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An important role for librarians over the next five to ten years is to provide access to online library resources—free, open-access, or purchased, all valuable resources—in an intuitive, easy-to-use one-stop shop and not to be afraid of running a continual beta test in which new services and functions can be added when necessary. To fill this role, librarians and electronic resources managers need flexible, interoperable resource-discovery systems based on open-source software. In addition, we must continue to assess users’ needs and reach out by adapting our systems to fit their requirements, rather than expecting them to come to us; indeed, our very future depends on it. 1

Two decades after the advent of electronic journals and databases, librarians are still grappling with ways to best manage e-resources in conjunction with traditional print resources and at the same time explore new purchasing initiatives and practices, such as demand-driven acquisition of electronic books. In addition, these times of economic austerity are creating budgetary pressures at many institutions of higher education, resulting in librarians having to justify their spending on collections and resource management more than ever.

Techniques for Electronic Resource Management (TERMS) began in 2008 after a discussion about electronic resource management (ERM), current ERM tools, and what was lacking both in current practice and with the systems available. TERMS expands on Pesch’s electronic resources life cycle (see figure 1.1 ) and seeks to become a reference point for those who are new to ERM, those who have suddenly shifted job functions to oversee ERM, and those who may want to implement its recommendations of best practice.

TERMS Tumblr blog http://6terms.tumblr.com TERMS Facebook group https://www.facebook.com/groups/174086169332439 6TERMS on Twitter https://twitter.com/6terms

• TERMS 1: Investigating New Content for purchase/addition, assigned to Ann Kucera (Baker College, Michigan)
• TERMS 2: Acquiring New Content, assigned to Nathan Hosburgh (Montana State University, Montana)
• TERMS 3: Implementation, assigned to Stephen Buck (Dublin City University, Ireland)
• TERMS 4: Ongoing Evaluation and Access, assigned to Anita Wilcox (University College Cork, Ireland)
• TERMS 5: Annual Review, assigned to Anna Franca (King’s College, London, United Kingdom)
• TERMS 6: Cancellation and Replacement Review, assigned to Eugenia Beh (Texas A&M University, Texas)

TERMS Wiki: Main Page http://library.hud.ac.uk/wikiterms/Main_Page

In 2012, TERMS was also endorsed by the Knowledge Base + project in the United Kingdom, which has a project deliverable of providing “workflow management tools related to the selection, review, renewal and cancellation of publications” 2 and has also received interest in the United States from GoKB from Kuali OLE (open library environment), “a community of nine research libraries working together to build the first open-source system designed by and for academic and research libraries for managing and delivering intellectual information.” 3

Electronic Resources and Libraries website www.electroniclibrarian.com

One of the first things to note when performing a literature review on ERM is that there are no independent literature reviews solely on this area. Instead, ERM has now become an integral part of standard literature reviews for acquisitions processing, collection development and management, cataloging and classification, and serials management. At the same time, there are areas of ERM that sit outside of these traditional functioning areas in libraries. This makes performing a literature review on ERM more of a challenge.

From the field of library acquisitions, the issues most readily identified in recent years have been the switch from print processing to ERM and the continued struggle to find management tools that work within the local library context. 6

“Simply put, collection management is the systemic, efficient and economic stewardship of library resources.” 7 The term collection development has been with us since the 1960s. 8 However, it is a constantly evolving area, and as the library collection moves from one dominated by print to one dominated by electronic resources, collection development policies may have been patched rather than redesigned to reflect the different emphasis on delivery. In a 2012 study, Mangrum and Pozzebon found that “over half of the libraries tried to address ER [electronic resources] in some way. However, most policies contain traditional language with a section on library ER inserted into the latter portion of the document.” 9

In regard to collection development and management trends, the two biggest growth areas are e-book purchasing and purchase-on-demand or patron-driven acquisition models. There has been an explosion in collection management literature on these two topics over the past three to four years. 10 A single place for best practices, or from which a local library can create its own localized best practices, is definitely needed: “Bleiler and Livingston stressed that a lack of established policies and procedures for assessment puts a library at risk for financial loss and recommended that libraries create selection policies and standardized methods for assessment, train staff for contract negotiation, and share strategies, policies, and best practices.” 11

In addition to changes to the format of delivery of library resources, libraries must also contend with the impact of today’s economic environment. Hazen suggests that libraries need to rethink their collection development in light of these issues and move from collection to collection and content, where content is “a category that encompasses everything to which a library enjoys ready physical or digital access regardless of ownership status [and] is central to all that we do.” 12

In 2001, Jewell reported on the selection, licensing, and support of online materials by research libraries and concluded that several libraries had developed local systems for acquiring, managing, and supporting electronic resources. 13 Jewell’s report was followed in 2004 by a report from the Digital Library Federation’s (DLF) Electronic Resource Management Initiative (ERMI), which “was organized to support the rapid development of such systems by producing a series of interrelated documents to define needs and to help establish data standards.” 14 The report went on to provide a road map for ERM.

On the back end, we continue to rely on methods developed when we had 250 rather than 25,000 eresources. Information on our electronic resources is currently kept in paper files (license agreements), Excel spreadsheets (vendor contact information and administrative passwords), staff web pages (usage statistics), small databases (trial and decision tracking, divisional library resources, technical problem reports), SFX (ejournal holdings), and our ILS (acquisitions and payment data). Few of these systems are connected to each other; in some cases, information is readily accessible only to one or a few individuals, not by intent, but by the limitations of the storage mechanism. Many procedures are not documented and rely on informal channels of communication. 15

More recently there have been a number of open-source and community ERM systems, such as CORAL 16 and CUFTS, developed by Simon Fraser University (SFU) and implemented by SFU and the University of Prince Edward Island, which view this “technology not necessarily as a way of spending less money, but spending money more wisely.” 17

Another growing area of ERM is the work being performed to develop a suite of standards to support the vast amount of access and management knowledge and myriad of tools needed to maintain adequate access to electronic resources. 18 According to Sarah Glasser, “KBART and IOTA are both working to decrease OpenURL link failures that are caused by metadata deficiencies.” In addition, “PIE-J differs from KBART and IOTA because it is not focused on link resolver errors. Formed by NISO in 2010, PIE-J addresses access barriers that arise from the manner in which electronic journals are presented on provider websites.” 19

There has been a lot of discussion about the implementation of ERM systems in recent years. 20 However, use of these systems is still far from ubiquitous, and many academic libraries have yet to implement or even purchase a system. “A risk of ERMS implementations, more talked about than written about … was that the costs (in added work) to maintain a new system would outweigh the value of the added functionality.” 21 Despite early expectations, Collins and Grogg see the current crop of ERM systems as “less like a silver bullet and more like a round of buckshot.” 22

One of the most time-consuming parts of an ERM implementation is analyzing licenses and inputting them into the relevant fields of an ERM system in order for them to be meaningful to librarians and patrons. The University of Northern Colorado has developed an in-house system to perform license mapping that “makes information that is often deeply embedded within a license readily available to library personnel who could use such information in the daily operations of the library. This information is useful to any library that maintains license agreements for electronic resources.” 23

A panel session at the 2010 NASIG conference concluded that the “ERM system at UC has not solved all their problems, but some improvements have been realized. Budget tracking and staffing continue to be challenges. A final determination of the effectiveness will not be evident until the system becomes a part of the general staff workflow and not considered as something extra.” 24

Collins and Grogg cited workflow management as number one in librarians’ top six ERM priorities. They found that “over a third of librarians surveyed prioritized workflow or communications management, and they called it one of the biggest deficiencies (and disappointments) of ERMS functionality.” 25 This area has also been highlighted by the National Information Standards Organization (NISO), which has created a working group, ERM Data Standards and Best Practices Review, to undertake a gap analysis regarding ERM. 26

In the United Kingdom, the Managing Electronic Resource Issues (MERI) project at the University of Salford aimed “to produce a use case of ERM systems and a preliminary set of requirements for an electronic resource management system, for use by the University of Salford and other HE institutions and system suppliers.” 27 The requirements document from this project went on to inform the SCONUL shared ERM requirements project. An output of these projects was a set of workflows that describe the various processes involved in managing electronic resources. 28 The University of Huddersfield was one of the sixteen UK universities to take part, and like others, had never actually recorded these workflows until asked to do so by the project. All project members found that by recording workflows, they were able to take advantage of efficiencies discovered as part of documenting the process.

One of the objectives of the TERMS blog and wiki was to collect a number of e-resource workflows from a variety of different types of libraries. Both the University of Huddersfield and Portland State University shared their workflows as part of TERMS. The release of the six TERMS via the blog also encouraged other universities to share their workflows and discuss efficiencies; indeed, “rethinking e-resources workflows and developing practical tools to streamline and enhance various inelegant processes have become the priorities.” 29

Since the launch of the first draft of TERMS, the project has now attracted interest in various workflows from different libraries around the world, including the University of Cork, Duke University, Florida Gulf Coast University, and Texas A&M University.

A recent press release by Jisc in the United Kingdom suggested that international collaboration is needed to transform ERM in libraries—“Many of the concerns libraries have in the management of electronic resources are the same across the world”—and that projects such as GoKB and the Knowledge Base + service in the United Kingdom “are exploring community-based solutions.” 30

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Keeping Up With… Research Data Management

This edition of Keeping Up With... was written by Cathryn F. Miller, Rebekah S. Miller, and Gesina A. Phillips.

Cathryn F. Miller is a Visiting Social Sciences Librarian at Duquesne University, email: [email protected] ; Rebekah S. Miller is a STEM Librarian at Duquesne University, email: [email protected] ; and Gesina A. Phillips is a Digital Scholarship Librarian at Duquesne University, email: [email protected]

What is Research Data Management?

Research Data Management (RDM) is a broad concept that includes processes undertaken to create organized, documented, accessible, and reusable quality research data. [1] The role of the librarian is to support researchers through the research data lifecycle.

Figure 1: USGS Data Lifecycle Model [2]

The processes involved in RDM are more complex than simply backing up data on a thumb drive and ensuring that sensitive data is kept secure. Managing data includes using file naming conventions, organizing files, creating metadata, controlling access to data, backing up data, citing data, and more. There are checklists online which point to the considerations and processes in RDM (see UK Data Services Checklist [3] and DCC checklist [4]).

RDM is a relevant topic to keep up with at a time when researchers are increasingly required to create data management plans, provide methodological transparency, and share data. [5]

Making the Case for RDM

While many researchers are interested in data management, there are some who may not see a need for it at all. If that’s the case, there are both carrots and sticks that can be used to encourage them.

• Save Time: Properly managing data is in a researcher’s best interest; being able locate past or current data and accompanying metadata saves time, frustration, and money.
• Increase Citations: Well-managed data is easy to share, which can lead to the data itself being cited; making the data available may also lead to more citations for the original paper. [6]
• Enhance Reproducibility: Data management enhances reproducibility by making the methodology more transparent.
• Preserve Data: While data management encourages researchers to consider backup and security measures, it also ensures that data is preserved, not just stored. Preservation focuses on the long-term ability to access and use data, and considers interoperability and open file formats.
• Required Sharing: Funders and journals have begun to require data sharing as a requirement of publication or award acceptance; Nature , PLoS One , and the American Journal of Political Science all have data sharing requirements.
• Required Data Management Plans: A variety of government funders (e.g., NSF, NIH) and private funders (e.g., Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation [7]) require data management plans and/or data sharing.
• Prevent Retraction : Accessible data protects from retraction; the New England Journal of Medicine retracted an article after the underlying data could not be located, [8] as has Cell Cycle. [9]

The Role of the Librarian

Librarians need to provide RDM services that take into account the “interests and needs” of the university community that includes graduate students, faculty, and research staff [10] Understanding the current practices, knowledge, and desired support at a university is therefore key in developing and maintaining relevant services.

• Services and Education: How are librarians serving researchers? Common RDM services include helping researchers to deposit data in institutional and disciplinary repositories, assisting with data management plans, and consulting with research teams. [11]Librarians also serve the research community by creating workshops, webinars, and tutorials. Providing RDM services does not require librarians to become experts at statistics, programming or IRB proposals, but instead to develop a robust understanding of tools and support mechanisms available on campus. This may prompt collaboration with campus computing or statistical support services.
• Information: Providing background information as well as advanced information about RDM through LibGuides, newsletters, or webpages is also important. When communicating information, it is important to limit jargon and use the terminology that researchers themselves are familiar with. More than 50% of the academic libraries that have an RDM presence online provide information related to creating data management plans, data documentation, metadata standards, storage and preservation. [12]

Understanding the “needs and interests” of researchers can guide the development of services, information objects, and instruction. Communicating the role of the librarian, marketing services, and evaluating services are key to staying relevant.

Learning about RDM

Because RDM can be a complex process with many different considerations, learning about RDM through a series of modules is recommended. For those familiar with basic RDM concepts, reading research journals and engaging in online communities is key.

Training modules (see https://nnlm.gov/data/courses-and-workshops for a complete list):

• ESIP Federation : 35 training videos about very specific topics from “Tracking Data Usage” to “Handling Sensitive Data” ( http://commons.esipfed.org/datamanagementshortcourse )
• DataOne Data Management Modules : 10 powerpoints accompanied by handouts and hands-on exercises ( https://www.dataone.org/education )
• NYU RDM Training for Information Professionals : 8 tutorials about RDM in a biomedical context ( https://compass.iime.cloud//mix/G3X5E )
• Journal of eScience Librarianship
• International Journal of Digital Curation

Online communities/websites (see Barbrow, Brush, and Goldman [13] for a complete list):

• NNLM RD3 ( https://nnlm.gov/data )
• Digital Curation Centre ( http://www.dcc.ac.uk )

What specific processes should researchers engage in throughout the data lifecycle? The answer to this question varies by discipline, by research project, by size of the data collected, and by researcher; the RDM practices involved in an ethnographic study will be very different from those involved in clinical research. RDM is complex, ambiguous, and imperfect because of the complexity of research itself. Supporting research throughout the data lifecycle by consulting with researchers and promoting best practices can be challenging, but will improve data quality, reproducibility, and shareability.

Additional Resources/ Tools

Creating a Data Management Plan: DMPTool ( dmptool.org ), DMPonline ( dmponline.dcc.ac.uk )

Workflow and organization: REDCap ( project-redcap.org ), Open Science Framework ( https://osf.io )

Sharing/publishing: Registry of Research Data Repositories ( re3data.org ), figshare ( figshare.com )

Examples of library RDM presence:

• University of Minnesota ( https://www.lib.umn.edu/datamanagement )
• Duquesne University ( http://guides.library.duq.edu/datamanagement )
• Columbia University ( https://scholcomm.columbia.edu/data-management )

ACRL Workshop: RDM ( https://acrl.libguides.com/scholcomm/toolkit/RDMWorkshop )

Evaluation tool for RDM tutorials or workshops: DataOne EEVA ( https://www.dataone.org/education-evaluation )

[1] Louise Corti, Veerle Van den Eynden, Libby Bishop, and Matthew Woollard, Managing and Sharing Research Data: A Guide to Good Practice (Los Angeles: Sage, 2014), 2.

[2] “The USGS Data Lifecycle,” US Geological Survey, accessed April 9, 2018, https://www2.usgs.gov/datamanagement/why.php .

[3] “Data Management Checklist,” UK Data Services, accessed on April 8, 2018, https://www.ukdataservice.ac.uk/manage-data/plan/checklist .

[4] “Checklist for a Data Management Plan v.4.0,” Digital Curation Centre, last modified 2014, http://www.dcc.ac.uk/resources/data-management-plans/checklist

[5] Lisa Federer, “Research Data Management in the Age of Big Data: Roles and Opportunities for Librarians,” Information Services & Use 36 (2016): 35.

[6] Heather A. Piwowar and Todd J. Vision, “Data Reuse and the Open Data Citation Advantage,” PeerJ 1 (October 2013): e175, https://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj.175 .

[7] “Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Open Access Policy,” Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, accessed April 9, 2018, https://www.gatesfoundation.org/how-we-work/general-information/open-access-policy .

[8] “Retraction: CPAP for the Metabolic Syndrome in Patients with Obstructive Sleep Apnea. N Engl J Med 2011;365:2277-86,” New England Journal of Medicine 369 (2013): 1770, http://www.nejm.org/doi/10.1056/NEJMc1313105 .

[9] “Editorial retraction,” Cell Cycle 16, no. 3 (2017): 296, https://doi.org/10.1080/15384101.2016.1205369 .

[10] Travis Weller and Amalia Monroe-Gulick, "Differences in the Data Practices, Challenges, and Future Needs of Graduate Students and Faculty Members," Journal of eScience Librarianship 4 (2015): e1070, http://dx.doi.org/10.7191/jeslib.2015.1070 .

[11] Ayoung Yoon and Teresa Schultz, "Research Data Management Services in Academic Libraries in the Us: A Content Analysis of Libraries’ Websites," College & Research Libraries 78, no. 7 (2017): 925, https://doi.org/10.5860/crl.78.7.920 .

[12] Ibid., 926-927.

[13] Sarah Barbrow, Denise Brush, and Julie Goldman, “Research Data Management and Services: Resources for Novice Data Librarians,” C&RL News 78, no. 5 (May 2017), https://doi.org/10.5860/crln.78.5.274 .

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Organizing library print resources for enhanced students' information access and utilization in nnamdi azikiwe library, university of nigeria nsukka, promise e. ajogwu, grace u. onyebuchi, bartholomew o. agu.

This study was set out to investigate the organization of library print resources for enhanced information access and utilization by undergraduates in Nnamdi Azikiwe Library, University of Nigeria, Nsukka. To achieve this, seven (7) research questions were developed. A descriptive survey research design was considered appropriate for the study, while observation checklist and questionnaire were use for data collection. Out of the 213 respondents who formed the population, including: 30 librarians who are involved in organization of library print resources in Nnamdi Azikiwe Library and 183 registered undergraduate users which is the total number of registered users in 2020/2021 session in Nnamdi Azikiwe Library at the time of the study, 160 correctly filled and returned their questionnaire, making a return rate of 75%. The data collected from the observation were presented using frequency tables and percentages and charts, while data gotten using questionnaire were presented in mean, percentage and standard deviation. To make appropriate decision, real limit of the numbers were used. The major findings reveal that undergraduates are not satisfied in organization as it affects their access to some of the Library print resources. Among the barriers to organization of library print resources for enhanced information access and utilization are inadequate provision of manual and online tools, laxity and non-commitment of librarians and inadequate infrastructure. Librarians should therefore regularly evaluate undergraduate students' satisfaction with their organization of library print resources while providing updated manual and online tools and equipment for proper access to information resources.

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Points out that neither research nor the implementation of its results need be expensive. Describes a “Research Methodology” module at Liverpool John Moores University and some of the topics investigated by students – the use of a branch library in Liverpool; attitudes to fines in children′s libraries; weekend opening hours at Liverpool John Moores University Library; the usefulness of libraries to deaf people; facilities for disabled children in Liverpool City Libraries the use and effectiveness of Liverpool City Libraries Music Department; and an update of the Cheshire Survey on Runcorn Shopping City Library.

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The vulnerability can bypass OLE mitigations in Microsoft 365 and Microsoft Office, which protect users from vulnerable COM/OLE controls. An unauthenticated attacker may exploit this vulnerability to execute code by convincing a user to open a malicious document.

CISA has added this CVE to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog and requested users to patch it before May 6, 2024.

CVE-2024-30051: Windows DWM Core Library Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

The Microsoft Windows Desktop Window Manager (DWM) Core Library is a system manager that generates every visible element on a PC or laptop, including visual effects in menus, wallpapers, themes, and more. It has been a part of Microsoft Windows since Windows Vista and is also known as the Desktop Compositing Engine (DCE).

On successful exploitation, an attacker could gain SYSTEM privileges.

CVE-2024-30044: Microsoft SharePoint Server Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

Microsoft SharePoint is a web-based platform that allows organizations to create websites for storing, organizing, sharing, and accessing information. SharePoint is available in Microsoft 365 and can be used on PCs, Macs, and mobile devices.

An authenticated attacker with Site Owner permissions or higher could upload a specially crafted file to the targeted SharePoint Server and craft specialized API requests to trigger the deserialization of the file’s parameters. Successful exploitation of the vulnerability may allow an attacker to perform remote code execution in the context of the SharePoint Server.

• CVE-2024-29996 and CVE-2024-30025 are elevation of privilege vulnerabilities in the Windows Common Log File System Driver. On successful exploitation, an attacker could gain SYSTEM privileges.
• CVE-2024-30050 is a security feature bypass vulnerability in Windows Mark of the Web. An attacker might host a file on a server and convince a targeted user to download and open the file to exploit this vulnerability. An attacker may alter the functionality of the Mark of the Web on successful exploitation.
• CVE-2024-30032 is an elevation of privilege vulnerability in Windows DWM Core Library. On successful exploitation, an attacker could gain SYSTEM privileges.
• CVE-2024-30034 and CVE-2024-30035 are information disclosure vulnerabilities in the Windows Cloud Files Mini Filter Driver. On successful exploitation, an attacker may disclose certain kernel memory content.
• CVE-2024-30038 is an elevation of privilege vulnerability in Win32k. Successful exploitation of the vulnerability may allow a local, authenticated attacker to gain elevated local system or administrator privileges.
• CVE-2024-30049 is an elevation of privilege vulnerability in the Windows Win32 Kernel Subsystem. On successful exploitation, an attacker could gain SYSTEM privileges.

This month’s release notes cover multiple Microsoft product families and products/versions affected, including, but not limited to, Windows Task Scheduler, Microsoft Windows SCSI Class System File, Windows Mobile Broadband, Microsoft WDAC OLE DB provider for SQL, Microsoft Brokering File System, Windows DWM Core Library, Windows Routing and Remote Access Service (RRAS), Windows Hyper-V, Windows Kernel, Windows DHCP Server, Windows NTFS, Windows Win32K – ICOMP, Windows Win32K – GRFX, Windows CNG Key Isolation Service, Microsoft Windows Search Component, Windows Deployment Services, Windows Remote Access Connection Manager, Windows MSHTML Platform, Microsoft Bing, Microsoft Office Excel, Microsoft Office SharePoint, .NET and Visual Studio, Microsoft Dynamics 365 Customer Insights, Windows Mark of the Web (MOTW), Azure Migrate, Power BI, Microsoft Edge (Chromium-based), and Microsoft Intune.

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Current Physical Therapy for Skin Scars Management: A Scoping Review Protocol

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Background: Scar impairments impose a great economic burden and influence a subject's well-being and quality of life. Despite that, physiotherapy interventions are poorly investigated. Objective of the study: Provide a comprehensive overview of studies addressing physiotherapy and conservative non-invasive interventions for skin scar management, summarizing studies based on scar type, localization, patient's characteristics (e.g., age), safety and tolerance of physical interventions. The realization of an infographic will assist clinicians and patients with scars' management. Moreover, any knowledge gaps will be identified. Methods: The review will be conducted following the Joanna Briggs Institute Manual for Evidence Synthesis. MEDLINE Central, PEDro, Embase, Cochrane Library and Central Register of Controlled Trials (CENTRAL) and CINAHL and grey literature (e.g., Google Scholar) will be searched for studies considering physical therapy interventions in scars management. Every study considering conservative non-invasive physiotherapy interventions for scar management will be included. This review will look at studies carried out in any context. Articles written in English or Italian will be considered. No temporal or publication type restrictions will be placed. Selection and extraction of data will be done by three reviewers independently, any discrepancies will be resolved by a fourth reviewer. The results will be illustrated using descriptive statistics and summarized in an infographic. Ethics and dissemination: No ethics approval will be necessary.

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