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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, here.
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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Organizing an Accessibility-Themed Mini-Hackathon
(Ideals, 2021-03-17)This paper describes the structure of a mini-hackathon which was organized to better understand ways in which navigational technologies can be used to support individuals with disabilities when exploring indoor environments. ... -
Why Older Adults (Don't) Use Password Managers
(Usenix, 2021)Password managers (PMs) are considered highly effective tools for increasing security, and a recent study by Pearman et al. (SOUPS '19) highlighted the motivations and barriers to adopting PMs. We expand these findings by ... -
HIV Status and Labor Market Participation in South Africa
(The MIT Press, 2013-03-01)We use econometric methods based on the propensity score to estimate the causal effect of HIV status on employment outcomes in South Africa. Relying on rich data from a national survey, which included HIV testing, we control ... -
An econometric method for estimating population parameters from non-random samples: An application to clinical case finding
(Wiley Online Library, 2017-08-29)The problem of sample selection complicates the process of drawing inference about populations. Selective sampling arises in many real world situations when agents such as doctors and customs officials search for targets ... -
Does Access to Family Planning Increase Children’s Opportunities? Evidence from the War on Poverty and the Early Years of Title X
(The Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System, 2019-10-02)This paper examines the relationship between parents’ access to family planning and the economic resources of their children. Using the county-level introduction of U.S. family planning programs between 1964 and 1973, we ... -
ETDs in Lock-Down: Trends, Analyses and Faculty Perspectives on ETD Embargoes
(2009-06-10)Since September 2006, graduate students at the University of Maryland have had the option of restricting access to their ETD in the university’s digital repository (DRUM) for either a one- or six-year period. Embargo ... -
Looking for Genres on the World Wide Web: Content Analysis of American Author Web Sites
(2009-07-11)This project entails content analysis of 200 websites for authors commonly taught in university-level American literature survey courses. Using a faceted classification scheme to categorize site content, the researchers ... -
Speaking of Books... Connecting with Faculty through a Campus Author Series
(2009-07-12)Academic librarians are continually seeking new and effective ways to work more closely with teaching faculty. Despite our best efforts, there often remains a gap between the two. Since 2006, librarians at the University ... -
E-Book Use and Opinions at UMD
(2015-06-04)Initial report on e-book survey conducted at University of Maryland, fall 2014 -
Microassessments of Public Services Usability: Improving Holds at UMD
(2016-06-25)Results of a survey to assess and improve the effectiveness of patron-placed holds at the University of Maryland Libraries. -
Making Change, Increasing Value: Reorganizing Your Access Services Department
(2016-11-18)In 2015 the department of Resource Sharing & Access Services at the University of Maryland Libraries undertook a major reorganization with the goals of increasing efficiency, staff engagement, and user satisfaction. Seeking ... -
Breaking Down Barriers: Co-Managing and Transforming Public Services
(2018-01-09)Since mid-2012, the division of Public Services at the University of Maryland Libraries has been involved in an ongoing experiment in the way the Libraries’ primary services are led and managed. The speakers, representing ... -
Speaking of Books… Connecting with Faculty through a Campus Author Series
(Southern Librarianship, 2009-03)A faculty author speaker series is an effective way to build bridges between academic librarians and the teaching faculty, as well as raise the profile of the university library. To explore the challenges and rewards of ... -
What’s the opposite of a pyrrhic victory?1: Lessons learned from an open access defeat
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E-Book Use and Attitudes in the Humanities, Social Sciences, and Education
(Project Muse, 2014-04)A survey of more than 1,300 faculty, graduate students, and undergraduate students in the humanities and social sciences at the University of Maryland generated a wealth of data on use and opinions of e-books among those ... -
Evidence for Development and Enhancement of a Popular Reading Collection in an Academic Library
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E-Book Perceptions and Use in STEM and Non-STEM Disciplines: A Comparative Follow-Up Study
(Project Muse, 2016-01)This article describes the results of a survey that gathered data on perceptions and use of e-books from undergraduate students, graduate students, faculty, and staff. The investigators analyzed the results based on user ... -
Leading Change in Action: Reorganizing an Academic Library Department Using Kotter’s Eight Stage Change Model
(American Library Association, 2017)This article presents a management case study of a project to reorganize the Resource Sharing and Access Services department in the main library at the University of Maryland in 2015. The case study uses John Kotter’s ... -
Accidental Project Management in a New Library Storage Facility
(Emerald Publishing, 2018-06-01)Purpose – This chapter will discuss the project to investigate, recommend, and create user-focused solutions for opening and operating Severn Library, a high-density storage facility, at the University of Maryland in College ...
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