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ScholarWorks@UMBC, a part of MD-SOAR (The Maryland Shared Open Access Repository), collects, preserves, and provides public access to the scholarly output of the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC). Community members can upload research products for rapid dissemination, global visibility and impact, and long-term preservation.
You can use ScholarWork@UMBC to share and preserve a wide range of research products, such as articles, papers, books, and technical reports. To get started, review our short guide to submitting.
All UMBC academic and administrative departments are eligible to have their own unique page set up in the repository for their materials. Departments that don't yet have their own page can contact call 410-455-3021 or e-mail scholarworks-group@umbc.edu to get a page set up.
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Implementing MD-SOAR, a Shared Consortial Repository
(Against the Grain, 2017) -
Fred Wilson: Objects and Installations, 1979-2000
(Center for Art and Visual Culture, 2001)Fred Wilson: Objects and Installations, 1979-2000 explores the artist’s sustained aesthetic inquiry into the relationship between art and the museum. Wilson’s “mock” museum installations, into which he places provocative ... -
Adrian Piper: A Retrospective
(Fine Arts Gallery, University of Maryland Baltimore County, 1999)One of the most influential artists of her generation, Adrien Piper has produced an exceptionally impressive body of work spanning a period of over thirty years. She played a formative role in the emergence of Conceptual ... -
“Concrete Poetry in America: A Story of Intermedia Performance, Publishing, & Pop Appeal”
(Coldfront poetry and poetics magazine, 2015-10-26)A study of concrete poetry in america in the 1970s in relation to technology -
Repurposing descriptive data: PastPerfect, EAD3, & PHP
(2016-04-16)Presentation for Spring 2016 Mid-Atlantic Regional Archives Conference (MARAC) session, "EAD in Practice." Describes process of implementing a workflow at the Albin O. Kuhn Library at UMBC that includes archival description ... -
Implementing an EAD-XML compliant workflow at UMBC
(2016-02-12)In 2015, librarians at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC) began work to implement an archival description workflow compliant with Encoded Archival Description (EAD). Existing collection descriptions in ... -
MD-SOAR, Maryland's Shared Open Access Repository--It's been a Long, Long Haul
(Against the Grain, 2016-02) -
Combining Forces: Using multiple out of the box programs when programmers are out of the question!
(2010-08-12)We will outline the interaction between two third-party software applications for streamlined collection management and user access to Special Collections materials. Combining the accession, donor and patron management, ... -
Anthracite and the Irish : extricating the Irish immigrant mining community from the Molly Maguire myth, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, 1850-1879
(1996)The Molly Maguires were a reputed secret society of Irish immigrant mine workers who allegedly terrorized the anthracite coal fields of Pennsylvania from the Civil War until twenty men convicted as Molly Maguires were ... -
Gender in cross-cultural perspective : insights from Cameroonian women living in the U.S.
(2002)This research attempts to understand the perspectives of two Cameroonian women living in the U.S. The research focuses on the roles, expectations, and stereotypes of Cameroonian and American women and men. After interviewing, ... -
Digital Storytelling in ESL Instruction: Identity Negotiation through a Pedagogy of Multiliteracies
(2011-01-01)This qualitative descriptive exploratory study investigated how a pedagogy of multiliteracies can be introduced to the ESL curriculum using digital stories and explored the ways ESL learners negotiate their identities ... -
Mechanical Properties of Human Tooth Enamel: Patient Age and Spatial Distribution
(2008-08-27)In this study the influence of aging on the mechanical behavior of human enamel was evaluated using 3rd molars from young (18-30 years) and old (55) patients. The elastic modulus and hardness were quantified using ... -
The Persistent Presence of a Successful Failure; The Maryland State Colonization Society and the Importance of its Existence
(2009-01-01)In 1832, the Maryland State Colonization Society officially seceded from the American Colonization Society. With this declaration of independence, the Maryland State Colonization Society embarked on a thirty year journey ... -
The influence of Lysenkoism on China’s genetics : the importance of the 1956 Qingdao symposium
(1993)In 1956, prompted by Mao Zedong himself, the Qingdao symposium was convened to bring together scientists with training in "Morgan-Mendel" genetics and scientists following the Michurin school. The effects of government ... -
Shot Through the Heart
(Originally published by: Urbanite Magazine, 2010-06-01) -
Too Cool for School
(Originally published by: Urbanite Magazine, 2009-04-01)
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