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This collection contains full text research publications authored or co-authored by University of Manitoba Libraries researchers.
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Literature Search Documentation: The Right to Risk - An Exploration of the Concept of Risk and Risk Tolerance in Nursing Homes
(2022-03-28)The complete search histories for the literature searches conducted for the Scoping Review "The Right to Risk - An Exploration of the Concept of Risk and Risk Tolerance in Nursing Homes". (Scoping review Principle Investigator: ... -
An Introductory Indigenous Cultural Competency Training Program in the Academic Environment
(American Library Association, 2022-02)A description of an Indigenous cultural competency training program developed and delivered at the University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada. -
Developing Librarian Data Services Skills: An Assessment of Current Levels of Competency and a Plan for the Future
(Medical Library Association Annual Conference, 2021-05)Introduction: Research data services are increasingly offered by academic libraries. Librarians may need to upskill to provide sufficient services or to build capacity within their institution. This study measures the ... -
Book Review: Foundations of Information Ethics
(Canadian Journal of Academic Librarianship, 2020)This review analyzes John T. F. Burgess and Emily J. M. Knox's Foundations of Information Ethics (2019). Foundations of Information Ethics is an excellent guidebook throughout its 156 pages. Burgess and Knox have gathered ... -
Review of Approaches to Liaison Librarianship: Innovations in Organization and Engagement
(Journal of New Librarianship, 2021)Review of Canuel, R., & Crichton, C. (Eds). (2021). Approaches to liaison librarianship: Innovations in organization and engagement. Association of College and Research Libraries. -
Internal motions and sulfur hydrogen bonding in methyl 3-mercaptoproprionate
(The Journal of Physical Chemistry A, 2019-10-21)The effect of sulfur hydrogen bonding on the conformational equilibrium of methyl 3 mercaptopropionate was investigated using microwave spectroscopy in a supersonic jet expansion. The two most stable conformers (I and II) ... -
A Simple and Lightweight Algorithm for Social Robot Speech Turn Taking
(2020)Simple, but effective, social robot voice-based interaction designs are possible with only rudimentary speech analysis. Robust full analysis, including syllable, word, and meaning extraction, is still an open research ... -
A Pilot Study Examining the Perceptions of Academic Librarians as Researchers According to Academic Librarians
(Alberta Library Conference, 2014)This pilot study explored the perception of academic librarians as researchers and academics according to academic librarians themselves. Previous research acknowledges the tendency of relations between librarians and ... -
Health Professionals’ Awareness of Predatory Journals
(Canadian Health Libraries Association (CHLA), 2018-06-16)Introduction: Predatory journals have become a serious problem in recent years; they threaten to compromise the integrity of medical literature by introducing poor quality material into the academic record. Librarians and ... -
Less money, less children, and less prestige: Differences between women and men academic librarians
(CAPAL Conference, 2021-05)Academic librarianship is a heavily feminized profession, with women making up between 72-74% of the workforce based on statistics from Canada and the US. As a result, gendered issues such as salary discrepancies and a ... -
Small Projects Add Up: Doing Research as a Sessional Librarian
(Association of College & Research Libraries (ACRL), 2020)This chapter discusses the scaling of a research project to fit within a sessional librarian position, and to align with the assigned duties thereof. As well, this chapter discusses the process of developing a small-scale ... -
Bleak House: The death of in-class undergraduate instruction in academic libraries
(2019-05-22)The nature of the university is changing, with increased commodification of teaching and research. This paper dissects the milieu responsible for shifting library priorities, evaluating core tenants like university vision ... -
Building Trust After the Labour Action: A Way Forward for a Nascent Bibliometric Service
(2020-06-26)Purpose: To provide an instructive case study on the role of academic librarians’ evolving role in the responsible and ethical stewardship of metrics for libraries wishing to provide support services for bibliometric and ... -
Bibliometric Analysis and Funding Success to Evaluate an Organization’s Research Grant Decisions
(2016-06-01)Title: Bibliometric Analysis and Funding Success to Evaluate an Organization’s Research Grant Decisions Objectives The Manitoba Medical Services Foundation (MMSF), a non-profit medical foundation that has provided ... -
Library Newsletters: Are They Worth it?
(2018-06-01)Introduction: Academic and hospital health libraries serve a diverse set of users some who may be distributed across a wide geographic range and never physically set foot in the library. it is essential that libraries find ... -
Impact Report: Evaluation of Mitacs Internships
(Research Manitoba, 2020-03-10)The objective of this report was to investigate what the impacts of research projects implemented with Mitacs funding from Manitoba, have been for the students or post-doctoral fellows, university professors, and partner ... -
Collective Agreements and the Freedom for Librarians to Research
(2018-04-23)The ability to conduct and disseminate research on any topic, even a politically sensitive one, is a component of academic freedom. The collective agreements, which govern the rights and responsibilities of librarians, of ... -
Who Thinks What About Research? Academic Librarian Research According to Librarians, Faculty, and Collective Agreements
(2018-05-31)Research is an important component of academic librarianship. Often required for promotion and tenure, research is integral to the practice of evidence-based librarianship. This session will review a study of the perceptions ... -
When Research is Relational: Supporting the Research Practices of Indigenous Studies Scholar
(Ithaka S+R, 2019-04-11)In 2017 Ithaka S+R launched a project to explore the changing research methods and practices of Indigenous Studies scholars across Canada and the US with the goal of identifying services to better support them in ways that ...
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