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Record Nr.

UNINA9910462612203321

Titolo

Scholarly communication in science and engineering research in higher education / / Wei Wei, editor

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Routledge, , 2011

ISBN

0-203-04996-9

1-283-96858-4

1-136-41456-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (203 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

WeiWei <1952->

Disciplina

501/.4

Soggetti

Communication in science

Communication in engineering

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"Co-published simultaneously as Science & technology libraries, volume 22, numbers 3/4 2002."

First published: Binghamton, N.Y. : Haworth Information Press, 2002.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Scholarly Communication in Science and Engineering Research in Higher Education; Copyright; CONTENTS; Introduction; SCHOLARLY PUBLISHING; Can Peer Review Be Better Focused?; The Future of Scientific and Technical Journals; The eScholarship Repository: A University of California Response to the Scholarly Communication Crisis; Conference Proceedings at Publishing Crossroads; Electronic Theses and Dissertations: Enhancing Scholarly Communication and the Graduate Student Experience; Chemistry Journals: Cost-Effectiveness, Seminal Titles and Exchange Rate Profiteering

SCHOLARLY COMMUNICATIONThe Role of Scientific Literature in Electronic Scholarly Communication; Scholarly Communication in Flux: Entrenchment and Opportunity; DIGITAL ARCHIVE AND RETRIEVAL; Issues and Concerns with the Archiving of Electronic Journals; User Expectations and the Complex Reality of Online Research Efforts; BIBLIOMETRIC ANALYSIS OF CITATION DATA; Bibliometric and Bibliographic Analysis in an Era of Electronic Scholarly Communication; Citation Patterns of Advanced Undergraduate Students in Biology,



2000-2002; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Stay on top with the latest developments in scientific and technical journal publications!  In Scholarly Communication in Science and Engineering Research in Higher Education, experts in the academic community propose cost-effective alternatives to commercial publications in the face of increased journal prices and reduced budgets. This book discusses recent technological innovations that can maintain the needs of researchers who need to stay on the cutting edge of science and technology as well as scholars who must be published and peer-reviewed in order to achieve tenure and promotio

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Record Nr.

UNINA9910459197703321

Autore

Freund David M. P

Titolo

Colored property [[electronic resource] ] : state policy and white racial politics in suburban America / / David M.P. Freund

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chicago, : University of Chicago Press, 2007

ISBN

1-282-67905-8

9786612679056

0-226-26277-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (528 p.)

Collana

Historical studies of urban America

Disciplina

305.89607300904

Soggetti

White people - United States - Politics and government - 20th century

White people - United States - Attitudes - History - 20th century

African Americans - Housing - History - 20th century

Discrimination in housing - United States - History - 20th century

Housing policy - United States - History - 20th century

Suburban life - United States - History - 20th century

City and town life - United States - History - 20th century

Electronic books.

United States Race relations History 20th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [405]-488) and index.



Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Acknowledgments -- CHAPTER ONE. The New Politics of Race and Property -- CHAPTER TWO. Local Control and the Rights of Property: The Politics of Incorporation, Zoning, and Race before 1940 -- CHAPTER THREE. Financing Suburban Growth: Federal Policy and the Birth of a Racialized Market for Homes, 1930-1940 -- CHAPTER FOUR. Putting Private Capital Back to Work: The Logic of Federal Intervention, 1930-1940 -- CHAPTER FIVE. A Free Market for Housing: Policy, Growth, and Exclusion in Suburbia, 1940-1970 -- CHAPTER SIX. Defending and Defi ning the New Neighborhood: The Politics of Exclusion in Royal Oak, 1940-1955 -- CHAPTER SEVEN. Saying Race Out Loud: The Politics of Exclusion in Dearborn, 1940-1955 -- CHAPTER EIGHT. The National Is Local: Race and Development in an Era of Civil Rights Protest, 1955-1964 -- CHAPTER NINE. Colored Property and White Backlash -- ABBREVIATIONS -- NOTES -- INDEX

Sommario/riassunto

Northern whites in the post-World War II era began to support the principle of civil rights, so why did many of them continue to oppose racial integration in their communities? Challenging conventional wisdom about the growth, prosperity, and racial exclusivity of American suburbs, David M. P. Freund argues that previous attempts to answer this question have overlooked a change in the racial thinking of whites and the role of suburban politics in effecting this change. In Colored Property, he shows how federal intervention spurred a dramatic shift in the language and logic