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Academic Ableism and Open Access(ibility)
(2019-01-29)In this presentation, we will address the ableist attitudes, policies, and practices that are built into higher education. We will also interrogate the minimal and temporary means we have been given to address inequities ... -
Academic Blogging: Promoting your Research on the Web
(2009-03-25)In a world of information overload, lightning fast news cycles, proliferating journals, declining traditional media outlets and short attention spans, how do we make sure our research has all the impact we want? How do we ... -
Academic Success Challenges Faced by International Graduate Students: Final Report
(2013-07-10)This is the report and recommendations resulting from a research project exploring the academic success challenges faced by non-English speaking international graduate students as they pursue their graduate studies at York. ... -
Accessible Copying and Copyright: Section 32 and the Copyright Act Review
(2019-01-29)Copyright concerns often present an obstacle when providing content in accessible formats. Even with a specific Copyright Act exception intended to enable the provision of accessible material to those who need it, there ... -
Active Digital Preservation and Data/Metadata Migration
(2017-04-04)Digital preservation activities increasingly focus on the movement of data and metadata between systems. This panel will present case studies in moving content through preservation activities with APTrust, the Digital ... -
Addressing Open Access in Your Grant Application
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Addressing Student Needs By Offering Customized RSS Feeds: TRY 2007
(2007-05)Using RSS feeds from STM databases to keep on top of current research. These new tools can saves time valuable research time. -
Advancing and Promoting your Research on the Web
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Affective Labor, Resistance, and the Academic Librarian
(Johns Hopkins University Press, 2016)The affective turn in the humanities and social sciences seeks to theorize the social through examining spheres of experience, particularly bodily experience and the emotions, not typically explored in dominant theoretical ... -
After Launching Search and Discovery, Who Is Mission Control?
(2010-10-15)Reference librarians are whiny and demanding. Systems librarians are arrogant and rude. Users are clueless and uninformed. A new discovery layer means that they need to collaborate to build it and then — the next ... -
Already Enough Ghosts:The Invisibility of Emotional Labour in Archives
(2016-06-12)Presented as part of a roundtable intended to provide a glimpse into the emotional and affective labour required to do archival work. Though many traditional archival theorists have suggested that professional archivists ... -
Altered anterior visual system development following early monocular enucleation
(Elsevier Inc., 01/11/2013)Purpose Retinoblastoma is a rare eye cancer that generally occurs before 5 years of age and often results in enucleation (surgical removal) of the cancerous eye. In the present study, we sought to determine the consequences ... -
Amino acid-induced impairment of insulin sensitivity in healthy and obese rats is reversible
(Physiological Reports, 2014-07-04)High-protein diets (HPDs) promote weight loss but other studies implicate these diets and their constituent amino acids (AAs) in insulin resistance. We hypothesized that AA-induced insulin resistance is a temporal and ... -
An Annotated Chronology of the History of AIDS in Toronto
(Canadian Bulletin of Medical History / Bulletin canadien d'histoire de la médecine, 2005)The purpose of this annotated chronology is to help provide a framework for research into the history of the first five years of the AIDS epidemic in Canada but especially as it unfolded in Toronto, Canada. The ... -
Anti-British in Every Sense of the Word? Methodist Preachers, School Libraries, and the Problem of American Books in Upper Canada, 1820-1860
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Antiviral Strategies for Emerging Influenza Viruses in Remote Communities
(PLoS ONE, 2013-04-22)Background: Due to the lack of timely access to resources for critical care, strategic use of antiviral drugs is crucial for mitigating the impact of novel influenza viruses with pandemic potential in remote and isolated ... -
Archival echoes: too weak to survive or too far to travel?
(2016-04-04)The extensive archives of Lady Victoria Welby (1837-1912), the English self-educated philosopher and prolific letter-writer, have been held by York University in Toronto, Canada for over forty-five years. Yet, in that time, ... -
The Archives Unleashed Notebook: Madlibs for Jumpstarting Scholarly Exploration
(2019)This paper introduces the Archives Unleashed Notebook, which is designed to work with derivative datasets from the Archives Unleashed Cloud, a platform for analyzing web archives. These datasets contain common starting ... -
Assessing the Accessible Content Provider Landscape
(2019-01-29)This presentation will share the results of a survey distributed across North America to the accessible content provider community in higher education. The intent of the study was to capture the current state of the ... -
Astronomy Education and Outreach in a Large Urban University
(Astronomical Society of the Pacific, 2010-02-17)Citizen science and public participation in astronomy has received an impetus in the Internet age. Education and community outreach can play an important role in providing the stimulus for this participation. The International ...