A Mixed-Methods Analysis of Mobile ACT Responses From Two Cohorts by Sydney Hoel, Amanda Victory, Tijana Sagorac Gruichich, Zachary N. Stowe, Melvin G. McInnis, Amy Cochran, Emily B. K. Thomas

“…Authors hypothesized that participants would recognize that behaviors can be flexible in form and function and respond in an ACT process-aligned manner.MethodsMixed-methods analyses were performed on open-ended responses collected from initial participants (n = 49) in two parallel micro-randomized trials with: 1) first-generation college students (FGCSs) (n = 25) from a four-year public research university and 2) individuals diagnosed with bipolar disorder (BP) (n = 24). …”
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Completion of an Online Library Module Improves Engineering Student Performance on Information Literacy Skills Tests by Rachel E. Scott

“…Design – Multi-modal, pre- and posttests, survey questionnaire, and focus groups. Setting – Public research university in London, Ontario, Canada. Subjects – First-year engineering students. …”
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Scale Evaluating the Information Literacy Self-Efficacy of Medical Students Created and Tested in a Six-Year Belgian Medical Program by Brittany Richardson

“…Setting – Large, public research university in Belgium. Subjects – 1,252 medical students enrolled in a six-year medical program in the 2013-2014 academic year. …”
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Full-Time Faculty View Information Literacy as Important but Are Unlikely to Incorporate it Into Their Teaching. A Review of: Bury, S. (2011). Faculty attitudes, perceptions and ex... by Eamon C. Tewell

“…<br><b>Setting</b> – Large public research university located in Toronto, Canada.<br><b>Subjects</b> – 221 full-time faculty.…”
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Reference Management Practices of Postgraduate Students and Academic Researchers are Highly Individualized by Kimberly Miller

“…Design – Mixed methods online survey and semi-structured interviews. Setting – Public research university in Australia. Subjects – The survey included responses from 81 postgraduate students. …”
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Reference Management Practices of Postgraduate Students and Academic Researchers are Highly Individualized by Kimberly Miller

“…Design – Mixed methods online survey and semi-structured interviews. Setting – Public research university in Australia. Subjects – The survey included responses from 81 postgraduate students. …”
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Open Access Complements Interlibrary Loan Services, but Additional User Education is Needed by Richard Hayman

“…Setting – A large, urban, public research university library system in the United States of America. …”
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External and Internal Citation Analyses Can Provide Insight into Serial/Monograph Ratios when Refining Collection Development Strategies in Selected STEM Disciplines by Stephanie Krueger

“…Setting – Medium-sized, STEM-dominant public research university in the United States of America. …”
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Open Access Complements Interlibrary Loan Services, but Additional User Education is by Richard Hayman

“…Setting – A large, urban, public research university library system in the United States of America. …”
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STEM and Non-STEM Library Users Have Increased Their Use of E-Books by Stephanie Krueger

“…Setting – Major public research university in Maryland, United States of America. …”
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Comparison of E-Book Acquisitions Strategies Across Disciplines Finds Differences in Cost and Usage by Laura Costello

“…Setting – A public research university serving an annual enrollment of over 49,000 students and employing more than 3,000 faculty members in the Southern United States. …”
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Students and Libraries May Benefit from Late Night Hours by Richard Hayman

“…Setting – A large, public research university library in the United States of America using late night operating hours (11 P.M. to 7:30 A.M.) to create 24-hour library availability 5 days per week. …”
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Las Universidades Públicas en el Siglo XXI. Grandes expectativas, algunas promesas y muchas incertidumbres by Gustavo E. Fischman

“…This essay analyzes the notion of “crisis” among Public Research Universities (PRUs) across different eras and national cultures. …”
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Creating a Successful Transition for Working-Class First-Year Students by Krista M. Soria

“…This study explored differences between working-class and middle/upper-class first-year college students enrolled at large, public research universities. Results from administering the Student Experience in the Research University survey at 11 universities in 2010 (n = 23,331) suggest that working-class first-year students reported a less welcoming campus climate, lower academic engagement, higher academic disengagement, and fewer academic interactions with classmates compared with middle/upper-class students. …”
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Job satisfactions of academics in Malaysian public universities by Amat Senin, Aslan, Shaukat, Muhammad Zeeshan, Ahmed, Ishfaq, Mad Shah, Ishak, Mahfar, Mastura

“…Data will be collected through self-administered questionnaire which will be distributed to a sample of academics in five Malaysian public research universities. The study will contribute to knowledge by looking at the relationships in the context of Malaysian higher education sector, something which has largely been ignored at present…”
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The Narrowing Gender Wage Gap Among Faculty at Public Universities in the U.S by Cory Koedel, Trang Pham

“…We study the conditional gender wage gap among faculty at public research universities in the U.S. We begin by using a cross-sectional dataset from 2016 to replicate the long-standing finding in research that, conditional on rich controls, female faculty earn less than their male colleagues. …”
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Outreach and Engagement Staff and Communities of Practice: A Journey from Practice to Theory for an Emerging Professional Identity and Community by Susan B. Harden, Katherine Loving

“…This article describes the perceptions of outreach and engagement staff at large, public research universities with decentralized engagement initiatives. …”
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Dublin Core, DSpace, and a Brief Analysis of Three University Repositories by Mary Kurtz

“…This paper provides an overview of Dublin Core (DC) and DSpace together with an examination of the institutional repositories of three public research universities. The universities all use DC and DSpace to create and manage their repositories. …”
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Academic entrepreneurship in research universities: An organizational perspective by Yusof, Mohar

“…Findings and results of the correlation and regression analyses, from this study will enable public research universities to evaluate the status of their entrepreneurial systems, and identfy enablers and barriers, for entrepreneurial development within their academic organizations.…”
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Social media usage, expectancy disconfirmation elements and university reputation by Irfan, Asmara

“…The population of the study was international postgraduate students of five public research universities of Malaysia. This research used the quantitative method with cross-sectional research design and have applied proportionate sampling technique to collect data from 320 international postgraduate students from public research universities of Malaysia. …”
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