Informationists in a Small University Library

A Library System for Small-Scale Library

In this paper, we explain a library system for small-scale libraries. This system uses books and face images for administration of lending and returning books. Users can borrow books by facing the front of the camera, presenting the book, and clicking the "Borrow" button. When returning books, users are required to click the "Return" button in the same way as on borrowing. The librarian can che...

Scalable Electronic Publishing in a University Library

Since 2001, the Scholarly Publishing Office (SPO), a division of the University of Michigan University Library, has published a broad range of scholarly literature in electronic and print form, extending the library’s commitment to the distribution of scholarship by experimenting with innovative methods for publishing to serve the needs of scholars, both at the University of Michigan and around...

Duke University Library Manuscript

Duke University Library

Psychology -Social) COGNITIVE STRUCTURE: A COMPARISON OF TWO THEORIES AND MEASURES OF INTEGRATIVE COMPLEXITY

Assessment of "drug-likeness" of a small library of natural products using chemoinformatics

Even though natural products has an excellent record as a source for new drugs, the advent of ultrahigh-throughput screening and large-scale combinatorial synthetic methods, has caused a decline in the use of natural products research in the pharmaceutical industry. This is due to the efficiency in generating and screening a high number of synthetic combinatorial compounds; whereas traditional ...