Committing to Research: Librarians and Grantsmanship

Librarians as Partners: Moving from Research Supporters to Research Partners

Introduction Demonstrating the value of libraries in an academic setting has long been a topic of research and comment among librarians. Libraries are in a sustained state of proving their contributions to the academic missions of universities which do not necessarily recognize the broader value of libraries. This trend will most likely continue because of budget decreases and changing perspect...

Grantsmanship Hints

sored programs. Comments are based on experiences gained while collectively reviewing |80 proposals as Successful grantsmanship, although a critical skill for researchers, panelists and |160 as panel managers. Total proposals is rarely taught in graduate schools. This handicaps inexperienced researchers, who often must simultaneously develop courses, extendiscussed during the various evaluation...

Committing to mitosis

and colleagues. Although the bacteria may do it to gain access to tasty chemicals that leak out, the results for humans may include stomach ulcers and gastric cancer. The link from cell junctions to stomach ailments may, say the researchers, lie in tissue repair. Injury to the stomach triggers cell division and migration to plug the gap. The chiefs in charge of these processes may well lie in c...

Artificial Intelligence: Legal Research and Law Librarians

Committing to Transparency to Resist Corruption

to commit to transparent behavior in a competitive information beauty contest managed by a corrupt agent. In his contract, the agent has some discretion to favor a firm in commitment to transparency is never incentive compatible, but conditional commitment mechanism can eliminate discretion is strong and the market's profitability is small that a commit. In that situation, the high quality firm...