ORCID, Google Scholar Citations, Scopus Author ID, and UNCG's NC DOCKS repository.

These tools can help you:

• Track citations and other usage metrics related to your publications
• Make sure your scholarship is attributed to you (and not someone of a similar name) in academic search systems
• Make your research visible to other scholars, potential readers, collaborators, funders, and others

Sign up here to attend live or receive a link to the recording. You can also find more information on the UNCG Libraries webinars webpage.

Instructors - Planning to assign streaming videos this fall? Please read this!

You may have noticed that the number of videos accessible through UNCG Libraries' Kanopy subscription has changed since the end of the spring term. Some films that were previously available for immediate use now require extra time to arrange access.

If you are planning to assign videos from Kanopy this fall, please click into the videos to make sure that you can watch them.

If a film from Kanopy that you've previous used is still available, great!  Please contact arowens2@uncg.edu to ask how long the license will last. 

Licenses for films in the Kanopy database only last one year. There is no way for you to determine when the film license expires. Public services librarians don't have this information, either, but your liaison librarian can help you get this information.

Many films have already been licensed for use by UNCG University Libraries. You and your students can view those films immediately, even though the banner about limited access may still appear at the top of the screen.

Other films on Kanopy now require you to fill out a request form like the one below. If you plan to assign or teach with a film that has a request form, please fill out this form as soon as possible.  A license for one film for a year is $135. 

Please include the course number in the Comments field on the form. 

·         We'll do our best to let you know if a film is available through our other streaming services which you can view at http://uncg.libguides.com/streamingfilms.

·         The licensing process can take 3 days. 

Many large libraries, including NYPL and Stanford, found that Kanopy's pricing model made it impossible for them to continue the service as projected so our experience is definitely not unique. 

Other streaming video services, including Alexander Street, Films On Demand, Swank Digital Campus, and more have thousands of films available for immediate viewing.

If you would like to request a film that is not available from any of these collections, please contact Anne Owens arowens2@uncg.edu. 

Please be aware that arranging licenses can sometimes take many weeks. We'll do our best to have everything in place for your students, but the earlier you can let us know, the better! 

Instructors - Contribute to a streaming video focus group Tues 9/3/2019 or Weds 9/4/2019

Have you ever wanted  to let the University Libraries know what, as an instructor, you really want and need to incorporate streaming video into your courses?  Here is your chance! We are asking instructors who use the library streaming video services to participate in a focus group to give us your feedback. While participation is completely voluntary, responses will greatly help us help you.  Everyone participating in these focus group will receive a $10 Barnes & Noble gift card. 

The data shared from these focus groups will be in aggregate and anonymous form.  Individual responses with identities will only be viewed by the investigators and focus group facilitator on this research and all potential identifiers will not be associated with results.  Data will be stored securely in Box. Benefits include the improvement of UNCG university services and resources available to instructors and students using streaming video through the UNCG Libraries, as well as improved outreach and marketing of streaming video resources.  

Please fill out this form http://go.uncg.edu/fgfaculty  to sign up to join a focus group. You will receive a follow up email to let you know if you were selected (first come, in terms of space on the focus group) and confirm the date and time. Dates for the focus groups are:

Tuesday September 3rd from 12-1:15 (lunch provided

Wednesday September 4th from 2-3:15 (snacks provided)

Making memes - fair use, visual literacy, and more

Uplifting Memes, a grant funded program, will feature workshops, guest speakers, and a contest. 

Workshops will include

• Thursday, September 19 - Let's get ethical: Copyright, Fair use, and Attribution for memes
• Wednesday, October 23 - Finding meme-spiration with public domain & creative commons media
• Tuesday, November 19 - Making memes: Graphic design, visual rhetoric, digital communication

Check the website for more details - https://sites.google.com/uncg.edu/upliftingmemes/home

PubMed Labs, test site for new features in our favorite NLM database, now has links to UNCG full text!

PubMed Labs is an experimental website for testing new features for PubMed. (see the help page for more info)

Now you get can get from PubMed Lab results to UNCG full text and Interlibrary Loan!

To do this,

1. Enter PubMed Labs from this link: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/labs/pubmed?otool=uncglib


2. When you see a result that you like, click the title to see more information




3. The UNCG logo in the upper right will search UNCG Library subscriptions for article matches.

 


4. The next page will list online full text options for the article

 

If no matching articles are found, the bottom of the page will have an Interlibrary Loan button