Browsing by Author "Shearer, Kathleen"

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    Developing a National Metadata Profile for Institutional Repositories
    (Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition, 2004-11-18) Jordan, Mark; Shearer, Kathleen
    In the fall of 2002, the Canadian Association of Research Libraries began a project to implement institutional repositories (IRs) at a number of research libraries in Canada. An important part of this project is the pan-Canadian harvester, which was implemented in order to aggregate and search the collections of all of the participating IRs (http://carl-abrc-oai.lib.sfu.ca/). The Canadian harvester has been a valuable way of gathering information about a number of aspects of the IRs in Canada. In essence, it has become a sort of virtual ‘laboratory’ for the project. This brief paper introduces three areas in which we are using the harvester to gather information about Canadian IRs in order to monitor and improve the services being providing by these repositories.
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    Institutional Repositories: A Review of Content Recruitment Strategy
    (2006-10-10) Mark, Tim; Shearer, Kathleen
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    Institutional Repositories: Preserving Digital Scholarship
    (Canadian Association of Research Libraries, 2004-06-02) Jordan, Mark; Shearer, Kathleen
    This presentation describes the role that institutional repositories can play in preserving digital material. The presentation goes on to introduce the CARL Institutional Repositories Project.
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    Institutional Repositories: Towards the Identification of Critical Success Factors
    (Canadian Association of Information Science, 2003-09) Shearer, Kathleen
    Institutional repositories (IRs) are digital collections that capture and preserve the intellectual output of a single or multi-university community. Their aim is to provide access to scholarly material without the economic barriers that currently exist in scholarly publishing. If successful, IRs hold the promise of being very advantageous to researchers everywhere, especially those in the developing world. The IR concept is very new and has yet to be studied in any comprehensive way. This paper describes a study being conducted by the Canadian Association of Research Libraries to determine some success factors of institutional repositories. Through the CARL Institutional Repositories Pilot Project, several variables are being examined to determine whether they contribute to the input activity and use of the IRs being implemented at several Canadian research libraries. The project is in its initial stages, and has yet to show significant results. However, the paper presents a detailed description of the IR concept; identifies and explains the variables that are being studied; and discusses some of the challenges involved in the study.
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    Timelines for returning to physical activity following pediatric spinal surgery: recommendations from the literature and preliminary data
    (2021-04-29) Willson, Leanne R; Klootwyk, Madeline; Rogers, Laura G; Shearer, Kathleen; Southon, Sarah; Sasseville, Christina
    Abstract Objective Participation in physical activity and sports is known to have positive implications for physical health, and for social and emotional wellbeing of children. Following corrective spinal surgery for scoliosis, the timeline for the return to activities and sports varies from surgeon to surgeon and from location to location, and return to activities can be limited due to pain, fear, and decreased flexibility. It is critical that patients know best-practice guidelines, and it is equally critical that medical professionals know whether their patients are following those guidelines. This paper includes a summary of recommendations published in the literature, and a pilot study to address a gap in the literature on determining how long, post-surgery, adolescents with idiopathic scoliosis waited before returning to various self-care and physical activities, and what factors influenced return to activities. We used a mixed-method approach that involved two phases: a questionnaire (n = 8), and subsequent interviews of some participants (n = 3). Participants were ages 14–17 (M = 15.4) and had had posterior instrumentation and fusion for scoliosis in the past 2 years. Results Some patients were cautious about return to activities, either because of emotional or medical reasons. However, in many instances, participants returned to physical activities earlier than was recommended, primarily for emotional and social reasons.